I Materialized the Cultivation Game

Chapter 70: Chapter 64: Uh... It’s Not a Special Effect!

After receiving a message from his junior sister, Chen Han took out the Cloud Barrier Cauldron for replenishing Spiritual Qi from the warehouse, intending to refine today’s Cloud Barrier Pills as well.

There’s no worry about having too many of these; refining a few more for backup certainly won’t hurt.

The number of times the Cloud Barrier Cauldron can be used per day shouldn’t be wasted.

In the morning, when preparing a medicinal meal, Chen Han had already added Dog Demon Grease into the Cloud Barrier Cauldron, so he went in to grab scissors, trimmed some orchid branches and leaves, and placed them inside before starting the refining process.

As the runes on the cauldron lit up and began to operate, the Cloud Barrier Pills inside were refined in no time.

However, luck wasn’t on his side this time. He only got one Cloud Barrier Pill with a 10-meter range, and crucially, there were also six Wasted Pills.

A failure rate of over half, truly unlucky.

Just after putting away the Cloud Barrier Cauldron and the Cloud Barrier Pills, footsteps sounded outside the courtyard, and his junior sister entered happily, asking expectantly, ”Senior brother, are you going to film a video of the Cloud Barrier Pills? Did you make new ones?”

Although the Cloud Barrier Pill her senior brother gave her for filming a video was mocked by viewers as using special effects, teasing her about the cheap effects, the Cloud Barrier Pill is undoubtedly a great prop for performances.

Chen Han, seeing her expression, pretended to reach into his pocket and handed her three Cloud Barrier Pills: ”Here you go, all with a 2-meter range.”

”Thank you, senior brother.” Xiaoyu eagerly took the items.

”Let’s go, find an open space to film the video,” Chen Han said as he led his junior sister out of the courtyard, deciding to film the video over at the Martial Arts Arena.

This time, he needed a fairly open area to use the 10-meter range Cloud Barrier Pill for filming.

The Martial Arts Arena, which could previously accommodate young men from surrounding villages for training, was quite large.

The key is that using the Cloud Barrier Pill makes it appropriate to film over at the Martial Arts Arena.

When Chen Han and his junior sister arrived at the Martial Arts Arena, he also handed his phone over to his junior sister to film a landscape shot of the whole arena right away as footage material.

Two couples chatting while walking also came over from the other side, seemingly ready to head back to the tourist center to rest.

”This Chen family ancient architecture is truly remarkable, it has the kind of depth that comes from the passage of time.”

”Yes, I didn’t expect such a surprise besides the Patriarch Chen’s Beast Taming Technique, definitely worth the visit.”

”I heard from the Chen Family members that there are three very magical old elm trees... Hey, is that Patriarch Chen and Xiaoyuzha?”

The two couples spotted the brother and sister duo at the Martial Arts Arena.

Seeing Xiaoyu holding the phone towards Chen Han, they guessed the two were filming a video.

This made the four stop to watch, knowing the two are internet celebrities, curious about what kind of video they were filming.

At this time, Xiaoyu also adjusted the camera and said, ”Senior brother, you can start filming now.”

Chen Han nodded, coughed pretentiously towards the camera, and said, ”Today, I, the patriarch, specially use the Spirit Shadow Treasure Mirror to record, to tell everyone something!”

”Pfft!” Xiaoyu, while expecting her senior brother to pull some abstract stuff, couldn’t help laughing when he mentioned the Spirit Shadow Treasure Mirror.

It’s just a phone, what Spirit Shadow Treasure Mirror.

Really, her senior brother’s shameful video series cracks her up.

”Junior sister, be serious!” Chen Han wasn’t surprised by his junior sister’s reaction; after all, it was his first time formally saying the words Spirit Shadow Treasure Mirror in front of the camera.

After scolding his junior sister, he coughed seriously again and said, ”Previously, my junior sister recorded a Smoke Escape technique with the Spirit Shadow Treasure Mirror for fellow Taoists to see, but it wasn’t really an actual ’Smoke Escape Technique’; it was our Chen Family’s secret ’Cloud Barrier Technique.’”

This indeed intrigued the four watching tourists, who whispered:

”Isn’t it ’Xiaoyuzha’s’ video?”

”Obviously, her special effects were mocked by many people!”

”Those effects were indeed fake, very evidently artificial smoke, dissipating immediately in an open space.”

”In that video, the smoke dissipated slowly; it was indeed very fake.”

While the four whispered, they heard that Patriarch Chen saying again: ”However, my junior sister’s ’Cloud Barrier Technique’ was not mastered well; after recording with the Spirit Shadow Treasure Mirror, it made everyone laugh, so today it’s my turn to personally demonstrate this ’Cloud Barrier Technique’ for everyone.”

Four tourists immediately understood what video Patriarch Chen planned to film.

It’s about that mocked smoke escape effect of ’Xiaoyuzha,’ which gained traction, and Patriarch Chen not missing out on leveraging this popularity, aiming to also capitalize on the trending benefit by filming a similar video.

This is normal; many internet celebrities trend on a unique plan, leading others to jump in with similar content.

The four saw that Patriarch Chen suddenly started backing away, creating a substantial gap with the camera, realizing immediately it was to leave enough space for post-production special effects!

After all, in the finished video, there ought to be special effect smoke appearing, but with so much space left, it suggests the smoke effect must be quite large.

Xiaoyuzha, the junior sister, lacked skills and only managed enough smoke to cover herself.

Being the senior brother, the smoke produced by Patriarch Chen is bound to cover a larger area.

The four thought about it and smiled, seeing right through it!

Although they weren’t in the internet celebrity circle, they knew this trick just by thinking about it.

After pulling back far enough, Chen Han took out a 10-meter Cloud Barrier Pill from the warehouse and placed it in his palm, saying towards the camera, ”Fellow Taoists, watch closely, this is the true ’Cloud Barrier Technique.’”

The four tourists couldn’t help but marvel, the internet is truly not for the faint-hearted, being attracted over due to the video of Patriarch Chen, finding his video quite amusing, but Patriarch Chen’s filming is extremely abstract.

Won’t he feel embarrassed?

Also at this time, the four saw that Patriarch Chen began moving his fingers, imitating spell gestures.

Chen Han’s gesture was naturally a common Taoist spell gesture, bending the left hand, straightening the index finger pointing upwards, the thumb pressing on the index finger, the other three fingers bent inward, and performing forward and backward motions once each.

As to what this gesture is actually for is irrelevant, now it’s clearly being used for casting the ’Cloud Barrier Technique.’

After all, it needed a bit of flair.

Importantly, his spell gestures had an element of authenticity, so all four tourists subconsciously looked at him making those gestures, imagining this Patriarch Chen finishing the gestures and matching it with some smoke effects afterward would definitely be more impactful than ’Xiaoyuzha’s’ video.

At this moment, the four saw smoke explode all around Patriarch Chen as he finished the gesture, blocking everyone’s view with thick smoke.

”Amazing effects...” a tourist instinctively praised, though the voice immediately stopped, with an ”Uh!” surfacing right after.

The other three tourists were also stunned, directly dumbfounded, watching the dense smoke that now covered an almost entire 10-meter range appear.

You couldn’t see Patriarch Chen’s figure at all.

”It’s n-not a special effect...” a female tourist uttered, dumbfounded.