Chapter 321: There Was Never A Chance From The Start! The Higher-ups Lay Down The Rules!
（Yesterday the size of the USB drive was written wrong. It is 50 cubic centimeters, which means a cube with an edge length of 68 centimeters. The earlier text has already been corrected. If you saw 50 cubic centimeters before, just ignore it.）
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Chen Yong’s sudden action left Wu Yan and Ming Di, as well as the tourists they had brought in, a bit confused.
They had never expected to see something like this.
But they were not fools. They understood this person should also be from the Chen Clan, they just did not know why he had to use this method to come here and accuse his own Old Ancestor.
When Chen Han saw clearly that it was this guy Chen Yong, he was speechless. Damn, this guy still had not left, and had even come into here through a dream.
However, he seemed to understand the other party’s purpose. Otherwise, he would not have come rushing over to cry injustice to him.
Injustice, his ass.
Would he not know whether the other party was wronged or not?
Just in time, he had been wondering how to add a sense of legend to this Special Dream Realm, and this guy had basically delivered himself to the door.
Chen Yong had no idea of the real situation and was still crying out in a sorrowful voice, “Ancestor, I have truly been wronged, please uphold justice for me!”
He tried his best to act miserable, believing this would definitely draw this Ancestor’s attention and get him to ask what had happened.
But what he heard instead was a cold voice: “Ancestor? Did your damn language classes get taught by your PE teacher?”
As soon as Chen Han finished speaking, he directly kicked Chen Yong flying.
But it was in a dream. The other man rolled several times on the ground and could still get up.
Chen Yong was completely dumbfounded. He did not understand how this got dragged to his language teacher, and why they were saying his language was taught by the PE teacher.
Some clever tourists around them reacted, and one person said, “Ancestor usually refers to deceased family forebears, like when we ‘commemorate our ancestors’.”
Another tourist reacted, “Then isn’t this Chen Clan person cursing his own Old Ancestor to be dead?”
Ming Di opened his mouth slightly. Was this tourist’s language also taught by the PE teacher?
Although “ancestor” can mean deceased family forebears, that is only one aspect, not absolute. Actually calling him “ancestor” was not really a problem.
He increasingly felt that this Old Daoist Priest of the Chen Clan had hit him on purpose.
Hearing the tourists, Chen Yong also thought he had said something wrong. He hastily scrambled and crawled back to Chen Han, crying, “Old Ancestor, I was wrong, I should not have misspoken, but I am really wronged.”
“Really? I do not think you are wronged.” Chen Han let out a cold laugh.
Today he was going to shatter this guy’s hopes and let him understand what wishful thinking meant.
When Chen Yong heard this, he knew his chance had come. “Old Ancestor, I am truly wronged. The Chen Clan expelled me from the genealogy for no reason. I only questioned that Chen Han a bit, said that he simply does not understand managing the Chen Clan, that he has made a mess of the Chen Clan’s management, and that the Chen Clan cannot let his family monopolize everything. There needs to be someone who understands how to manage the Chen Clan.”
After speaking, he immediately recommended himself. “I understand development. My company has developed very well. In this aspect, no one in the entire Chen Clan understands management better than me. And I even made several development plans for the Chen Clan.”
These words shocked those tourists, as well as Wu Yan and Ming Di. They had not expected such a juicy revelation.
There was actually someone in the Chen Clan coming to accuse that Chen Family Head, and he even wanted to seize power.
Ming Di felt cold sweat down his back.
He remembered this man. He was the one he had brought in, but he had not expected him to be the person expelled from the Chen Clan’s genealogy.
The key question: was this guy stupid? He actually dared to accuse the Chen Family Head, even wanted to seize power?
Regardless of whether today’s accusation succeeded, as long as the Chen Family Head knew about it, would it not be easy for him to kill you?
He had seen the Chen Family Head’s strength. His own cousin, a retired special forces soldier, had been instantly defeated.
Thinking about it made him a bit afraid. Would the Chen Family Head hold this against him?
“Heh heh heh.” Chen Han now also understood the reason behind Chen Yong’s constant troublemaking. It turned out he was relying on his family being richer than other Chen Clan members, with a successful company, and thinking himself superior to the others.
He had to admit, in the ordinary world, that was a fact.
Unfortunately, the Chen Clan was no longer an ordinary family.
So he once again kicked Chen Yong flying and said coldly, “Management? Have you ever seen, in ancient times, a steward who did business become the Family Head? Which noble family was not backed by official positions and power, and which merchant became a noble clan?”
“Do you know what ‘hierarchy must be orderly, with harmony and peace within our gates’ means? You are already almost a marginal branch, yet you still question the Main Family and covet authority. You are ignorant and overestimate yourself. For an idiot like you, expelling you from the genealogy was the right decision.”
Chen Yong rolled on the ground again, his face utterly blank.
This was completely different from what he had imagined.
This was not how the script was supposed to go.
After hearing him out, should the Old Ancestor not cherish his talent, help him up, and uphold justice for him?
The tourists around them now looked at Chen Yong as if they were looking at a complete fool.
“This idiot, for a family like the Chen Clan, who cares whether he can manage or not? If they want money, plenty of people will line up to give it to the Chen Family Head.”
“Haha, he came to complain and ended up being told his bloodline is impure and he is not even part of the Main Family.”
“A thousand-year-old family like the Chen Clan focusing on hierarchy is normal. In ancient times, was it not always the Main Family that controlled everything, with power of life and death over the branches? Going out to question the Main Family is just asking to die.”
“Looks like the Chen Clan Old Ancestor really despises merchants. Makes sense, merchants had no real status in ancient times.”
“This guy is not wronged at all. He actually dared to use his identity as a merchant to covet the Family Head’s authority right in front of the Old Ancestor. What a joke.”
“……”
Hearing the surrounding comments, Chen Yong felt as if struck by lightning, his face pale.
How could it be like this?
He had thought through everything, thought about how this Old Ancestor wanted to revitalize the Chen Clan, but had never considered the idea that merchants had no status.
What era was this? Still going on about merchants having no status?
It was an era where money talked, was it not?
Out there, if he took out one hundred thousand and asked who would shine his shoes, how many people would come?
What made him even more desperate was that this Old Ancestor, who had been separated from the Chen Clan for so many generations and had not had any contact with them, still cared so much about bloodline hierarchy.
Was being the Main Family really so important?
He had been doomed from birth to never have that chance.
It was unfair.
As Chen Yong’s mind collapsed, he found himself slowly floating up, and saw that Old Ancestor raising his hand toward his position.
He felt an extremely terrifying pressure squeeze in from all around his body, as if a force was about to crush him.
This Special Dream Realm was created by Chen Han. As its master, he naturally had some privileges in it.
He looked at Chen Yong coldly and said, “You are no longer one of the Chen Clan. You had better stay away from the Chen Clan, or next time, it will not be only in a dream that you get crushed.”
As soon as he finished, Chen Yong seemed to be ground down by something, twisted, and in the end exploded like a tomato, disappearing in front of everyone.
This scene utterly terrified Wu Yan, Ming Di, and the others.
Chen Han, however, looked at them and made his final closing remarks. “Everyone, sorry for making you watch such a joke tonight. Wake up now.”
With that, he waved his hand. In the next moment, the bodies of Wu Yan, Ming Di, and the others dissipated like wisps of smoke, vanishing from the dream.
Seeing this, Chen Han finally smiled. What had happened tonight would probably become a very popular story spreading among those tourists.
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In the Chen Clan Parking Lot, inside a bus used specially for dream tourism, Chen Yong jolted awake from his dream, his head covered in sweat. He hurriedly checked his body, his face filled with fear.
In the dream, he had been crushed like a rotten tomato by that Chen Clan Old Ancestor.
Then his expression turned ashen.
The things he had always been most proud of had been shattered.
It turned out he was nothing in the Chen Clan, his status merely that of a lackey with delusions.
In the past, if the Chen Clan treated him like a lackey, he could show off his wealth, slap everyone in the Chen Clan in the face, and walk away to start his own genealogy.
But now he already knew the Chen Clan was different. Thinking of how even a tycoon like Liu Ye had to adopt such an attitude, what did that make him?
The more he thought, the more regret he felt. After realizing he could not obtain power within the Chen Clan, he felt that taking a step back would still be fine.
If he had not been expelled from the genealogy, the Chen Clan would still be a huge help. At the very least, it would not be hard for him to use the Chen Clan to build a connection with that tycoon Liu Ye.
Chen Yong’s current mentality was like chasing the most beautiful goddess, and after finding it hopeless, taking a step back to chase the second most beautiful.
This mentality was normal. It was called avoiding a sense of failure.
If there was no chance even after taking a step back, one would take another step back.
But now Chen Yong realized he had no room left to retreat. He had already been expelled from the genealogy, and that Old Ancestor had said that next time it would not be in a dream that he crushed him.
The terror of being crushed in the dream was unimaginable. If it happened in reality, he did not dare think about it. His face was full of despair, as if all spirit had been drained from him.
Just then, the other people on the bus also woke up.
Each one thought about what had happened in the dream and found it unbelievable. The key was how angry that Old Daoist Priest had been, directly throwing them out, and they had woken up immediately.
It was too unbelievable.
Ming Di glared around viciously, and finally locked onto Chen Yong. “Cousin, take him back, go through the check-out procedures, and then throw him out of Shangyuan Village. I hope he does not get us killed.”
Xu Bin naturally understood why. He strode over with a vicious glare, grabbed Chen Yong, and dragged him off the bus toward Shangyuan Village.
Chen Yong instinctively wanted to resist, but this was a retired special forces soldier in very good shape. With one move, he easily subdued Chen Yong, making him cry out in pain as he was forced down from the bus and escorted toward Shangyuan Village.
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After using his authority to kick everyone out of the Special Dream Realm, Chen Han also exited it himself.
Seeing that it was already very late, he went again to the Affairs Hall and entered the Family Cave Mansion from the entrance.
At this time, the distant scenery in the Family Cave Mansion had changed. It was no longer what it was before, but a starry sky.
The full moon seemed to hang just above the distant mountaintops, a very magnificent sight.
This should be the different background for night and day.
Then he sat down cross-legged, took out an intermediate Spirit Stone, and cultivated with the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture advanced Qi Cultivation Method》.
Although the Spiritual Energy in the Family Cave Mansion was still thin, intermediate Spirit Stone plus the cave’s Spiritual Energy definitely made cultivation more effective.
A whole night passed.
When the mobile phone alarm clock rang, Chen Han stopped cultivating, exited the Family Cave Mansion, and returned to his own courtyard.
Outside the door, You Fu, You Cai, and a few animals were clearly confused. They seemed to feel that something was off.
He had not come out from inside. He had not come home all night.
Chen Han walked to the Moon Gazing Rabbit Hutch, picked up two grains of Moon Gazing Sand, and when he lifted out the Little White Rabbit, the little thing suddenly raised its butt in his hand and a speck of starlight fell into his palm.
Another grain of Moon Gazing Sand.
Chen Han smiled and put this Moon Gazing Sand away as well.
This little fellow was getting more and more savvy in the workplace, knowing that you had to do things in front of the boss for it to count as done.
Like the other three in the Moon Gazing Rabbit Hutch, there were only two grains there. Who knew which two had produced them?
If they could really talk, the one that did nothing could just muddle through, and there would be no way to clarify.
You had to know how to show results if you wanted to get ahead.
With that in mind, Chen Han picked up the Little White Rabbit and took it along to the Special Spiritual Aperture. Without knowing how to show off, this little one would never have had such a chance.
By the time he arrived at the Special Spiritual Aperture, his Junior Sister and Uncle and the others were already there and greeted him one after another.
Chen Lin reported, “Xiao Han, last night that Chen Yong actually went into the Chen Clan Dreamscape and tried to complain about you to the Old Ancestor, but he was taught a lesson by the Old Ancestor. He was staying over in Shangyuan Village and they kicked him out overnight.”
Chen Dagou laughed and said, “That Ming Di was worried we would blame him, so he came to us right away. It was such a small matter, we did not bother you last night.”
“Yeah.” Chen Han nodded. He already knew what had happened and smiled. “Let’s not talk about that guy.”
The others nodded.
Xiao Yu said, “Senior Brother, your Immortal Family Cave Mansion video completely blew up. Early this morning it already has more than 8 million likes. You now have 6 million fans, you must have gained over a million.”
Chen Han smiled and said, “About that.”
His reputation had already reached 44 million, which really was an increase of more than a million. More importantly, the video’s popularity had not yet dropped. The comment section was still growing rapidly, with all sorts of design diagrams being posted.
After chatting for a while, they all sat down cross-legged. Cultivation was still the most important thing.
With the Spiritual Energy Rinse of the Special Spiritual Aperture, he ran the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture advanced Qi Cultivation Method》, and the Spiritual Energy around him quickly poured into his body, being refined into his own True Qi.
At the same time, as his True Qi circulated, he also tried to attack his Spiritual Meridian, gradually wearing down the blockage, but his True Qi consumption was very large.
Indeed, it was going to take a lot of time. After all this cultivation, he still needed a long time before he could connect the second Dantian.
No wonder so many Nascent Soul Big Shots in Shu Shan Swordsman chose to reincarnate and cultivate anew. Think about it: after reincarnation, they could keep their Eight Extraordinary Meridians and Spiritual Meridians unobstructed, and might even preserve a trace of innate Spiritual Energy. That was far more than just living another life.
When he finished refining the absorbed Spiritual Energy and got up, his Junior Sister, Uncle, and the others had already refined their Spiritual Energy and left.
He got up, mounted You Fu, took the Little White Rabbit back to the Moon Gazing Rabbit Hutch, and then went to Uncle’s Kitchen to prepare medicinal cuisine.
After lighting the fire and starting the stewing, he remembered the two accidental USB drives he had refined yesterday.
These were useless to him, but giving them to the girls to play with would probably make them very happy.
He called his Junior Sister and learned she and Xiao Mi were in the courtyard filming videos, then headed straight there.
When he arrived, he saw his Junior Sister playing the zither and Xiao Mi dancing. Both girls were wearing Hanfu and were very pleasing to the eye.
Seeing how serious they were about filming, Chen Han just watched from the side.
They were serious about filming their videos and did not notice Chen Han’s arrival. After one take, they switched, with Xiao Mi playing the zither and his Junior Sister drawing a sword and dancing.
They were clearly filming two videos, one for his Junior Sister to post and one for Xiao Mi.
After they finished, they finally noticed Chen Han.
“Senior Brother, when did you get here?” his Junior Sister asked in surprise.
Xiao Mi also looked at him with big, bright eyes.
Chen Han smiled and said, “I have been here a while. I brought you two a gift.”
Hearing there was a gift, the two girls were delighted.
“Senior Brother, what gift?” his Junior Sister asked happily.
With a smile, Chen Han extended both hands toward them, clearly holding something in his palms.
This immediately drew their attention, their eyes full of expectation. But when he opened his hands and they saw the USB drives, they were stunned.
“Senior Brother, are these not USB drives?” Xiao Yu asked doubtfully.
“That’s right, they are USB drives,” Chen Han said with a smile. “What are USB drives for?”
“To store things, of course,” Xiao Yu answered instinctively.
“Yes, for storing things.” Chen Han nodded, picked up a small stone from the ground, and put it into the USB drive. He then handed it to his Junior Sister. “Look, the small stone has been stored inside.”
The two girls’ eyes went wide. They were confused.
“???” Xiao Yu.
“???” Xiao Mi.
Was Senior Brother using tricks to tease them?
Xiao Yu instinctively took the USB drive and examined it closely, trying to see if there was some hidden compartment.
Chen Han reminded her, “Focus your mind. Use your thoughts.”
Xiao Yu followed his instructions without thinking. A moment later, disbelief appeared on her face as a small stone appeared in her palm.
“Ah, Senior Brother, there is an empty space inside this USB drive where you can put things.” Xiao Yu was overjoyed, experimenting again and again with the small stone, and then even took out a small bottle and poured out two pills to try.
The more she tried, the more excited she became.
Xiao Mi’s beautiful eyes were full of curiosity. Was this not a storage space?
As she marveled, Chen Han had already handed her the other USB drive. She happily accepted it, and following his instructions to concentrate, she soon sensed the empty space inside as well.
She took out a tiny ornament, gave a mental command, and the ornament vanished. When she focused her thoughts again, the item appeared inside the USB drive.
Seeing how happily they were playing, Chen Han told them, “You can bind this thing with a drop of blood. After that, it is exclusively yours and only you can use it.”
Hearing this, Xiao Yu instinctively raised her finger to her mouth to bite it, but Xiao Mi hurriedly stopped her. “There is a medical kit in the infirmary. They have disposable blood lancets.”
An infirmary was a required department for a scenic spot, with basic first aid and some simple medicines.
The Chen Clan naturally did not have their own doctor; the county had helped by transferring a doctor from the county hospital and setting up a medical room next to the Express Delivery Station at the Chen Clan Entrance.
Hearing this, Xiao Yu eagerly grabbed Xiao Mi and dragged her outside.
Seeing this, Chen Han also left his Junior Sister’s courtyard. Just then, a game prompt suddenly appeared in his mind:
【Congratulations, the family Special Inheritance Stone Tablet has been erected. The Stone Tablet attributes are now effective. You can engrave relevant information on the Stone Tablet, including spells, secret techniques, cultivation methods, and so on.
Restriction: under normal circumstances, information recorded in the Stone Tablet cannot be viewed. Only registered clan members, and only after your authorization, can trigger the Stone Tablet’s attributes and view the corresponding information!】
The Family Heritage Stone Tablet was finally complete.
This way, when his strength grew, or in a decade or several decades when he no longer wanted to manage trivial Chen Clan matters, the Family Heritage Stone Tablet would allow the Chen Clan to continue passing things down.
The most important feature was the access control. Without authorization, even clan members standing before the tablet would not be able to see any information.
This again highlighted the importance of the Record Book. Being recorded signified orthodoxy.
Chen Han intended to head to the Affairs Hall and enter the Family Cave Mansion, but at that moment he received a call from his uncle.
As he answered, his uncle’s voice came through. “Xiao Han, check the Douyin news about the Daoist Sect. The higher-ups have taken action on religion-related matters. It is a bit strange.”
“???” Chen Han was puzzled.
The higher-ups handling religious affairs? Had they not always avoided getting directly involved?
What suddenly happened?
He had just completed the registration; hopefully this would not cause some trouble for him.
After hanging up, he opened Douyin. The first news that popped up stunned him. It was not about the Daoist Sect, but a piece of news released by the emergency management department.
It was truly an official announcement: “When we go out, besides bringing enough water, food, and clothing, we must remember to reserve one-third of our backpack space for four lifesaving essentials.”
“Such as a waterproof raincoat, a high-capacity power bank, bandages, and some common emergency medicine for fever, colds, and pain relief…”
Chen Han stared, a bit confused.
They were in a peaceful society, nothing had happened, and there were no major disasters. This news seemed unnecessary. It was not as if many people would go risk their lives in the wilderness, so they did not really need to bring this stuff.
Those truly going to risk their lives would bring such things anyway. If they did not even understand this, they would not dare go risk their lives.
However, the video’s comment section was very lively:
“Just say it clearly. How big a disaster did you cause behind the moon…”
“Is it like what England said, that you used cigarette butts to burn aliens on the butt?”
“Is something about to happen? If so, please tell us in advance so I can spend my savings to book two male models!”
“When mom and dad ask whether you want a little brother or a little sister, it means it is already on the way.”
“……”
Reading these comments, Chen Han wanted to laugh. A proper emergency science video had been turned into something completely different.
Then he searched for what his uncle had mentioned.
There really were two news items from the higher-ups about the Daoist Sect.
The first was about religious personnel not being allowed to promote religion or related content online.
Chen Han was stunned and carefully read the regulations. He roughly understood that with this rule, it would be easier to distinguish real Daoist priests from fake ones online in the future.
Real Daoist priests could no longer post videos promoting core religious ideas and similar content. Those who still did so would definitely be liars.
As for his Chen Family Head account posting abstract videos that did not involve religious content, there would be no problem.
He agreed with this. It was not a big deal, and it would help expose many fake Daoist priests.
Some of those fakes really deserved it, specializing in tricking ignorant young women with “liquid Golden Core transmission” techniques.
The key thing was, there were actually people falling for it.
Think about it. An old creep just had to throw on a Daoist robe and could trick young women, while some decent-looking guys with proper jobs, a house, and a car were still single. Why?
Because they had too much conscience.
Chen Han fully supported this regulation and even wanted to say, “Well done.”
Then he watched the other Daoist Sect-related video, and his face showed surprise.
Was this official recognition of him from the higher-ups?
That was kind of impressive.
