Chapter 259: The Chen Clan Youth’s Anticipation! Green Snail Valley Duel Dungeon!
Chen Xing had not read much, he used to work in a factory, and he met his wife there before they later got married.
After he and his wife had their son, he kept working in the factory. Until his parents passed away and his son went to high school, he had always been working in the factory.
Even though he worked there all the time, the boss never gave him a raise. Instead, he disliked him for being older and not as productive as the young workers.
And because his son was in high school and expenses were high, when the boss disliked him and made him do even more work, he did not dare complain. He could only endure silently, otherwise if he lost his job, his family could not handle it.
Workers at the bottom of society are all like this.
At that time, his only wish was for his son to get into a good university and have a promising future.
Moreover, after his son entered high school, they found his sports were pretty good, and he could maybe rely on the sports track to get into a better university.
But at the same time, going to university as a sports student would cost even more.
So what method was there?
He and his wife could only grit their teeth. Since the expenses were higher, he would take a part-time delivery job after work.
They could always somehow support their son.
He originally thought his life would just continue like this, until this year he suddenly saw a recruitment notice in the family group, and everything changed.
He knew the main family had invested resources into an ancient architecture tourism project, but there had never been many tourists, and clan members did not have much hope.
No one expected that this tourism project would actually be successfully developed by the new Chen Family Head.
At the beginning, when recruitment started, many people did not believe it, feeling suspicious, afraid the project would suddenly collapse, and if they came back to work for the clan and lost their outside jobs, they would be in trouble.
For a family like his, they absolutely could not afford such a blow. Even one month without salary would make it impossible for them to get by.
So, even when he had a cold or headache, he did not dare go to the hospital.
But later everyone saw the development of the family, and they could even follow news videos about the Chen Clan’s growth online.
He and his wife came back to the clan with a mentality of taking a gamble, and only after returning did he realize his family was far better than those black-hearted bosses outside.
He now worked in the specialty products department picking bamboo leaves, with a monthly salary of 7,500, which was 2,000 more than outside. Plus bonuses and full-attendance awards, he earned almost double what he had earned outside.
And because his family was indeed in difficulty, his wife was also arranged into the specialty products department to fry tea leaves. Together their salary was a bit over 20,000 a month, truly double what they made outside.
Their household life immediately improved.
When they received their wages for the first time, both he and his wife cried, and they genuinely felt how happy it was to have the clan as their support.
Thinking back on their more than twenty years of working outside, it was truly bitter, making them full of gratitude toward that young family head they did not even know very well.
Later, their family opened a feng shui accommodation room, and now they could earn more than 400 a day from it, which was over ten thousand a month after tax.
Only those who have suffered know how good the Chen Clan is now, and how lucky it is to be a member of the clan.
Therefore, for anything related to the clan or any gatherings called by the clan, he always participated very actively, never hesitated.
Likewise, after returning he had witnessed many mysterious events in the clan and gradually came to know the family had deep inheritance and foundation.
It was just that before, there were rules that only the main family could know about these things, and ordinary clan members could not be told. So people like him, who had lived in the Chen Clan all their lives, had known nothing.
When he first found out, his jaw almost dropped.
Only later did he learn that in order to develop the Chen Clan and lead everyone to prosperity, the family head had broken many old rules so that everyone could know about these things.
These included kung fu.
Previously he had no idea that Chen Lin and Chen Dagou, who had played with mud and stolen bird eggs with him as kids, knew kung fu and were actually experts.
He remembered that when he came back last year, he saw Chen Lin holding a saw and carpentry tools fixing something, looking like a proper carpenter.
Then suddenly he saw a video of him taking down thieves with his bare hands and slapping one person flat with a single palm. The impact was shocking and astonishing.
They had hidden it too well.
Now people outside all know that the Chen Clan has real kung fu and are very curious about it.
In fact, the clan members were also very curious. At the Demon Subduing Hall, Chen Dagou had taught some Chen Clan fist techniques and leg techniques, and clan members could also cultivate them.
Even Xiao Yu gave some Body Tempering Pills to outstanding employees.
His wife had been rated an outstanding employee and received some Body Tempering Pills, and she gave all of them to their son. Their son said the effects were very good.
Among the senior three sports students at his son’s school, his results were already good. After taking those Body Tempering Pills, he even said he would definitely win first place in the next test.
Which meant the Body Tempering Pills were effective.
Other clan members who received Body Tempering Pill rewards gave the same feedback.
So now all clan members knew, and everyone was actively performing well, hoping to get the reward of Body Tempering Pills.
Of course, many clan members had practiced those daoist palm and leg techniques taught by Chen Dagou, and they knew those were not the Chen Clan’s true kung fu.
Now Xiao Yu publicly posted this announcement in the group. Since it was for martial arts training, the person selected would surely be taught true Chen Clan kung fu, right?
Sixteen to eighteen years old, preferably with sports training experience. His son fit the requirements perfectly.
Seeing the message, he did not hesitate and directly called his son. No matter what, he had to bring his son back these two days.
Linhe County No. 5 High School ranked only third among the high schools in Linhe County.
However, on the sports student track it ranked first. Every year in the university sports league, No. 5 High School took first place.
They had even produced an Olympic Games gold medal champion.
So many students who wanted to follow the sports track chose No. 5 High School, and every day many senior three sports students trained on the sports field under their sports teachers.
Of course, some of them were genuinely talented and trained seriously. But there was also a group that was very perfunctory. This group existed in every school and was annoying.
How to evaluate them?
Their reputation was terrible; they damaged the reputation of sports students.
Basically, they were the ones who did not want to study properly in junior high and high school, skipped class and fought, and then tricked their parents by saying they wanted to take the sports route, when in fact they just wanted to avoid classes and homework.
After signing up as sports students, they still did not train seriously. They just slept in class, smoked, drank, fought, mixed in with bad crowds, and chased girls.
And they always cut in line at the cafeteria.
These people even thought those ordinary students who studied hard every day were idiots, with some baseless sense of superiority.
In fact, they did not realize that this so-called sense of superiority would only last for this last year of school. After high school, if they failed the college entrance exam and did not pass the sports tests, they would just fall into society and become losers.
Even if they barely passed the sports tests, with their habits, once they entered university, they would still be a group that gave sports students a bad name.
Chen Dao’s grades were not bad, around the middle. He found he had athletic talent and wanted to rely on sports to get into a better school.
So he really disliked those people, especially a few who did not train properly but gathered to smoke, acting all arrogant and bullying ordinary students.
He really could not be bothered with them. Many classmates knew he was from the Chen Clan, so in front of him, those guys were timid.
“Chen Dao, come over for the 100-meter test!” a sports teacher shouted from over there.
Chen Dao responded and quickly ran over, greeting the sports teacher, “Teacher Wu.”
Seeing him come, Teacher Wu reminded him, “Chen Dao, today those two both got under 55 seconds, you need to work harder.”
It was obvious he was in a good mood. Getting under 55 seconds meant reaching level three standard, which showed talent.
It was only the start of the semester. With training until next year’s sports exam, it should not be difficult for them to reach level two.
If Chen Dao could also reach it, then with three talented students, if one could be trained to level one standard, it would be good for him too.
By leveraging that connection, maybe he could go to the city sports bureau, which would be much better than being a sports teacher here.
“Okay, Teacher Wu.” Chen Dao also had expectations.
After taking the Body Tempering Pills his parents gave him last time, he clearly felt his physical condition had improved during this period, especially in the last two days of training. He felt very good.
Previously, his latest test result had been around 55 seconds. Now he felt he could surpass that.
Once he was ready, he dashed out the moment he heard the starting gun and sprinted the 100 meters at full speed.
Teacher Wu immediately checked the recorded time, and his face lit up with surprise. “Chen Dao, nice, 22 seconds, better than both of them.”
His eyes shone. Chen Dao’s improvement was huge. With such progress, reaching level two standard with the remaining time in senior three would definitely not be a problem.
Chen Dao was also pleasantly surprised with this result. He knew it was the effect of the Body Tempering Pills his parents gave him.
The clan’s pills were truly treasures.
Unfortunately, such things were very precious in the clan, and not everyone could get them every month.
Just as he was thinking this, his mobile phone rang. Seeing it was his father, he immediately answered, “Dad!”
Once the call connected, Chen Xing immediately said, “Son, check the family group, hurry and ask for leave to return to the clan for two days. You might have a chance to learn the family’s martial arts.”
Chen Dao froze for a moment when he heard this. Of course he knew the clan had real kung fu. Uncle Dagou and Uncle Shuisheng’s skills were formidable, and people online treated them as experts.
For someone his age, he was very drawn to such skills. He had even learned some of the palm techniques taught by Uncle Dagou.
But those were just like the performance arts described online and were not the clan’s true kung fu.
Everyone in the clan knew that if you were not from the main family or main branch, you had no qualification to learn the true family kung fu.
Now his dad meant that other clan members also had a chance to learn true kung fu?
He quickly opened the family group, saw the announcement posted by Sister Xiao Yu, and began to tremble all over, his face full of expectation. He hurried back to the classroom to take out paper and pen to write a leave slip.
…
Time passed, and a day went by quickly.
The next day, after finishing cultivation in the special spiritual aperture, Chen Han was handling medicinal cuisine at Uncle’s Kitchen when his junior sister came to him.
However, she was clearly a bit nervous today.
With that look, it meant she had either done something wrong or had something to ask of him.
“What is it? If there’s something, just say it.” Chen Han understood his junior sister well, so he spoke first to keep her from hemming and hawing.
“Senior brother, didn’t you tell me to find someone between 16 and 18, preferably with sports training?” Xiao Yu said as she took out two sets of information from behind her. “It’s just… I picked one extra… Many people from the clan applied, I looked through them, these two are both suitable. I rejected the others for now and told them to wait for future opportunities.”
Chen Han took the two files and looked them over.
One of the two his junior sister had chosen was named Chen Dao, who was studying at Linhe County No. 5 High School. He had athletic talent and happened to specialize in track and field, which fit his requirements perfectly.
The key point was that high school athletes, especially in the 100-meter event, if they could meet a certain standard, their school would recommend them at the city level, and if they could break a city record, they would be directly recommended to the province…
In short, it was a step-by-step promotion system. These results were political achievements for each place’s sports authorities. If they could win medals in international competitions or even the Olympic Games, it would be beneficial for all the places that had recommended them.
Of course, this mainly applied to track and field, especially the 100 meters.
Other events did not need to be discussed; those who understood, understood.
With Chen Dao’s current age, the top universities would be sending out offers to him.
He could pick any university he wanted, and after winning medals, the chosen universities would even hire him back as a teacher. Of course, with the Chen Clan, they would not need the universities to hire him.
Then Chen Han looked at the other file and understood why his junior sister had been so nervous when she came in, because it was a girl’s name.
Her name was Chen Linlin.
She was also a senior three student, with grades that were neither high nor low. The file explained that it was mainly due to family circumstances and the limited educational resources in their town’s school, so she did not have a solid foundation and her grades were not good.
Originally, her family had only planned for her to finish high school and then go work, because they were poor and she had a younger brother still in school.
The family was poor and depended entirely on the parents working. They could not afford more.
Now things were different. Her parents had returned to work for the clan, her grandparents also had work, and they had a feng shui accommodation room that hosted tourists daily, making the family well-off.
So her parents’ mentality changed. Even if her grades were bad, she could repeat a year. And since she had done physical labor since childhood and had good physical condition, the sports track was also a path.
In short, sending her straight out to work after high school was no longer an option.
Obviously, in many cases, parents’ attitudes toward their children truly change depending on the family’s situation and what they can afford.
Take education for example. When they really had no choice and both parents were just laborers, they could only sponsor one child to attend university. Naturally they favored sons, and since the girl’s grades were bad, they planned to stop after high school.
Now that they had money, they could consider more. They would feel that sending a girl into society right after high school was not good, and if they had the ability, they wanted her to get at least a university diploma.
At least with a diploma, even if it did not guarantee big money, it would give her more options.
In this regard, Chen Han felt gratified. At least he had improved the clan in this way, giving him some sense of accomplishment.
Xiao Yu, afraid her senior brother would refuse, tried to win sympathy for the girl. “Chen Linlin is very hardworking too. She had it tough before, she had to help take care of her younger brother and do chores while studying, so her grades fell behind. Now that her family is willing to let her keep studying, sports is also a path. Training in martial arts will definitely be hard.”
Chen Han smiled. Clearly his junior sister had her own motives, either because she had known Chen Linlin before or because she wanted to pick a girl to train herself.
Of course, there could be other reasons.
But had his junior sister forgotten that 《Tai Xu Chasing Wind Leg》 was originally going to be taught to other clan members? In the future, anyone would be able to learn it. Only, to achieve real results they would need Body Tempering Pills.
And those would have to be earned by contributing to the clan.
As for what counted as contribution, in the future they could draft a set of rules. Even if a child of the same age took first place in the final exams, they could be rewarded with Body Tempering Pills.
Or if someone proposed suggestions for developing the clan and those were adopted, they could also receive Body Tempering Pills.
So his junior sister wanting to select an extra girl from the clan did not matter at all.
After all, there are men’s and women’s 100-meter races.
But what he actually said to his junior sister was, “Junior sister, I originally only wanted to find one boy to train together with Dalong and test 《Tai Xu Chasing Wind Leg》, but since you have already picked them, as your senior brother I have to give you face. Let us approve a one-month leave for both children.”
Hearing this, Xiao Yu’s smile bloomed like a flower. “Thank you, senior brother, you are the best.”
Her sense of satisfaction was obvious; her fair face was full of smiles.
Of course, after settling things with her senior brother, she did not forget the proper business. She immediately left Uncle’s Kitchen and went to find the parents of Chen Dao and Chen Linlin to tell them the news.
Next, as her senior brother had instructed, she also needed to arrange one month’s leave for the two children so they could focus on learning 《Tai Xu Chasing Wind Leg》.
After receiving the news, Chen Xing said excitedly, “Xiao Yu, thank you so much, and thanks to the family head.”
Xiao Yu quickly said, “Uncle Chen Xing, we are all family, no need to thank me. You should go to the school and arrange the leave for Chen Dao. Just say he is returning to the Chen Clan for training. If the school does not agree, tell me, and I will contact the county.”
For the Chen Clan, this was not difficult at all, and the school would not make trouble over it.
Now in Linhe County, anyone with some status knew how closely the Chen Clan cooperated with the county, and County Magistrate Chu often went to the Chen Clan.
If they needed the county to call over a simple leave request, then the school would really be showing no sense.
“Yes, yes, I will call the kid now and then head to the county.” Chen Xing said immediately. After Xiao Yu left, he quickly called his son.
Linhe County No. 5 High School.
After applying for leave yesterday, Chen Dao had packed his things that night, planning to return to the Chen Clan today. Unexpectedly, he received his father’s call and, after answering, was thrilled. “I was selected? That’s great. I will wait for you to handle the leave procedures. Okay… okay…”
After hanging up, he was so excited that he could not help shouting, drawing the attention of many students.
Soon he met his father, and the two of them went to handle the leave procedures. Since it involved athletics, they first needed the signature of his supervising sports teacher.
Teacher Wu was a little exasperated. “Chen Dao, you are the most gifted of this cohort. It’s no problem for you to reach level two standard. And now you suddenly take a month’s leave to go practice martial arts? Isn’t that a waste of your talent?”
Chen Xing immediately explained, “Teacher Wu, we are from the Chen Clan, and the family is teaching kung fu. The kid has to go back.”
“The Chen Clan?” Teacher Wu froze for a moment, then stared at Chen Dao in surprise. “The Chen Clan from Shangyuan Village?… holy crap… Chen Dao, you’re from that Chen Clan?”
He certainly knew about the Chen Clan in Shangyuan Village. He had seen many of their videos and knew how powerful their kung fu was.
When he heard about practicing martial arts just now, he had not reacted. Now that it clicked, he was stunned and looked at Chen Dao with envy.
As someone from this country, who does not have a wuxia dream?
Then he suddenly remembered something. The Chen Clan had real kung fu, and it was said they used medicinal cuisine to enhance physical fitness.
If his physical condition improved and Chen Dao later ran the 100 meters again…
For a moment, his gaze toward Chen Dao was burning hot.
Could it be as he imagined?
…
Chen Clan.
Since his junior sister had already found the candidates, once the two children returned, they and Chen Dalong would be taught together. So after lunch, Chen Han went back to the courtyard and brought out several jars of Thunder Bamboo Spirit Rat Bone Wine.
These wines had finished fermenting and now had a “leg muscle group enhancement +2” attribute. They were to be used by the three, including Chen Dalong, to assist their practice of 《Tai Xu Chasing Wind Leg》.
He would not be giving medicinal cuisine for now.
However, he still needed to refine higher-grade Body Tempering Pills, so he went to the spirit field to collect medicinal herbs that had been repeatedly watered with Spirit Plant Dew.
These herbs now had years and medicinal potency far beyond anything bought at a pharmacy.
After collecting enough herbs, he took them back to Uncle’s Kitchen and used not a gas stove and pressure cooker…but spirit fire and a Spirit Pressure Cauldron to refine a batch of Body Tempering Pills.
Previously, when using ordinary medicinal herbs, the Body Tempering Pills were of ordinary quality with limited effect.
This time, the pills were obviously of much better quality.
【Body Tempering Pill（good quality）: this is a good-quality Body Tempering Pill. Used together with martial arts training, it has a special effect: physical training +1! 】
This batch of Body Tempering Pills now had an attribute: physical training +
This proved that the older the herbs, the better the alchemy effect.
So those herbs had to continue being watered with Spirit Plant Dew repeatedly. In the future, even better Body Tempering Pills could be refined, with multiple grades, which would work well as rewards.
After refining all the collected herbs into Body Tempering Pills, Chen Han stored them in advance in his hall, ready to be taken out for Chen Dalong and the others.
Suddenly his phone rang. The number was from Li Rui, the captain of the criminal squad.
His eyes lit up. It should mean those people had been officially placed under investigation and his task was complete.
He answered, and sure enough, Li Rui reported, “Family Head Chen, we have confirmed their identities and officially started the investigation. I am calling to report this to you.”
This was courtesy and social awareness. Otherwise, there was no need to use the word “report.”
Li Rui clearly understood the benefits of such courtesy and social ties. He had been in inspection work long enough to know.
“Thank you, Captain Li, for informing me personally.” Chen Han responded politely. They did not say much more; both knew what this meant, and then they ended the call.
A moment later, a game prompt appeared in Chen Han’s mind:
【You have completed the task of seeing through the Joyful Union Sect saintess and sweeping up the Joyful Union Sect and Wu Tai Sect action members. The Shu Shan immortal sect is very satisfied with this and, by following the Wu Tai Sect’s covert surveillance personnel, has found the Wu Tai Sect sect residence, where they discovered a large gathering of demonic path cultivators.
The Immortal Alliance experts feel it is time to carry out a demon extermination operation.
Congratulations, you have obtained: Green Snail Valley Demon Extermination Instance Map x1, as recorded by the Shu Shan immortal sect. 】
Seeing this task reward, Chen Han immediately checked the game warehouse.
He remembered that completing this task could trigger a Demon Purging Mission, and this Green Snail Valley Demon Extermination Instance Map should be the key.
Also, this was the first time he had seen the word “dungeon” appear in the rewards.
Many games have dungeons, and it seemed the Shu Shan Swordsman Game did too.
A dungeon is a special map in which players can obtain generous rewards by eliminating bosses or completing specified tasks.
The key here was Green Snail Valley.
This place was very famous in Shu Shan Swordsman World, because chapters 74 to 94 were specifically about the righteous and demonic battle at Green Snail Valley.
Moreover, the battles there were different from the earlier ones. It was a huge escalation, marking the transition from swordsman stage to sword immortal stage.
The fighting scenes were massive.
Chen Han was curious. There was no Green Snail Valley in reality, and given the game system’s style, it would surely just pick some real-world place to serve as Green Snail Valley.
Where would the game system set Green Snail Valley?
Could it be where those organizations were based?
If so, that would be very interesting.
He knew that in Shu Shan Swordsman World his methods would be nothing more than cannon fodder. But in reality, he believed he had the qualifications to be an old ancestor.
Of course, such qualifications were not decided by self-belief; they had to be proven with strength.
However, it seemed he had no opportunity to fully show his strength within the country.
If things were as he guessed, then could this Green Snail Valley demon extermination dungeon be his chance to unleash himself once and see to what degree he could act as an old ancestor?
