Chapter 271: Unbelievable! Which Expert Did This?
On the rooftop of a building, Chen Han saw that all the information on the laptop had been uploaded. He put the computer away and stored it in the game warehouse.
This computer had software with access permissions to networks in various countries. It might still be useful in the future.
Then he moved his mind and chose to exit the Green Snail Valley demon extermination instance map.
In the next moment, a light gate appeared out of thin air in front of him, enveloped him, and he vanished from where he stood.
Right after, the light gate also disappeared.
Chen Han appeared once more in his attic. The toilet door before him had returned to normal, plain and unremarkable.
Only when his palm touched it did he see some surprising information.
【Currently no transmittable quest dungeon!】
【Completed dungeon: Green Snail Valley demon extermination instance map! Status: currently not refreshed!】
Currently not refreshed?
Chen Han’s mouth parted slightly. Did this mean the Green Snail Valley demon extermination instance still had a refresh function?
He knew very well how much loot had dropped from sweeping that dungeon this time.
But how was this dungeon supposed to refresh?
The three bosses there had already been killed by him. They could not possibly resurrect those three guys, right?
That would make no sense.
In the next moment, his attention was drawn to the new game prompt that appeared:
【Congratulations, you have completed the Green Snail Valley demon extermination instance. Dungeon rewards issued:《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture advanced cultivation method》 x1, Wu Tai Sect flying sword embryo x】
Seeing this prompt, Chen Han’s expression brightened. Right, the loot dropped from clearing monsters in a game dungeon was one thing, and the settlement rewards for completing the dungeon were another.
And he had just received two remarkable items.
Especially the sword embryo. Before, he had been worrying about what to do if he had no sword embryo when he wanted to refine a flying sword in the future. He had no method to refine a sword embryo at all.
He did not expect the game system to arrange one for him directly in advance.
That was a bit considerate.
It even gave him an advanced cultivation method, suddenly like a charitable system.
《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture basic qi cultivation method》 was only the most basic cultivation method within the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture》. Normally, once one cultivated to the pulse breaking stage, they would need to start practicing the advanced one.
The advanced qi cultivation method could meet the cultivation requirements of the pulse breaking and liquid condensation stages.
【Nine Heavens Profound Scripture advanced qi cultivation method: this is the advanced qi cultivation method evolved from the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture basic qi cultivation method》. It allows the cultivator to be smoother in their cultivation, and since the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture》 is one of Shu Shan’s sect-suppressing cultivation methods, it has better effects than ordinary qi cultivation methods.
Cultivation requirement: pulse breaking!
Contains spell: Immortal Light Merging!】
As expected, this 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture advanced qi cultivation method》 required the pulse breaking stage to cultivate. What he had not expected was that this advanced qi cultivation method also contained a spell.
Immortal Light Merging was quite a well-known spell within the Nine Heavens Profound Scripture.
Immortal Light Merging was a spell that restrained the demonic path. Cultivation methods of demonic path cultivators would be suppressed under this spell.
Moreover, Immortal Light Merging was very stylish. After cultivation, it could manifest in a concrete form, turning into two streams of cyan and white qi, chasing each other like the yin-yang fish of a tai chi diagram.
Once this spell was cultivated to a profound level, it could even cover the sky and block out the sun, suppressing even earth-vein poison fire and making it hard to invade. The immortal light could suppress an entire city’s demonic path, refining demonic energy, ripping open flesh, and even turning them into blood and thick smoke.
He just did not know whether this spell would work on those demonic path types in reality. Otherwise, he could find a demonic cultivator to try it on and make the other party’s skin split open.
However, since this 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture advanced qi cultivation method》 required pulse breaking to cultivate, he had no way to practice it for now.
After that, he looked at the information on the Wu Tai Sect sword embryo:
【Wu Tai Sect flying sword embryo: this is a flying sword embryo refined by a Wu Tai Sect elder. It already has runes and spells inscribed. It requires enough special metal to be refined into a flying sword. Only after refinement will the attribute information carried by the sword embryo be obtained!】
Seeing this remark information, Chen Han thought of some rather scammy settings in certain xianxia.
Like making people pay-to-win, earning money from refining sword embryos.
They would give you the sword embryo. You could buy it, or you could farm bosses for it and get it easily, but they would not tell you the sword embryo’s attributes. Only after you spent materials to refine it into a flying sword would you know.
And those materials were very rare and needed to be bought with items like spirit stones.
Spirit stones would definitely not be enough, so you would have to pay cash.
So whether you could refine a good flying sword all depended on luck.
If the attributes were bad, players might just throw it away, or sell it to the system shop, then refine again and again until they got a good flying sword.
Some pay-to-win players who pursued the extreme could really get milked hard.
As for Chen Han, he knew that in reality he might not be able to get enough artifact refining materials to make a flying sword, so his requirement was that once he reached the appropriate realm, simply having a flying sword for sword control and flight would be enough.
As for attributes and such, he did not care at all.
So he immediately canceled the Thousand Illusions Mask, returned to his original appearance, and hurried toward the artifact refining furnace. As he went out, he happened to run into Captain Huang leading a patrol.
Huang Xin saw this Chen family head and greeted him, looking like he wanted to say something but stopped.
He really wanted to ask if the Chen family head knew that his family’s old daoist priest had just stirred up something big outside.
But he held back.
The higher-ups had already concluded that it had nothing to do with the old daoist priest of the Chen clan.
Besides, how could the Chen family head possibly not know?
Even if he did know, he would definitely put on a puzzled face.
So Huang Xin did not go looking for trouble.
Chen Han greeted him as well and quickly went to the artifact refining furnace. He lit the wood and stoked the stove fire, then took out the sword embryo and four special artifact refining meteorites and placed them inside the stove.
But when he chose to start artifact refining, he got a game prompt:
【The current artifact refining conditions cannot meet the requirements for refining a flying sword. Continuing will result in low success rate and may damage the sword embryo. Do you want to continue?】
Chen Han immediately selected no.
With a prompt like that, he had no doubt that continuing would only result in a damaged sword embryo.
In reality, if the game system did not drop another one for him, he truly had no idea how to refine a sword embryo.
For now, he could not use either of the two items from the Green Snail Valley dungeon settlement.
That was normal. In games, a lot of the gear dropped from monsters was higher level and needed your level raised before you could equip it.
However, after storing the sword embryo and four special artifact refining meteorites in the game warehouse, he saw some weapons lying inside.
These were all things he had casually brought back from over there.
He directly took out an AK, put it into the artifact refining furnace, then lit the fire and sealed the furnace.
Since he had brought it back, he might as well try refining it.
【Artifact refining furnace sealed, samadhi true fire blazing, artifact refining furnace is currently refining…】
Sure enough, using this kind of ordinary thing for refining was much simpler, with far fewer requirements.
However, refining an AK was not something that could be completed in a short time, so he checked the gains from the Green Snail Valley dungeon this time.
Besides primary spirit stones, there were five intermediate spirit stones. Once he opened up his governor vessel and broke through to the pulse breaking stage, those intermediate spirit stones would come in handy.
Then there were ten magic blood stones.
And four special artifact refining meteorites.
The rest were two incomplete pages of Zhu You Technique, namely Zhu You Technique （Sores） and Zhu You Technique （Hot Flashes）.
He also examined the talismans for these two Zhu You Techniques. Using a branch, he practiced drawing them several times on the ground until he could draw them smoothly.
A bit of foundation was enough. As long as you were taught the steps and drawing sequence, you could easily draw them, even his aunt-grandmother.
But at the moment she could only provide four wish power points a day, enough to bless four Zhu You Technique talismans.
However, he then thought of something: these Zhu You Technique talismans needed to be drawn with rootless water and required a special blessing platform, but it was never stated that the one who drew them had to be the one to bless them.
In other words, as long as someone could provide wish power, they could let Chen clan members perform the blessings.
This was unlike the Calming Talisman, which had a fixed daily quota and could not be mass produced.
So, as long as his aunt-grandmother mastered the drawing steps and sequence for talisman drawing, even if the talismans she drew were blessed by clan members through prayer, there would be no problem.
Think about it: when clan members themselves, their relatives, or even friends had issues in those two areas, they could casually say “no problem,” then go to his aunt-grandmother for a talisman, personally pray and cure them. How proud would that feel?
In fact, in the future these Zhu You Techniques could be taught to some senior clan members as basic techniques, further increasing the Chen clan’s foundation.
Presumably, by then, those senior clan members would also keep some prepared Zhu You Technique talismans on them regularly.
When they traveled outside and by chance encountered someone with such ailments, and then by chance took out a talisman and cured them, it would surely cause a wave of shock.
As his strength grew in the future and he obtained more sorceries, magic treasures, and rewards, he could open up some non-critical things to certain senior clan members.
Maybe he would eventually obtain the complete Zhu You Technique, allowing all clan members to learn it and even establish a Chen clan Zhu You division.
The only limitation was that everything depended on contributing wish power and on the Heavenly Lord’s blessing.
When the prompt that the AK’s refinement was complete arrived, Chen Han returned to the artifact refining furnace.
He extinguished the fire and opened the stove.
The AK was still hanging inside and seemed almost no different from when it was placed in.
Only when he stored it in the game warehouse and saw the remark information did he realize the gun was different.
【A special firearm: this is a minor-monster weapon captured from the Green Snail Valley dungeon. After refinement in the artifact refining furnace, some components appear to have been quenched and modified, making it somewhat different: range +1, recoil -1, power +】
“What the…” Seeing this remark information, Chen Han exclaimed awesome. They had basically given this weapon an upgrade, right?
Think about it: an AK with range +1 and power +1, while recoil was reduced. What would that be like?
It was unimaginable.
This weapon would directly regain its glory, surpass its peak, and even become mainstream again.
If he handed this thing over to the relevant departments, it might trigger a small-scale innovation.
Chen Han suddenly realized that if he used the artifact refining furnace well, it could have unexpected uses in reality, such as refining metal ornaments to increase the metal’s sturdiness and flexibility.
If it were special metal, especially some special metals the higher-ups wanted researched, where meeting the requirements had seen little progress even after more than ten years, putting them into this artifact refining furnace might produce metals that met the standards.
Would that count as combining cultivation and science?
He even thought that someday he could throw a miniature Tsar Bomba into the artifact refining furnace and see what would happen.
Of course, that was just a thought. He was not someone who caused trouble for no reason.
After leaving the artifact refining furnace, he went straight to the back mountain, planning to experiment with the refined AK’s effects.
At a deserted place, he took it out and fired a shot at a large rock face in the distance.
The distance here was well over one thousand meters.
To his surprise, when the bullet hit the rock wall, an unbelievable flame suddenly burst out.
Was that the effect of power +1?
Impossible. That was fire.
When he went closer, he found a gap there, clearly showing great destructive power, and the entire surface was charred black.
This…
Chen Han thought of something, quickly removed all the bullets, and stored them in the game warehouse to check the remark information.
Most bullets were normal, only one was different.
【Special flame round: this is a bullet specially refined by the artifact refining furnace. After hitting a target, it can unleash a special attack: flame +】
Chen Han immediately thought of many enchantments in games. Was this not like an enchanted attack?
In fact, it was similar to the attributes that appeared from refining steel needles.
He did not expect bullets and guns to count as two separate things that could be refined independently.
However, with sword control techniques, this was not very useful to him. In reality, he probably would not need such things.
Unless one day he really needed it, then this could be taken out as a bargaining chip in a transaction.
With that in mind, Chen Han stored everything back into the game warehouse and returned to the Chen clan. As soon as he stepped into the courtyard, his junior sister ran in hurriedly. “Senior brother, something big has happened online. Three immoral rich guys are in trouble.”
“What happened now?” Chen Han had already guessed, but for his junior sister’s sake, he still asked as if he did not know.
Seeing that her senior brother seemed unaware, Xiao Yu immediately explained with a bright smile, “Senior brother, just now, some awesome person exposed shocking information. They published all the core information of that organ harvesting organization in Myanmar.”
“This information not only includes the evil deeds over there, but also the people here who were implicated, specific names, how they helped, who benefited, all in great detail.”
“They even found three tycoons who had actually replaced body parts, which they bought from over there. The incidents are all very detailed, and even the victim information is fully known.”
“The key is, it’s not just about our side. People all over the world are being exposed. Now those three tycoons should be finished. I heard one of them left the country as soon as the news broke.”
“I really don’t know which hacker master did this. They even managed to infiltrate that side and expose all this. It’s so admirable.”
Chen Han knew it was that matter, but how had he become a hacker master?
Watching his junior sister excitedly admire this hacker master, he took out his mobile phone and checked. Things online were even livelier. The things he had uploaded had achieved the effect he wanted.
But people online seemed to have completely taken him for some hacker grandmaster.
《This kind of hacker master is truly awesome!》
《If I had this kind of hacking skill, I would do the same. Truly eliminating harm for the people. Otherwise, if they sold this intel, those three tycoons would definitely pay a lot.》
《I didn’t expect tycoons of that level to be implicated in this. That master even dared to expose them. Aren’t they afraid of being hunted down?》
The information online could not be suppressed. The key was that no one dared to suppress it now, since it was being exposed internationally as well. That was why the tycoon had fled abroad the moment the news came out.
The other two probably wanted to leave as well. With no news from them now, either they had already left, or they had been taken under control.
But this matter no longer had anything to do with him.
He now needed to think about sending out that great fortune gift package.
……
With this incident exploding, everyone online immediately had their attention drawn.
Especially when, after a single night, people woke up the next day and casually opened short videos, seven out of ten were about this.
As a loyal Chen clan onlooker, Huang Tao had never imagined that, instead of getting any new Chen clan gossip today, he had gotten an earth-shattering piece of gossip.
Colleagues around him were already discussing it heatedly, especially after two sensational news reports came out.
《Look at this video. At that previously exposed hospital, many of the management have been taken away!》
《Confirmed news: one of the tycoons has already been taken away. That person’s background is very strong, but everyone involved is keeping silent.》
There was no end to today’s drama. This had become a major trend, and the higher-ups were handling it very fast.
“Seriously, I don’t know which hacker master pulled off such a big move,” Huang Tao said in total shock. Like the people online, he was full of admiration for that hacker master.
After all, no one would imagine that someone had gone over there in person, killed everyone, and then obtained this information.
Except for Li Rui, Huang Xin, and the leaders above the two of them.
After seeing the information exposed online, the three gathered again, dumbfounded.
“No wonder Cao Xin couldn’t find anything useful over there. The old daoist priest took it,” Li Rui said with deep emotion.
They could almost be certain this was done by that old daoist priest. At this point, with the situation as it was, the tycoon who went abroad was not coming back, and the other two were likely headed in as well.
The news had gone global, and the momentum was immense.
As for that hospital, even if the previous incident had been suppressed, this time the sudden outburst of events meant the hospital was finished too.
What really shocked them was that old daoist priest. He was that skilled with modern electronics as well?
Uploading all that online required all kinds of bypassing techniques. Without that knowledge, almost ninety percent of people would not manage it.
Just imagine, a white-haired, white-bearded old daoist priest sitting in front of a computer, fingers clacking away on the keyboard. The image felt very out of place.
They also thought about how Cao Xin had gone to the scam organization’s place to look for surveillance footage and found nothing useful. Had those things also been taken by the old daoist priest?
But there was no way for them to investigate that. Were they going to question the old daoist priest?
They did not have that courage, and they could not find him anyway. Unless the old daoist priest delivered himself to their door, they could forget it.
“All right, this matter was caused by internal conflict on their side. Now that someone over there has taken the fall, we will just act like we know nothing,” the leader reminded them again.
Li Rui and Huang Xin nodded. This was indeed not something they could get involved in.
Especially Huang Xin. He was just a tourism uncle, not someone who handled major cases. He had only gotten involved because he had driven the Chen family head to stop those people.
So he immediately drove back to the Chen clan. This time, once back, he could not help but observe various places in the Chen compound, guessing where that old daoist priest lived.
This man was too awesome.
To be honest, he had not actually seen him yet.
After getting out of the car, he went to the rest station to change into his patrol uniform and start his rounds.
But as he entered the rest station, his eyes went wide in shock at the white-haired, aged figure standing inside.
He could hardly believe it.
Was this not the one who had been over there?
