Chapter 320: This Usb Drive Is Bizarre! Chen Yong Finally Meets The Old Ancestor!
Chen Han saw the remark information for the two USB drives and truly could not judge it.
【Special spatial prop: this is a product formed after a space material refinement failure, where the material shattered and was then refined again by the artifact refining furnace. It has already lost the characteristics of space material, but the remaining spatial traits seem to have condensed inside into a special space of 50 cubic centimeters.
Restriction: it seems to have a recognize-master function. You can try with a drop of blood!】
Can this really be called a failure of the artifact refining furnace?
With the same remark information for both USB drives, it had truly refined a space inside these USB drives.
It was just that this space was extremely small.
Fifty cubic centimeters was only enough to hold a few body tempering pills or a few beauty pills in size.
In essence, the function of this thing really was not very big.
According to the evaluation standard of the game system, it could indeed be called a failed refinement.
But in modern society, giving this to Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi would probably make them treasure it immensely.
Even if it could only hold a few pills, it would let them do a little display of ancient technique and show off a bit.
The key point was that it could recognize a master with a drop of blood, and using it to store small items would be absolutely secure and one of a kind.
Who would not want something like this?
It was not like this was the Shu Shan swordsman world with people flying around.
Anyway, this was a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny storage prop in the shape of a USB drive.
After studying the two USB drives, Chen Han did not rush to leave the family cave mansion, but walked out to the stone table on the stone cliff outside.
He planned to sit down and rest for a while, and cultivate a bit. Once the cave mansion entrance renovation was completed, he could go out directly through the cave entrance and reach the affairs hall side.
But after he sat at the stone table, he realized this stone table was also unusual. On it was a special recessed area, within which runes were actually engraved. Focusing his mind to check, a game prompt appeared:
【This is a special flame rune. Circulate your true qi to trigger the rune. The rune will absorb the cave mansion’s spiritual energy and ignite a flame!】
Chen Han was surprised. He gathered true qi and reached out to activate the rune. The next moment, a flame spurted out, and a kind of fire burned within it.
This was very miraculous. The key was that this flame was not scorching hot, and it had no smell at all, as if it were purely natural.
This scene made him think of something, and he quickly took out from the game warehouse a tea set and a canister of premium thunder bamboo spirit tea.
Yes, this seemed perfect for brewing tea.
Then he went to the spirit spring to fill a pot of water, placed it above the flame to boil, and at the same time prepared the tea set and tea leaves.
Before long, a pot of tea had been steeped, and the special tea fragrance of the premium thunder bamboo spirit tea drifted all around.
He poured a cup for himself to taste; it had attributes of refreshing +2 and sweet +2, and the taste of this tea was better than ever before.
He collected a cup into the space and discovered that the stamina recovery +2 attribute of the spirit spring water had also merged into the tea.
This could completely be called immortal tea.
Brewing immortal tea in an immortal’s cave mansion, he could round it up and call himself an immortal family figure.
Chen Han poured himself another cup of tea, sipping as he looked at the beautiful distant mountain forest scenery.
This position faced away from the Chen Clan’s direction, and further in, in reality, it was also continuous steep mountains, one after another. This was also a feature of this place, Linhe County.
Many mountains.
However, viewing these majestic mountains within the family cave mansion was completely different from seeing them in the outside reality. How to put it: wisps of misty qi coiled around, as if a filter had been added.
Even that sky full of golden glow, forming layers of rosy clouds shrouding the mountains and forests, looked like a spectacular “skin”.
Sitting here brewing tea and watching, he felt the scene was shocking; the opening of the family cave mansion video he uploaded was this view, and it was hard for it not to attract people.
After another cup of tea, he got up and tried walking toward the edge of the stone cliff, but when he reached the cliff, he was blocked by a wall of air that was impossible to resist and simply could not go out.
In other words, that immortal scene could only be admired from a distance.
At the same time, after Chen Yong’s toothache and hemorrhoids were cured, he moved into Shangyuan Village as soon as he left the Chen Clan.
The matter of being recorded into the Chen Clan Genealogy had already spread, and people online were discussing it. News that some people had been expelled from the clan had also spread.
A tourist posted a video saying he had heard Chen Clan employees talking about the news they had received.
The people of Shangyuan Village naturally also got the news. They had no idea who had been expelled from the clan, and would never have thought it was Mr. Chen, who had booked a room in the village for six consecutive months.
A villager flatteringly escorted Chen Yong into his reserved accommodation room; the villager truly hoped there could be more tourists like this.
With that, it would be hard for Shangyuan Village not to prosper.
Chen Yong, however, had no mind to respond to the villager’s flattery. His mind was full of matters concerning the Chen Clan Old Ancestor and how he could meet the Chen Clan Old Ancestor.
So, as soon as he settled in, he instructed his secretary to go back to handle some matters in the * state.
He would be stationed here next and do his office work here.
After the secretary and driver left, he took out his mobile phone and went on Douyin to watch related videos.
As long as a video involved that ancestor, he studied it carefully, trying to find useful information, but after half a day he did not get any, and instead saw a video that made his expression darken.
That Chen Han had posted another video, and this time he mentioned that ancestor.
《The Old Ancestor built a family grotto-heaven. I guarantee it is not AI-generated!》
Chen Yong subconsciously tapped open the video, and at the beginning he saw an absolutely stunning scene.
Whether the distant mountain forest, the clusters of glowing flowers in the cave, or the golden sunset glow afar, all of it was so shocking and captivating.
If one said this was a family grotto-heaven, he would absolutely believe it, and at the same time he was extremely jealous. The one who should have been brought into this place by that Old Ancestor was him.
But soon, he noticed something off in the video: that so-called alchemy furnace was actually plastered with bricks and mud, and the spirit fire stove was just a gas stove.
This seemed to be an abstract video; these things had appeared in Chen Han’s previous videos.
If that was the case, then this family grotto-heaven was fake.
That made him feel much better.
At least Chen Han had not really been brought into such a grotto-heaven by that ancestor.
Then again, even if the Chen Clan Dreamscape could be real, creating an immortal family cave mansion in reality was absolutely impossible.
Unless that Old Ancestor was a real immortal.
Yet in the video, that Old Ancestor suddenly appeared and said with some irritation, “This is called keeping up with the times, understand?”
This made him unsure again, and his jealousy rose once more.
That ancestor was beside Chen Han; how great would it be if he were the one by the Old Ancestor’s side at this moment?
The family grotto-heaven might actually be real.
Fortunately, at the end of the video appeared the words “Doubao AI generated,” and below the video there was also the prompt “Content is AI-generated, please discern carefully!”
That made him feel much better again. In other words, this video really was AI-generated.
That was good…
But how could he meet that Old Ancestor?
He suddenly thought of something: the Chen Clan Dreamscape.
First he had to determine whether it was real. Hadn’t some people said that Old Ancestor was in the Chen Clan Dreamscape?
Finding the Old Ancestor would be the way to turn the situation around?
Not only did Chen Yong see this video, many others did as well. At this time, the video’s metrics were already very high.
Many people were first drawn in by the beautiful scenery and truly thought the Chen Clan had created an immortal family cave mansion.
But facts proved that this so-called immortal family cave mansion, like the Chen Clan Dreamscape, was fake and hyped.
The “Doubao AI generated” mark at the end of the video was too obvious, and there was also the Douyin System’s AI content warning prompt.
There was almost nothing to argue about.
Huang Tao was like this. As a long-time onlooker of the Chen Clan, as soon as the Chen Family Head released this video, he and his colleagues saw the notification in the mobile phone backstage.
It happened to be company break time; they were in the break room having coffee and opened the Chen Family Head’s video to take a look.
After watching, one colleague said, “I knew it. How could there be a place that beautiful? Turns out it was AI-generated.”
Huang Tao praised, “But you have to admit, even if it is AI-generated, the scenery at the start is awesome. It shows the Chen Family Head’s AI skills are really impressive.”
Another colleague suddenly said, “Have you noticed that in the Chen Family Head and Chen Clan’s recent news videos, Doubao AI is showing up a bit too often? Do you think the Chen Family Head took ad money?”
“Possible,” a colleague nodded in agreement.
But Huang Tao’s focus was elsewhere. “The Chen Family Head is collecting design drafts for an alchemy furnace, a spirit fire stove, and a spirit pressure cooker in the video to prove real keeping up with the times. We should take part.”
This made several colleagues nod again in agreement. Their company already had design-related business.
After agreeing, Huang Tao and a few colleagues hurried out of the break room, went back to their desks, and started working on the computer.
Online, many people who saw the video felt the same as Huang Tao and his colleagues, believing the Chen Family Head’s video was AI-generated, but also wanting to help him keep up with the times.
So the comment section quickly began to fill with all kinds of design diagrams for alchemy furnaces, spirit fire stoves, and such. Each one looked sci-fi and very in line with the times.
Other tourists who saw the video also enthusiastically liked comments in the comment section. After all, the Chen Family Head had said that the design with the most likes would be adopted to keep up with the times.
This counted as a sense of participation.
Perhaps because the video mentioned Doubao again, Douyin really gave it traffic, and the video’s popularity quickly exploded, surpassing 500,000 likes in a short time and nearing one million likes by evening.
A video with such numbers had not appeared recently.
Naturally, numbers like this also attracted the attention of special groups. A car drove into the Chen Clan.
There were three people in the car. After it stopped, they got out.
The person in charge said after getting out, “This time the task is very simple. Find the place where the Chen Family Head filmed his video, confirm the situation there, and see whether it is really an AI video.”
A person beside him said helplessly, “Didn’t we already come to verify that the Chen Clan Dreamscape was fake? Yet people online are still discussing it. Now this is obviously an AI video.”
Another person echoed, “Yeah, is our department only doing this kind of bizarre task now? We were just about to get on a plane to fly back when they ordered us to return.”
The one in charge frowned and said, “Complain less. This cannot be helped. The higher-ups and the Daoist sect will soon have plans, so it will not be wrong for us to clarify certain matters.”
The two, hearing this, could only nod helplessly, then got back into the car and pulled up the Chen Family Head’s video.
For AI-generated footage like this, they would normally first shoot at an actual place and then have AI generate on top, which meant there was original scene footage.
Using the video together with software on a laptop in the car, and removing the parts they believed were AI-generated, they quickly analyzed that the distant scenery came from a mountain.
In the distance it was all forest, likely behind the Chen Clan’s back mountain.
And based on the stone platform cliff and cave situation, it should be at a certain cliff edge on the mountaintop of the back mountain.
They were clearly professionals in this type of investigation and analysis.
After finding the location, two of them went straight up the mountain and, following the analysis, quickly found a spot, then looked out at the distant mountains and took out a phone to compare.
“The distant mountains in the video are in this direction. It should be under this cliff,” one person said, then untied a coil of rope at his waist and handed it to the other.
The other took the rope and immediately set up bindings.
A short while later, the two went down along the rope to that stone platform cliff and also saw the cave.
They took out a special phone, opened some software, and filmed the surroundings.
At the same time, in the Chen Clan parking lot, inside a car, the person in charge received the footage and analyzed it simultaneously with software on a computer.
The analysis results showed that this place and the AI-generated video released by the Chen Family Head overlapped 100 percent.
In other words, this cave was the original video location before the Chen Family Head used AI.
The two also entered the cave and made a discovery inside.
One of them pointed the camera at the ground. “The ground is covered in bee corpses, and there are burned beehives. It seems the Chen Family Head drove bees here, then saw this place and had a spur-of-the-moment idea to shoot a video and run it through AI. But it made us suffer, making a trip for nothing.”
In the parking lot, the person in charge said, “That should be it. The location and images match perfectly. You can come back. I will report to the leader.”
He did not consider any alternate dimension space; that was unrealistic. Their current analysis was far more logical.
The two soon returned to the Chen Clan parking lot. By the time they left, it was completely dark.
Chen Yong at this time also learned that Shangyuan Village could help people enter the Chen Clan Dreamscape and that if he was willing, he could register.
He did not hesitate at all, registered directly, and then received a notice to gather at a certain location.
There he saw that internet celebrity Ming Di, who clearly knew a lot about the Chen Clan, and then followed his arrangements to go to the Chen Clan to offer incense.
He had heard before that the Chen Clan’s Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation would grant blessings. After all he had experienced, he now believed in the existence of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation and was very pious, so he was granted a blessing.
Truly feeling the miraculous nature of the blessing, he regretted even more why he had done such a stupid thing and ended up being expelled from the clan.
He even offered incense a second time and received another blessing, and a third time, and was blessed again…
Ming Di was shocked watching this person. He received blessings three times in a row?
Even he usually received at most two blessings a day.
…
In the family cave mansion.
Chen Han had long been sitting cross-legged cultivating the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture advanced qi cultivation method》, mainly because the cave mansion entrance renovation was taking too long.
Only when the game prompt appeared did he stand up:
【Congratulations, the family cave mansion entrance renovation is complete. You can now enter and exit the family grotto-heaven through the entrance, and you can also allow clan members with special record book authorization to enter the family grotto-heaven!】
Chen Han walked straight to the big tree. The family cave mansion entrance (inside) was here, but now the White Light of renovation had disappeared.
And there was no trace left here at all, as if there were no door.
But, miraculously, he could clearly sense the presence of that entrance. As he stepped forward and moved his thoughts, he felt a suction force and a twist pulling him in.
When the scene before his eyes flickered, he was no longer in the family cave mansion, but in that room on the top floor of the Chen Clan affairs hall.
From now on, this would be the entrance and exit of the family cave mansion.
He came out, and it was already dark outside, late at night.
Leaving the courtyard, he saw that the “affairs hall” sign was already hung outside; Chen Xiaoyan had moved very quickly.
Chen Han checked the time, found something to eat, and returned to his own courtyard.
He lay down on the deck chair to rest a bit, took out his phone, and checked the stats on his video.
The video already had 5 million likes.
In such a short time, the numbers had exploded.
His followers had increased by 430,
His reputation was about to break through five million again.
Then he opened the video comment section to have a look, since he had solicited design drafts in the video to have everyone help keep up with the times.
Seeing the comment section, he was surprised. There were many entertainers, but also many heavy hitters.
It was filled with all sorts of design drawings: some were high-tech and thoroughly up to date, some combined ancient and modern while keeping up with the times.
Many netizens’ minds were really active, with huge imagination.
The one with the most likes so far was a design of a spirit pressure cooker.
This spirit pressure cooker design was indeed distinctive, directly combining technological pressure cookers with Daoist Eight Trigrams, not only with rune and jade structures but also full of technology.
There were rune carvings too, and you could still recognize the shape of a pressure cooker.
Awesome, truly awesome.
After looking at several designs, Chen Han put down his phone and checked the wish power increase records in his mind.
Wish power had already exceeded sixty thousand.
Moreover, today’s wish power increase was higher than yesterday’s.
This showed that Wu Yan and Ming Di were doing very well with the Chen Clan Dreamscape tourism project.
He believed more people would soon join this project.
So he planned to go into the special “immortal valley” again at night, show his face, maybe add another legend, and further stimulate the increase of wish power.
Thinking this, he returned to his room, put on the Thousand Illusions Mask, turned into the old daoist priest again, and sat cross-legged cultivating the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture advanced qi cultivation method》.
When the “enter dream realm” option appeared again, he directly chose to enter the special dream realm “immortal valley.”
Entering once more, he was surprised to see how lively it was inside.
A crowd of people was gathered around the stone table, each holding a cup and drinking the tea given by the NPC old daoist priest.
There were quite a few people and it was rather noisy.
This showed the Chen Clan Dreamscape tourism project was indeed developing well.
Wu Yan and Ming Di seemed to have reached a tacit understanding and were introducing the NPC old daoist priest.
“This old daoist priest is not the Chen Clan’s real old daoist priest, but an NPC created by that old daoist priest.”
“So this old daoist priest only repeats set actions, although sometimes that old daoist priest will also appear here.”
Hearing these introductions, Chen Yong’s regret grew stronger. In fact, after truly entering the Chen Clan Dreamscape, his intestines twisted with remorse.
If he had known, he would never have been so hasty, nor ended up expelled from the clan and in such a wretched state.
He should have first submitted to that Chen Han, even flattered him, made him excited, and only then, upon meeting that Old Ancestor, revealed his deeper intentions.
But he still had a chance.
Hadn’t they said that Old Ancestor would appear here? If he came every day, he would eventually run into the Old Ancestor.
Just then, someone suddenly shouted, “Old daoist priest of the Chen Clan, over there, there is another one.”
Wu Yan instinctively looked over and saw that Chen Clan old daoist priest. He quickly reminded, “Do not shout, that is rude. This one is the real old daoist priest.”
Ming Di also looked over instinctively, and his face immediately showed respect.
He knew the Chen Clan very well, knew how much mysterious phenomena surrounded them, and knew how powerful the Chen Family Head was, but this person was an existence far more terrifying than the Chen Family Head.
Chen Han naturally saw that everyone had noticed him. He was just planning to manifest divinity once to enhance the legendary nature of the “immortal valley” dreamscape when he saw a figure rushing toward him at extreme speed.
The figure dropped to his knees before him, crying out loudly, “Ancestor, I am wronged. I have been wronged. Please, Ancestor, uphold justice for me!”
