Chapter 357: A Self-sustaining Game System! Massive Upgrade To Demonic Path Skills!
Chen Han was forced into the demonic path and was truly a bit dumbfounded.
Fortunately, it was only in the game plot that he fell into the demonic path; otherwise, it would be troublesome.
This also made him glance again at the chaotic scene on the street below.
After that, he thought of the lawful truth of this land, where people died every day, and of the capital demonic path of this land, which truly devoured people without spitting out their bones.
One had to know that the blood demon, the great demonic villain of Shu Shan Swordsman, killed people and took their blood to cultivate a blood pool, but at least could leave you a corpse; it was just that there would be corpses all over the ground.
Even the blood demon could not compare to these great demons of capital.
The airplane quickly landed at the Central City Airport.
The people arranged by Liu Ye met them at once and led them out of the airport.
Shortly after they left the airport, Chen Han saw a news broadcast playing on a street corner.
On the news was Big Boss Arte speaking eloquently.
However, many pedestrians were throwing things at Big Boss Arte on the screen.
He felt that if someone sold rotten eggs here, they should be able to make a lot of money; those people were throwing things like they did not cost anything.
It was just that the sudden game prompt made him involuntarily twitch his cheek:
【You suddenly discover a demonic shadow avatar revealed by a great demon of the demonic path. This single avatar alone has demonic energy surging in all directions, blocking the siege of dozens of experts in this region. The overflowing demonic energy draws the Heart of the Demonic Path within your body, making it difficult for you to resist the temptation of the heavenly demon.】
Chen Han felt that this time he was probably unable to avoid falling into the demonic path.
However, saying that this Big Boss Arte was a great demon of the demonic path seemed to make sense.
Looking at the other party’s flashy operations, they really made the demonic path feel ashamed.
There was a capital demonic path figure known for manipulation of capital, once even called the Stock God by those of the demonic path, but that person’s demonic tricks, in front of this great demon, were as laughable as child’s play.
This great demon directly used the rule power of the demonic path, and in front of this rule power, any demonic path had to submit.
The car drove into a special manor.
After getting out of the car, Liu Ye reported, “Chen Family Head, the property rights of this manor belong to a friend of mine. Today you can rest for a day; tomorrow they should have all the blood bags you need collected.”
Chen Han nodded. After entering the room arranged by Liu Ye, he sat cross-legged, took out an intermediate spirit stone, and circulated 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture advanced qi cultivation method》.
Previously, back at the Chen Clan, he had almost connected his spiritual meridians to his dantian, but had not gone into seclusion because he needed to come here.
It was still daytime now, and there was some time before tomorrow. It was just right for cultivation; perhaps his strength could take another step forward.
Time passed.
Chen Han was in cultivation and samadhi, time passing very quickly. Soon, the joy on his face grew stronger. As he had thought, his strength was really about to improve again.
Outside the manor, a car drove in.
Liu Ye got out, bringing a man in his fifties into the manor hall.
The man was uncertain but expectant as he asked, “Old Liu, is this Chen Family Head you mentioned really so unbelievable?”
“Old Wu, you really should pay more attention to domestic news.” Liu Ye explained, leading him toward Chen Han’s residence. “That Mr. Chen should have woken up too.”
This Old Wu was precisely the one he had entrusted to help collect blood bags here. Because of business expansion, he had been in the Star-Spangled Nation for a while.
However, the environment here was bad, or rather, unfriendly to people from Eastern Greatness, so Old Wu was planning to return home and abandon expansion here.
When Wu Hong heard Liu Ye’s words, he more or less understood one thing: this Chen Family Head must be very famous domestically.
Given Liu Ye’s status and position, there was no need for him to lie about such matters.
Most importantly, he knew well about Liu Ye’s previous condition: both legs deformed and unable to walk, with modern medicine having no solution.
The man should still be in a wheelchair now.
Yet the man’s legs now moved freely, and he looked much younger, walking vigorously, with no sign of illness.
If it were not for this Chen Family Head curing him, he could not possibly be so obedient and content serving him.
One had to know that this man had previously been, like him, a businessman who never rose early without profit.
Chatting as they walked, the two entered a courtyard.
But as soon as he stepped into the courtyard, Wu Hong felt difficulty breathing and sensed a special pressure, an almost suffocating feeling.
This feeling was extremely uncomfortable, and he had no idea why.
“Old Wu, step back outside the courtyard. It must be Chen Family Head casting some spell.” Liu Ye’s voice sounded. He had already retreated outside.
Wu Hong hurriedly retreated with him. The pressure and suffocation instantly disappeared, leaving him shocked.
This strange situation alone made him feel more awe toward this Chen Family Head.
Especially after hearing Liu Ye mention a spell.
Just as they retreated outside the courtyard, they were surprised to see that the plants in the yard seemed suppressed by some force, bending as if under pressure.
Even a decorative pond in the courtyard showed a visible outward push from the center, unusually miraculous.
“Stunned, huh? This is nothing worth mentioning.” Liu Ye looked at Wu Hong with a “no big deal” expression.
“???” Wu Hong felt the man was trying to show how much he had seen, but with something like this appearing out of nowhere, and he said it was nothing worth mentioning?
While they were talking, they noticed everything in the courtyard returning to normal. The plants swayed freely as a gentle breeze passed.
As if nothing had happened.
In the room, the smile on Chen Han’s face deepened. The spiritual energy in the intermediate spirit stone in his hand had been completely exhausted, but he had already opened his spiritual meridians and connected them to his dantian.
Now the true qi in his body had surged to more than double. At this moment, the true qi was madly pouring into his previously empty upper dantian, then flooding from there into the meridians throughout his body, circulating.
In the process, his physical body was greatly strengthened.
At this moment, two game prompts suddenly appeared in his mind:
【After resisting for a day and a night, you can no longer withstand the temptation of the heavenly demon’s phantom and completely fall into the demonic path. From today on, you are a member of the demonic path, yet you are still the Chen Clan’s patriarch of the righteous path. Walking among the righteous, you must constantly hide your identity. A single misstep will mean your death and the extinction of your dao.】
【Congratulations, Data Packet （3） collection complete, module loading…】
“???” For a moment, Chen Han did not react to this identity shift.
Game system, come out and say a few words. Was this not too hasty?
He had been a perfectly fine patriarch of a righteous family with a bright future, and in the blink of an eye they had turned him into an undercover agent of the demonic path?
The key was that he had no experience in undercover work. Should he find Ming Di to chat and get some tips?
Moreover, with this one step into the demonic path, Data Packet （3） was collected and the module loaded…
He even suspected that the game system lacked this type of information and could not gather it in reality, so it decided to be self-sufficient, using him on the spot to complete this data collection, so it could continue operating.
Given the game system’s usual style, he felt this was highly likely.
Chen Han let out a deep breath. He got up and walked out of the room, having naturally sensed Liu Ye and the man he brought waiting outside.
Seeing Chen Han come out of the courtyard, Liu Ye hurriedly greeted respectfully, “Chen Family Head.”
Wu Hong, now humble, quickly followed, “Greetings, Chen Family Head.”
Liu Ye did not forget to introduce them. “Chen Family Head, this is my friend of decades, Wu Hong. He handled the collection of the blood bags this time. He has prepared a meal for you at noon. After eating, we can go to the temporary blood bank.”
“Mm.” Chen Han nodded and did not refuse their hospitality.
Then the two invited Chen Han into a luxury car and drove toward a restaurant building in Chinatown.
In front of and behind this car were several others providing security.
When they arrived at the restaurant entrance, the guards from the cars in front and behind got out, surrounding the entrance and keeping watch.
This scene drew the gaze of people in Chinatown.
They all knew this restaurant was very high-end, usually serving only the wealthy. It seemed the restaurant had been under guard since early today.
Clearly, an important figure was about to arrive.
So when Chen Han stepped out of the car, he drew considerable attention. After all, he was the youngest, and the other two clearly centered around him, respectfully escorting him inside.
The dishes at the restaurant were very good, but after all the many delicacies +1 +2 he had eaten, Chen Han found them average.
As he finished lunch, a game prompt appeared again:
【Data Packet （3） module loaded. Congratulations on unlocking the Heart of the Demonic Path. When you activate the Heart of the Demonic Path, there will be demonic anomalies. Please use with caution.】
【The Heart of the Demonic Path is now active. Special buff not yet activated. Please collect sufficient negative energy to activate the Heart of the Demonic Path. Current negative energy collection progress: （0/100000）】
Seeing the game prompt, Chen Han silently sighed.
It seemed the missions for the demonic path module were all about collection.
Another one requiring 100,000 units of collection. Truly speechless.
However, he could roughly understand what negative energy was.
What intrigued him more was that using the Heart of the Demonic Path would cause demonic anomalies in his appearance.
They could not mean that when he used the Heart of the Demonic Path, it would just give him smoky eye makeup, right?
Curious, he excused himself to go to the restroom.
The restroom was independent; once the door was closed, no one could see inside.
Chen Han directly activated the Heart of the Demonic Path. Then, to his surprise, he saw in the mirror that he had not changed at all.
“???”
Wasn’t it supposed to cause demonic anomalies?
Next, he noticed something amiss.
Activating his cultivation method for inner vision, he discovered that the true qi in his body was rapidly transforming into surging demonic energy.
Moreover, compared to his original true qi, this demonic energy was sharper and far more aggressive.
So that was the demonic anomaly.
It was truly shocking.
In Shu Shan Swordsman, for those of the demonic path to remain hidden, they had to use special magic treasures or special cultivation methods to mask this demonic energy. Otherwise, once they acted, or were scanned by someone stronger using divine sense, they could be exposed.
But his transformation did not rely on any external aid; it was absolutely flawless.
In other words, righteousness and demonic path were just a switch of his mind.
If you disgusted him, he could stand as righteous, taking one life to save countless beings; he was righteous.
If you wanted him to sacrifice himself for the righteous path, trading one life for its peace, he would not mind slaughtering the righteous entirely; he was demonic.
Of course, such grand vows required overwhelming strength.
At least the condensation of his nascent soul and reaching the realm of an immortal.
Right now he was just a minor opening-meridians weakling.
In Shu Shan Swordsman, with such strength, if one did not lie low, there was only a dead end.
Any one of the Three Heroes and Two Clouds could easily wipe him out.
Even his family could be destroyed in an instant.
After understanding what the demonic anomaly was, Chen Han left the restroom and sat back down.
After they finished eating, Liu Ye asked, “Chen Family Head, shall we go to the blood bank now?”
“Mm,” Chen Han nodded. “The sooner it’s dealt with, the sooner we go back.”
Wu Hong led the way and, once they got in the car, instructed the driver to head to the blood bank.
Because in this country selling blood for money was legal, the blood bank was not hidden at all, but located directly in a black neighborhood.
Most of the people selling blood were black.
On the way to that area, Chen Han again saw a marching parade stretching as far as the eye could see.
Seeing the content on the banners, it was another unspeakably distressing affair.
Seeing this, Chen Han was puzzled. Clearly, the native people in this area were living in dire straits.
Those capital demonic paths did not even spare their own people, devouring them without spitting out bones. Why were there still so many people who admired and longed for this country?
They were even willing to bear children for this country’s black slaves for free.
Could it be that they thought, by becoming the wives of this country’s black slaves, they would become high-class people upon arriving here?
They would be directly turned into sixth-class people, all right? Above them were five classes of people higher than them.
“Chen Family Head, this is normal. You see it often. Let them cause their chaos; we just ignore it.” Seeing him pay attention to this matter, Wu Hong explained briefly.
Chen Han nodded, then was suddenly startled by a prompt on the light screen in his mind:
【Congratulations, Heart of the Demonic Path negative energy collection completed. Current collection progress: 100000/】
【Congratulations, Heart of the Demonic Path buff activated. When the Heart of the Demonic Path is activated, using demonic path skills can convert single-target demonic skills into group demonic skills.】
Truly, once again unexpected.
Chen Han had never imagined that this task would be completed so easily.
He had not even started trying to collect negative energy.
Now he understood: this country was absolutely a carnival ground for the demonic path.
No wonder those demonic path traitors exposed by the Shushan Immortal Alliance and the great demonic villains who were defeated all liked to flee here.
If you did not come here, you would never know how attractive this place was to the demonic path.
He saw the buff granted by the Heart of the Demonic Path, and in an instant thought of the Bite Teeth, Hemorrhoid Infliction, and Refine Yin Transform Yang, these three skills.
Originally, these skills were all single-target. That meant, with the Heart of the Demonic Path’s bonus, they now became group attacks?
At the thought of that, even he shivered.
This was too demonic.
Hard to imagine the scene.
The car drove into the black neighborhood. Perhaps because several luxury cars had entered, they drew a lot of attention from the black residents, many of whom showed greed.
Soon the car arrived at the blood bank, which was a small warehouse.
After getting out, Wu Hong introduced, “Chen Family Head, the blood bags are inside. How would you like me to help handle things?”
Chen Han shook his head and said directly, “You just stand guard outside.”
With that, he walked into the warehouse.
Seeing this, Wu Hong immediately ordered the guards he’d brought to stand watch outside and even revealed the truth at their waists.
There was no choice. In this nation, the truth was legal; everyone had the truth, and this black neighborhood was the most chaotic, with the most truth.
Their gathering of blood bags here had naturally attracted some attention; his subordinates had already noticed people watching them.
So they had no choice but to be prepared.
But there was also no choice; this was where people came most often to sell blood. It was the most convenient.
After entering the blood bank, Chen Han saw piles of blood bags. At the same time, game prompts began appearing in succession in his mind:
【Congratulations, you collected 1 point of essence blood. Blood Spirit Pearl condensation progress: （2/10000）】
…
【Congratulations, you collected 1 point of essence blood…】
…
【Congratulations, you…: （546/10000）】
…
The prompts appeared rapidly, and the collection progress rose quickly.
As the essence blood was absorbed, the blood bags visibly shriveled.
Collecting this essence blood took some time, until it was completed:
【Congratulations, you collected 1 point of essence blood. Blood Spirit Pearl condensation progress: （10000/10000）.】
【Congratulations, Blood Spirit Pearl successfully condensed!】
Seeing this game prompt, joy appeared on Chen Han’s face. At last, the conditions for upgrading the demonic path puppet were fulfilled.
Though this trip had inexplicably turned him demonic.
At that moment, he frowned and looked outside. Walking out, he saw Wu Hong’s men confronting a group of black men.
The key point was that both sides were holding the truth.
This was the free nation.
At this time, one of the men Wu Hong had brought was negotiating with the black men; he was a white lawyer.
The white lawyer understood well why these men from Eastern Greatness had hired him. These black men were lawless, but still feared rule power.
These black men were clearly trying to play rogue; they were gang members in this area and had long noticed these people buying blood, likely spending hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They had originally only wanted to extort a bit of money, to knock on the bamboo pole for some spending cash.
After all, this was not their first time doing this. If these rich people could spend hundreds of thousands to buy blood, surely spending 100,000 or so on them for food and fun was no problem.
Wu Hong knew this very well, so he let the white lawyer negotiate with the black men.
Seeing Chen Family Head come out, he quickly stepped up to explain, “Chen Family Head, these black men are just here to extort. Don’t mind them. We will just give them a bit of money to send them away. Their vision is shallow; what we pay here is less than a fraction of what we spend on connections back home.”
Chen Han nodded, understanding this.
Rich people would rather spend a bit of money to settle matters than waste effort.
However, he happened to want to test the Heart of the Demonic Path, and these men had delivered themselves.
After explaining, Wu Hong did not want to delay Chen Family Head’s time, so he stepped forward and shouted to the black men, “All right, I will give you a sum of dollars as payment for using your place to do business.”
These words brought smiles to the faces of the black men holding the truth. But this time things went differently from what Wu Hong expected. A large group of black men suddenly appeared from all around.
They crowded in, seemingly tempted upon seeing those black men get benefits.
Wu Hong frowned. When he heard his subordinates say many of these black men had sold blood here before, he understood.
They lacked experience. After all, they were not professionals in buying blood and lacked the backing those people had.
It was a mistake.
They were just some greedy inferiors.
As he considered paying more, he suddenly saw all the black men, whether holding the truth or those who had approached later, collectively begin to howl:
“My teeth hurt!”
“Ah… hiss… my teeth…”
“My god, my teeth…”
“…”
Even the black onlookers some distance away clutching their teeth began wailing.
The white lawyer, Wu Hong, and the guards all froze, completely confused as to what was happening.
Only Liu Ye subconsciously looked toward Chen Family Head. Tooth pain? The Chen Clan certainly had such techniques, along with hemorrhoids.
Seeing this, Chen Han was very satisfied. With the same Fang Grinding Ring, its skill was originally single-target, but with the Heart of the Demonic Path, one casting and all these black men he had locked onto were affected.
A mass of black, all struck at once.
Then, without hesitation, he activated the next, Hemorrhoid Infliction ring. Immediately, the black men howled even louder.
Some moved and rolled on the ground, clutching their teeth with one hand and their rear with the other.
With unbearable pain above and pain below like glass shards cutting them, their truths fell to the ground.
They had no idea what was happening. In such a short time, many were breaking down, some already rolling on the ground.
Chen Han then instructed Wu Hong, “Let’s go.”
At the same time, he activated Refine Yin Transform Yang, stacking it directly to five years.
With his strength, the true qi consumption was nothing. For these five years, these black men would all be useless eunuchs.
“Ah… all right.” Hearing the order, Wu Hong reflexively led people into the car, but he could not help glancing back at Chen Family Head.
He seemed to understand. It must have been him; only he could have done this.
In the car, looking again at the black men rolling on the ground, Wu Hong unconsciously swallowed hard, understanding more deeply why his old friend Liu Ye respected this man so much.
These black men, armed with the truth and fearing nothing, many already treating life and death lightly, were now all inexplicably writhing and screaming. This was truly terrifying.
Wu Hong’s subordinates looked at each other in shock, not understanding how those ferocious men had suddenly become like this.
Soon, Wu Hong’s convoy left and, before long, returned to the manor. Wu Hong immediately arranged a private flight.
With so many black men suddenly afflicted, without knowing the cause, he feared drawing unnecessary attention and trouble.
Just after he finished arrangements, one of his men brought him some news. “Boss, look at this news.”
Wu Hong took the video, confused, and was stunned as he watched. The news headline read: 《Severe infectious disease discovered in Central City black neighborhood; the area has now been sealed off and associated individuals are being examined…》
He knew what had really happened; it was absolutely related to Chen Family Head and definitely not an infectious disease.
But he had been here long enough to understand.
With a severe infectious disease discovered, emergency contingency plans had to be launched. Quite a lot of funds had been invested in Central City.
In such cases, if twenty percent of those funds reached the patients, that would be good.
If it also involved many black people, then racial issues would arise, and some would invoke equality and call for more aid and medical funding. That might mean even less than twenty percent.
As for whether that bit of funding could save those black people, who cared?
Those holding power and capital in this region did not care about black slaves. Only some people in a few countries treated black slaves like treasures.
Just as Wu Hong thought, the black neighborhood in Central City had already been sealed off by lines of police tape. Many people were still confused when they were directly quarantined.
In fact, the people in the relief hospitals were also confused.
One surgeon was dumbstruck:
“Damn it, I can’t do this surgery. How can toothache move around like this?”
“What’s going on with them? We cut off the hemorrhoids, and they grew back so soon.”
“This is not normal…”
“…”
Stren, the person in charge of this matter, realized something was wrong after hearing the doctors’ reports.
The painful teeth had been pulled, only for the pain to move to another tooth. How was that possible?
Especially the hemorrhoids. No matter how large, once cut they should be fine. Now, in such a short time, once cut they had grown back.
It was like a curse. How could they treat it?
Fortunately, he had never intended to handle it earnestly. The approved funds were what really mattered, so he ordered, “No rush to treat them yet. The source of this infectious disease is the most important. We must first find the source, understand?”
The doctors understood at once. This was not their first rodeo. They nodded in tacit agreement, ignoring the black patients screaming in pain.
…
Time passed. Chen Han once again boarded the private plane Liu Ye had arranged, left the Star-Spangled Nation, and after they were in the air, he took two bottles of pills out of the game warehouse and gave them to Liu Ye and Wu Hong.
They contained body tempering pills.
“Thank you, Chen Family Head.” Liu Ye immediately expressed his gratitude upon seeing them.
Wu Hong understood they were good things, accepted his bottle without asking, and followed with, “Thank you, Chen Family Head.”
“Chen Family Head, we won’t disturb your rest.” Liu Ye said and pulled Wu Hong to sit in the rear area.
He knew Wu Hong would have many questions, such as about the body tempering pills.
The benefit of a private jet was that there were many separate spaces, so chatting in the back would not disturb Chen Family Head.
After they sat down, Liu Ye turned to the eager Wu Hong and said, “Ask.”
“What is in this bottle?” Wu Hong did indeed ask.
Liu Ye explained, “This is called a body tempering pill. Look at me now: good health, black hair. It is the effect of these pills. Not only for good health, but also longevity. If you don’t need them, you can sell them to me. I can trade some business for them.”
“Old Liu, do you think I’m stupid?” Wu Hong looked at Liu Ye, who now appeared younger, and decisively put the body tempering pills away.
How could he possibly sell something so good?
For people like them, money was no longer the issue. What they truly cared about was their own bodies.
He could not buy such pills normally, so why would he sell them?
Honestly, he suddenly felt a bit envious of Liu Ye. The man was now like a younger brother to Chen Family Head. He really wanted to ask if Chen Family Head accepted younger brothers.
The plane flew on and returned to Xiamen City International Airport. They once again took the luxury electric car back to the Chen Clan.
Upon returning, he planned to upgrade the demonic path puppet first, since this trip had been to condense the Blood Spirit Pearl.
But just as he stepped out of the parking lot, a demonic path mission appeared in his mind:
【You have returned to your family. You have concealed yourself well; the family members have not discovered that you have fallen into the demonic path. But you are deeply worried about your fall, afraid of being discovered by fellow practitioners.
This reminds you of the demonic path expert Ming Di, who infiltrated the Chen Clan’s territory. You develop the idea of subduing him, and feel a bit relieved that you did not kill him earlier.
Reveal your identity directly to Ming Di and subdue him!】
“…” Chen Han was stunned. Ming Di, who had always been demonic and lurking in the Chen Clan, and now the Chen Clan’s patriarch suddenly going up to say he was also demonic… would the man’s jaw drop?
He suddenly looked forward to it.
