Chapter 85: Truly An Expert! Dog Demon Essence Blood!
Chen Han roughly understood what was going on from the game system’s prompt: someone had attacked these stray dogs.
They had been labeled as demonic cult rogues by the game system, and this was late at night, so it was definitely dog thieves or the like.
It could not be the officials. Even if they were worried that as more tourists came, the stray dogs would affect them and bites would need to be dealt with, Director Chen would definitely call him to discuss it, not act directly.
Since Director Chen valued his popularity, he could naturally see that in the cultivation videos he filmed, the dog demon tribe were important characters.
He had not expected these stray dogs to actually attract dog thieves. It must be because his videos went viral and the dog thieves saw them.
Now, after stealing dogs, whether selling them to dog meat shops, pet shops, using them for dog fights, or harvesting their organs… there was a very large market.
Simply selling them to dog meat shops, one adult dog could go for 300–500 without issue. If delivered directly to dog meat shops, the profit was even higher.
If they were pedigreed and good-looking, sold to pet shops, thousands or even tens of thousands per dog were possible.
After the Little Earth Dog’s group of stray dogs merged, their numbers were not small, over 30 in total. Besides the Little Earth Dog and the first batch, many of the later group were pedigrees and had once been pet dogs.
This was definitely a large profit, so it was no surprise they had been targeted.
But this kind of thing was definitely illegal. Setting aside that stealing dogs hurt their owners’ feelings and caused psychological harm, many stray dogs were sick; if they were casually given to people to eat, it would cause serious problems.
So, for dog theft, minor cases meant up to 10 days of detention and fines under 500, while severe cases could mean life imprisonment and confiscation of property.
Who would have thought stealing dogs could lead to life imprisonment?
What Chen Han had not expected was that the silly white-furred war general of the dog demon tribe did not go to anyone else, but came to him, its arch-enemy, seeking help. That was very interesting.
However, the dog demon tribe were now his main source of dog demon meat, so regardless, he could not ignore this.
As soon as the thought arose, the game prompt appeared:
【You have inferred the plea for help from the dog demon tribe’s silly white-furred war general. After some consideration, you decide to support the dog demon tribe. Compared to the dog demon tribe, the threat of the demonic cult rogues is clearly greater. Please immediately assemble clan experts to support the dog demon tribe and defeat the demonic cult rogues attacking them.】
Since there was a task prompt, he had to complete it. He just did not know whether these demonic cult rogues would have item drops.
Thinking this, he also opened his mobile phone and started recording: “Today, together with my junior sister and the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy who came to support the Chen Clan, we cultivated a kind of art of transformation. At night we were summarizing cultivation experience, when the silly white-furred war general of the dog demon tribe broke into the family compound covered in wounds!”
At this point, he turned the lens toward the injured White Dog and even gave it a close-up.
White Dog heard him talking and seemed even more anxious. This time it actually gathered its courage, ran to his feet, bit onto his trouser leg, and tried to pull him outside.
Chen Han naturally seized the opportunity to record this scene while saying, “Demonic cult rogues have attacked the dog demon tribe. Now the dog demon tribe’s silly white-furred war general is sincerely asking me to come to the rescue. Coming to its arch-enemy for help is quite something. Is it not afraid that our Chen Clan will kick them while they are down?”
“But compared to the dog demon tribe, the threat of the demonic cult rogues is much greater, so I have decided to assemble family experts to support the dog demon tribe.”
While recording, Chen Han saw White Dog anxiously heading out, then turning back to bark at him with hopeful eyes. Its eyes even seemed watery. If he did not follow, it would probably go back alone. It seemed determined to die together with its companions if it came to that.
At this moment Xiao Yu seemed to react as well. “Senior brother, it seems to have come to ask us for help. Let’s go take a look!”
“Yeah.” Chen Han nodded and followed her out of the courtyard.
Seeing this, the silly white-furred war general seemed to regain some color in its eyes and barked excitedly.
Chen Han took out his mobile phone to call his uncle. “Uncle, come out with me for a bit. There are probably dog thieves outside.”
The game task prompt had told him to assemble family experts, so he naturally had to.
The hall elders counted as experts, right?
They, the Chen Clan, were even mobilizing family elders.
Most importantly, to be safe: many dog thieves were professionals with long criminal records, and might even hurt people.
Compared to that, what was someone like Ming Di, a demonic cult rogue?
After hanging up, he had barely taken a few steps out of the courtyard when he saw his uncle coming out from another yard, still pulling on an old man’s white vest as he walked. Seeing him, he said, “I already told Dagou and Shuisheng to gather at the gate.”
“Yeah.” Chen Han nodded, then followed the silly white-furred war general to the gate and met Uncle Dagou and Uncle Shuisheng. They were also wearing old man white vests. This seemed to be the standard for old men in the countryside; comfortable to wear.
Was there not a saying: white vest, palm fan in the left hand, enamel mug in the right, then call over two or three fellow vest-wearers, find a shady spot at the gate to sit, and you can chat from the First Emperor of Qin and Emperor Wu of Han all the way to the aunt next door.
“Chen Lin, what’s going on?” Chen Dagou asked at once.
Chen Lin stepped forward to explain. “Xiao Han said there are dog thieves outside. Look at this dog all injured. We’ll go take a look together.”
As he spoke, he was a little eager to try. After all, he, Chen Dagou, and Chen Shuisheng had recently picked up the fist techniques their elders had taught them.
Perhaps thanks to his nephew’s medicinal cuisine, what they had not done well before was starting to feel pretty good now.
Seeing his uncle and the other two all in their old man white vests, Chen Han also raised his phone and filmed them. “To support the dog demon tribe, I specially assembled a hall elder and two clan experts to go along. We will definitely capture these demonic cult rogues.”
Seeing him start filming at zero frame, Xiao Yu was completely used to it, and Chen Lin was used to it too. After all, he had even changed his Douyin handle to ‘Chen Clan Hall Elder’.
Chen Dagou and Chen Shuisheng were still embarrassed and wanted to turn their heads away. Chen Shuisheng was even suppressing a laugh at the corner of his mouth.
Different people had different tolerance for abstract stuff like this.
Some could sync up in one go, just like those two famous variety show celebrities “Tianba Dongba”.
Some really could only hold back laughter the whole time.
Hearing the silly white-furred war general of the dog demon tribe calling anxiously again, Chen Han immediately led the family experts after it.
The stray dogs of the Little Earth Dog’s group usually moved around in the village, and on the highway by the village, in orchards and fields.
Shangyuan Village was not rich, so the road by the highway only had very dim streetlights. From a distance, it was blurry and hard to see clearly.
“Senior brother, I find I can see more clearly at night now. Is it because of the shit you fed me… no, the Moon Gazing Sand?” Xiao Yu came to his side and whispered.
“I told you it was good stuff.” Chen Han had also felt it. Under such dim streetlights, visibility should not be good, yet he could clearly see far and around them.
Following the silly white-furred war general a bit further, they heard movement ahead. “Got it. Damn, these local dogs are really tough. We’ll stew one with wine when we get back. And some have to be sent to the dog meat shop.”
Chen Han and the others exchanged looks at once and quietly moved closer, while he also took out his phone to record.
Another laugh sounded. “Didn’t expect after we had to release those dogs when the police checked us last time, we’d catch them again now, plus so many extra. Hurry up, we have to get all the others too. Once it’s light we won’t get out.”
Hearing this, Chen Han roughly understood where the dogs outside the village came from. Many of those dogs looked like pet breeds. Only in the city would you see such strays.
When they got closer, they saw a transport vehicle parked there. Below it, five men were surrounding a newly caught local dog, roughly shoving it into a cage.
Seeing there were only these few people, he knew they had this.
There was no way to lose this team fight.
Recently, through cultivation and medicinal cuisine, his physique was much stronger than ordinary people, plus the lightness +2 attribute of the ritual robe he wore.
He felt he could solo-carry the whole enemy team.
【Following the silly white-furred war general of the dog demon tribe, you arrive at the battlefield between the demonic cult rogues and the dog demon tribe. From the demonic cult rogues’ conversation, you infer their identity. They are definitely from the Blood River branch of the demonic cult.
These people cultivate the 《Blood River Demonic Art》. It is said this cultivation method and the Blood Demon’s 《Blood Shadow Demonic Art》 share the same inheritance line. They strengthen themselves by absorbing the blood and flesh of living beings to cultivate their demonic arts. Righteous experts and demonic beasts are all their targets.
These demonic cult rogues are extremely dangerous. Please quickly lead clan experts to defeat them.】
With this prompt, such good footage had to be used. He whispered into his phone, “Following the silly white-furred war general of the dog demon tribe, we have found the demonic cult rogues. They are demonic cult rogues from the Blood River branch, who devour and absorb the blood and flesh of living beings to cultivate and strengthen themselves. Such evil fiends must be eliminated.”
“Who?” a shout rang out.
One dog thief immediately shone his flashlight at Chen Han and the others. What the hell, the first thing they heard was someone muttering about demonic cult rogues and evil fiends. Nutcase?
The other four also shone their flashlights over, then came up together.
Chen Han had never planned to hide. He immediately aimed the camera at the five dog thieves to record material. “Since we have been discovered by you demonic cult rogues, we will not hide. Today, our Chen Clan will wipe out you evildoers.”
This sudden zero-frame filming left the dog thieves confused.
They had been caught peeking and instead of panicking and running, this guy started… doing what exactly?
“You are the Chen Family Head?” one burly dog thief suddenly asked. “These dogs are the ones we had no choice but to release before. I found them again after watching your videos. So if you delete your sneaky recording and leave now, we will act like nothing happened.”
“Otherwise…”
After adding that, he even drew a dagger and wiped it on his clothes, the threat clear.
He even waved the dagger in front of Chen Han and the others to scare them.
“I’ll smash your damn…” Chen Dagou’s temper flared. Do not be fooled by how friendly he was with clan members; when he was young, he was always at the front when fighting with people from other villages.
Cursing, he lunged at the dog thief.
The dog thief had not expected the other side to strike first. He reflexively swung the dagger, only to find his arm caught. Before he could react, a punch smashed into his face. Nosebleed sprayed as he fell flat, completely stunned.
Chen Dagou shook his fist in surprise. “Xiao Han, that medicinal cuisine really works.”
“Let me try too.” Chen Lin had long been itching to move and immediately charged a dog thief.
That dog thief was also stunned.
In the countryside, when they stole dogs, they had been discovered before. Even dog farm owners did not dare rush up to fight them and only called the police.
But now someone was right in front of him, so he did not dare hesitate. He swung at Chen Lin, only to be shocked when Chen Lin casually raised an arm and blocked him.
That stunned him, and Chen Lin smashed a heavy punch into his stomach.
In that instant, the dog thief felt a stabbing pain in his gut. Before he could recover, another punch landed on his face. Just like the previous one, he went down flat.
Chen Lin was amazed. Xiao Han’s medicinal cuisine really was useful. Luckily he had picked up his old fist techniques again recently.
Chen Han recorded all of this. While surprised, he found it natural.
The move his uncle had just used was the Daoist Sect Taiyi Long Fist, one of the two fist techniques passed down in the Chen Clan.
It seemed that no matter the style of kung fu, physical conditioning was the key. If the body was weak, no fist technique worked. With long-term medicinal cuisine, his uncles really could develop some real skill.
After dropping one man, Chen Lin became even more excited, like a sudden surge of interest, and immediately moved on to another dog thief.
“Holy crap, Chen Lin, leave one for me,” Chen Dagou shouted, targeting yet another dog thief.
The two of them were so excited it really felt like in a game, having learned a new skill, they had to go out to fight monsters and grind skill proficiency.
And in the game plot, were these demonic cult rogues not just monsters…
In an instant, four of the five dog thieves were down, faces bloody and swollen.
What could they do? It was all Taiyi Long Fist; some moves just targeted the face.
In the field of martial arts, there was no such thing as “do not hit the face”.
The last dog thief raised his hands, even dropped to his knees. “Don’t hit… don’t hit, spare me…”
Seeing his four companions flattened in moments, he was terrified. These people clearly knew kung fu.
Seeing he would not get a chance to strike, Chen Shuisheng walked to the dog dealers’ vehicle and found a coil of rope. “Let’s tie them up first and then call the police.”
A short while later, the five dog thieves were tied together.
Chen Han also gave them a close-up. “These demonic cult rogues really think the elders and experts of our Chen Clan are just for show?”
He could already imagine: when people saw this video, at first they would think he was being abstract again, especially seeing the hall elder and clan experts all in old man white vests; they would not be able to resist mocking them.
But then, in the next moment, they would see the hall elder and a clan expert easily take down these so-called demonic cult rogues. What an impact that would be.
After all, his uncle and Uncle Dagou were using Taiyi Long Fist. You could clearly see the martial techniques.
It was like that kung fu villain in a white vest suddenly catching a bullet with his bare hands: the same vibe.
Just then, the game system appeared again:
【After an intense bloody battle, you led clan experts to defeat those demonic cult rogues, and discovered a pool of dog demon essence blood that the demonic cult rogues had collected and tainted with demonic energy. These demonic cult rogues were indeed planning to use dog demon blood and flesh to cultivate their demonic arts. If they had succeeded, they would soon have posed a direct threat to the Chen Clan!】
【Congratulations, you have found a small vial of dog demon essence blood that has not yet been tainted by demonic energy!】
Chen Han froze. Just one small vial of dog demon essence blood as the reward?
He checked the warehouse, and sure enough, there was an extra vial of crimson blood.
But had the game system not said the demonic cult rogues had collected a whole pool of dog demon essence blood?
Was that not way too much of a cut?
He immediately checked the remark information on the dog demon essence blood:
【Dog Demon Essence Blood: this is essence blood of the dog demon tribe, collected from dog demons by demonic practitioners using special methods in order to cultivate demonic arts. Prompt: it is also an excellent material for nurturing canine beast pets, able to increase a canine beast pet’s physique and make it smarter.】
