Chapter 87: Truly Became A Spirit! Demon Person Ming Di Encounters “barking Immortal Guest” On The Road!
（No offense intended, the Left Path demonic cultivator “Barking Immortal Guest” is a character from Shu Shan Swordsman, do not project yourself onto him, please let it go!）
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Woof woof!~
The little earth dog barked at Chen Han, as if urging him!
Chen Han, who had been thinking about how to have a one-on-one duel with this Dog Demon King, came back to his senses. Looking at the little fellow in front of him, he suddenly thought of another problem: if he won this duel against the Dog Demon King and subdued him, then how would he launch expeditions against the Dog Demon Tribe in the future, and how would he keep farming Dog Demon Meat?
This was definitely a troubling problem.
So, he could not agree to this Dog Demon King’s duel for now. At the very least, the issue of farming Dog Demon Meat had to be solved first.
Decision made, Chen Han stepped forward, grabbed the little earth dog, and decided to throw it out of the Chen Clan first.
The little earth dog obviously wanted to dodge, but its leg was injured, and with Chen Han’s current physique already stronger than an ordinary person’s, plus the lightness +2 attribute on his robe, it simply could not escape and was directly lifted up.
“Little guy, you should first…” Chen Han was speaking when the game system suddenly popped up a prompt:
【Congratulations, you have defeated the Dog Demon King. After a long and intense battle, you have completely subdued the Dog Demon King, and he has kept his promise to become your pet. However, he also has one condition: the Chen Clan must take in the Dog Demon Tribe. Their honor and disgrace are shared; if one prospers, all prosper, if one suffers, all suffer!】
“…” Before Chen Han could finish his sentence, he was stunned.
Seriously, system, can you explain how just picking him up counts as a long and intense battle?
He suspected the system had set him up for the sake of game plot progression!
It was definitely a setup.
He looked again at the little earth dog he was holding. The dog was staring straight at him, then affectionately licked his hand.
That was clearly a dog’s way of showing affection to its owner.
He suspected that he had also been set up by this little earth dog.
After all, there was that saying that smart dogs come with a built-in “choose your owner” radar. Wasn’t there a video analysis about a stray dog that squatted at the entrance of a residential area, wagged its tail only at gentle people who greeted it, then chose one auntie as its owner, patiently followed behind her every day when she went for walks, and was finally adopted, living a happy life with her.
This little earth dog was obviously the Dog King the older generation talked about, smarter than most people. After going through today’s life-and-death crisis and being saved, it might very well be looking for a long-term meal ticket.
So, he was damn well here to seek attention by making accusations.
Damn!
He looked at the little earth dog again, and the little earth dog licked his hand once more, looking completely submissive.
There was nothing he could do. In this situation, even if he had been set up, he could only accept it.
At the same time, the game task prompt sounded:
【You have signed a pet contract with the Dog Demon King and taken in the Dog Demon Tribe. Please find a master for each of the dog demons. Cooperation between clan members and the dog demons will not only increase the family’s strength but can also trigger the group traits of the mountain-guarding spirit beasts!】
Seeing that things had already come to this, Chen Han had no choice but to see what this group trait ability was, and at the same time make good use of this material.
Holding the little earth dog in one hand, he took out his mobile phone and started recording: “…the Dog Demon King actually led the Dog Demon Tribe here and challenged me to a one-on-one duel. Now that the Dog Demon King has been subdued, the family has officially taken in the Dog Demon Tribe. From now on, many family members can have an additional powerful canine pet!”
The video also gave close-up shots of the stray dogs gathered around.
Once this video went out, many people would probably be shocked again. They might have seen smart dogs finding themselves owners, but had they seen a dog bringing along a group of younger brothers to look for an owner?
Putting down his phone, he turned to the somewhat dazed Chen Lin beside him and instructed, “Uncle, since there was that dog thief incident today, to prevent such things from happening again, let everyone take one dog home to raise. Tell them that many tourists are actually attracted here by these dogs.”
Chen Lin was actually a bit confused. After all, hearing bouts of barking and coming out, he saw stray dogs surrounding his nephew’s courtyard.
No matter how he looked at it, this scene felt strange.
Then he saw his nephew pick up the little earth dog once, and immediately heard his nephew decide to take in these dogs. He even suspected his nephew had made some kind of deal with that little earth dog.
But he himself felt that thought was ridiculous. One person, one dog, how could that be possible.
Most likely his nephew needed these dogs for filming videos, and like his nephew had said, since there had been a dog theft incident today, it would be better for the Chen Clan to adopt them. One dog per household was just a bit of leftover food.
Although the Chen Clan’s members were not rich, they were not lacking that little bit.
Chen Lin immediately took out his phone, filmed some footage of the dogs, and posted it in the family group: “The patriarch has spoken. We are adopting these stray dogs. Each family, come claim one.”
As soon as he said this, many people responded. He did not need to persuade much.
Those who responded the most were the clan members who had already been given work. Everyone knew about the Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea sales, and that the number of tourists was increasing every day. They were no longer worried about salaries, and all wanted to secure their jobs in the clan.
Now there were over thirty people in the tea-making department, plus many in charge of carving bamboo tubes, serving as waitresses… quite a few people. Even with some being entire families, they could take in most of the stray dogs.
Those who had not been assigned work yet were naturally eager to show their support for the family, hoping to be prioritized when jobs were distributed later.
This was the patriarch’s prestige.
When he had no money and no achievements, everyone called him Xiao Han.
But a patriarch who could lead everyone to prosperity and arrange jobs?
Before long, many of the Chen Clan’s people came out of their homes, gathering over forty people.
Xiao Yu also came. As soon as she arrived, that unrepentant White Dog went fawning around her feet.
Girls are emotional creatures. The more well-behaved an animal is, the more it touches their feelings. She had not been intent on adopting a stray dog before and had not said anything, but now that everyone was taking on a dog, she immediately turned to her senior brother and said, “Senior brother, then I’ll raise Xiao Bai!”
So many members of the Chen Clan gathering naturally attracted some tourists who were strolling around the Chen Clan Ancient Architecture. Curious, they came to watch, and then curiously watched as each Chen clan member led away a dog.
They obviously recognized these dogs as the ones from the Chen Family Head’s videos.
Some tourists exclaimed, “Could it be that these stray dogs really have been tamed by the Chen Family Head, and they’re distributing dogs now? But how are these dogs so well-behaved during this distribution? It’s not like in reality they could have some Dog Demon King commanding them.”
The companion beside them laughed right away. “Come on, don’t be so naive. You don’t really think they’re stray dogs, do you? Don’t you see Chen Clan’s waitresses feeding them every day? Maybe they actually belong to the Chen Clan, and the Chen Family Head only gathered them together to film videos.”
This shocked the other tourist. “That might really be possible. In a previous video, didn’t that Spirit Beast Elder say that the Chen Clan members know beast-taming techniques? It’s normal for clan members to keep dogs. They might have only been cooperating with the Chen Family Head to film videos before.”
“Holy crap…” one tourist suddenly thought of something. “So all along, those Lion Head Geese and these dogs have been putting on match-fixing shows?”
This stunned the surrounding tourists.
The scheme was really damn deep.
But thinking about it, for the Chen Family Head to come up with such scripts, and train the Lion Head Geese, cows, and these dogs to cooperate so well, that was insanely impressive.
In other words, the Chen Family Head’s videos might look abstract, but they were more sophisticated and technically demanding than anyone else’s. Even if others wanted to imitate, they could not.
The stray dogs were quickly assigned. Chen Han did not forget to instruct, “Uncle, find a vet tomorrow. Get these dogs vaccinated and dewormed.”
“Got it,” Chen Lin nodded, while tugging on the ear of a big black dog.
That was the one he adopted, relatively large in size. As a Hall Elder of the work hall, even if he adopted a dog demon, it had to be a mighty one to match his presence.
After the dogs were allocated, Chen Han let everyone disperse and told them to bring the dogs back when the vet arrived the next day. He himself carried the little earth dog into the courtyard.
Then he looked at the little earth dog, thought for a moment, and said, “Time to give you a name. We already have You Fu, so you’ll be You Cai. You don’t get to refuse, or I’ll call you Wangcai!”
The little earth dog, once put down, sensibly kept quiet, then turned its head and saw a huge creature behind it, a cow whose nose was almost touching its head.
Almost instinctively, it leaped back. Dog and cow stared each other down.
At this moment, Chen Han looked at the game prompt in surprise:
【Under your allocation, many clan members have obtained a dog demon as a pet. With the Dog Demon Tribe integrating into the family, the group trait of the mountain-guarding spirit beasts has been activated: patrolling the mountain gate in packs!】
Looking at this remark information, Chen Han was a bit surprised. Patrolling the mountain gate in packs, did this mean that these dogs would patrol around the Chen Clan?
If so, wouldn’t that be equivalent to an extra security team?
If he bought them a uniform set of pet outfits with “Chen Clan patrol spirit beasts” or “The patriarch sent me to patrol the mountain” printed on them, that would be a special attraction.
It might even draw many tourists who came specifically to film them. After all, some people are just that bored; a pomegranate seller or a pancake stall can attract countless people filming, blocking the road.
This made him feel that taking in these stray dogs at least had its benefits. Then he thought of something else: Dog Demon Meat.
Now that the Dog Demon Tribe had submitted, could he still go on expeditions against them? Would Dog Demon Meat still drop?
If it did not, that would be frustrating, and he really would have been trapped by the system.
He would have to arrange a staged fight tomorrow.
Looking at the standoff between the cow and the dog, he thought of Dog Demon essence blood. With a thought, a small vial of Dog Demon essence blood appeared in his hand.
Almost instantly, he saw the little earth dog, or rather You Cai, dash to his feet with a whoosh, barking and staring intently at the Dog Demon essence blood in his hand.
From its barking, he heard a hint of urgency. It obviously really wanted that essence blood.
No wonder it was called a great item for cultivating canine pets; it seemed to have a huge attraction for a doggy.
Woof! Woof! Woof!
The little earth dog barked again, placing its front paws on Chen Han’s thigh, completely without the Dog Demon King’s supposed pride, even rubbing its head against his leg. So this guy knew how to play tricks too.
Chen Han also wanted to see what effect the Dog Demon essence blood had, so he directly opened it and poured it into the dog’s mouth.
But after waiting a moment, nothing seemed to happen. Then suddenly, he saw the little earth dog spring to its feet, spinning madly in place, its fur slightly puffed up. After a moment, it flopped down to the side and stopped moving.
Chen Han frowned and immediately stepped forward to check. The doggy’s belly rose and fell steadily, as if it were asleep.
He observed for a long time. Seeing that it was fine, he finally relaxed.
It seemed that cultivating with Dog Demon essence blood also required an absorption process. Seeing this, he went back to his own room, sat cross-legged, took out a spirit stone from the warehouse, and began cultivating with the Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method.》
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Time passed.
After a whole night, Chen Han woke up again to the alarm clock. He put away the spirit stone with more than half its spiritual energy consumed and checked his lifespan: 17 years and 2 months.
The lifespan gained from cultivation was getting higher and higher now.
That was good news.
Just then, he suddenly looked to the side in shock. A little earth dog was squatting there looking at him, its fur obviously smoother, its eyes brighter.
Clearly this was the effect of the Dog Demon essence blood.
Wait, no!
Chen Han suddenly realized something. “Holy crap, how did you get in here? I locked the door…”
He looked at the still tightly closed door. There was no way the dog could have come in.
The doggy clearly understood him. It suddenly pointed with its paw toward the window. While Chen Han was still puzzled, it had already leaped up onto the windowsill and jumped down.
“???” Chen Han hurried over and saw the dog land on the wall below, then hop into the courtyard with a single leap.
Seeing Chen Han appear at the window, it sprinted, pushed off by the wall, stepped up the wall surface, then took two more steps onto a protruding part of the building, and finally a third step onto the windowsill, flipping back into his room.
Seeing this, Chen Han was truly shocked.
The dog had learned wall-running parkour? The key was, this was something a dog had just done.
He also remembered that just now he had only asked aloud how it got in, and it had seemed to point at the window, then gone down to demonstrate.
Damn, this one had truly gained intelligence!
Chen Han immediately picked up the little earth dog and ran some tests, even taking the time to teach it the problem of 1 + 1 =
He finally confirmed that, just as described in the notes on canine essence blood, it had become smarter.
Seeing that Maoshi hour was near, he went into the bathroom to wash up, then headed out for the spiritual aperture.
In the courtyard, he checked the Moon Gazing Rabbit Hutch.
Unfortunately, there was no Moon Gazing Sand today.
It seemed the Moon Gazing Rabbit Hutch would not produce Moon Gazing Sand every day.
You Fu also came and lay down at his feet.
When he rode the cow out of the courtyard, You Cai dashed out as well, barking. He saw a large black dog coming out of his uncle’s house, following behind You Cai. As they moved forward, the dogs assigned to the clan members yesterday all came running out, gathering behind You Cai.
The sight of them moving in a pack was quite impressive, like soldiers who promptly returned to formation at the sound of a horn.
He rode the cow to the Chen Clan’s main gate and was surprised by You Cai and the other dogs’ movements. They actually followed You Cai in one direction, keeping a steady pace.
And they seemed well organized, not lazily wandering around.
He realized something.
This was the patrolling of the mountain gate in packs?
They were patrolling for the Chen Clan.
With that thought, Chen Han rode You Fu toward the other special spiritual aperture.
He sat cross-legged and waited for the spiritual energy rinse. Suddenly he thought of something, took out a spirit stone from the warehouse, and placed it to the side, wanting to see if it could absorb spiritual energy.
After Maoshi hour, the spiritual energy rinse arrived quickly, and he began cultivating.
When he finished, his lifespan increased by another half year, reaching 17 years and 8 months.
At his age of 24, with this added lifespan, he could reach about Many people, after all, died in their forties.
With that thought, he got up, picked up the spirit stone beside him, and checked it, feeling somewhat disappointed. The spirit stone’s consumed spiritual energy could not be replenished.
This was something he could not force.
Just as he put away the spirit stone and rode You Fu out of the pavilion, he saw You Cai leading the dogs on patrol from the other side.
This patrol squad of dogs was indeed diligent.
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At the Linhe County train station, Ming Di heard the announcement that the high-speed train had arrived at Linhe County. He immediately stood up. He was not wearing smoky eye makeup now, just normal clothes.
Without the pranking style, his appearance was quite attractive. Today he had taken the earliest high-speed train from Ming City. It had been too late yesterday when he flew into Qingmin.
This time he planned to rent a farmhouse in Shangyuan Village for a long-term stay.
After all, he had gained a lot of traffic off the Chen Clan side and had to keep it going, especially since the Chen Family Head had used the captured Jade Bamboo Demonic Flute to play Sword of Fate. That had really let him earn a lot by promoting the same style of flute.
Yesterday, after Liu Tianxian shared the Chen Family Head Li Xiaoyao’s video, he went to place advertisements, and overnight, many more flute orders came in.
From now on, wherever the Chen Family Head was, he would be there.
In the abstract videos, he was the Demonic Cult Rogue who wanted to take down the Chen Family Head. In reality, that man was his dear brother.
As he was thinking, he heard the girl beside him, who had been on her phone the whole way, suddenly say into it, “I took the earliest train and I’m about to arrive at Linhe County station. Next I’ll head to Shangyuan Village to scout ahead. I must make that beast, the Chen Family Head, pay the price and let him know the consequences of abusing dogs.”
“???” Ming Di instinctively looked at the girl, then immediately smiled and said to her, “Beauty, you also think the Chen Family Head is a beast? I think he is too!”
