Chapter 91: This Expert Is Real!
It was not just Chen Kai. With this level of heat, more and more people online saw the video posted by the Chen Family Head and then saw this scene.
Anyone would crack at that, filming three older men in white vests, then calling them Hall Elders and clan experts.
That Hall Elder being able to look at the lens so calm and composed, everyone had to admire his self-control.
The other two uncles barely holding back their laughter was the normal reaction.
Then they saw the Chen Family Head leading the experts to follow the White Dog out of the Chen Clan, heading toward the village highway.
Before long, through the video filmed by the Chen Family Head, they could see that he had secretly recorded a few dog thieves capturing a dog.
This made the eyes of those who had watched the Linhe County Culture and Tourism video and were curious about the dog thieves’ details light up.
The Chen Family Head really had filmed a video.
Next should be calling the police, then the uncles coming to arrest people, right?
Only, when they saw the Chen Family Head actually muttering at his mobile phone about eradicating these demonic cult rogues, then getting discovered by the dog thieves, everyone was confused.
No, Chen Family Head, why are you not following the script?
They are criminals, and you are just a blogger who films abstract cultivation videos. You really think you are an actual cultivator?
The key point was, the Chen Family Head then instantly started provoking the dog thieves:
“Since we have been discovered by you demonic cult rogues, we will not hide anymore. Today our Chen Clan will take down you evildoing demonic cult rogues!”
Everyone could see the dumbfounded expressions of those five dog thieves in the video.
Honestly, seeing this, they were all just as confused.
Chen Family Head, even abstract play has to have limits.
When they saw the leading dog thief pull out a dagger and threaten the Chen Family Head, everyone drew in a sharp breath for him.
Blood could be spilled at any moment.
However, it seemed that in the Linhe County Culture and Tourism clarification video, there had been no mention of anyone getting hurt, and the dog thieves were arrested. Judging from their swollen pig-head faces in that video, they were quite miserable.
So the police uncles must have already set things up and stepped in time to save the Chen Family Head and his people.
But in the very next moment, they heard a crude “screw your brai…” in the video, then saw an old man in a white vest rush out, landing several punches in quick succession on the face of the dog thief holding the dagger.
The dog thief was punched silly and fell straight to the ground.
The audience stared at that old man in the white vest, also stunned.
Wasn’t that the Chen Clan expert?
Wait, so you are actually an expert.
Then an even more shocking scene appeared: that Hall Elder also made a move, and the two old men in white vests joined forces to knock each of the dog thieves flat.
The key point was that every punch landed right in their faces. So that was how the dog thieves’ faces had swelled into pig heads?
The last dog thief was so terrified he dropped to his knees and begged for mercy.
It was straight-up Fire Cloud Evil God vibes.
You think my old-man white vest looks frail, but can your face really take my fist the size of a sandbag?
That was the idea, right?
But this came too suddenly, even more sudden than Fire Cloud Evil God pulling a gun and shooting his own temple in “Kung Fu.”
Chen Family Head, weren’t you supposed to be doing abstract stuff?
The culture and tourism people were all stunned, especially those who had gone with Captain Li today to film the dog thieves. They had been wondering why Captain Li’s team was so ruthless and kept hitting their faces, and now it turned out it was actually the Chen Clan who did it.
The key question: what kind of martial arts techniques were those? Why were all the hits aimed at the face?
Chen Kai was much calmer. After all, he had visited the Chen Clan for research and had seen some of their miraculous things, like the Feng Shui and those ancient buildings that could withstand shells, so he was not surprised at all that the Chen Clan people knew some kung fu.
Hadn’t he seen how the Chen Clan had that huge martial arts field and used to lead the ten miles and eight villages to defend the countryside, resist rebel soldiers and bandits? Without true kung fu, how could they convince people, let alone accomplish such things?
But this was good. It meant they had more material to use for promotion. They could dig into the stories of how the Chen Clan had led the ten miles and eight villages against bandits and rebel soldiers.
It was impossible that the Chen Clan’s resistance to rebel soldiers took place only in Shangyuan Village. Might they have gone to the county as well, assisting the authorities? The remaining ancient buildings in the county still had that old earthen wall, right?
Was that not the stationing area where, back when rebel soldiers came, the Chen Clan led the young and strong of the ten miles and eight villages to help defend the city?
Yes, this needed to be confirmed with the Chen Family Head. Once confirmed, it would be true.
Making things up was impossible.
In fact, the most shocked one was Ming Di. He had always thought that the Chen Clan experts and the Hall Elders were just like him, a demonic cult rogue playing at abstract things.
Now, seeing those dog thieves whose faces had swollen into pig heads, he subconsciously covered his own face.
Luckily he had only been playing abstract and had not truly gone to attack the Chen Clan.
He was just feeling relieved when he noticed some fans had left him messages:
“Ming Di, feels like you are doomed. The Chen Clan experts are real experts.”
“Ming Di, do you know martial arts too? Can you beat the Chen Clan Hall Elder?”
“……”
Ming Di did not want to answer that question.
Were the Chen Clan experts that strong? In a fight, the other side would just throw one punch, and he would kneel and beg them not to kill him.
However, seeing these questions, he still stubbornly replied, “They are not worthy of my taking action. My only opponent is the Chen Family Head. I will defeat him together with the Dog Demon King Brothers.”
The video continued to play, and they saw the junior sister of the Chen Family Head helping treat and bandage the dogs. Her gentle demeanor attracted many people, who could not resist commenting right away.
“Junior sister is so kind. No wonder those dogs are wearing bandages. So she was the one treating them.”
“That Fang Fang is truly disgusting, while the kindness on junior sister shines.”
All of a sudden, it was like everyone had gained a junior sister.
Finally, when that Dog Demon King appeared, they saw the Chen Family Head going to open the cage to let it out, and it actually shrank back and refused to come out.
The scene was exactly like two mortal enemies, one fallen into hardship and rescued by the other, showing no gratitude at all.
Really, this little earth dog was so human.
It ended with the Chen Family Head helping the little earth dog with bandaging.
The video even had subtitles: Forcing the Dog Demon King to owe a favor.
Afterward, the scene of the Chen Family Head rudely treating the little earth dog while trying to forcibly make the Dog Demon King owe him a favor made everyone laugh out loud.
Really, this video had too many brilliant points.
When the little earth dog left with the dog pack, the screen went black. Many people thought the video was over, but when they checked the progress bar, it had not ended yet.
The part in the middle where Li Rui took the uncles into the scene was obviously not suitable to be shown, or without permission they were not allowed to film the uncles on camera.
When the picture lit up again, a chorus of barking sounded. On screen, the dog king, with bandages on its leg, was leading an army to surround the Chen Family Head’s courtyard.
This scene shocked many viewers. If they followed the abstract commentary style of the Chen Family Head’s videos, this was the Dog Demon King leading a group of dog demons, an army surrounding the Chen Family Head.
The key moment came when the Chen Family Head appeared and the little earth dog actually walked out alone, barking at him.
This should be like the Dog Demon King stepping out from the army to issue a battle challenge to the Chen Family Head, right?
Was this going to be a one-on-one duel?
A lot of people hurriedly shook their heads at the thought. How had watching the Chen Family Head’s abstract videos ended up making them think abstractly too?
In the video, when the man and dog faced off, they saw the Chen Family Head walk over, grab the Dog Demon King in one hand, and then came the shocking moment: the Dog Demon King began obsequiously and flatteringly licking his hand.
Anyone who understood dogs knew this was an affectionate act only shown toward their master.
Holy crap!
Could this be the Dog Demon King acknowledging a master and bringing the Dog Demon Tribe to defect to the Chen Clan?
It really seemed to be just as people guessed. The screen changed, and the Chen Clan members were gathered, starting to adopt those stray dogs.
This also served to show everyone the truth and final outcome of the dog abuse incident.
At the very end of the video, a black screen appeared with one line of text: The young clan leader is inexperienced in the ways of the world, letting the Dog Demon King set the stage and helping the Dog Demon Tribe secure a long-term meal ticket!
Seeing this, many people smiled knowingly, and some even felt a bit of admiration for this Chen Family Head and the Chen Clan.
After all, they were the victims in this matter. They had done good deeds yet were slandered, but the Chen Family Head and the Chen Clan did not make a big fuss, only calmly released this video.
The video’s comment section, however, was lively:
“Who understands this? When I thought the Chen Family Head was a fool, that old-man white vest of his turned me into the fool instead.”
“So the Hall Elder is this awesome. It was that white vest that blinded me, so I failed to recognize an expert.”
“Although the experts are real, the Chen Family Head being a real cultivator is still impossible, right?”
“……”
Chen Han, Xiao Mi, Xiao Yu, Chen Dagou, and Chen Shuisheng naturally were also watching after the upload, and saw that most of the comment section was discussing Chen Lin and Chen Dagou taking down the dog thieves.
After all, no matter how abstract a video was, it was just for fun, but the experts were truly experts.
With dog thieves wielding a dagger, even those trained in martial arts might not dare step in, yet the Chen Clan experts not only stepped in but knocked them out in just a couple of blows.
So clean and efficient, such combat power.
Huaguo already had a strong martial arts and wuxia cultural foundation, with a special fondness for martial arts. Even though many lowlifes online used the name of martial arts to scrape by, they still managed to make a living.
Now people had clearly seen two experts of true kung fu.
The key point was that before this, they had never used this for promotion. When the Chen Family Head filmed the Hall Elder and clan experts, everyone had assumed it was just abstract content, with some people even mocking them.
Who could have guessed that although everything in the Chen Family Head’s video felt abstract, this one thing about the experts was actually real?
“Uncle, lots of people are following you now.” Xiao Yu looked at Chen Lin’s “Chen Clan Hall Elder” account and said with a big smile.
“Mm-hmm!” Chen Lin also saw that many people had left him messages.
Seeing all those comments like “Greetings, Chen Clan Elder” and “Elder is awesome,” he grinned from ear to ear.
Chen Dagou secretly leaned over to look at Chen Lin’s mobile phone. “Chen Lin, how do they know what your account is?”
As soon as he asked, he saw Chen Lin’s account name, the big “Hall Elder” nickname, and immediately understood.
At this moment, Xiao Yu made a suggestion. “Uncle, now that everyone is talking about you Chen Clan experts, let me strike while the iron is hot and film a video of you to upload. Just your usual fist practice is enough.”
This made Chen Lin and the others eager to try, and they followed her out into the courtyard.
Chen Han, however, frowned slightly, feeling that something was off. The Dog Lover (Fang Fang) had been arrested, so that should count as a humanitarian resolution, right? Why had no prompt appeared yet?
He waited for a long time, but still no prompt.
Time passed, and even by evening there was still no follow-up prompt about the Barking Immortal Guest.
Could “humanitarian resolution” be meant in the literal sense of “eliminate”?
That should not be it, right?
However, by night, the heat of the dog abuse and dog theft incident had only grown.
Dog abuse and dog thieves were already social hot topics, and now the case involved an internet celebrity’s slander and arrest, plus martial arts elements, with dog thieves being knocked down in a couple of blows by two experts.
It was a full stack of buffs.
Moreover, riding on this wave of heat, while lying on his reclining chair scrolling videos, Chen Han discovered three more related videos that had gone viral.
One of them was by Ming Di （ of the Demonic Path Instruction ）: “Heartbroken, the Chen Family Head must have used some despicable method to force my Dog Demon King Brothers to submit. This is unforgivable. New and old grudges together, I will definitely make the Chen Family Head pay and rescue my brothers.”
The guy even tagged him.
Honestly, this demonic cult rogue was very quick-witted. Once he had found this race track, he really was like a fish in water, every time catching the heat just right.
Looking at the comments on his video, you could not help but be impressed:
“666, worthy of a demon, just one twist and the idea appears, right?”
“When I saw the Dog Demon King leading his tribe to submit to the Chen Family Head, I was wondering how you would continue.”
“I thought, since your dog brothers defected, you might join them for their sake, but you came out with this instead. I almost pulled my back laughing.”
“……”
Chen Han chuckled and then saw another video.
This one was posted by a commentator blogger who tells stories: “Today the internet is boiling over the dog abuse incident, but what I want to talk about is not that. Has anyone noticed that although the Chen Family Head’s video is abstract, if it were made into an anime or movie, with the stray dogs really turned into dog demons, the lion head goose turned into a Mysterious Frost Lion Head Goose, Ming Di, Dog Lover （Fang Fang）, and the dog thieves appearing as demonic cult rogues, plus special effects, it would make a great cultivation story?”
“At the very least, the grudge between the Chen Clan and the Dog Demon Tribe, the appearance of the Dog Demon King, the love-hate rivalry between the Dog Demon King and the Chen Family Head, and finally joining the Chen Clan as the family’s spirit beast, would be really good. At least better than ‘a trillionaire president falls for me, a 50-year-old menopausal single mom of two,’ right?”
“Any big shots want to try adapting it?”
This was purely a fun video, and plenty of people joined in. Some even posted pictures and videos in the comments, all with added special effects.
There were versions where the Dog Demon King transformed, fur bristling as runes appeared on its body.
There were shots of him playing the flute with massive Mysterious Frost Lion Head Geese flying behind him, and clips where, from one of his gestures, a sword flew out from behind him.
There was no shortage of talented people online. They had put together these special effect images in just a short time.
The third video was the most popular and made even him laugh. It was a video of uncle and Uncle Dagou and the others, wearing old-man white vests and performing a set of fist techniques, specifically the Taiyi Long Fist.
Opening the comment section, it was clear many viewers had come over from the dog abuse incident.
“Don’t be fooled by this white vest. I can hit you twice and you won’t be able to take it.”
“Is an old-man white vest the standard kit for Chen Clan experts?”
“……”
Occasionally, an uninformed skeptic would say, “Is there another lightning five-whip master popping up?”
And immediately people would egg them on:
“Brother, go challenge this kind of master quickly. Guaranteed fame!”
“Haha, we support you challenging them. They are also masters of ‘using their face to catch fists.’”
“……”
Chen Han read these comments and laughed. It seemed uncle and the others were really about to blow up.
That was good. The Chen Clan would have another dimension of public image to showcase.
Scrolling a bit more, Chen Han was suddenly stunned as a game prompt appeared in his mind:
【As the Blood Demon escaped, demonic energy surged everywhere, and demonic cult rogues grew ever more rampant, making you feel an increasingly strong sense of crisis… Through the Spirit Shadow Mirror, you recorded and transmitted the power of your family elders and experts, displaying the clan’s martial force. As the recorded images spread, you successfully intimidated some demonic cult rogues and received a reward from the Shu Shan Immortal Sect.】
【Congratulations, you have obtained a special novice item: deerskin boots!】
“???” Chen Han did not expect that, while the humanitarian resolution of the Barking Immortal Guest task showed no sign of progress, he would suddenly complete the mission to display the clan leader’s power to the outside world.
He immediately checked the warehouse and indeed found a new pair of gray shoes with the following remark information:
【Deerskin boots: this is a special novice item, engraved with special runes. After wearing, it grants a special effect: force unloading +2!】
Looking at the attributes of the deerskin boots, Chen Han instinctively thought of the two activated robes, each with lightness +
（Lightness + force unloading） +2 = ?
It was not a hard equation. Lightness meant reducing one’s own weight and the effect of earth’s gravity, while force unloading reduced the impact of gravitational acceleration when landing.
That really equaled lightness skill.
Thinking this, he immediately went back to his room, put on the Sedum clothing, took out the deerskin boots, and put them on.
The size was a bit large, but once they were on his feet, the boots shrank to fit perfectly.
With them on, he did not hesitate at all and flipped straight out of the window. Thanks to the lightness +2 attribute, gravity affected him less, and his falling speed was much lower than normal, the classic suspended-in-air feeling.
Most importantly, when he landed on the ground, he did not feel the impact one would expect from a 2 to 3 meter drop. It felt like he had just made a light hop in place and come back down.
The sensation was extremely strange and wonderful.
Thinking further, he took two quick steps to gain momentum, pushed off the wall for leverage, and reached the window ledge. Using that as a foothold, he pushed off again up onto the roof, then jumped lightly down to the ground, still feeling almost no impact.
A Wudang Daoist priest had become famous for a three-stage 20-meter jump. Chen Han felt that （lightness + force unloading） +2 might let him jump 20 meters straight up.
Just then, as he turned around, he saw the entrance to the courtyard. His junior sister was standing there, staring blankly at him. “Senior brother, since when do you know lightness skill?”
