6. Ancestor deploys SpyNet!

Sneaking around and placing cameras wasn't something suited for status of Great Ancestor Lan, so he simply called the family head and instructed him to leave the family grounds for 10 hours, along with everyone else.

Situ Xi, though somewhat reluctant, couldn't refuse the Great Ancestor's orders.

 Lan, along with his gang member, began placing the cameras. Situ Xi tried to follow them, but a sharp glare from Lan forced him to herd everyone out—even the dogs were chased away. Once the grounds were empty, Lan got to work.

Caretaker Lin was curious about the small trinkets Ancestor Lan was placing in every corner, but she dismissed it as a generation gap. Lan finished his task in three hours, showing some mercy by not placing cameras in private places like the bathroom.

Having watched so many HD videos in his past life, he feared stumbling upon something here that might scare him to death. Ancient people—can't risk it! he thought.

After finishing, Lan checked his FP points and was shocked to find them at 200,000—and still rising. He figured the Situ family's sudden homelessness must have shocked everyone, making his presence more widely known. Good for me, he thought.

With his newly acquired points, he purchased Angry Buddha, Smoking Buddha, and the Supreme Domain Spiritual Diagram. The Supreme Domain was a watered-down version of the God Domain, costing 150,000 FP.

Supreme's Domain – FP 150,000: Deploy it to cover a selected area with a defensive barrier. The barrier will block anyone of Supreme Rank and below from entering against the user's will. The user can kill anyone within the barrier below Supreme Rank if they wish. Requirement: Supreme Rank Level 9 Cultivation. The user must always be present in the deployed area for it to work.

Lan chose his family compound to erect the barrier, allowing access to all family members and staff. After four hours of work, he decided to retire for the day.

As Lan walked back to his courtyard, it was already evening.

He found Caretaker Rin fidgeting, mumbling about how she could wait until tomorrow. After listening carefully, he remembered that he had promised to give her something good today.

 Now that I think of it, what should I give her? The most famous gift would be a mobile phone, but that thing is harmful to young minds. Mobile phones were destroying families in my last life—mentally, I mean. Especially Sam++g ones—they were armed to do it physically too. But after carefully thinking... giving Rin a mobile phone would be like giving wings to a tiger; she could gossip all she wanted. Wait, without the internet that's not possible... Damn, why am I thinking so much?

He quickly bought a pink-looking mobile phone.

"Lad Rin, this is a product of the greatest minds of the old era. I kept it with me to find a suitable successor. From now on, it is yours."

Caretaker Rin took the pink flat thing and started fiddling with it—it was a full touchscreen phone. After getting no response, she looked up with teary eyes. Ancestor gave me a legacy item, but I am not able to inherit it! I did not live up to his expectations! Will he kick me out of his team now?

Watching her struggle with the phone, Lan was sure this thing would ruin generations. Seeing that the girl was about to burst into tears, he stopped her without saying a word and gestured for her to follow him. Silence is the best answer most of the time, and it makes you look cool too, Lan mused, something he followed occasionally.

Rin hurriedly followed the Ancestor into his room, where he was fiddling with a flat thing that had a glowing glass surface. After a while, a picture of a beautiful girl appeared on the screen, which quickly vanished. Then another woman in strange but beautiful attire appeared, holding the same artifact in her hand, and the picture froze.

Lan got up from his computer seat. "This is knowledge gathered by the previous successor. You watch this and learn from it; you'll understand the usage of this artifact. This will repeat continuously. You can press this button to pause and this one to go back. Don't touch anything else—there are some forbidden things that can cause mental deviation. Sit here, and after you finish, call me. I'll be inside the bedroom."

Lan hurriedly left the room, scared. He had nearly ruined this innocent girl—the last night's videos were still paused on the screen. If she had seen them by mistake, she might have suffered serious mental deviation. His godly reflexes had saved the poor girl. Now that she was watching some tutorials for newbie users, he could check if all the cameras were functioning properly.

Rin thought the Ancestor must have spent too much energy just to help her overcome her poor talent, so she was grateful. She sat in front of the glowing glass and carefully started learning from her predecessor after bowing twice. The predecessor was very skilled—soon, Rin uncovered the mysteries of the artifact known as a phone. She wanted to subscribe and like to help her predecessor, but she heeded the Ancestor's warning. Clearly, subscribing and liking would have caused too much strain, leading to mental deviation.

After that, she quickly unlocked her phone, set up a fingerprint lock, and started taking selfies. Looking at her adorable picture on the phone, she bowed in the direction of the Ancestor's room for bestowing this phone upon her. These pictures are better than spiritual images, which take too much time to capture a single moment, where a person has to stay still without moving for hours. She immersed herself in exploring other functions of the phone.

Inside his bedroom, Lan had already checked all the cameras. As it was done by a professional like him, everything was perfect. He decided to lie down for a while. Now that I have set up everything, I can gather enough information about these people. But what if they discover my cameras through spiritual sense?

He tried using his spiritual sense, slowly concentrating, and found that he could sense Rin outside. As he slowly extended his spiritual sense further, he discovered that spiritual sense works like echolocation; if the other party is also a cultivator, your spiritual sense will be repelled by them, allowing you to sense the other person. This means that cultivators can't sense ordinary people—good news for me. My cameras won't be discovered.

After that, he started thinking about his plan to educate these people. After coming up with nothing, he decided to take a power nap.