Chapter 562: Returning Home: Cheng Family

This time, Cheng Xiao exchanged a month of time to return to reality, and it took him a full 25 days to do what he should do.

During these 25 days, Cheng Xiao was like a behind-the-scenes guardian, silently handling various matters related to his teammates. Although his actions were unknown to the world, they were related to the past of those partners who had fought side by side with him, as well as the last traces of their connection with this real world.

He properly settled Zheng Zha's family, deleted the browser history of Zhan Lan, who disappeared but no one noticed, provided enough funds for the orphanage where Luo Gandao was, went to a research institute that was burned to the ground by a fire, and went to Hong Kong Island to investigate the clues left by Adam... When Cheng Xiao finished all the work and traveled thousands of miles to return to the Cheng family day and night, he always felt as if he was in another world.

Looking at the rolling villages not far away, Cheng Xiao's eyes flashed with a trace of reminiscence. This is the clan land of the Cheng family, the core of an ancient martial arts family with a long heritage. Although Cheng's family was not the place where he grew up in his childhood memory, he spent his early life in another quiet mountain village. It was not until he was ten years old that he came here under the leadership of his parents and truly integrated into the big family of Cheng's family.

Cheng's family is not just a family, but more like a small society full of vitality and vigor. The village here has lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years. As time goes by, the Cheng family continues to thrive and multiply, making the number of clan members huge, maintaining a vigorous population and a strong family power. In this clan land, the traditions and culture of the Cheng family have been preserved and passed on, and each generation is maintaining the glory and power of the family. For Cheng Xiao, this is not only the center of the family, but also an important part of his personal growth and identity.

Cheng Xiao stood in front of the door of Cheng's family, and a trace of complex emotions passed through his heart. Many years ago, he angrily stepped out of the house with the determination not to look back, but the reincarnation of fate made him set foot on this familiar and unfamiliar land again. The emotion surging in his heart is a profound understanding of the impermanence of the world and a remembrance of the past years.

The reason why he left here that year was very simple. It was because of the mudslide that year, the mudslide that destroyed the small mountain village where he lived in his childhood and the people he loved. As a member of an ancient martial arts family, Cheng Xiao could not accept this fact at all. Given the gap in strength between martial artists and ordinary people, if one of his relatives had lent a hand in that accident, it would not have developed to such a situation.

Cheng Xiao ran away from home because he could not let go of the loss and grief, and even more because of his confusion and anger towards his family. He could not understand why the family with such powerful power disappeared at that time. In his eyes, the power of the family was enough to change the tragic ending, and their actions were enough to prevent the death of the girl.

However, they did not do so. They chose to stay out of it and chose not to lend a hand. This attitude of standing aside was completely incomprehensible and unacceptable to Cheng Xiao. He believed that if the family was willing, they were fully capable of implementing rescue, but in the end, the person he loved still could not escape the trick of fate, and the desperate young man could only build an empty grave for her without a body.

Cheng Xiao naturally couldn't accept it, so when he couldn't suppress his inner emotions and returned to Cheng's house to question his father, the answer he got was a cold and cruel reality.

"If you want to know the answer, then ask with your fists. The strong know the answer, and the weak have no right to speak."

"The world of warriors should be so simple."

Cheng Xiao's heart was burning with anger and unwillingness. He couldn't accept the cruel logic proposed by his father. At that moment, his emotions completely surpassed reason, and he chose to express his resistance in the most direct way... However, reality is cruel. Cheng Xiao's passion could not change the gap in power. In front of his father, his resistance was futile. In just three seconds, he lay on the cold ground with a bruised face.

That day, Cheng Xiao was defeated, and the pain in his body was perhaps far less than the pain and frustration in his heart.

This failed challenge became a turning point for Cheng Xiao. His youthful vigor and anger became the driving force for him to change his destiny. He chose to leave his family and join the army, hoping to start from scratch there, train himself through rigorous military training, improve his strength and skills, so that he could find his own answer one day, and have enough power to protect everything he cherished... But in the end, the empty tomb left an irreparable hole in his heart, and finally made him enter the main god space.

——Now, he is back from the main god space, although only temporarily.

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However, when Cheng Xiao took a deep breath and prepared to step into the village again, three people blocked him.

"Seriously?" Cheng Xiao looked at the people who stopped him, they were his thirteenth uncle, seventeenth uncle and nineteenth uncle. Although he hadn't seen them for several years, he could still call each other's name: "I'm just going back home, such a big battle?"

"I understand, but the clan leader also said that when Cheng Xiao comes back here, it means that you are ready."

What preparation? Cheng Xiao did not ask, and the other party did not answer, but the fighting postures they made explained their purpose. It was not a long-awaited reunion between relatives, nor was it a dinner party.

"Okay, if this is what my father means..."

Before Cheng Xiao finished speaking, the three people on the opposite side were already rushing towards him like wild beasts. One of them squatted down and sprinted quickly, punching Cheng Xiao's side with his right fist; the other was tall, carrying fierce wind with both fists, and smashed down on Cheng Xiao's shoulder, trying to hit Cheng Xiao's shoulder. He was crushed; while the third person spun quickly and struck Cheng Xiao's leg with a sweeping sweep, intending to disrupt his center of gravity——

"...Then I'll beat you guys down first, and then I'll go see him."

Facing the joint attack of three people, even the surrounding air became tense due to the sudden attack. Just when the attack was about to come, Cheng Xiao's left and right hands moved at the same time.

His movements were neither as heavy as a fist nor as violent as a kick, but rather three light and almost non-threatening hand knives. The left hand dropped from top to bottom like a waterfall, while the right hand surged from bottom to top like spring water. The two forces skillfully bypassed the attack lines of the three people, like a spiritual fish swimming in the torrent, gliding in lightly. A blind spot for their attack. Then, his hands quickly swept across the opponent's neck, his movements were elegant and deadly, like clouds and flowing water, leaving no trace.

The next second, three sounds of bodies falling to the ground sounded at the same time, in no particular order. Cheng Xiao, on the other hand, took steps forward again.

"Anyway, it won't waste much time."