This time back to reality, Cheng Xiao exchanged a month's time, and it took a full twenty-five days to finish what he should do.

In the past 25 days, Cheng Xiao has been like a behind-the-scenes guardian, silently dealing with various matters related to his teammates. His actions are unknown to the world, but they are related to the past of those who fought alongside him, and the last traces of connection with this real world.

He took good care of Zheng Zhe's family, helped Zhan Lan, who disappeared but no one noticed her, delete her browser records, provided enough funds for the orphanage where Luo Gandao worked, went to a research institute that was burned to the ground, and went to Hong Kong Island to investigate the clues left by Adam...... And when Cheng Xiao completed all the work and returned to Cheng's house across thousands of miles under the starry night, he always had a feeling of being in a different world.

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

The Cheng family is not just a family, but also a small society full of vitality and vitality. The villages here lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years, and over time, the Cheng family continued to multiply and spread out, making the clan a large number, maintaining a strong population and strong family power. In this land, the traditions and culture of the Cheng family have been preserved and inherited, and each generation has maintained the glory and strength 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 the Cheng family, and a trace of complicated emotions passed through his heart. Years ago, he stepped out of his house in a rage, determined never to look back, but the cycle of fate made him set foot on this familiar and strange land again. The emotion surging in his heart is a deep understanding of the impermanence of the world and a remembrance of the past years.

The reason why he left here was simple, because of the mudslide that destroyed the small mountain village where he was a child, and the people he loved. As a member of the ancient martial arts family, Cheng Xiao couldn't accept the fact that with the difference in strength between martial artists and ordinary people, if one of his relatives reached out to help in that accident, it would not have developed into such a situation.

Cheng Xiao ran away from home because he couldn't let go of the loss and grief, but also because of his incomprehension and anger towards his family. He couldn't understand why the powerful family had disappeared at that time. In his eyes, the power of the family was enough to change the tragic outcome, and their actions were enough to prevent the girl's death.

However, they did not do so, they chose to stay out of the situation, they chose not to lend a hand. This attitude of standing by and watching is completely incomprehensible and unacceptable to Cheng Xiao. He believed that if the family was willing, they were fully capable of carrying out the rescue, but in the end, his loved one could not escape the tricks of fate, and the desperate young man could only build an empty tomb 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, use your fist to ask. The strong know the answer, while the weak have no right to speak. ”

"The world of martial artists should be so simple."

Cheng Xiao's heart burned with anger and unwillingness, and he couldn't accept the cruel logic proposed by his father. At that moment, his emotions completely overtook his reason, and he chose to express his defiance in the most direct way...... However, the reality is harsh. Cheng Xiao's blood did not change the difference in strength, in front of his father, his resistance was just in vain, and just three seconds were enough to make him lie on the cold ground with a blue nose and swollen face.

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

This failed challenge became a turning point for Cheng Xiao, and his youthful vigor and negative spirit became the driving force for him to change his fate. He chose to leave his family and go to the army, where he hoped to start from scratch and improve his strength and skills through rigorous military training, so that one day he could find his own answers and have enough strength to protect everything he cherished...... However, in the end, the empty tomb made an irreparable hole in his heart, and also allowed him to finally enter the main god space.

- Now, he's back from the main god space, albeit temporarily.

……

However, when Cheng Xiao took a deep breath and was about to re-enter the village, three people stood in front of him.

"Seriously?" Cheng Xiao looked at the person who stopped him, it was his thirteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth uncles. Although he hadn't seen each other for several years, he could still call the other party's name: "I'm just going home, such a big battle?" ”

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

What preparation? Cheng Xiao didn't ask, and the other party didn't answer, but the fighting posture they made showed their intention, it was not a reunion between relatives after a long absence, nor was it a dinner party.

"Okay, if that's what my dad meant......"

Before Cheng Xiao's words fell, the three people on the opposite side had already pounced like fierce beasts. One of them quickly squatted and sprinted, and his right fist slammed into Cheng Xiao's flank; The other was burly, with both fists carrying a ferocious wind, and smashed down on Cheng Xiao's shoulder, trying to crush him; The third person spun at a rapid pace, and a sweeping sweeping leg slashed at Cheng Xiao's leg violently, intending to disrupt his center of gravity-

“…… Then I'll knock you down first, and then I'll go to him. ”

In the face of the joint attack of the three people, even the surrounding air became tense because of this sudden attack, and just as the attack was about to arrive, Cheng Xiao's left and right hands moved at the same time.

His movements were not as heavy as a fist, nor as violent as a kick, but three knives so light that they were almost no threat. The left hand drooped from top to bottom like a waterfall, and the right hand surged from the bottom up like a spring, and the two forces skillfully bypassed the attack line of the three people, like a spirit fish shuttling through the rapids, and delicately slashed into their attack corners. Then, his hands swept swiftly across the opponent's neck, with graceful and deadly movements, like walking in the clouds, leaving no trace.

In the next second, the sound of three bodies falling to the ground sounded at the same time, in no particular order. And Cheng Xiao took another step forward.

"Anyway, it won't be much delayed." (End of chapter)