Chapter Twenty-Three: Competition

"You better go back with me, so that my family can heal your injuries. Nan Xiao supported Zheng Jia and took him to her house together.

After receiving the palm of the demon with the strength of the three mountains, it is already a miracle that Zheng Jia can still have sound limbs with his current strength, and his right arm only feels numb, as if the bones have been extracted.

Hearing Nan Xiao say that he would take himself back to the City Lord's Mansion, Zheng Jia thought to himself, after he recovered there, he could go home to refine the pill.

An hour and a half later:

The Castle Lord's Mansion is surrounded by a wall that is fifteen meters high and one meter thick, and it is impossible for people within Niju Mountain to jump over this wall, let alone destroy it, and when you enter the gate of the Castle Lord's Mansion, you can see the front yard with rockeries, lawns, and streams. The front yard is so big that it can accommodate more than 100 people to exercise here.

Walk further 200 meters, you can reach the gate of Fuzhong, two stone lions carved in front of the gate, majestic towering, through this pair of stone lions, the two officially entered the "palace" of the city lord's mansion.

The City Lord's Mansion was not as luxurious as Zheng Jia imagined, dozens of thick beams supported the entire house, and seeing a few servants cleaning the main hall, Nan Xiao stepped forward and asked, "Where is my father, where are the others?"

"Back to Miss, the city lord went to the auction to buy items, and he hasn't come back yet. ”

Zheng Jia's expression froze a little, if he thought correctly, the city lord should fight with the other patriarchs, and the casualties should not be great, but it is inevitable that there will be some accidents.

Nan Xiao sighed, glanced at Zheng Jia, Zheng Jia also noticed Nan Xiao, the embarrassed eyes of the two intertwined, and both moved their eyes elsewhere.

"That...... You can go to the medicine hall with me to heal your injuries, otherwise it will not be a solution to keep doing this. As she spoke, Nan Xiao pursed her lips and trotted out with her head slightly lowered, Zheng Jia sighed, this girl is much cuter than her sister.

On the left side of the main mansion of the city lord is the medicine hall, on the right is the martial arts hall, behind is the dining hall, and the front yard is the training ground for the soldiers; with the main mansion as the central point, a total of 16 lodging buildings have been built in its eight directions, and the people of the city lord's mansion are arranged to live.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about this medicine hall, if a soldier is injured in a trial or on a mission, as long as it is not particularly serious, it can be healed intact, not to mention Zheng Jia's small shock injury.

After a simple bandage, Zheng Jia was about to leave the city lord's mansion after saying thank you, and before leaving, he specially told the city lord to tell the city lord about today's events, Nan Xiao agreed seriously, and said when he sent it to the door: "If it weren't for you today, I'm afraid I would have been in trouble, you, what's your name? Where do you live? I will thank you in the future!"

After finishing speaking, Nan Xiao's face couldn't help but blush, she had never had a boy since she was a child and would make her so embarrassed.

Zheng Jia chuckled lightly and said, "Zheng Jia of the Zheng family, my father Zheng Jiliao, don't take the thank you to heart, we are originally from Ice Heart City, and it is only the most normal thing to work together with the outside world, let's go!" He raised his hand and turned around to leave the City Lord's Mansion.

Looking at the back of the young man gradually moving away, Nan Xiao felt a little lost in her heart.

When he was flying in the air with her in his arms, when he was fighting the demons, when he was injured for her, she felt that these were not taken for granted, he was not a servant or soldier of the City Lord's Mansion, and he was not obliged to be injured specifically for her, and even almost crippled......

"Zheng Jia, it turns out that Uncle Ji Liao's son is him, so I have to thank him even more. ”

An hour later, Nan Xiao was in a daze in the boudoir, as if she was thinking about something, when a sudden shouting outside interrupted her strange thoughts. When he turned his gaze to the window, he saw several subordinates running towards the door with stretchers in a hurry.

Looking along the door, I saw two tall middle-aged and elderly people supporting each other, and when the last trace of strength was exhausted, they fell to the ground at the same time......

"Dad! and...... Patriarch Zheng?What's going on?" Without allowing her to think too much, Nan Xiao jumped directly off the windowsill on the fourth floor, and the two flew down, shooting towards the door with explosive steps.

After a few breaths, Nan Xiao rushed to the door and asked the people around him with a frightened face, but how did they know what happened in between, and they only cared about carrying the city lord and Patriarch Zheng to the medicine hall.

Zheng Jia returned home and found that Hong Mingtian was already waiting for him in the living room, and his father tried to relieve the awkward atmosphere.

Seeing that his son was tied with a bandage on his right hand when he came back, Zheng Jiliao anxiously stepped forward and wanted to hold it, but saw Zheng Jia's palm upright, indicating that he was fine, and walked to the tea table in three or two steps, and said to Hong Mingtian: "Everything has been gathered, find a secluded place!"

Hong Mingtian "plopped", put away the folding fan, walked out with Zheng Jia, and thanked Zheng Jiliao before leaving.

Zheng Jia first went to the backyard to pull out the two herbs planted in the pot and put them in the wrench.

"You actually have this thing?" Hong Mingtian saw it clearly, and immediately asked.

"Hmm. My mother gave me a coming-of-age ceremony. Hong Shao, I'm afraid that my father will be worried about my injury, if I refine the pill here, my father will definitely interrupt me, can I go to you?" Zheng Jia looked at his father who was at the door of the back door and asked.

Hong Mingtian hesitated at first, but thought carefully about the previous sentence, but he was helpless that there were still people here, so he didn't say the question he wanted to ask, "Okay, come with me." ”

Hong Mingtian left with Zheng Jia, leaving Zheng Jiliao but he didn't know where he was, he didn't remember how his son got in touch with the young master of the Hong family, scratched the back of his head suspiciously, and shrugged his shoulders like a second monk who was confused, indicating that his son was already an adult, and his social relationship would not interfere much. Then he went into the house and continued to practice.

After walking out of Zheng's house for about half a kilometer, Hong Mingtian asked the doubts in his heart: "Zheng Jia, you said before that you had gathered all the medicinal materials, where did you get the 330,000 silver taels?"

Zheng Jia could hear that Hong Mingtian's question was tentative, and he was not in a hurry to answer at the moment, he yawned and said: "What 330,000, this is given to me by someone else, do you think I look like a person with so much money?"

"Who would send such a thing?" asked Hong Mingtian.

"You may not believe it, but when I met two demons from the Second Mountain today who were about to kill two people, I rescued them, and this rescue doesn't matter, guess what? One of them looks like a thief with Zheng Xuan, if he hadn't talked like a middle-aged or elderly person, I would have really mistaken him for Zheng Xuan! It's really a big world, there are no wonders! And then in order to thank me, they gave me a 1,400-year-old spirit tonifying grass. ”

"Just you, just your heavy mountain to drive away the two double mountain demons? Come on, who will believe it?"

"You don't know. By the time I arrived, they had already consumed most of them, and I just picked up a leak in the past, otherwise you see how I got this injury? Zheng Jia raised his injured right hand and signaled that he was not lying.

When he saw this bandage, Hong Mingtian closed his mouth suspiciously. He couldn't tell the truth from the fake, but for a family whose family background had gone downhill, it was really impossible to use so much money to bid with him, and it was even more impossible to take out the ground-level martial arts to sell them at auction.

"What? Don't you believe it? Why don't we make a comparison?" Looking at Hong Mingtian's eyes that were not particularly trusting, Zheng Jia untied the bandages on his hands one by one.

In fact, his injury was not serious, he only needed an hour or two of recuperation, and Hong Mingtian was also curious about Zheng Jia's ability to challenge the demon of the second mountain with the strength of a heavy mountain, and he did not shirk it at the moment.

"You said that you would do alchemy, I will believe you, but you said that you challenged the demon of the double mountain, I really can't believe it. Then today's competition, so far, is just right to test your strength. Hong Mingtian shook off the folding fan with a "poof", and the three steps and two steps were about to rush away angrily.

Zheng Jia jumped up and kicked out one after another. Hong Mingtian slapped the folding fan twice on the feet of the flying general, and the two of them made a mistake and exchanged positions.

Both of them turned around at the same time, only to see Hong Mingtian throw the folding fan in his hand, Zheng Jia moved in his hand, caught the folding fan, and threw it back like a dart, and Hong Mingtian ran towards Zheng Jia with a few arrows and took back the flying folding fan.

The folding fan was like a fan-shaped blade, cutting obliquely in Hong Mingtian's hand, Zheng Jia saw that the folding fan came with a sharp sound of cutting through the air, and immediately ran a little water without leaving a line of footwork under his feet, jumped over, kicked on the tree trunk behind him, and then turned over and jumped behind Hong Mingtian.

cut a hollow knife and slashed at the tree behind Zheng Jia, instantly cutting it out a slender and two-inch deep trace.

"Damn, you're here, you're obviously trying to kill me!" But I have to admit that Hong Mingtian's kung fu is still remarkable, so Zheng Jia didn't plan to show mercy to his subordinates.

I saw that Zheng Jia increased the output of vitality, and the running little water without leaving a line of footwork began to become psychedelic. Hong Mingtian was on the right side of the defense, and he couldn't help such a fast speed, and the situation became passive in an instant.

"Bang bang" two sounds came from Hong Mingtian's shoulder on the same side, only to see him kicked out three meters away, fortunately, the reaction was fast enough, his left hand landed, propped himself up, made a flip in the air, and landed on the ground steadily, but at the moment of landing, I saw Zheng Jia's foot hanging in his ear from sometime ......

With a "bang", even if he used his forearm to make a defensive gesture, he couldn't withstand Zheng Jia's horizontal kick, and was kicked six or seven meters away.

Hong Mingtian, who was lying on the ground, immediately straightened up, twisted his neck, and his bones made a crisp clicking sound, but Zheng Jia's figure disappeared again.

Spreading his vitality all over his body, Hong Mingtian defended against Zheng Jia's sudden attack, but if he continued to be passive like this, he would definitely lose!

"This footwork is so weird! It's so fast that it doesn't even bring the wind, not only that, but it doesn't even have a sound, if Zheng Jia becomes stronger, the profession of killer or assassin is more suitable for him! This kind of person, fortunately, has no ill will towards me, it seems that I can only befriend him in the future." ”

Hong Mingtian couldn't think of a plan to deal with it for a while, and after sighing, he said, "You won." ”

When the words landed, Zheng Jia withdrew the released vitality and appeared in front of Hong Mingtian. The moment he stopped, he saw a whirlwind of fallen leaves around him.

Panting, Zheng Jia seemed to have consumed a lot of vitality and physical strength. The footwork of dotting water without leaving lines focuses on maximizing the vitality while increasing the speed. Now the speed is multiplied and exponentially increased, and correspondingly, the vitality will be multiplied and exponentially consumed.

After seeing Zheng Jia's consumption so huge, Hong Mingtian came up with a strategy, "Such a fast speed must consume a lot of vitality, the key to Zheng Jia's victory lies in a speed word, and I need to win in a drag word." Why am I so stupid!

It seems that he regrets surrendering so quickly, Hong Mingtian is still a little unbalanced in his heart, but thinking that Zheng Jia does have the strength to challenge the huge consumption of the double mountain demon and win, he no longer doubts the truth of what he said.

"Let's go, let's go to my house and have a good meal first!