Chapter 31: Zhang Long is Deposed

  After Zhang Cheng was swallowed by that "Phoenix", he felt a dizzy spell, and after a long while, he saw a bright light in front of him. Then he felt himself falling rapidly, and subconsciously looked down, immediately jumping down because below him was an infinitely deep cliff.

  Fortunately, he fell onto the cliff rather than off it.

  Wiping the sweat, Zhang Cheng looked around and suddenly found that this was exactly where he had been thrown down by Hua Jing. He remembered it so clearly because there was a red stone on the cliff.

  However, returning here again, Zhang Cheng's heart was filled with emotions, feeling both anger and gratitude. If it weren't for Hua Jing throwing him off the cliff, he wouldn't have met Xiang Tian, let alone learned many powerful techniques.

  However, Zhang Cheng remembered everything Hua Weng did and secretly vowed to dismember him into ten thousand pieces to vent his hatred.

  So Zhang Cheng stood on the cliff for about a minute, feeling the place that changed his fate, and then left without looking back.

  After a long journey of half a day, Zhang Cheng returned to Shaoyang City at noon that day. However, he felt a strange atmosphere in front of the city gate of Shaoyang City.

  Because at this time, the front gate of Shao Yang City is usually bustling with people coming and going.

  At this moment, there were only a few people entering and leaving the city gate of Shao Yang, plus the soldiers guarding the city, totaling no more than a dozen or so. It was clear that something was not quite right with this situation.

  "What's going on here?" Zhang Cheng was somewhat perplexed, so he walked over and asked a soldier guarding the city: "Brother soldier, what's going on? Why are there so few people entering and leaving the city today?"

  "Oh, so it's the Third Young Master of the Zhang family. How come you don't know? The three major families in the city are jointly holding a competition, and many people have gone to watch the excitement. Therefore, there are far fewer people entering and leaving the city today than usual." The city guard recognized Zhang Cheng, after all, there were almost no one in Shaoyang City who didn't recognize him.

  It's just that Zhang Cheng is a bit strange, at this moment he is in high spirits, full of energy, with a rosy complexion, and not even half of the sickly appearance remains, no one would doubt if you said he was a martial artist.

  Moreover, he also remembered that Zhang Cheng had gone missing a month ago, and the Zhang family had made a big fuss about it for a long time, even to the point where they almost withdrew from the annual family competition.

  If it weren't for the Li and Wang families forcing their way into the Zhang family, demanding that the three families have a big competition together, they would probably still be searching for this Cheng.

  However, he didn't tell Zhang Cheng about this matter, after all, he understood the principle that trouble comes from the mouth.

  But neither of the three families was one he could afford to mess with, so he took the attitude that less is more and only told Zhang Cheng a rough outline of what had happened, without going into any details.

  "The three big families are holding a competition together?" Zhang Cheng was stunned and somewhat unclear about what this situation was.

  He remembered that today should be the day of Zhang's family gathering, logically speaking, this time will not change, in other words, even if Wang and Li families agree, Zhang's family will not agree.

  However, things have happened and Zhang Cheng also knows that this soldier has no reason to deceive himself.

  In that case, there is only one possibility left, which is that the Wang and Zhang families jointly suppressed him, the Zhang family, and then forced them to cancel the family competition and hold some kind of contest together.

  But this is undoubtedly an insult to Zhang's family, equivalent to slapping him in public.

  Moreover, this situation seems to be beyond Zhang Cheng's imagination, because he understands his father's temperament, unless it involves the family's safety, otherwise, he will not compromise.

  At this thought, Zhang Cheng's face suddenly changed, a sense of foreboding arose, and then his body swayed, rushing towards the Zhang family at an extremely fast speed.

  "Th...". The city guards looked at Zhang Cheng running at such a fast speed, their eyes wide with shock, and they simply didn't dare to believe it was true.

  After all, Zhang Cheng used to get out of breath after running just a few steps, but now he's sprinting like flying, even a perfectly healthy person can't run that fast, what does this say?

  Zhang Cheng did not notice the shocked glances from the people around him. This time he came back, he didn't plan to hide anymore, so he was very open.

  Under his full sprint, Zhang Cheng quickly arrived at the Zhang's house, but the gate of the Zhang's house was tightly closed at this moment. Suddenly, the ominous premonition in Zhang Cheng's heart became even stronger.

  Then Zhang Cheng hurriedly ran to the front of the door and knocked on it several times with force.

  Before long, the gatekeeper, Mr. Fu, opened the door, and when he saw that the person knocking on the door was Zhang Cheng returning, his face first showed joy, but then immediately revealed a look of distress.

  However, he concealed it very well, with a smile on his face, saying: "Young master, you've finally returned. The master of the house has been searching for you frantically these past few days."

  "This I know, but, Uncle Fu, is it true that the three families are jointly holding a competition?" Zhang Cheng had already learned about this earlier, but he still wanted to hear confirmation from his family.

  "Yes, this thing is indeed true, and the master has already taken people there." Fu Bo replied.

  "Ah, how is this possible? Isn't today the day of our Zhang family's grand competition? How could my father agree to this?" Zhang Cheng asked in confusion.

  "Ah, young master, the young master has returned." Old Fu didn't directly respond to Zhang Cheng's words, but instead sighed and said this.

  And what he called "Big Young Master" was naturally Zhang Cheng's older brother, Zhang Long.

  "Has my elder brother returned? How is that possible, wasn't he waiting to join at Tianfeng Gate? Why has he suddenly come back?" Zhang Cheng's mind was full of question marks, but he saw a hint of pain on Fu Bo's face.

  Suddenly, he became suspicious and was sure something had happened.

  "Master, you'd better go in and take a look yourself, I...I..." Old Fu said, his eyes welling up with tears.

  "Where is my elder brother now?" Zhang Cheng asked anxiously.

  "Master is now in his room, Second Miss is taking care of him, you'd better go quickly, if it's too late then..." Old Fu said up to here, his voice choked with emotion, but his meaning was already very clear.

  "My second sister is taking care of my older brother, so my older brother..." Zhang Cheng seemed to have realized something, his expression changed, and then he turned into a faint shadow and disappeared in front of the gate.

  Fu Bo was also startled by the situation at this time, and it wasn't until Zhang Cheng's figure had completely disappeared from his sight that he came back to himself, thinking to himself: "What's going on? Has Young Master's illness been cured?"

  Zhang Long's room and Zhang Cheng's room were only separated by a wall, so he quickly arrived at the door of Zhang Long's room. However, as soon as he reached the door, he smelled a strong medicinal smell, which made his heart skip a beat.

  Then, with a sudden burst of strength, he pushed the door open and saw Zhang Long lying on the bed, his teeth clenched tightly, cold sweat dripping from his forehead, his limbs fixed with bandages and splints, and he seemed to have fallen into a state of coma, unaware of their arrival.

  At this point, Zhang Cheng's breathing stopped for a moment. He knew what it meant, of course - that all four of Zhang Long's limbs had been broken.

  Immediately afterwards, a nameless fire burst forth from his lower abdomen, instantly engulfing his entire body in flames.

  When he was young, Zhang Long spoiled him a lot, often taking him out to play and have fun, and frequently buying him delicious food. However, at this moment, his good big brother was lying in bed with all four limbs broken, which made it hard for him to accept that this was real.

  "Brother, brother, is that really you?" Zhang Xin was startled by the noise of Zhang Cheng pushing open the door, fortunately she reacted in time, otherwise the bowl of medicine in her hand would have spilled all over Zhang Long's body.

  However, when she saw Zhang Cheng's appearance, she was first stunned and then overjoyed.

  "Sister, it's me. What's going on? How could big brother...?" Zhang Cheng took a deep breath and forced himself to speak calmly, suppressing the anger in his heart.

  Although Zhang Cheng didn't show anything, Zhang Xin could see that his younger brother had already lost his temper.