Jiang City Martial Arts Association.
"Hahaha, Captain Chen. Long time no see!"
A middle-aged man with heavy shoulders and sturdy hands and feet quickly came up to him. He was wearing a straight uniform that was bulging, and his cultivation seemed to be quite good.
Chen Kefa looked at this enthusiastic face, searched for a moment in his memory, and finally finally found the number.
It seemed that he was just an ordinary clerk in the Association before. He had some impressions, but not much.
"Hey, look at my mouth, it's time to call you Master Chen!" Chairman Liu slapped his forehead hard and smiled particularly heartily.
Chen Kefa twitched his facial muscles and smiled back, his voice flat.
"It's been more than two years since I left Jiang City in the blink of an eye... it really seems like the next day."
He didn't want to waste time on such meaningless greetings and took the initiative to get to the point.
"According to regulations, Martial Arts Grandmaster needs to be reported to you, right?"
The implication is very clear, stop talking nonsense and get down to business.
"Yes, yes, yes." Chairman Liu is tall and thick, but has an extremely delicate mind. He immediately heard Chen Kefa's impatience, and quickly turned sideways to lead him to the registration office.
"Master Chen, please come here and I will handle it for you personally."
The registration process is not complicated. While Chairman Liu was operating the optical computer, he enthusiastically introduced the changes of Jiang City in the past two years.
Chen Kefa responded one after another, but his eyes fell on an electronic wall of honor on the wall of the office, where photos of the main staff of the Association were scrolling.
He frowned and asked casually, "Where is Nie Sun? Why haven't you seen him? Logically speaking, he should be the one to pick me up today."
Nie Sun, also known as Falcon, was the most capable deputy of Chen Kefa, a brother who could trust him even if he had his back.
Jiang City people mostly speak without distinguishing between l and n. Over time, Nie Sun was called Falcon.
Chairman Liu's fingers operating the optical brain paused for a moment, then returned to his natural state. He turned his head with a hint of just the right amount of regret on his face.
"Hey, speaking of Captain Nie, it's such a pity."
He sighed.
"More than a year ago, we organized an encirclement and suppression operation against the remnants of 'Eternal Life Cult'. Captain Nie... was seriously injured in order to protect the newcomers and damaged his foundation. He has retired early."
Why are cults emerging in endlessly...Chen Kefa's sitting figure stiffened slightly.
"It's not just Team Nie," Chairman Liu continued, "The Special Investigation Team team you led at the beginning has also been... changed for the most part. The current captain's surname is Zhang, and he is also a very capable young man."
Chen Kefa's Adam's apple rolled, and finally he just made a very light "um" sound from his nasal cavity.
He lowered his eyes, making it difficult to see his emotions at the moment, but calmly cooperated to complete all subsequent registration processes.
After completing the formalities, Chen Kefa stood up and left.
"Grandmaster Chen, stay!" Chairman Liu hurriedly stopped him and came forward with a smile on his face, "Let's exchange communication methods. I will ask you more about martial arts in the future. Maybe... you can also help me get something?"
Chen Kefa raised his head and stared at him calmly.
"No need, I'm just on vacation this time and I won't do any official business."
He made an excuse at random and refused outright.
The smile on Chairman Liu's face stiffened for a moment, but soon regained its enthusiasm.
"Okay, okay, then I won't disturb you, Grandmaster Chen. You can walk slowly!"
Chen Kefa nodded slightly, said no more, turned and walked out of the office.
After his figure completely disappeared at the end of the corridor, the smile on Chairman Liu's face faded inch by inch, and finally turned into a cold sneer.
A young woman wearing a secretary's uniform came out from behind the screen and asked in a low voice.
"President, this Chen Kefa... seems to be unwilling to have a good relationship with you."
"Haha."
Chairman Liu sneered and walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the busy traffic below.
"Just a fool who doesn't want to recognize the reality."
His voice was filled with undisguised contempt.
"A half-baked master who was lucky enough to survive the meat grinder on the front line really thinks he can dominate Jiang City? Times have changed a long time ago."
"If you take yourself too seriously, you will fall and fall badly."
The secretary stood aside with his hands down, not daring to answer.
And Chen Kefa, who had just left the Martial Arts Association building, suddenly turned into a faint thunder light, soared into the sky, and disappeared instantly.
He mobilized the power of heaven and earth to fly in the air, and Jiang City, a city that was both familiar and unfamiliar, flew by quickly under his feet.
Central city area.
There are many high-rise buildings, and the dense glass curtain walls reflect the afterglow of the setting sun. The entire building complex is like a sea of steel and glass.
Between the staggered buildings, huge holographic projection advertisements are suspended in mid-air. The light and shadow change, intersecting with reality, full of cyberpunk-style psychedelic feeling.
Chen Kefa frowned slightly.
He dispersed his energy Divine Might slightly and enveloped the entire city.
The next moment, his breath froze.
In his perception, there are more than one obscure and powerful spirit Divine Might pressure in this city! Each one has reached the level of a grandmaster!
"In the two years since I left, the pattern of Jiang City has changed so much?"
Chen Kefa couldn't help but hold his breath.
Not only were the top executives of Special Investigation Team and Martial Arts Association shuffled, but several master-level experts were even created out of thin air!
This is definitely not normal!
You know, although the difficulty for warriors to break through to the master level has decreased in recent years, it is not likely that there will be so many masters in just two years!
Moreover...Jiang City is not a key strategic city, and there is no high-risk space Rift needs to guard.
There must be a big unknown problem behind it.
"Qionghua and Xiao Yan should be safe."
Chen Kefa's face flashed in Chen Yan's mind, and he felt calm.
"It's better to visit Nie Sun first."
He gathered his thoughts, identified the direction, and sped away towards the address of Nie Sun's home in his memory, turning into a stream of light and galloping away.
Family area.
Chen Yan and his mother Du Qionghua returned home after being away for half a year.
After the two left home, they gave the key to their home to grandma Wang Jun.
Wang Jun comes over to clean from time to time. The house is spotless, and there are fresh flowers in the vases on the table. It is full of warm life and does not look like it has been uninhabited for a long time.
Du Qionghua put down his luggage, drove the family car that had not been used for a long time from the garage, loaded Chen Yan, and drove in the direction of the Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall.
As the car drove on a familiar road, Du Qionghua gradually felt something was wrong.
"It's strange, today is not a working day, why is the street so deserted?"
As she drove, she muttered to herself doubtfully.
There were only a few pedestrians on the road, and everyone was walking in a hurry, with a hint of vigilance on their faces, as if they were avoiding something.
"Mom, what do you think that is?" Chen Yan suddenly pointed out the window.
Du Qionghua looked in the direction of his son's finger and saw that on the other side of the street, at some point, there was a very strange building.
The main style of the building is like a combination of a medieval church and modernism, with towering spiers and huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows coexisting, looking nondescript, yet exuding a strange solemnity.
In the square in front of the building, there is a tall white figure sculpture.
"This aesthetic... is really hard to describe." Du Qionghua couldn't help but complain.
As the car approached, the face of the sculpture became clearer.
It was a burly middle-aged man, with his hands behind his back and his belly stretched out, as if he was looking down on all living beings.
Du Qionghua The more I looked at it, the more I felt that this face looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it before.
If Chen Kefa were here at this time, he would definitely be able to recognize immediately that the face of this sculpture is that of Chairman Liu who he had just met at the Martial Arts Association.
Chen Yan didn't say anything, he just saw everything in his eyes.
Not long after, Du Qionghua had already driven to the Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall.
As the saying goes, you are timid when you are close to home, but Du Qionghua doesn't have any timidity in her heart at this moment, only the deep longing for her family.
She parked her car firmly in the parking space dedicated to the Martial Arts Hall, and walked quickly toward the familiar red-painted door with Chen Yan.
"Huh? Why didn't you open the door?"
Du Qionghua reached out and pushed the door, and found that the door was locked from the inside. Her uneasiness became more intense.
Martial Arts Hall's rule is that the door is never closed during the day, whether it is a working day or a weekend.
She immediately took out her communicator and first dialed her brother's number Du Shenyuan.
"The user you dialed is temporarily unavailable..."
The cold system prompt made Du Qionghua's heart sink. She immediately called her father Du Chun's phone number, but the result was that she could not get through either.
An ominous premonition enveloped her heart. She took a deep breath and finally dialed her mother's number Wang Jun.
When the beep sounded when the call was connected, Chen Yan was no longer waiting.
He noticed his mother's anxiety that was almost overflowing.
"Sure enough, something happened."
Chen Yan no longer had anything to hide, and his vast sea-like spirit Divine Might boldly activated [Spirit Control], with him as the center, pouring out silently, covering the entire Jiang City in an instant.
Almost at the moment when his spiritual power spread, several tentacles of spiritual power with an exploratory meaning extended from different corners of the city.
Some of these spirits Divine Might are cold, some are manic, and they have all reached the master level.
However, as soon as they touched the spiritual realm of Chen Yan, which was like a sea of stars in the universe, it was like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun. They didn't even have time to generate panic thoughts, but were directly shocked by the irresistible pressure and dissipated in a hurry.
Chen Yan didn't even bother to trace the source of these sperm Divine Might. To him, they were just a few disturbed ants.
In an instant, his mind constructed a huge Jiang City three-dimensional coordinate system.
Hundreds of thousands or even millions of shallow thoughts turned into a chaotic torrent of information and poured into his mind.
"Damn it, the power of the new medicine has finally been absorbed. Now I feel like I can kill a cow with one punch!"
"My husband is going to work overtime at the Association tonight. When will you come over?"
"Dad~ I use my body in exchange for credits. I want to buy a birthday gift for my partner..."
Chen Yan's consciousness fluctuated slightly, clearing out all these trivial and useless information.
"What a mess!"
His energy Divine Might is highly concentrated, like the most sophisticated radar, quickly screening and locking information related to his family in the huge information database.
At the same time, the call was finally connected.
"Hello? Qionghua?" Wang Jun's voice revealed a hint of exhaustion and unconcealable panic.
"Mom! It's me! I'm at the door of the Martial Arts Hall. Where are you? What happened at home? My brother and dad can't get through on the phone?" Du Qionghua asked questions like a barrage of questions.
Not long after, Martial Arts Hall's heavy door creaked, and a crack opened from the inside.
Wang Jun poked his head out and saw his daughter and grandson standing at the door. He was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes instantly turned red.
She quickly opened the door and welcomed the mother and son in.
"Mom!" Du Qionghua stepped forward and hugged her stooped mother tightly, "What happened? Don't scare me!"
Wang Jun's lips were trembling, and he wanted to say something, but he was worried, so he just shook his head, tears welling up in his eyes.
"It's okay, grandma, just tell us."
Chen Yan's voice sounded calmly, and it seemed to contain a strange magic power, which instantly soothed the panic and fear in Wang Jun's heart.
Wang Jun stared at his grandson blankly, those clear eyes seemed to be able to see through all her disguises.
Her tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and she could no longer hold back and told everything that had happened in the past two days.
From the joint suppression of the Martial Arts Hall's business, to all kinds of vicious rumors, to yesterday's letter of challenge from the Yongxing Martial Arts Hall naming and humiliating Du Shenyuan.
"... Your brother left early today, saying he was going to the Yongxing Martial Arts Hall to settle this matter..."
Wang Jun's voice was filled with tears.
"When your father found out about this, he was furious and hurriedly followed him."
Du Qionghua was trembling all over after hearing this, feeling both angry and distressed.
Yongxing Martial Arts Hall.
Different from the noisy training ground that is open to the public, in a private courtyard in the backyard exclusively for the use of the gym owner, the atmosphere is extremely solemn.
"Haha, Zhenwei Pavilion Master Du Chun, the outside world has said that you were seriously injured during the battle to defend the city, and your foundation was damaged. Now you are half disabled. Is it just a deception? You really know how to pretend!"
A muscular man in black attire crossed his arms and spoke with a sarcastic face.
He is the owner of the Yongxing Martial Arts Hall, Liu Yongxing.
Next to him, stood the young man who had written a challenge, Wang Hu.
Opposite them, Du Chun, who was wearing a white martial arts uniform, had a face as heavy as water, like a volcano about to erupt.
His broad back firmly protected a figure behind him.
The man's face was pale, with a trace of dazzling blood hanging from the corner of his mouth. He was Du Shenyuan.
Du Chun's eyes glanced at the blood at the corner of his son's mouth, and a violent anger could no longer be suppressed.
"Liu Yongxing, you and I are both the owners of the Martial Arts Hall. Don't you think it's a shame to do this to an ordinary person?"
"Do you have a share?" Liu Yongxing laughed exaggeratedly, "Mr. Du, are you confused? In the world of martial arts, the weak eat the strong! If your skills are inferior to those of others, isn't it normal for you to get beaten?"
"Besides, if I beat him to death, who dares to say anything?"
His voice changed and became extremely cold.
"You, on the other hand, are obviously a half-wasted person, but you still dare to come to me, Yongxing Martial Arts Hall, to act wild. I think you are really tired of living!"
"Seeking death!"
Du Chun was completely angered by this "half-wasted person". As a warrior in the world, once some words are spoken, they can only be washed with blood!
He stomped his right foot down violently, and the force under his foot surged like an earth dragon, causing the whole bluestone ground in the courtyard to tremble!
A heavy power like a collapsing mountain erupted from his body, and he rushed forward, turning into an earthy yellow shadow, and punched Liu Yongxing in the face!
"Well done!"
Liu Yongxing A fierce light flashed in his eyes. Instead of retreating, a cold, sticky and ferocious aura filled his body, like a poisonous python awakening in the dark.
He twisted his waist and shoulder, and punched him fiercely. There was a faint sound of hissing between his fingers!