Chapter 3

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As Xiao Chen stood outside the food stall, a look of confusion appeared on his face. Originally, Xiao Chen believed that even if his efforts did not pay off, he was still the heir to the Xiao family. As long as he and Cheng Mengying got married and had a child, and the child could embark on the path of martial arts cultivation, the Xiao family would not be considered to have a generational gap.

After all, martial artists have long lifespans, and Xiao Chen's father, Xiao Feng, was a rare genius among the younger generation. Once his grandson grew up, it would still be possible to wait.

Therefore, after Xiao Chen had a plan, he began to disguise himself, pretending to be a talentless, wealthy playboy, indulging in women and luxury!

Apart from the people inside the Xiao family, Xiao Chen successfully deceived everyone. No one could have imagined that Xiao Chen was a fanatic who had forced himself to practice for over a decade.

However, unexpectedly, his father suddenly went missing, with no news. Cheng Mengying's uncle, the most promising young member of the Cheng family, also disappeared in the trial team led by his father. News from the outside world said that Xiao Chen's father, Xiao Feng, had made a decision error, leading to the entire trial team's demise, costing the lives of all the trial participants.

Grandfather Cheng was greatly enraged. Under the pressure exerted on the Xiao family, Xiao Chen was hastily expelled from the family!

The Cheng family is an ancient martial arts family, the leader among the four major and five minor families in Songning City. They are one of the top families in the entire northwest. Of course, even in the entire Daxia country, there are not many ancient martial arts families. These families are transcendent entities in their regions, established on martial arts and passed down for centuries.

Families like the Xiao, Chen, and Cao families have only risen in the past few decades. Although they also practice martial arts, their foundation cannot compare to the Cheng family. Songning City has a total of nine families, but their rankings are not fixed. The Family Conference, held regularly, re-ranks the families based on their overall strength.

However, the other families have more or less changed, but the Cheng family has never changed.

Therefore, being able to marry into the Cheng family means the rise of a family. Both the Xiao family and the Cao family wanted this. However, because Xiao Chen's father, Xiao Feng, and Cheng Mengying's father, Cheng Zhenfei, grew up together as apprentices under the same master, the marriage between Xiao Chen and Cheng Mengying was decided early on.

"Sir, do you need a ride?" As Xiao Chen hesitated, a taxi stopped beside him. The driver probably saw Xiao Chen standing on the street and assumed he was waiting for a ride.

Xiao Chen was slightly stunned but still nodded. With his current mood, he did not want to stay at school any longer. Staying there would only bring more ridicule. Xiao Chen wanted to be alone and think about his future path.

Without a family and without a father, Xiao Chen needed to re-plan his life.

"Find a quiet place!" Xiao Chen opened the car door and got in.

"Quiet place? Sir, you have something on your mind?" The taxi driver was taken aback and asked.

"Yes, just find a place with no one around," Xiao Chen did not want to talk much and just nodded.

The taxi driver did not ask any more questions, started the car, and left the food stall.

Xiao Chen did not know that shortly after the taxi left, a black Audi A6L followed behind. If not for professional counter-surveillance skills, it would be impossible to notice.

The taxi stopped at the cliff of Songlong Mountain, an undeveloped tourist spot. A company had bought it and planned to develop it in the next few years, but it was currently uninhabited. In summer, couples would come here to be intimate, but now that it was autumn, the wind at the cliff was strong, and it was deserted.

However, this place was perfect for Xiao Chen. He could calm down, feel the cold wind, and clear his mind.

Too many things had happened today. Being expelled from the family, he had no time to think much before he had to participate in a previously agreed-upon basketball friendly match. Xiao Chen paid the fare and sat at the edge of the cliff, looking at the bottomless abyss, lost in thought...

What path should he take in the future? Without inner strength, Xiao Chen was no different from an ordinary person, and being expelled from the Xiao family, he was even worse than an ordinary person.

Originally, he thought he was smart, deceiving everyone, but now, having lost everything, Xiao Chen realized he was just a bit clever.

Just as Xiao Chen was lost in thought, someone suddenly kicked him from behind!

"Damn!" Xiao Chen cursed, his body flying off the cliff! Who the hell did this?

The whistling wind and the bottomless abyss made Xiao Chen break out in a cold sweat instantly!

Am I going to die? A trace of unwillingness flashed in Xiao Chen's eyes! Who wants to kill me? The person who pushed him had inner strength, which Xiao Chen could sense. If the person did not use inner strength, Xiao Chen would not have fallen so easily. The place where he was sitting was more than two meters from the cliff. An ordinary person could only make him stumble, not push him off the cliff!

Although Xiao Chen had not cultivated inner strength over the years, his body was much stronger than an ordinary person's, thanks to his nightly training.

However, this was now meaningless. As the cliff bottom approached, Xiao Chen closed his eyes helplessly...

"Boom—" A loud noise, Xiao Chen felt his internal organs almost shattered, and then he lost consciousness...

After an unknown amount of time, a voice that made Xiao Chen's hair stand on end suddenly came!

Because, this voice did not come from Xiao Chen's ears, but from inside his head!

"Wake up... Wake up..." The voice seemed to be circling in Xiao Chen's mind, scaring him so much that he jumped up instinctively!

"Who? Who is it?" Xiao Chen had even forgotten that he had fallen from the cliff and did not have time to think about why he was not dead. Instead, he looked around, trying to find the source of the voice!

"It's me." The somewhat aged voice sounded again, and a look of shock appeared on Xiao Chen's face!

Although Xiao Chen was not a coward, having seen countless dead bodies as a martial artist, the current situation had already surpassed normal worries!

"You... Who are you? Where are you?" Xiao Chen asked, breathing heavily.

"I am inside your body!" The voice said, word by word.

"Are... Are you joking?" Xiao Chen said instinctively, but he still looked down at his body to see if there was anything unusual.

"Do you think I am joking? I am a soul, and I am now inside your body!" The voice said calmly.

"Soul? My body? Possession... Possession?" Xiao Chen's face turned pale as he uttered the word "possession"...

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