The Strongest Dandy in the City

Chapter 2392 - 2381: Faint Bloodline

After they entered through the Zhang family’s side gate.Cheng Meizhen led Cheng Yuanmu and Ye Chenfeng to the Zhang family’s outer courtyard area.

Within the Zhang family’s outer courtyard stood one independent compound after another.

Cheng Meizhen brought Cheng Yuanmu and Ye Chenfeng into one of the compounds.

This compound was actually quite large, with around eight rooms; this was where Cheng Meizhen lived.

With a creaking sound—

The door of the first room on the left side of the courtyard opened, and a young man of decent looks walked out.

The aura on this young man’s body was at the Late Sixth Level of the Earth God Realm; he was Cheng Meizhen’s direct descendant, Zhang Chengwen.

Cheng Meizhen’s deceased husband had been the ancestor of this Zhang family branch. As the ancestor’s wife, she naturally also counted as an ancestor of this branch.

Cheng Meizhen’s talent couldn’t be considered outstanding; the fact she had reached half‑step Divine King was entirely thanks to the extremely rich resources within the Zhang family.

Zhang Chengwen was the genius of this branch.

Walking up to Cheng Meizhen, Zhang Chengwen’s face was full of unwillingness as he said, "Ancestor, we’ve completely become a laughingstock within the Zhang family. I’ll definitely rely on my own ability to let our branch move back into the inner courtyard."

"Reaching the Divine King Realm in the short term is impossible for me, but as long as I can step onto the path of Alchemy and become an Alchemist, we’ll still have a chance to return to the inner courtyard."

If one wanted to live in the Zhang family’s inner courtyard—

Either the branch needed to have a Divine King Realm expert, or a special talent had to emerge in the branch. These so‑called special talents were naturally Alchemists, Artifact Refiners, Talisman Masters, and Array Masters.

Among them, Alchemists and Artifact Refiners were the most valued. If Zhang Chengwen could step onto the path of Alchemy and, in the test of the Medicine Saint Hall, display powerful talent in Alchemy, then the Zhang family would immediately pile resources on him to cultivate him.

But Zhang Chengwen had never had any contact with Alchemy; for him to rely on fumbling around by himself to step onto the path of Alchemy was almost impossible.

Cheng Meizhen let out a sigh and patted Zhang Chengwen’s shoulder. She was now only one step away from becoming a true Divine King, yet this final step was incomparably difficult for her.

Although Cheng Yuanmu was at the Initial Stage of the Divine King Realm and had now come to seek refuge with her, Cheng Yuanmu was not of the Zhang family, so his having reached the Initial Stage of the Divine King Realm was useless.

As for Cheng Meizhen, she had married into the Zhang family; no matter what, she still counted as half a Zhang family member. She said, "Chengwen, this is my, your ancestor’s, older brother. He’ll be staying with us for a period of time. This is..."

Cheng Meizhen introduced Cheng Yuanmu and the others to Zhang Chengwen one by one.

Toward Cheng Yuanmu, who was at the Initial Stage of the Divine King Realm, Zhang Chengwen was quite respectful, earnestly addressing him as Ancestor.

And Cheng Yiyao and the old Steward also had connections to Cheng Meizhen; only Ye Chenfeng had no relation to the Cheng family whatsoever.

Ye Chenfeng was introduced as Cheng Yiyao’s friend, so Zhang Chengwen gave Ye Chenfeng a few extra glances.

At this moment, the aura Ye Chenfeng maintained on his body was exactly the same as Cheng Yiyao’s, also at the Initial Stage of the Fifth Level of the Earth God Realm.

At Late Sixth Level of the Earth God Realm, Zhang Chengwen didn’t pay much attention to Ye Chenfeng, who was at the Initial Stage of the Fifth Level of the Earth God Realm.

After paying his respects to Cheng Yuanmu, he returned to his own room to study Alchemy again.

Cheng Meizhen felt rather helpless about this, and she arranged rooms for Cheng Yuanmu, Cheng Yiyao, the old Steward, and Ye Chenfeng one after another.

From beginning to end, Ye Chenfeng hadn’t spoken.

However, inside, he felt increasingly solemn and puzzled.

After he truly stepped into the Zhang family, the Dragon Clan Leader’s mark on his back had actually reacted a little.

And what he sensed next was even more unbelievable. On the way here to this compound—

Along the way, they encountered quite a few members of the Zhang family’s branch lineages. Through the Dragon Clan Leader’s mark, Ye Chenfeng could feel in the bloodlines of these Zhang branch members a trace of an extremely faint Dragon Clan bloodline.

Although the Dragon Clan bloodline within these people’s bodies was extremely faint, it undeniably existed.

Just now, Ye Chenfeng had carefully sensed Zhang Chengwen again, and he could feel that Zhang Chengwen also had a weak Dragon Clan bloodline in his body.

What in the world was going on?

How could there be Dragon Clan bloodline in the bodies of the Zhang family members? Even though the Dragon Clan bloodline within many Zhang branch members was so weak it was almost negligible, this was indeed a strange matter.

Ye Chenfeng arrived at Cheng Yuanmu’s room.

Cheng Yiyao and the old Steward were there as well, while Cheng Meizhen had left to have people prepare dishes to welcome Cheng Yuanmu and the others.

Seeing Ye Chenfeng walk in, Cheng Yuanmu said with a guilty look, "Little Brother Ye, given my younger sister’s current situation in the Zhang family, it seems she won’t be able to help you much."

"But I’ll still help you think of a way, and do my best to find out the whereabouts of the Wus and the Jiangs."

Right now, what Ye Chenfeng was thinking about was not the whereabouts of the Wus and the Jiangs. Finding the Dragon Clan’s remaining bloodline and helping them break free of the curse was also one of his burdens. After all, he was the current Clan Leader of the Dragon Clan.

Ye Chenfeng waved his hand and said, "It’s fine. We can slowly investigate the Wus and the Jiangs. I see this Zhang family estate covers an extremely vast area. What exactly is the background of this Zhang family?"

Cheng Yuanmu thought Ye Chenfeng was merely curious about the Zhang family and, without suspicion, said, "Little Brother Ye, that’s something you don’t know. Speaking of it, the Zhang family’s rise is actually rather strange."

"The Zhang family rose to power in just over the past thousand years, and its development speed was incomparably fast, quickly becoming one of the top powers in Myriad Fire City. No one knows how the Zhang family rose up. Some say the Zhang family obtained a treasure from a secret realm, some say they acquired an extraordinary inheritance—there are all kinds of rumors."

"Within the Zhang family sit two Early Divine Venerate Realm experts. The Zhang family rarely has contact with other forces, so the outside world doesn’t know very much about them."

Listening to Cheng Yuanmu’s account, the doubts in Ye Chenfeng’s heart only grew. The Zhang family couldn’t have risen for no reason, and the strangest thing was that the bloodlines of Zhang family members all contained a faint Dragon Clan bloodline. What could have caused this?

Could it be that the Zhang family was connected to the Dragon Clan’s remaining bloodline?

Right now, Ye Chenfeng still did not know where the Dragon Clan’s remaining bloodline was. If the Zhang family really had something to do with the Dragon Clan’s remaining bloodline, wouldn’t that mean he could soon find the Dragon Clan’s remaining bloodline?

After carefully analyzing this matter in his heart, Ye Chenfeng finally judged that this might be a good thing, but he had to meet the Zhang family’s ancestor to learn the whole story.

He was currently in the outer courtyard.

If he wanted to meet the Zhang family’s ancestor, he would have to force his way into the inner courtyard. If he wanted to infiltrate quietly, he didn’t even know where exactly the Zhang family’s ancestor was; he would have to capture a Zhang family member and ask for directions.

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