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Chapter 693: The Pillar of the Nation!

Chapter 693: Chapter 693: The Pillar of the Nation!

And within the Dragon Group of Xuan Country.

Tang Zhong and his companions drove up in a huge jeep. The license plate bore only the number 6 repeated six times, nothing else—a unique vehicle assigned to General Peng Yuan. In Xuanjing City, it was one of a kind.

The driver was Li Linglong.

After Tang Zhong and the others used a giant rock to cross the ocean and finally arrived in Xuan Country, they contacted Li Linglong.

The members of the Dragon Group had previously thought Tang Zhong and his companions were missing due to the earthquake in Bei Country.

Upon learning that Tang Zhong was still alive, they sent Li Linglong with orders to bring them back to the Dragon Group at all costs.

This time, Li Linglong was no longer the carefree person he had been before. He was very serious because he knew what Tang Zhong now represented. Having killed Inoue Kazuo, the number one figure of Bei Country, Tang’s strength had far surpassed that of many others.

Vermilion Bird and Meng Wuxiang, who had been overexerted from earlier efforts, were already dozing off with their eyes half-closed.

But upon reaching the entrance of the Dragon Group, Tang Zhong got out of the vehicle.

"Stop the car!" Tang Zhong said.

"Why, Tang? The General told me I must take you back," Li Linglong asked.

"Tell the General I’m going home to have a look!" Tang Zhong replied. Once he was in Xuan Country, the itch in his heart would be unbearable if he didn’t go home.

Mentioning going home, Li Linglong quickly said, "Okay, okay, I won’t ask any more. You go back!"

Otherwise, he would have had to endure more sentimentality.

As long as Tang Zhong was alive, that was all that mattered.

He let Tang Zhong out of the jeep and then headed back with Vermilion Bird and the others.

The vehicle entered the Dragon Group.

At the entrance stood General Peng Yuan and Zhang Changgong, amongst others, all uniformed and staring into the distance.

Although General Peng Yuan was eighty years old, he was still muttering, "Where are they?"

"Don’t worry, General. If nothing goes wrong, they should be here soon!" Zhang Changgong reassured.

Only then did the General’s face relax a bit, but his eyes were filled with anticipation.

Zhang Changgong was no exception.

At that moment, the gate opened and they saw Li Linglong driving the jeep slowly inside.

"Here they come, here they come!" exclaimed General Peng Yuan eagerly.

A large group went up to greet them.

Vermilion Bird and the others woke up in the car and, seeing the people ahead, were flattered and quickly got out of the vehicle, respectfully saying, "General!"

"You’re back!" Peng Yuan said with a smile.

"Thanks to the General’s kindness, we have returned!" Vermilion Bird responded.

Then General Peng Yuan started looking for others, "Where’s Tang Zhong?"

Upon hearing the name of Tang Zhong, Vermilion Bird was still in shock, "He’s behind. Let me check for you!"

Vermilion Bird turned to look but didn’t find Tang Zhong.

Li Linglong stepped forward, "Well, sir, Tang Zhong has already gone back. He said he would come to visit you another day!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the secretary next to General Peng Yuan heard them and his face turned unsightly. He immediately scolded, "How dare Tang Zhong treat the General like this? Who does he think he is?"

The secretary, named Wang Qing, had been with the General as his secretary and had never given much thought to others. He had been away on business for a few days and was unaware of what had happened. When he returned, he saw General Peng Yuan welcoming someone. Initially interested, his attention waned upon seeing it was Vermilion Bird and the others. Wang Qing looked down on them as they held lower positions than him, his eyes full of disdain. As for Tang Zhong, he knew even less, so hearing that someone dared to not meet with the General, he began admonishing harshly.

"Wang Qing, shut your mouth!" General Peng Yuan roared.

Wang Qing was stunned, never expecting the General to speak to him like this.

"Yes, sir!" Wang Qing nodded.

Then General Peng Yuan, looking at Vermilion Bird with a smile, said, "I want to ask you a few things. Would you tell me?"

"Of course, you can!" Vermilion Bird nodded, "But General... there are some things!"

Then, Vermilion Bird glanced at the people around him.

After all, the strength Tang Zhong had previously displayed had far surpassed many others. For Xuan Country, it was a trump card, a secret not to be revealed to too many people, hence the fewer who knew, the better.

Peng Yuan naturally understood why, but it only piqued his curiosity about Tang Zhong further. He said to his subordinates, "Everyone but Zhang Changgong should leave!"

"Yes," the others complied, promptly choosing to withdraw.

Only Wang Qing remained, chuckling, "General, let me stay. I’ll help you take notes, so that Vermilion Bird’s account can be clearer!"

"No need, you go out too," Peng Yuan said.

"Yes!" Wang Qing smiled and nodded, then turned to leave. He opened the door, and when he closed it, his previously smiling face instantly turned grim, his eyes revealing a fierce expression.

Inside the room.

General Peng Yuan looked at Vermilion Bird and said, "Come, tell me everything that happened inside Bei Country, spare no details. This matter is of great importance!"

"Yes!" Vermilion Bird nodded.

"What exactly happened with Bei Country’s earthquake? Was there really such an earthquake that sunk Bei Country?" Peng Yuan asked.

The rest also looked at Vermilion Bird attentively, wanting to know what had actually happened. The earthquake had been so severe, yet the nearest regions of Xuan Country had not felt even the slightest tremor, which made them all the more curious.

"No... it wasn’t an earthquake!" Vermilion Bird replied earnestly, as scenes of the incident flashed through his mind.

Tang Zhong holding the mysterious Golden Cudgel, descending from the sky, shattering the entire earth in one strike—it was a sight she would never forget in her lifetime.

"Then... what actually happened?" Peng Yuan immediately asked.

He had felt it wasn’t an earthquake, as an earthquake would be caused by the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates.

Zhang Changgong was also extremely curious at this point, leaning forward, eager to know the truth.

Even Meng Wuxiang and company, in this moment upon hearing Vermilion Bird’s words, couldn’t help but hold their breath, as the scene seemed to unfold before their eyes, their hearts pounding wildly.

Vermilion Bird looked at General Peng Yuan and said, "It was caused by Tang Zhong!"

Upon these words, everyone in the room was stunned.

Caused by Tang Zhong?

Could it be that the earthquake was caused by Tang Zhong? How could it sound like that now?

"How could that be possible?" Peng Yuan was the first to disbelieve.

Zhang Changgong naturally didn’t believe it either and quickly shook his head, "Vermilion Bird, tell the truth!"

Vermilion Bird knew that this reaction would occur; he wouldn’t have believed it either if he had been in their shoes.

"What I’m telling is the truth, it was General Tang Zhong," Vermilion Bird insisted, "he sank the entire Bei Country Peninsula with a single strike from the Golden Giant Staff, it was not an earthquake!"

A single strike!

Peng Yuan and Zhang Changgong were completely shocked; a single strike sinking an entire peninsula would require an immensely powerful force.

"Impossible, how could it be like that!"

"It is so, we can testify, that day, Tang Zhong achieved it in just that manner!" Meng Wuxiang also spoke up.

A claim from one person, Peng Yuan and Zhang Changgong might not believe, but now that so many had said it, they were compelled to consider its truth.

A single strike!

The Golden Giant Staff, what kind of Golden Giant Staff could it be?

"General Tang is indeed a pillar of our Xuan Country," Peng Yuan proclaimed, "Convey my orders, absolutely no one else must know that the fall of Bei Country was General Tang’s doing!"

"Hahahaha!" Peng Yuan laughed heartily, never before had he felt so exhilarated—it was Bei Country people’s karma to see this day!

And Zhang Changgong thought of the legend, the chosen one—could it be... that Tang Zhong was truly the chosen one foretold by the Stele?

"Zong Yao, you are really extraordinary!"