The Favored Son of Heaven

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Tens of thousands of people fled in helter-skelter on the wide streets. Only the citizens at the center of the battle didn’t continue to flee. They were watching at Qin Fen in a daze. He had blasted the city guards’ mobile armor with just his body.

Why did he shoot? Who is he shooting at? Confused, everyone looked at each other, searching for the answer in other’s eyes.

“Dead!?” The smile on Lee Myeong Jeong’s face turned stiff in the blink of an eye. The slightly swaying red wine in the glass suddenly splashed onto the back of his hand due to the intense shaking of his wrist. “How is this possible? Impossible!”

Lee Myeong Jeong stared straight at the screen and muttered to himself, “He is eighth on the blood ranking, he is an expert sniper who has never misses his target. He is one of the top ten snipers in the Federation…”

CRASH!

The high-grade wineglass filled with red wine crashed into the murals on the wall and shattered into pieces immediately after. A red liquid slowly flowed down the wall.

Staring at the screen, Lee Myeong Jeong was unable to contain his anger. He had been forbearing for three months, and just as he felt that he had easily found an opportunity, Qin Fen had turned the tables!

“Unfortunately…” Lee Myeong Jeong’s body turned powerless as it fell back on the sofa. His eyes turned sluggish with disappointment. “I will never have another chance to take revenge after the failure of this plot. Rarely has someone escaped the hands of Young Hades in a spar. Qin Fen will finally die in the hands of Young Hades!”

“I can’t accept this!”

A furious roar filled with unwillingness lingered in a villa of State of Korea late at night.

“It seems he was hit.”

Qin Fen looked around vigilantly with the gun in his hand. He secretly sighed in his heart, this was really a lucky shot. Shooting at someone a thousand meters away with M2bh at night and without any optical scope was the limit of his ability to suppress the attacker and force him to retreat. He could clearly sense the enemy’s aura a thousand meters away had disappeared suddenly.

“Death Omen…”

Xing Wuyi’s cry rang through the headphones. Qin Fen hastily turned his gaze at the stadium behind him and kicked the ground with everything he got, rushing towards the standing without stopping.

Luring tiger from the mountain, huh!? Qin Fen’s heart was filled with admiration.  I’m afraid Death Omen wanted to call out the armed police captain, Ke Xiaosong! Only, he didn’t expect that the armed police captain wasn’t at the scene today at all.

In what condition would Death Omen appear? Everyone was guessing before the concert started. Everyone had thought of almost every kind of way they could think of. The only thing they never thought of was that they would completely break out from the opening stage and hit the concert with their bodies alone. This was completely suicidal.

However, Death Omen’s modus operandi was the same as suicide. It was very difficult for Qin Fen to kill anyone in the stands. After all, it was a little far away and it was extremely difficult for him to sprint with all his strength through the crowded stands.

But it was simply not a problem for a terrorist like Death Omen. He completely let loose his eleven-star level strength and pushed his body high into the air. His body flew like a flying snake, traversing a distance of twenty meters before he made the heads of the audience his footholds and treaded them on his toes!

That’s right, he didn’t need to look for a safe place to land without hurting anyone. The more people he could kill, the more terror he could spread.

As fireworks exploded in the sky, illuminating the surroundings with a brilliant show of fireworks, a shot was fired at the first sniper position.  BANG!

Even before Xing Wuyi had shouted Death , Lin Ling’s finger was already squeezing the trigger. XM109’s 25mm wide muzzle let out a thunderous roar of a giant beast as a bullet surrounded by a huge airflow field flew out of the muzzle.

Without even locking on the target, she fired directly! She opened fire in a stadium full of audience, without a shred of hesitation. Her calm and decisiveness even exceeded Qin Fen. This was Lin Ling! In all the competitions in recruit tournament, Lin Ling was the only one to win against Qin Fen, and in sniping nonetheless, which was one of the abilities Qin Fen was most proud of!

BANG!

The bullet hit the terrorist overflowing with murderous intention. After having been modified by Qin Fen, the XM109 was so powerful that it could easily pierce through the target who was employing level-3 biochemical beast fusion while wearing the dragon skin bulletproof vest and hiding inside the cockpit of City Guardian.

Even the body of an eleven-star level martial artist was not necessarily stronger than this! Without any surprise, the bullet exploded on the target’s body. The powerful airflow field directly smashed the upper body of the target, leaving only his head and lower body behind, which fell powerlessly to the ground.

Yu Xiao, who was hiding in the dark, drew in a breath of cold air. What a shot! This sniper’s marksmanship is even higher than Captain’s! Right! There might be a hairbreadth difference, but if Captain and this sniper were up against each other, Captain would end up dead nine out of ten!

The sniper rifle in Yu Wenqian’s hand suddenly turned towards a second sniping position just as Lin Ling fired!

Body double, Death Omen’s body double!

Although it was far away, Yu Wenqian, relying on his professional expertise, judged that the eleven-star martial artist that just flew out wasn’t Death Omen but someone who looked like Death Omen through makeup.

This lookalike could fool absolutely everyone but not Yu Wenqian. Yu Wenqian was known as Thousand Face Demon in the world of hunters. He was almost standing at the peak in the field of disguise. As such, he could see through this almost identical body double at first notice.

Death Omen is a sniper specialist. How could he be blown up!? More importantly, he is not an idiot who could easily let himself be trapped and unable to save himself. He wouldn’t make such a suicidal attack!

At the second sniper point, a telescopic sight reflected a cold glimmer under the illumination from the fireworks. This point, which was guarded by a dozen or so secret guards was completely in the hands of police half a minute ago.

Death Omen took the sniper position for the first time and placed his fingers on the trigger. Suddenly, a chill exploded at his temple. He had been locked by a sniper.

And right at this moment, Yu Wenqian fired. Death Omen could not continue to shoot. Instinctively, he escaped to one side.

Yu Wenqian secretly regretted in his heart. If he was sniping in normal conditions, he could use the sniping technique to hide the feeling of locking as much as possible and fire. But the current condition was completely inadequate. The lock could not completely guarantee that the bullet would hit this eleven-star martial artist. The only thing he could do was force him to retreat and foil his sniping.

BOOM!

Death Omen, looking at the place just hit by the bullet, where the bullet had blasted a huge pit in the reinforced concrete, secretly cried in his heart, Is this really a sniper rifle? Its power can be compared to a cannon!

XM109, it was not regarded as an orthodox sniper gun by many military fans. Many people believed that the caliber of a sniper gun should not exceed by 13mm. Anything above that was just a cannon.

However, Qin Fen’s master, Gun King didn’t think so. And so, Qin Fen also didn’t think so. A sniper-type weapon that could almost be called a cannon scared the hell out of Death Omen for the first time.

Death Omen secretly thanked his good luck for not trying to resist the sniper bullet by relying on his eleven-star level martial art. Otherwise, even if his body strengthened by Ripple Protective Art and biochemical beast would have been crushed into meat patty by now.

While these thoughts revolved in Death Omen’s mind, he quickly retreated from the sniper point taking advantage of the fact that he still had not been locked-in by the opposing sniper. Since this position has already been discovered, then…

BOOM! The ground shook with a thunderous crash. A chill had completely gripped the heart of Death Omen at this moment. Fortunately, I was really cautious this time. I could still feel the lock in the first shot, but this second shot came from another direction and I couldn’t even sense anything. If I had not quickly withdrawn out of habit, I would have been killed by him without even knowing what hit me.

When did Tianbei City have such a strong sniper? Death Omen had already retreated into the darkness, hiding in the blind spot of first and third sniping point.

Right then, the third shot rang…

Yu Xiao fired from the sniping point which could not even be called a sniping point. From here, the only target he could aim at was the second sniping point, which was a blind spot for first and third sniping points.

Compared to Lin Ling, Yu Xiao’s sniping skills were far from enough. His skills were a lot worse even to Yu Wenqian’s. But his sniping skills had improved a lot after having been bitterly trained by Qin Fen for these three months. Even if he could not kill an eleven-star enemy, he could still scare the hell out of him.

Once again, Death Omen, feeling that he was locked-on by someone, cursed the police system of Tianbei City repeatedly in his heart. Where did they find so many powerful snipers?

Again with this cannon!? Death Omen dodged to one side and looked at the devastation caused by that bullet. He kept thinking in his mind, What kind of weapon is this? XM109!? No! It’s a bit stronger than an XM109. Is it modified by someone? Who is so fierce that he can even modify something as sophisticated as the XM109?

Ultimately, Death Omen completely retreated from the sniper position. He couldn’t return to this sniping position after this battle anyway. There were three guns that could crush him into meat patty anytime.

Before Death Omen’s feet could even touch the ground, a chill ran down his spine, once again, as six martial artists pounced at him from the darkness! Six eight-star martial artists suddenly jumped at Death Omen at his moment of weakness.

They had been hiding here. It was the special arrangement of Xing Wuyi with the strength at his hand.

According to Qin Fen’s plan, even if Death Omen dared to enter the sniping platform, the three super-strong snipers could attack him at the same time. Even Death Omen could not escape from their wrath.

But Xing Wuyi wasn’t assured. He believed that this location was still one of the loopholes of the venue. What if in some hap chance Death Omen escaped due to some chance opportunity from an unexpected mishap, then what could they do?

These six police officers were members of Flying Tigers. They were wearing special equipment they were most familiar with. They were the last line of defense to prevent their enemy from escaping.

Xing Wuyi was perfectly aware that it was not an easy task to avoid sniping, especially when he was sniped by sniping experts. At that moment, dodging the shots would be quite taxing on the spirit, physical strength, and true energy.

Xing Wuyi believed that if the third shot was fired by Gun King and Death Omen was lucky enough to avoid that shot somehow, even if two ten-years-old kids were placed at the entrance, just one of them would be able to sieve him with an AK47 very easily.

Escaping Gun King’s shot would need every bit of Death Omen’s spirit, physical strength, and true energy. Death Omen would be completely drained at that instant.

Those six eight-star martial artists are all wearing small power armor and power gloves, and all of them are experienced members of Flying Tigers. If they are attacking together, they should be enough to deal with Death Omen, right? Xing Wuyi sighed in his heart.  If only there were twelve members of Flying Tigers, the odds would have been much greater.

Unfortunately, no one could guarantee that Death Omen would appear there for sure. Other places also needed manpower. Only six people could be assigned here, at best.

Another trap!? Horrified, Death Omen was almost at wit’s end. He kept on guessing the man behind the entire layout.  Each trap is linked with one another. The entire thing is as insidious and cunning as a fox’s.

Unfortunately.. . Death Omen pursed his lips into a grim smile as the neo martial art – Ripple Protective Art circulated throughout his body in the blink of an eye. In the next moment, his hands respectively struck the chests of two Flying Tigers, disregarding the oncoming fists.

BANG BANG BANG…

Six power gloves bearing the power of one thousand five hundred pounds ruthlessly struck various parts of Death Omen’s body as the sounds of flesh-to-flesh collision resounded. However, the expected sound of bones breaking never rang.

The members of Flying Tigers looked at Death Omen with surprise. Much to everyone’s dismay, ripple after ripple appeared on Death Omen’s skin and muscles the instant their fists landed on Death Omen’s body, like ones that appear when a stone was thrown into calm water!

These ripples quickly locked on the power on the surface and dispersed the force into surrounding areas at high speed.

“Haha… if you have attacked with everything you got at the same place, I would have been dead already. But each of your power is even less than two thousand five hundred pounds! Have you not heard that the Ripple Art provides a very strong defense to every inch of the body…”

Just as Death Omen’s prideful and cold voice rang in Flying Tigers’ ears, fierce vibrations broke out from the palms that were pressing on the chest armor of two Flying Tigers. These vibrations caused the air around the palms to ripple like that in water, again and again.

“Wave Punch!”

Two words filled with killing intent drifted into the brains of Flying Tigers. The two members of Flying Tigers who had just been struck opened their mouth and spurted an arrow of blood into the air. Even their eyes, ears, and nose were bleeding at the same time. The internal organs had ruptured in the blink of an eye.

The four members of Flying Tigers retreated in unison but they were still half a step late. Having been forced to retreat by three shots, Death Omen was furious. He vented all his anger on these four Flying Tigers. Eight-Directional Night Battle from Eight Trigram Palms landed on the four members of Flying Tigers, one after another, with ghastly wails as his palms cut through the air.

This time, the Wave Fists didn’t just hit the chest armor but also the opponents’ lower abdomen. The moment his palm came in contact with their abdomen, a gaping hole burst out at the back of the Flying Tigers as the crushed internal organs flew out from their inside.

In the time it took for a spark to fly off a flint, six eight-star members of Flying Tigers, who were wearing high-grade equipment, were killed.

“Hello.” Death Omen, instead of escaping, picked up a microphone from one of the members of Flying Tigers. “Dear Commander, I have already killed all six of your ambushers. Now, I am going to leave, I hope we can meet next time.”

Hearing this, the command center sunk into silence while a smug smile appeared on Death Omen’s lips. This was precisely the effect he wanted, because…

“Stage!” Xing Wuyi’s calm voice caused Death Omen’s smile to turn stiff immediately.

In the second row under the stage, a martial artist had suddenly appeared! Death Omen! Another Death Omen! This was the secret that the Federation wasn’t aware of. Death Omen was not just one man but instead, it was a pair of twins! Like Flying Hearts, Death Omen were twins as well.

The reason why Death Omen, who was sniped, was speaking was to disturb the attention of all the members in the control room. Thus, allowing his brother to do the job.

Everything was going smoothly, but…  Death Omen never imagined that his young opponent hiding in the dark would actually perceive the dangerous position at first notice.

How did he notice it? Death Omen did not have the time to deal with these things. He really wanted to leave at this moment. If I don’t leave now, I’m afraid I won’t be able to escape afterward. Even brother might lose his life this time. I would need to pay back this enmity in full!

Xing Wuyi’s promptly warned the ordinary policemen who were in charge of maintaining peace in front of the stage. Immediately, six eight-star members of Flying Tigers took action at the same time!

“Leave!”

With just one exchange, six eight-star martial artists were sent back flying, vomiting, like kites with broken strings. Meanwhile, Death Omen’s five fingers cut through the air as his palm went for a direct attack on Ya Xin.

Suddenly, a dark aura broke out from behind the stage as an oppressive and sharp gleam raided all the weak points in Death Omen’s attack!

The blade with the oppressive bloodlust cut through the air, giving rise to excited howls, like a grim reaper’s scythe when harvesting the life. A look of horror appeared in the eyes of Death Omen for the first time. The timing and positionings of this blade were just too good. Before he could even squeeze the life out of Ya Xin, he himself would be killed first.

A terrifying blade, but even more terrifying was the smile of the man behind the blade! His smile was like that of a grim reaper!

Death Omen flipped his wrists in succession, sending ripple force towards the oncoming blade.

CLANG!

The moment the steel blade came in contact, it was broken into countless pieces by the ripple force. But Death Omen didn’t have the time to be excited as he saw Xue Tian with a gleeful look in his eyes quickly retreating, holding the Flying Hearts sisters in his arms. And Xue Tian didn’t seem to be the least amazed by the fact that the blade had been broken into pieces by Death Omen.

That’s the smile and confidence of having room to maneuver! Death Omen was at a loss. Does this young man still have some kind of protection even after losing the weapon in his hand?

As Death Omen energized the biochemical beast in his body, his strength rose in the blink of an eye, once again. The air around him resonated with the Ripple Art, producing ripples after ripples.

“Your opponent is behind you.”

Xue Tian’s eyebrow twitched as a chill rushed straight to Death Omen’s head from behind him. An unprecedented murderous intention raided Death Omen from behind. More importantly, his opponent actually had the strength of the peak of the ten-star level. In just one move, the blood started surging. The movement of his arms and legs was followed by muffled thunderclaps. Even the huge speakers were unable to cover this terrible sound of slaughter.

Quick as the God of Death, killing like a scythe!

In the blink of an eye, Death Omen fell leeward under the sneak attack. Nonetheless, his heart was in a completely calm state already. Having been walking at the edge of life and death and grown accustomed to it, he was excited and burning with fervor, more or less.

Suddenly, Death Omen twisted his waist and turned, aligning his shoulder at the oncoming Young Netherworld King – Hades. Next, he retracted his left arm and drew half a circle before his chest. And just as his momentum reached its peak, his horse stance moved up and down as he thrust his arm out, rushing straight forward like a spear on an ancient battlefield.

Paleo fist technique – Back Thrust!

There were countless heroes in ancient times. They could take the head of the general amidst an army of ten thousand soldiers with just a spear in their hands as easily as taking things out of their bag. The confidence of Death Omen, who had replaced the spear with his fist in Back Thrust, had even surpassed the countless ancient heroes.

With the heroic spirit from the self-confidence mixed in with the wildness from the blood of a terrorist, his thrust burst forth with ghastly wails of ghosts and demons!

Young Netherworld King – Hades had long predicted Death Omen’s attack. When someone was suddenly attacked, he only had a few choices: he could either dodge or counterattack.

The best way to counterattack was Diving Dragon Swinging Its Tail move from The Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms. However, there weren’t many people in this world who knew this move. Young Netherworld King – Hades didn’t believe that his opponent knew it. Even more so, he didn’t believe that this terrorist would avoid the attack. So, the next best method was Back Thrust!

Back Thrust! Young Netherworld King – Hades sneered as he stuck his wrist out, meeting that sharp oncoming thrust. The muscles on his palms changed rapidly and in the blink of an eye, squirmed into Butcher’s Heart Excising Hand!

Wave Fist versus Heart Excising Hand!

Young Netherworld King – Hades’s palm was as sharp as the divine weapon from legends. It easily tore through the air pressure around the Wave Fist and reached his opponent’s fist!

At this moment, the air around Young Netherworld King changed again. Eleven-star! The terrifying strength of the eleven-star level! Young Netherworld King’s strength wasn’t at a ten-star level! He possessed the strength of an eleven-star!

This came as a surprise to everyone. Young Netherworld King – Hades actually possessed the strength of eleven-star! He had never gone all out in his previous fights!

Eleven-star, so what? A sneer appeared on Death Omen’s lips. I can complete my breakthrough in a short time after my Blood Transfusion Rebirth. Then, it will be rare to find an opponent at the same level in terms of true energy intensity! Even if the opponent has a biochemical beast, so what? My biochemical beast is most compatible with neo martial art of biochemical beast! Even if it’s a defective product of an experiment, its strength cannot be underestimated!

Wave Fist! How can anything in the world withstand the shocks caused by vibrations? Its shock wave is even more precise than the shockwave from paleo martial arts! Only those who have the wave chip can use this special punch.

Everything happened so quickly that it didn’t give both sides the time to think about anything. Death Omen’s face suddenly changed as Wave Fist clashed with Heart Excising Hand. He felt as if his vibrational force had hit a super-dense metal. This is… Gold Absolute! White Tiger’s Gold Absolute from the legends! He is Young Netherworld King – Hades!?

The Heart Excising Hand crashed into the other side like it was crashing into a piece of tofu. There wasn’t any impact vibration from the musculoskeletal whatsoever. The power of Wave Fist was unable to penetrate the inside of Heart Excising Hand. On the contrary, the powerful shockwave turned into a rebound. Death Omen’s entire fist was completely shredded in the blink of an eye. Young Netherworld King – Hades’ palm pierced through the Ripple Protective Art and connected with Death Omen. In the next moment, Hades’ hand was no longer empty.

Heart, a pumping red heart!

Martial dao of slaughter! Young Netherworld King – Hades’ martial dao of slaughter plucked Death Omen’s heart in the blink of an eye. Hades, without a shred of hesitation, clenched his five fingers, crushing that weak little heart into a paste.

Death Omen immediately fell on the ground, bleeding constantly from his chest. His eyes were filled with complete disbelief. He couldn’t believe that he would die just like this, and in the hands of a rising star and in just one move nonetheless.

Puff…

Suddenly, blood squished out of Young Netherworld King – Hades’ palm. The corner of his lips moved as he whispered, “Your Ripple Art was better than I imagined. It actually broke through my Gold Absolute and even entered my body…”

His tone was devoid of any appreciation, but when ordinary people heard it, it sounded as if Young Netherworld King – Hades was praising Ripple Art. If someone as proud and confident as he was saying it, then it was already praise in and of itself.

Caesar looked at Young Netherworld King – Hades on the splendid stage in a daze. To his surprise, Qin Fen’s opponent turned out to be an eleven-star martial artist who had instantly killed Death Omen with just one move!