The United States was known as the most liberal place in the Federation. Here, you could stand in front of the White House and insult the governor by calling him “a fat pig”. Of course, if the governor sues you for defamation, you could always wear a shirt stating that pigs are your favorite animals and everything would be okay.
Of course, the United States was also the most xenophobic state. Despite entering the space era, racism was still existent in the States. White people were always in a higher position than Blacks, yet the Blacks usually held higher positions than Asians.
It wasn’t easy for Asians to settle here. You would surely meet countless challenges if you wanted to consolidate your power here.
The Yang family was an Asian family in the States that settled themselves in Washington D.C, the political center of the States that was home to both the White House and the Capitol Building.
Any family that managed to place their headquarters in Washington held admirable power. If one could move their familial headquarters into the White House, the family’s power would then be formidable.
Yang Duzun, the governor of the United States, began his journey in the states with his father many years ago. With their bare hands, they had toiled to become a hegemonic force in the States. Over the past few years, Duzun participated in the election. With his huge personal influence, he became the current governor of the United States.
The White House had, therefore, became the interim headquarters of the Yang family. If without accidents, it was widely believed that the White House would become the permanent headquarters of the Yang family in the distant future.
With the end of Yang Duzun’s tenure, the familial patriarch’s younger brother, Yang Dujing had already announced his candidacy to run for governor of the United States. The competitors that were running for governor were obviously those of meager influence and power. It was almost certain that the Yang family would continue to be the next governor.
Unlike most other families, the Yang family implemented a complete centralized system. All powers were vested in Yang Duzun; the rest could only obey his orders.
In the Governor’s Office in the White House, Yang Dujing and Yang Duhong were quietly sitting on the comfortable sofa. Both of them were the only qualified members of the Yang family to sit in front of Yang Duzun.
The events of the Alexander and Solomon families in Europe and the Alpha family in America had reached the Yang family one after another.
With a sullen face, Yang Duzun would call them “trash” coldly whenever he heard about the defeat of the families. Especially the event of David Solomon’s defeat, whom Yang Duzun coldly insulted as a “useless madman”.
Yang Dujin flipped the newspaper in his hands, calculating the time secretly. That locust-like group had defeated the two major families in Europe and followed up with another victory over another family in the United States. According to intel, these young men were flying towards Washington D.C. How long will it take for them to reach here?
Yang Duhong closed his eyes to perform energy-conserving kung-fu. His breaths had caused the cup of tea in front of him to produce consistent ripples, like a well-designed piece of art.
Although the body shapes of the three brothers were weird in their own right, with Yang Duzun having wide shoulders and thin waists, his well-proportioned body donning a pale yellow, satin warrior suit; Yang Dujing had a shorter stature, acting as the antithesis of the fat Yang Duhong; they possessed extremely similar facial features. Be it the fat Yang Duhong, the thin Yang Dujing, or the well-proportioned Yang Duzun, all of them could be described as handsome, their beauty was completely unaffected by their body shape.
“Young Master, you are back…”
In the corridor outside the office rang a maid’s greeting. Yang Duhong suddenly opened his slightly closed eyes, producing a bright glare that eclipsed the electric lights in the room.
Yang Dujing continued to read the newspaper in his hand without looking up to the door that was being pushed open slowly.
Both doors were wide open. Qin Fen immediately felt an overwhelming yet subtle aura emanating from within, with the one behind the office desk emanating the strongest aura.
Yang Lie stood outside the door and did not immediately step into the room. As if both of his legs were stuck to the earth, Yang Lie bowed down with respect in his eyes, “Father, I am back.”
Yang Duzun signed his name on the document, then looked up at Yang Lie and the others and faintly said, “Kill them, go to the Domestic Discipline Hall to accept your punishment of a hundred canings, and I shall forgive your insolence.”
…
The room and corridor were filled with silence. With a frown on his brows, Yang Lie clenched his fists, as his arms slightly trembled on the sight of Yang Duzun.
“Xiao Lie, did you not hear what my brother just said?” Yang Duhong put down the half-drunken tea in his hand, his eyes casually looking at Yang Lie, “Kill them, go through the punishment of a hundred canings, and you will still be Yang Lie.”
Xue Tian glanced at Qin Fen and found Caesar standing beside him gently shaking his head, indicating Xue Tian to keep his mouth shut at this time.
Xue Tian shrugged his shoulders and shut his mouth. He understood Qin Fen’s meaning. Every time Yang Lie faced or heard Yang Zun, his physical and mental state would have a serious reaction, which was a major problem.
Qin Fen analyzed Yang Lie, this mixed-race prodigy of martial arts. In terms of martial arts potential, he was the same as Solomon. Yet, regardless of the Reborn of Blood Transfusion Real Inborn, or his entry into the Sacred Martial Hall, he was always the latest one among the elite martial artists of the younger generation.
This is very strange, this is very abnormal! His inner demons! Yang Lie has yet to overcome his inner demons! When Qin Fen saw Yang Duzun again, he finally confirmed that Yang Lie was plagued by his inner demons, which originated from the existence of his father, Yang Duzun. His very existence had impeded Yang Lie from activating his full potential.
A dragon! It could be monstrously huge while at the same time as minuscule as a dirtball. Soaring over the nine skies and diving into the ocean depths, the dragon was persistent in its own ways.
Yang Lie practiced the Dragon Fist and took the Way of the Dragon as his martial dao. Yet, Yang Duzun became the reason that impeded him from being as free as the dragon. At this rate, how could he fully master the Way of the Dragon?
Qin Fen knew that even if Yang Dunzun had a conflict with Qilin by chance and was finally killed by Qilin, the inner demons within Yang Lie would not disappear just because of Yang Duzun’s death.
Yang Lie’s inner demons couldn’t be destroyed by others, only himself.
Silence, Yang Lie shook his head in silence. Facing the long-accumulated, majestic aura of Yang Duzun, Yang Lie found the simple act of speaking an arduous task.
Huala…
Yang Dujing threw away the newspaper in his hand onto the table and looked at Yang Lie in the eyes helplessly. He slowly got up and sighed softly, “Xiao Lie, you are shaking your head to tell us that you can’t kill all of them alone, right? It seems so. These insolent brats really are decent in martial dao. Since you are unable to do it alone, let your third uncle lend you a helping hand.”
“Third brother…” Yang Duzun frowned his long eyebrows, his expression becoming more similar to Yang Lie’s.
Yang Dujing turned around to look at the unhappy Yang Duzun, “Big Brother, you know it. Yang Lie is my favorite kid in our family. Since he’s just a child, he was bound to make mistakes. Just wait for me to kill off the bad influences of Yang Lie and we shall carry out disciplinary action. All you need to do is just relax and wait.”
“You…” A sense of helplessness was mixed into the unhappy expression of Yang Duzun. Although he could do anything he liked as the patriarch of the family, he still had blood ties with his brothers. His third brother might be the youngest among the three brothers, but he possessed the strongest sense of justice and fairness since young. When Yang Duzun made mistakes and was about to receive disciplinary action in his younger days, the youngest Yang Dujing would bring along the second brother, Yang Duhong, to share the responsibility and punishment together.
If it wasn’t for the third brother that brought along the second brother to share the punishment, Yang Duzun feared that he might have already been killed by his father’s disciplinary action.
Yang Duzun could afford to be tyrannical to anyone in the world. Even if Yang Lie resisted openly, he could also kill Yang Lie himself. But he couldn’t be angry with his third brother, because that was his brother.
“Third uncle.”
Yang Lie finally spoke slowly after a long period of silence. His clenched fists were unknowingly loosened as his body showed an uncommon feeling of calmness. He opened his arms and kept Qin Fen and his group behind them, like an old hen protecting her chicks in the face of a fierce eagle.
“I know that you did this for my own good. But this time, I did not shake my head to express my inability to defeat them, but rather…”
“Shut up!”
Yang Dujing shouted and interrupted Yang Lie’s words. The entire White House trembled from the shout, even the half cup of tea on the table bounced off the table from the shockwave, only to fall to the ground and spill on the ground.
“Xiao Lie.” Yang Dujing took a deep breath as he stared at Yang Lie with affection, “Some words, you have to think clearly before speaking. There are many words and actions that once you speak or carry it out, even I — your third uncle — won’t be able to help you.”
Yang Duhong nodded slowly in silence. His eyes lacked the affection found in Yang Dujing, leaving only an icy warning. His right hand was unknowingly clenched in the process.
Yang Lie looked at the ice-cold eyes of Yang Duhong and suddenly calmed down his nervous emotions, as if the heavy stones in his heart disappeared all of a sudden.
“Third uncle, I know.” Yang Lie smiled and shrugged his shoulders, “Ever since I was a child, everything was arranged by the whims of my father. Everything I did was done according to my father’s orders. Obedience, interests, all under the wishes of my father! That was my life for twenty years. And now, I want to carve out my own path and choices all by myself. I shook my head not because I couldn’t defeat them, but I am refusing the orders of my father. I will not turn my fist against my friends!”
“You are courting death!”
The marble desk under Yang Duzun’s palms turned to dust in an instant, its remains fell to the ground slowly.
Yang Duhong swayed his body, spreading open his fingers like a huge, metallic, iron claw before going for Yang Lie’s head.
A chilling light! A chilling light suddenly burst beside Yang Lie in the bright room! The chilling light was extremely weak, as it was even dimmer than the stars in the night sky! However, the appearance of the chilling light had caused Yang Duhong to falter, retracting his pupils and his sixteen-star powers, followed by a hasty retreat backward with his hands flipping in front of him, causing the sound of clashing metal. The chilling light completely subsided only when Yang Duhong retreated to his original position.
Xue Tian showed a chilling expression, performing iaido; no one knew when his blade was unsheathed. Imbuing the power of sixteen-star class onto the blade, he transformed the blade into a blood-red color.
The Little Dragon King, Yang Lie, had only seen that blood-red color twice. Qin Fen and his group only saw it once — the time when Xue Tian battled hundreds of Golden Triangle martial artists alone by the beach to defend his friends.
Anger! At this moment, anyone in the room could feel that Xue Tian wasn’t emitting battle intent nor killing intent, but rather, sheer anger.
This anger had caused a sharp drop in the temperature of the room. Not only did Yang Duhong tremble at the recollection of his earlier encounter with the blade, Yang Duzun also flashed a face of surprise within his murderous and tyrannical eyes.
The Blade of Fury! The real Blade of Fury! Xue Tian stared at Yang Duhong coldly, the second uncle that actually made a move to kill Yang Lie. Even in the face of David Solomon, who attempted to kill Solomon, Xue Tian did not show any anger. Because David Solomon was a well-known madman, which normalized his attempts in killing his nephew.
However, the three people in front of him were of sound minds. The group of mentally stable people tried to kill their descendants and junior without listening to his explanation just because he disobeyed their orders. Xue Tian could not accept this.
After seeing the support of the Alpha patriarch for Brooks earlier, Xue Tian’s disgust towards the Yang family’s actions intensified, as their actions had just gone beyond the description of being excessive.
Xue Tian would not be angry if they just wanted to punish Yang Lie without killing him. Among the familial cultures of the East, parents always bore the right to beat their children. But their right to kill their children had been vanquished for a very long time!
“If you want to die, you can try again.”
Xue Tian slightly lifted the tip of his blade. He didn’t need to target anyone in the room, he was able to send a message to the three brothers in the room with his cold blade — if they wanted to kill Yang Lie, they must do it over Xue Tian’s dead body.
Qin Fen stared at Yang Duzun quietly. Ever since he opened the door, he knew that, of the three people in the room, the one with the strongest killing intent and power was Yang Duzun, the man that looked the most similar to Yang Lie sitting behind the desk.
Yang Duhong? With Xue Tian present, Qin Fen was not worried that he would hurt Yang Lie. Xue Tian’s Blade of Fury was invincible! Be it the sixteen-star leveled Yang Duhong or the seventeen-star Yang Duzun battling Xue Tian, I’m afraid that…
Yang Duhong had transferred all his attention to Xue Tian. As one of the three masters of the Yang family, killing Yang Lie should be an easy task. However he was impeded and forced back to his original position by a junior with only a blade.
“No wonder you dared to come back.” Yang Duozun said faintly as he paced around slowly, “It turns out that the people you brought are really quite strong.”
“Father.” Yang Lie took a deep breath and calmed his mind, “I know that you asked me to reject Qin Fen because the people from the Zuo Clan are willing to hand over certain benefits in return. I am coming back this time not to seize power, but to tell you that the Alexander family, the Alpha family, and the Solomon family are all part of our forces. When we bring together these three families, we can also form a major force!”
Yang Lie looked proudly at the people around him, “From the perspective of your interests, can’t you see it? It can be said that the strongest martial artists of the youngest generation within the Federation are standing here! Each of us has unlimited potential in our futures! As we gather together, we have the power to shape the world and our future!”
“Father.” Yang Lie suppressed the excitement of his pride, bringing his words to a calm tone once again, “Please think about it, although our Yang family is weaker compared to the Zuo Clan, but what about when we are allied with the other three families? Also, is the future of my group incomparable to the Zuo Clan?”
Yang Duzun looked at Yang Lie emotionlessly. Both of his hands slowly lifted to his chest and clapped, giving a slow yet rhythmic applause, “Not bad, not bad. Very moving speech. With such public speaking skills you could run for governor in two years, you could even be the President of the Federation.”
“But…” Yang Dunzun slowly shook his head and sneered, “I am not going to talk to you about the future, or interests. I am talking to you about obeying orders. The order of the patriarch cannot be violated. You’ve violated the first rule of the family discipline. You had disobeyed my orders. That… is the most important.”
“I disobeyed the order and I accept disciplinary action.” Yang Lie straightened his chest, “But I hope, father, that you can accept my proposal.”
“What proposal?” Yang Duzun’s eyes were as cold as the Arctic glaciers, “Can my order be changed? Rebelling against the commands of your father is a serious violation. I would be damned if you bring along other people to usurp our family property and also to voice dissent to me one day.”
Yang Duzun suddenly turned around and strode to the window, raising his hand and said, “Yang Lie is guilty, capture him! As for the rest, kill on sight.”
As the voice passed through the corridor, four figures appeared in the corridor. Fifteen-stars! Four fifteen-star martial dao masters! Qin Fen twitched his eyebrows. Ever since my debut, I had never seen such a number of elite martial dao masters in a family apart from the Qilin family. No wonder the Alpha family held the Yang family in high regard!
Boom!
A gunshot rang. The high-speed moving martial dao master suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground mid-air. A trail of blood spilled along with his roll. His head had already disappeared, leaving only a bullet that struck the ground.
A snipe! A sniper had killed a fifteen-star level martial dao master! It must be a special bullet! According to the Gun King’s description, a special sniper round that could kill a martial dao master would not be any cheaper than a cosmic warship.
A luxurious yet perfect blow! The bullet was shot from the top of a building four kilometers away. It was a hundred times faster than sound, and the moment it launched it produced not even the slightest murderous aura, nor the feeling of being targeted. Even as the bullet traveled it did not produce the sound of friction with the air.
The perfect snipe! There were super bullets and guns that could kill a martial dao master, but none had heard of anyone that could kill a martial dao master with a sniper rifle.
Once you stepped into the realm of martial dao master, within a radius of ten feet, you could hear even the movement of ants on the ground. Furthermore, the sturdiness of the body would be harder beyond imagination. Coupled with the aura shield, it was like the unbreakable armor as heard in folklores.
The shot had shocked the remaining three martial dao masters and the three Yang brothers in the room.
Dead?! A fifteen-star class martial dao master was killed by a sniper rifle! Where did that monster come from? How could they lock on to a fifteen-star martial dao master without being noticed? Also, intense calculations are required to hit the martial dao master moving at high speed! Is there really such a person in the world?
In the room, no one ever believed that such a freak existed in the world, but right now, no one could deny their existence, as the impossible truth was laid out right in front of their eyes.
Just one shot and a martial dao master died… even tens, or hundreds, or tens of thousands of cosmic warships could not compare to the value of a martial dao master!
This shot… was too cheap…
Yang Duzun sensed the death of his men and turned around to the direction of the shot. Just as he wanted to move, he felt as if a beast was staring at his back. If he chooses to move, the beast would bare its fangs and devour him.
Yang Duzun slowly and hatefully turned around to stare at Qin Fen, who was standing in front of Yang Lie, “Yang Lie, are you rebelling?”
“Father, I don’t want to fight. I didn’t come to fight.” Yang Lie’s look had completely returned to normal, “I know you too well. When I chose to disobey your orders at Sacred Martial Hall, you will name me and Qin Fen as your enemies. You will stand by the Zuo Clan to deal with us.”
Yang Duzun proudly raised his head. His expression expressed his beliefs in his natural right, “If the king wants his minister to die, the minister must die. If the father wants their child to die, the child must die. Yang Lie, I am both the patriarch of the family and your father. Your disobedience to the orders of the patriarch is treason; your defiance to your father is unfilial. Although the Yang family settles in the land of barbarians, the ancestral rules must be maintained and obeyed. Now, you have shown your disloyalty and your lack of filial piety to your family and father. I will kill you personally.”
Qin Fen listened to Yang Duzun’s words and wondered if he had passed through time and space. He could hear the thoughts belonging to a feudal society in a society where human beings were in space.
Brooks showed no surprise on his face. Caesar’s and Solomon’s face weren’t surprised either. They had long heard about the weird parenting system of the Yang family. The oriental family that migrated to the West still maintained their ancient traditions, just like the knightly tradition in Europe. Although it was obsolete, Caesar would still feel a sense of pride and glory from his position as a knight.
Rules, family law, that was the glory of the Yang family, and also the glory of Yang Duzun!
Yang Duzun slowly moved, eventually standing side by side with Yang Duhong and Yang Dujing. The remaining three martial dao masters also surrounded the group carefully, at the same time being vigilant of their surroundings, fearful of another bullet being shot.
Lin Ling had hit the target with only a shot and immediately packed up the sniper equipment that was worth more than a warship, and had quickly left the sniping position.
The masters of the martial dao master class could easily find the sniper’s hiding spots almost immediately. If a master of Yang Duzun’s caliber came, that would spell big trouble.
Shifting to another position. Lin Ling planned to wait for another opportunity to shoot. She carefully reached for the remaining four sniper bullets below her arms. Those five bullets that were too expensive even for the military to procure in large numbers were provided by the Alpha family under the condition of protecting Brooks.
The Alpha family was relatively better. As their family was in the arms supplying business, acquiring such bullets would come at a cheaper price compared to the military even though it was still exorbitantly expensive for them.
The White House was not too big of an area, and it just had a full-blown war. Dozens of martial dao masters that were rarely seen had gathered themselves in the White House, releasing their battle intent, murderous aura, as well as their respective martial dao power auras.
“Xiao Lie…” Yang Dujing stared at Yang Lie with sorrow, “As long as you turn back, I…”
“Third Brother!”
“Big Brother! Give me another chance to persuade him! I know that Xiao Lie has violated too many family rules, but we can just go through that one by one later! I will sacrifice my arms in exchange for Xiao Lie’s life!” Yang Dujing clenched his teeth, looking at Qin Fen with pure, unadulterated anger and murderous intent. If it weren’t for that bastard Qin Fen, my nephew would still be an obedient boy and wouldn’t dare to go against his father like that.
“Third uncle…” Yang Lie bowed deeply, “I really don’t want to fight, but I know my father all too well. My rejection at the Sacred Martial Hall had completely angered him. He will join forces with the Zuo Clan to deal with us. My purpose for returning here is to solve the animosity between us. We have the power of three influential families, and we have unlimited potential in our future, to the point where we can even dominate the world! Why, why must we hold on to the family rule? I disobeyed my father, and I accept my punishment, however harsh it might be. But I will not allow any woes to befall my friends just because of me. I know too well what would happen to us when an influential family uses all their resources against us…”
“Patriarch Yang, do you really want to fight us at the cost of huge amounts of the family power?” Qin Fen interrupted Yang Lie’s words, “We did not come here to fight. Yang Lie is our friend, and we do not wish to fight his father. Whatever the Zuo Clan offers you, we will not offer you any less, and will even try to give you more than that. This was our original idea. But looking at your eyes I know that you truly do not care about any interests at all. Instead, you care about your authority, as no one had ever dared to resist your authority.”
Yang Duzun put his hands behind his back like an emperor nodding in agreement, as if acknowledging the fact that Qin Fen had struck a point. The reason why the Yang family was able to stand its ground in the United States was that, in addition to the struggles made by the three brothers with their father through blood, discipline was the other reason that the Yang family is what they are today! Iron-fist discipline!
Some things were strange. As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Hai Rui could even eat a bit of food from a stranger for the sake of his old daughter, killing himself in the process.
Some could starve to death for the immaterial dignity, but some would die fighting for it. Some others, however, regard dignity as dung, not hesitating to betray their homeland for the invaders.
The same thing held different values in the eyes of different people. In the eyes of Yang Duzun, the familial authority as the patriarch was unshakable, as the same goes for filial piety and loyalty! As Yang Lie rebelled against his father, the patriarch, he had lost his loyalty and filial piety.
“So, Patriarch of the Yang family, would you dare make a bet with me?” Qin Fen smiled faintly and contemptuously, “You can refuse my challenge as the patriarch of the Yang family. Of course, I am being a provocateur, as right now I conclude that you are too afraid to make a bet with an insignificant junior like me.”
“Hehe …”
Yang Duzun’s smile was full of pride, with a sense of nonchalance within his laughter. He raised his hand casually and gestured Qin Fen to continue. As Qin Fen said, he was trying to provoke Yang Duzun. But as the patriarch of the Yang family, if he relented at the betting challenge of a young junior, where would his pride go in the future?
“You and I shall have a duel!” Qin Fen raised his index finger, “If you win, you can do anything to us. But if you lose…”
“I will lose?” Yang Duzun smiled, “If you lose, will they die with you? Can you make decisions on their behalf?”
“Yes!”
The uniform sound was as if they had gone through thousands of years’ worth of training. Xue Tian, Caesar and the rest of the group responded in unison, shocking Yang Duzun. He could not think that it would end up like this.
“If I win, then you have to abdicate your position as the patriarch of the Yang family to Yang Lie. Yang Lie will be the new patriarch of the Yang family, although you will remain as part of the Yang family.”
The room fell into dead silence. Yang Duzun’s eyes scanned Qin Fen and Yang Lie. With a chilling aura flashing in his eyes, he said, “Alright, little punk, you really returned to rebel. Good, very good!”
Yang Lie simply chose silence. Whatever he said at this time, his father would not listen to it, as any explanation would be superfluous. He just quietly looked at Yang Duzun. This day would eventually come. Even if not for Qin Fen, Yang Lie couldn’t evade this day as someone else would have come into his life eventually.
“You? Duel with me?” Yang Dunzun looked at Qin Fen coldly, “How are you qualified to take me on?”
Qin Fen did not answer. Instead, he took a Super Armor Pill and Super Berserker Pill from his dragon belt and consumed it, activating the level two fusion of the God-Demon Body, connecting the meridian, blood vessels, and even cells throughout his body. A huge illusory image loomed behind his back.
Black wings! White wings! A pair of angel wings! One was filled with white feathers, and the other filled with black feathers! They were not material, as they were formed by pure energy. The wings gave Qin Fen a sacred aura.
The sixteen-star-class strength erupted in an upsurge. Strong airflows swept through the room in an instant. The documents were being blown to the skies, as his clenching of fingers produced a sound similar to a real thunderstorm.
“If you don’t agree to a duel with me, but instead wage a total war that might kill my brothers-in-arms, then I will kill your brothers in return.”
Qin Fen pulled back his arm by three inches, absorbing the air around him and concentrating them in front of his fist. It was a punch aimed towards Yang Duhong!
Simple, without any fanciness; just a simple, straightforward punch that tore through the air, seemingly tearing space apart at the same time, while the endless fist energy was pushed towards Yang Duhong.
Simple and direct, giving Yang Duhong enough time to prepare for a counterattack!
Danger! Yang Duhong’s blood simmered in time, signals of danger spread throughout his body. His hands did not choose to fight back, but rather, chose to block the punch in front of his chest. Unable to root his feet to the ground with the Wukong Technique, Yang Duhong was helplessly thrown across the room backward. The sturdy walls of the White House behind him was as fragile as tofu, the same could be said to the ground below him as he left a deep mark on the ground.
Boom! The skies within a radius of a hundred meters exploded, sending a thunderous shockwave that swayed the White House as if it was in an earthquake. Yang Duhong’s clothes were blown up by the explosion, his arms shaking uncontrollably as the blood in his body continued to boil. It was as if his internal organs were being displaced, his bones uttering a groan audible only to him.
Strong! Very strong! Yang Duhong looked at Qin Fen from a distance. He couldn’t understand why, as he possessed the same sixteen-star class as his opponent and had even activated the third-level of the biochemical beast fusion, raising his fighting power to the maximum, he couldn’t fight against Qin Fen’s fist without any trace of boxing intent!
Very strong! Way too strong! Solomon looked at Qin Fen’s back. Although both of us are sixteen-star class, there was a big gap in destructive power! When Qin Fen was fighting David Solomon, he did not use his full strength! Even Xue Tian is the same! The Xue Tian in a red, demonic battle state also gave people the feeling of unparalleled strength.
“You still want to ask me why?” Qin Fen’s voice revealed an aura that engulfs everything, “How about I just kill your brothers? That way you will come and fight me without me coming to fight you?”
Yang Duzun silently took out two pills from his ring — the Super Berserker Pill and the Super Armor Pill.
With just a punch, Yang Duzun realized an important thing. Qin Fen might be a sixteen-star level martial artist, but he was able to overcome the limits of the aura shield with his fist. That’s right! That was the true Humanity Aura Shield! Only those that succeeded in converting their true energy into elements were able to utilize energies of higher quality, which was the Humanity Aura Shield Energy.
This did not require training. As long as the conversion of energy into element was complete, the moment one uses their true energy, the aura shield would be activated.
Humanity aura shield! According to normal theory, the conversion of true energy into humanity shield would require martial artists to reach eighteen-stars. However, the person in front of me was only sixteen-stars!
Yang Duzun had no choice but to pay attention to it. Right now that sixteen-star class is able to form humanity aura shield. If he really has the luck to enter the eighteen-star class, what will the shield be? The Earth Aura Shield from the legends? Or the apex of the aura shield — the Celestial Aura Shield!
The Ying Yang energy of the Eight Shortages and Six Directions of the Supremacy Over All Art was transformed into an aura shield, transforming Duzun’s body into metal in the process. Duzun slowly opened his fist into a palm, flowing around him was various energies with different colors ranging from black, green, and red. A metallic taste could be felt from the energies.
Five Venom Palm! Qin Fen recognized the rarely seen Five Venom Palm that was being used by Yang Duzun! With the development of the times and pharmaceuticals, few have gone to practice the martial arts technique that could be countered easily.
Qin Fen didn’t expect that he would see the rare Five Venom Palm here. The level of the Five Venom Palm was in another realm. The strong toxins can be detoxified by the elite hospitals today, but the problem lies in the fact that it is useless to detoxify the venom, as the power channeled by the Venom Palm was sufficient to kill its victim within half a second.
Take the medicine, channel the energy, bringing forth the fusion of the fourth level of the biochemical beast! The mythical fourth level of the biochemical beast fusion! It possessed the fourth-level of regenerative abilities unimaginable by the common man!
Yang Duzun’s body shone with a layer of light and shadow. Stripes of dark green light intersect with each other to form a serpentine pattern! A high-tiered biochemical beast, the Celestial Snake King styled biochemical beast! Compared to the ordinary fourth level of biochemical beast fusion, it allowed for an increase of five percent in nerve reflex speed, strength, and pure speed. Its special ability was its venom!
Qin Fen still remembered that Lin Liqiang said that there were few biochemical beasts that were suitable for paleo martial arts in this world. The biochemical beast selected by Yang Duzun was very suitable for his paleo martial arts.
Without any referees or bells to commence the duel, both sides changed the atmosphere of the White House the moment their aura made contact with each other. The prideful eyes of Yang Duzun that was locked on to Qin Fen released its tyrannical power in an instant!
In an instant, Yang Dunzun entered the realm of his own real martial dao, Tyranny.
Tyranny —’The world revolves around me’.
Tyranny —’Nothing exists in this world’.
Tyranny — the combination of the body and the world into one — I am the world, the world is me.
Complementing the Eight Shortages and Six Directions of the Supremacy Over All Art with his tyrannical martial dao, Qin Fen and Yang Lie was no longer in the eyes of Yang Duzun, as he couldn’t even see anyone.
In this world, the universe seemed to have disappeared. Everything seemed to have gathered on his fists to break a statue in front of him. A human figure statue that looked like Qin Fen.
Yang Lie’s peaceful expression once again showed a trace of fear. His eyes twitched several times before returning to normal. The Tyranny martial dao was able to affect the opponent, which was one of its terrifying traits.
In Yang Duzun’s eyes there was only a stone sculpture of Qin Fen that was left. His goal was only Qin Fen, the one who influenced his son; the one who injured his brother and dared to challenge him with a bet.
Yang Duzun’s true aura shield that was condensed into a piece of steel plate had affected his skin in a flash. His whole body became half white and half black, like a huge Yin Yang Fish on his body. Even his wild, tyrannical smile was half white and half black. The Eight Shortages and Six Directions of the Supremacy Over All Art had its Yin and Yang energies cultivated to its mastery.
Without shouts or roars, Yang Duzun squinted his eyes. The entire White House seemingly vibrated, bringing forth an explosion from his feet that turned the White House into ashes. The spectating martial artists began to retreat while focusing on the battlefield. They saw Yang Duzun transform into a black and white light, casting to Qin Fen a shockwave that could easily disintegrate a large aircraft!
Yang Duzun took the lead and began his channeling. The true aura shield thunderously crackled within his body, pushing his tyrannical power to the limit. The Five Venom Palm was clenched into a fist, emitting a colorful light that brought out the impact of an overbearing power aura.
Tyrant Fist!
Yang Duzun slammed his fist from above like a celestial net covering the ground! Within the extreme martial dao of Yang Duzun’s, his fist was imbued with the aura of historical heroes. The historical aura that he could accumulate from the lessons of history broke loose in an instant!
Qin Fen sank his shoulders slightly and lowered his waist. Under the conditions of not moving any of his joints, he produced a series of crackling sounds resembling the impact of the tens of millions of mahjong tiles falling from the skies.
Qin Fen’s body unknowingly became transparent. Those beside him could see his bones through the skin, his skulls already turned transparent like glass.
Advancing from pulling out the right arm from his waist, the ground below became seriously affected as it cracked with a depth of tens of meters under the overwhelming pressure. That slow yet extremely stable fist brought upon the thunderous sounds of explosion, turning the environment around the body into a vacuum resembling a large, transparent crystal. The air was absorbed into both of the arms with the determination of becoming a true, huge dragon, and breaking out the power and strength of two dragons and ten elephants!
The United States was known as the most liberal place in the Federation. Here, you could stand in front of the White House and insult the governor by calling him “a fat pig”. Of course, if the governor sues you for defamation, you could always wear a shirt stating that pigs are your favorite animals and everything would be okay.
Of course, the United States was also the most xenophobic state. Despite entering the space era, racism was still existent in the States. White people were always in a higher position than Blacks, yet the Blacks usually held higher positions than Asians.
It wasn’t easy for Asians to settle here. You would surely meet countless challenges if you wanted to consolidate your power here.
The Yang family was an Asian family in the States that settled themselves in Washington D.C, the political center of the States that was home to both the White House and the Capitol Building.
Any family that managed to place their headquarters in Washington held admirable power. If one could move their familial headquarters into the White House, the family’s power would then be formidable.
Yang Duzun, the governor of the United States, began his journey in the states with his father many years ago. With their bare hands, they had toiled to become a hegemonic force in the States. Over the past few years, Duzun participated in the election. With his huge personal influence, he became the current governor of the United States.
The White House had, therefore, became the interim headquarters of the Yang family. If without accidents, it was widely believed that the White House would become the permanent headquarters of the Yang family in the distant future.
With the end of Yang Duzun’s tenure, the familial patriarch’s younger brother, Yang Dujing had already announced his candidacy to run for governor of the United States. The competitors that were running for governor were obviously those of meager influence and power. It was almost certain that the Yang family would continue to be the next governor.
Unlike most other families, the Yang family implemented a complete centralized system. All powers were vested in Yang Duzun; the rest could only obey his orders.
In the Governor’s Office in the White House, Yang Dujing and Yang Duhong were quietly sitting on the comfortable sofa. Both of them were the only qualified members of the Yang family to sit in front of Yang Duzun.
The events of the Alexander and Solomon families in Europe and the Alpha family in America had reached the Yang family one after another.
With a sullen face, Yang Duzun would call them “trash” coldly whenever he heard about the defeat of the families. Especially the event of David Solomon’s defeat, whom Yang Duzun coldly insulted as a “useless madman”.
Yang Dujin flipped the newspaper in his hands, calculating the time secretly. That locust-like group had defeated the two major families in Europe and followed up with another victory over another family in the United States. According to intel, these young men were flying towards Washington D.C. How long will it take for them to reach here?
Yang Duhong closed his eyes to perform energy-conserving kung-fu. His breaths had caused the cup of tea in front of him to produce consistent ripples, like a well-designed piece of art.
Although the body shapes of the three brothers were weird in their own right, with Yang Duzun having wide shoulders and thin waists, his well-proportioned body donning a pale yellow, satin warrior suit; Yang Dujing had a shorter stature, acting as the antithesis of the fat Yang Duhong; they possessed extremely similar facial features. Be it the fat Yang Duhong, the thin Yang Dujing, or the well-proportioned Yang Duzun, all of them could be described as handsome, their beauty was completely unaffected by their body shape.
“Young Master, you are back…”
In the corridor outside the office rang a maid’s greeting. Yang Duhong suddenly opened his slightly closed eyes, producing a bright glare that eclipsed the electric lights in the room.
Yang Dujing continued to read the newspaper in his hand without looking up to the door that was being pushed open slowly.
Both doors were wide open. Qin Fen immediately felt an overwhelming yet subtle aura emanating from within, with the one behind the office desk emanating the strongest aura.
Yang Lie stood outside the door and did not immediately step into the room. As if both of his legs were stuck to the earth, Yang Lie bowed down with respect in his eyes, “Father, I am back.”
Yang Duzun signed his name on the document, then looked up at Yang Lie and the others and faintly said, “Kill them, go to the Domestic Discipline Hall to accept your punishment of a hundred canings, and I shall forgive your insolence.”
…
The room and corridor were filled with silence. With a frown on his brows, Yang Lie clenched his fists, as his arms slightly trembled on the sight of Yang Duzun.
“Xiao Lie, did you not hear what my brother just said?” Yang Duhong put down the half-drunken tea in his hand, his eyes casually looking at Yang Lie, “Kill them, go through the punishment of a hundred canings, and you will still be Yang Lie.”
Xue Tian glanced at Qin Fen and found Caesar standing beside him gently shaking his head, indicating Xue Tian to keep his mouth shut at this time.
Xue Tian shrugged his shoulders and shut his mouth. He understood Qin Fen’s meaning. Every time Yang Lie faced or heard Yang Zun, his physical and mental state would have a serious reaction, which was a major problem.
Qin Fen analyzed Yang Lie, this mixed-race prodigy of martial arts. In terms of martial arts potential, he was the same as Solomon. Yet, regardless of the Reborn of Blood Transfusion Real Inborn, or his entry into the Sacred Martial Hall, he was always the latest one among the elite martial artists of the younger generation.
This is very strange, this is very abnormal! His inner demons! Yang Lie has yet to overcome his inner demons! When Qin Fen saw Yang Duzun again, he finally confirmed that Yang Lie was plagued by his inner demons, which originated from the existence of his father, Yang Duzun. His very existence had impeded Yang Lie from activating his full potential.
A dragon! It could be monstrously huge while at the same time as minuscule as a dirtball. Soaring over the nine skies and diving into the ocean depths, the dragon was persistent in its own ways.
Yang Lie practiced the Dragon Fist and took the Way of the Dragon as his martial dao. Yet, Yang Duzun became the reason that impeded him from being as free as the dragon. At this rate, how could he fully master the Way of the Dragon?
Qin Fen knew that even if Yang Dunzun had a conflict with Qilin by chance and was finally killed by Qilin, the inner demons within Yang Lie would not disappear just because of Yang Duzun’s death.
Yang Lie’s inner demons couldn’t be destroyed by others, only himself.
Silence, Yang Lie shook his head in silence. Facing the long-accumulated, majestic aura of Yang Duzun, Yang Lie found the simple act of speaking an arduous task.
Huala…
Yang Dujing threw away the newspaper in his hand onto the table and looked at Yang Lie in the eyes helplessly. He slowly got up and sighed softly, “Xiao Lie, you are shaking your head to tell us that you can’t kill all of them alone, right? It seems so. These insolent brats really are decent in martial dao. Since you are unable to do it alone, let your third uncle lend you a helping hand.”
“Third brother…” Yang Duzun frowned his long eyebrows, his expression becoming more similar to Yang Lie’s.
Yang Dujing turned around to look at the unhappy Yang Duzun, “Big Brother, you know it. Yang Lie is my favorite kid in our family. Since he’s just a child, he was bound to make mistakes. Just wait for me to kill off the bad influences of Yang Lie and we shall carry out disciplinary action. All you need to do is just relax and wait.”
“You…” A sense of helplessness was mixed into the unhappy expression of Yang Duzun. Although he could do anything he liked as the patriarch of the family, he still had blood ties with his brothers. His third brother might be the youngest among the three brothers, but he possessed the strongest sense of justice and fairness since young. When Yang Duzun made mistakes and was about to receive disciplinary action in his younger days, the youngest Yang Dujing would bring along the second brother, Yang Duhong, to share the responsibility and punishment together.
If it wasn’t for the third brother that brought along the second brother to share the punishment, Yang Duzun feared that he might have already been killed by his father’s disciplinary action.
Yang Duzun could afford to be tyrannical to anyone in the world. Even if Yang Lie resisted openly, he could also kill Yang Lie himself. But he couldn’t be angry with his third brother, because that was his brother.
“Third uncle.”
Yang Lie finally spoke slowly after a long period of silence. His clenched fists were unknowingly loosened as his body showed an uncommon feeling of calmness. He opened his arms and kept Qin Fen and his group behind them, like an old hen protecting her chicks in the face of a fierce eagle.
“I know that you did this for my own good. But this time, I did not shake my head to express my inability to defeat them, but rather…”
“Shut up!”
Yang Dujing shouted and interrupted Yang Lie’s words. The entire White House trembled from the shout, even the half cup of tea on the table bounced off the table from the shockwave, only to fall to the ground and spill on the ground.
“Xiao Lie.” Yang Dujing took a deep breath as he stared at Yang Lie with affection, “Some words, you have to think clearly before speaking. There are many words and actions that once you speak or carry it out, even I — your third uncle — won’t be able to help you.”
Yang Duhong nodded slowly in silence. His eyes lacked the affection found in Yang Dujing, leaving only an icy warning. His right hand was unknowingly clenched in the process.
Yang Lie looked at the ice-cold eyes of Yang Duhong and suddenly calmed down his nervous emotions, as if the heavy stones in his heart disappeared all of a sudden.
“Third uncle, I know.” Yang Lie smiled and shrugged his shoulders, “Ever since I was a child, everything was arranged by the whims of my father. Everything I did was done according to my father’s orders. Obedience, interests, all under the wishes of my father! That was my life for twenty years. And now, I want to carve out my own path and choices all by myself. I shook my head not because I couldn’t defeat them, but I am refusing the orders of my father. I will not turn my fist against my friends!”
“You are courting death!”
The marble desk under Yang Duzun’s palms turned to dust in an instant, its remains fell to the ground slowly.
Yang Duhong swayed his body, spreading open his fingers like a huge, metallic, iron claw before going for Yang Lie’s head.
A chilling light! A chilling light suddenly burst beside Yang Lie in the bright room! The chilling light was extremely weak, as it was even dimmer than the stars in the night sky! However, the appearance of the chilling light had caused Yang Duhong to falter, retracting his pupils and his sixteen-star powers, followed by a hasty retreat backward with his hands flipping in front of him, causing the sound of clashing metal. The chilling light completely subsided only when Yang Duhong retreated to his original position.
Xue Tian showed a chilling expression, performing iaido; no one knew when his blade was unsheathed. Imbuing the power of sixteen-star class onto the blade, he transformed the blade into a blood-red color.
The Little Dragon King, Yang Lie, had only seen that blood-red color twice. Qin Fen and his group only saw it once — the time when Xue Tian battled hundreds of Golden Triangle martial artists alone by the beach to defend his friends.
Anger! At this moment, anyone in the room could feel that Xue Tian wasn’t emitting battle intent nor killing intent, but rather, sheer anger.
This anger had caused a sharp drop in the temperature of the room. Not only did Yang Duhong tremble at the recollection of his earlier encounter with the blade, Yang Duzun also flashed a face of surprise within his murderous and tyrannical eyes.
The Blade of Fury! The real Blade of Fury! Xue Tian stared at Yang Duhong coldly, the second uncle that actually made a move to kill Yang Lie. Even in the face of David Solomon, who attempted to kill Solomon, Xue Tian did not show any anger. Because David Solomon was a well-known madman, which normalized his attempts in killing his nephew.
However, the three people in front of him were of sound minds. The group of mentally stable people tried to kill their descendants and junior without listening to his explanation just because he disobeyed their orders. Xue Tian could not accept this.
After seeing the support of the Alpha patriarch for Brooks earlier, Xue Tian’s disgust towards the Yang family’s actions intensified, as their actions had just gone beyond the description of being excessive.
Xue Tian would not be angry if they just wanted to punish Yang Lie without killing him. Among the familial cultures of the East, parents always bore the right to beat their children. But their right to kill their children had been vanquished for a very long time!
“If you want to die, you can try again.”
Xue Tian slightly lifted the tip of his blade. He didn’t need to target anyone in the room, he was able to send a message to the three brothers in the room with his cold blade — if they wanted to kill Yang Lie, they must do it over Xue Tian’s dead body.
Qin Fen stared at Yang Duzun quietly. Ever since he opened the door, he knew that, of the three people in the room, the one with the strongest killing intent and power was Yang Duzun, the man that looked the most similar to Yang Lie sitting behind the desk.
Yang Duhong? With Xue Tian present, Qin Fen was not worried that he would hurt Yang Lie. Xue Tian’s Blade of Fury was invincible! Be it the sixteen-star leveled Yang Duhong or the seventeen-star Yang Duzun battling Xue Tian, I’m afraid that…
Yang Duhong had transferred all his attention to Xue Tian. As one of the three masters of the Yang family, killing Yang Lie should be an easy task. However he was impeded and forced back to his original position by a junior with only a blade.
“No wonder you dared to come back.” Yang Duozun said faintly as he paced around slowly, “It turns out that the people you brought are really quite strong.”
“Father.” Yang Lie took a deep breath and calmed his mind, “I know that you asked me to reject Qin Fen because the people from the Zuo Clan are willing to hand over certain benefits in return. I am coming back this time not to seize power, but to tell you that the Alexander family, the Alpha family, and the Solomon family are all part of our forces. When we bring together these three families, we can also form a major force!”
Yang Lie looked proudly at the people around him, “From the perspective of your interests, can’t you see it? It can be said that the strongest martial artists of the youngest generation within the Federation are standing here! Each of us has unlimited potential in our futures! As we gather together, we have the power to shape the world and our future!”
“Father.” Yang Lie suppressed the excitement of his pride, bringing his words to a calm tone once again, “Please think about it, although our Yang family is weaker compared to the Zuo Clan, but what about when we are allied with the other three families? Also, is the future of my group incomparable to the Zuo Clan?”
Yang Duzun looked at Yang Lie emotionlessly. Both of his hands slowly lifted to his chest and clapped, giving a slow yet rhythmic applause, “Not bad, not bad. Very moving speech. With such public speaking skills you could run for governor in two years, you could even be the President of the Federation.”
“But…” Yang Dunzun slowly shook his head and sneered, “I am not going to talk to you about the future, or interests. I am talking to you about obeying orders. The order of the patriarch cannot be violated. You’ve violated the first rule of the family discipline. You had disobeyed my orders. That… is the most important.”
“I disobeyed the order and I accept disciplinary action.” Yang Lie straightened his chest, “But I hope, father, that you can accept my proposal.”
“What proposal?” Yang Duzun’s eyes were as cold as the Arctic glaciers, “Can my order be changed? Rebelling against the commands of your father is a serious violation. I would be damned if you bring along other people to usurp our family property and also to voice dissent to me one day.”
Yang Duzun suddenly turned around and strode to the window, raising his hand and said, “Yang Lie is guilty, capture him! As for the rest, kill on sight.”
As the voice passed through the corridor, four figures appeared in the corridor. Fifteen-stars! Four fifteen-star martial dao masters! Qin Fen twitched his eyebrows. Ever since my debut, I had never seen such a number of elite martial dao masters in a family apart from the Qilin family. No wonder the Alpha family held the Yang family in high regard!
Boom!
A gunshot rang. The high-speed moving martial dao master suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground mid-air. A trail of blood spilled along with his roll. His head had already disappeared, leaving only a bullet that struck the ground.
A snipe! A sniper had killed a fifteen-star level martial dao master! It must be a special bullet! According to the Gun King’s description, a special sniper round that could kill a martial dao master would not be any cheaper than a cosmic warship.
A luxurious yet perfect blow! The bullet was shot from the top of a building four kilometers away. It was a hundred times faster than sound, and the moment it launched it produced not even the slightest murderous aura, nor the feeling of being targeted. Even as the bullet traveled it did not produce the sound of friction with the air.
The perfect snipe! There were super bullets and guns that could kill a martial dao master, but none had heard of anyone that could kill a martial dao master with a sniper rifle.
Once you stepped into the realm of martial dao master, within a radius of ten feet, you could hear even the movement of ants on the ground. Furthermore, the sturdiness of the body would be harder beyond imagination. Coupled with the aura shield, it was like the unbreakable armor as heard in folklores.
The shot had shocked the remaining three martial dao masters and the three Yang brothers in the room.
Dead?! A fifteen-star class martial dao master was killed by a sniper rifle! Where did that monster come from? How could they lock on to a fifteen-star martial dao master without being noticed? Also, intense calculations are required to hit the martial dao master moving at high speed! Is there really such a person in the world?
In the room, no one ever believed that such a freak existed in the world, but right now, no one could deny their existence, as the impossible truth was laid out right in front of their eyes.
Just one shot and a martial dao master died… even tens, or hundreds, or tens of thousands of cosmic warships could not compare to the value of a martial dao master!
This shot… was too cheap…
Yang Duzun sensed the death of his men and turned around to the direction of the shot. Just as he wanted to move, he felt as if a beast was staring at his back. If he chooses to move, the beast would bare its fangs and devour him.
Yang Duzun slowly and hatefully turned around to stare at Qin Fen, who was standing in front of Yang Lie, “Yang Lie, are you rebelling?”
“Father, I don’t want to fight. I didn’t come to fight.” Yang Lie’s look had completely returned to normal, “I know you too well. When I chose to disobey your orders at Sacred Martial Hall, you will name me and Qin Fen as your enemies. You will stand by the Zuo Clan to deal with us.”
Yang Duzun proudly raised his head. His expression expressed his beliefs in his natural right, “If the king wants his minister to die, the minister must die. If the father wants their child to die, the child must die. Yang Lie, I am both the patriarch of the family and your father. Your disobedience to the orders of the patriarch is treason; your defiance to your father is unfilial. Although the Yang family settles in the land of barbarians, the ancestral rules must be maintained and obeyed. Now, you have shown your disloyalty and your lack of filial piety to your family and father. I will kill you personally.”
Qin Fen listened to Yang Duzun’s words and wondered if he had passed through time and space. He could hear the thoughts belonging to a feudal society in a society where human beings were in space.
Brooks showed no surprise on his face. Caesar’s and Solomon’s face weren’t surprised either. They had long heard about the weird parenting system of the Yang family. The oriental family that migrated to the West still maintained their ancient traditions, just like the knightly tradition in Europe. Although it was obsolete, Caesar would still feel a sense of pride and glory from his position as a knight.
Rules, family law, that was the glory of the Yang family, and also the glory of Yang Duzun!
Yang Duzun slowly moved, eventually standing side by side with Yang Duhong and Yang Dujing. The remaining three martial dao masters also surrounded the group carefully, at the same time being vigilant of their surroundings, fearful of another bullet being shot.
Lin Ling had hit the target with only a shot and immediately packed up the sniper equipment that was worth more than a warship, and had quickly left the sniping position.
The masters of the martial dao master class could easily find the sniper’s hiding spots almost immediately. If a master of Yang Duzun’s caliber came, that would spell big trouble.
Shifting to another position. Lin Ling planned to wait for another opportunity to shoot. She carefully reached for the remaining four sniper bullets below her arms. Those five bullets that were too expensive even for the military to procure in large numbers were provided by the Alpha family under the condition of protecting Brooks.
The Alpha family was relatively better. As their family was in the arms supplying business, acquiring such bullets would come at a cheaper price compared to the military even though it was still exorbitantly expensive for them.
The White House was not too big of an area, and it just had a full-blown war. Dozens of martial dao masters that were rarely seen had gathered themselves in the White House, releasing their battle intent, murderous aura, as well as their respective martial dao power auras.
“Xiao Lie…” Yang Dujing stared at Yang Lie with sorrow, “As long as you turn back, I…”
“Third Brother!”
“Big Brother! Give me another chance to persuade him! I know that Xiao Lie has violated too many family rules, but we can just go through that one by one later! I will sacrifice my arms in exchange for Xiao Lie’s life!” Yang Dujing clenched his teeth, looking at Qin Fen with pure, unadulterated anger and murderous intent. If it weren’t for that bastard Qin Fen, my nephew would still be an obedient boy and wouldn’t dare to go against his father like that.
“Third uncle…” Yang Lie bowed deeply, “I really don’t want to fight, but I know my father all too well. My rejection at the Sacred Martial Hall had completely angered him. He will join forces with the Zuo Clan to deal with us. My purpose for returning here is to solve the animosity between us. We have the power of three influential families, and we have unlimited potential in our future, to the point where we can even dominate the world! Why, why must we hold on to the family rule? I disobeyed my father, and I accept my punishment, however harsh it might be. But I will not allow any woes to befall my friends just because of me. I know too well what would happen to us when an influential family uses all their resources against us…”
“Patriarch Yang, do you really want to fight us at the cost of huge amounts of the family power?” Qin Fen interrupted Yang Lie’s words, “We did not come here to fight. Yang Lie is our friend, and we do not wish to fight his father. Whatever the Zuo Clan offers you, we will not offer you any less, and will even try to give you more than that. This was our original idea. But looking at your eyes I know that you truly do not care about any interests at all. Instead, you care about your authority, as no one had ever dared to resist your authority.”
Yang Duzun put his hands behind his back like an emperor nodding in agreement, as if acknowledging the fact that Qin Fen had struck a point. The reason why the Yang family was able to stand its ground in the United States was that, in addition to the struggles made by the three brothers with their father through blood, discipline was the other reason that the Yang family is what they are today! Iron-fist discipline!
Some things were strange. As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Hai Rui could even eat a bit of food from a stranger for the sake of his old daughter, killing himself in the process.
Some could starve to death for the immaterial dignity, but some would die fighting for it. Some others, however, regard dignity as dung, not hesitating to betray their homeland for the invaders.
The same thing held different values in the eyes of different people. In the eyes of Yang Duzun, the familial authority as the patriarch was unshakable, as the same goes for filial piety and loyalty! As Yang Lie rebelled against his father, the patriarch, he had lost his loyalty and filial piety.
“So, Patriarch of the Yang family, would you dare make a bet with me?” Qin Fen smiled faintly and contemptuously, “You can refuse my challenge as the patriarch of the Yang family. Of course, I am being a provocateur, as right now I conclude that you are too afraid to make a bet with an insignificant junior like me.”
“Hehe …”
Yang Duzun’s smile was full of pride, with a sense of nonchalance within his laughter. He raised his hand casually and gestured Qin Fen to continue. As Qin Fen said, he was trying to provoke Yang Duzun. But as the patriarch of the Yang family, if he relented at the betting challenge of a young junior, where would his pride go in the future?
“You and I shall have a duel!” Qin Fen raised his index finger, “If you win, you can do anything to us. But if you lose…”
“I will lose?” Yang Duzun smiled, “If you lose, will they die with you? Can you make decisions on their behalf?”
“Yes!”
The uniform sound was as if they had gone through thousands of years’ worth of training. Xue Tian, Caesar and the rest of the group responded in unison, shocking Yang Duzun. He could not think that it would end up like this.
“If I win, then you have to abdicate your position as the patriarch of the Yang family to Yang Lie. Yang Lie will be the new patriarch of the Yang family, although you will remain as part of the Yang family.”
The room fell into dead silence. Yang Duzun’s eyes scanned Qin Fen and Yang Lie. With a chilling aura flashing in his eyes, he said, “Alright, little punk, you really returned to rebel. Good, very good!”
Yang Lie simply chose silence. Whatever he said at this time, his father would not listen to it, as any explanation would be superfluous. He just quietly looked at Yang Duzun. This day would eventually come. Even if not for Qin Fen, Yang Lie couldn’t evade this day as someone else would have come into his life eventually.
“You? Duel with me?” Yang Dunzun looked at Qin Fen coldly, “How are you qualified to take me on?”
Qin Fen did not answer. Instead, he took a Super Armor Pill and Super Berserker Pill from his dragon belt and consumed it, activating the level two fusion of the God-Demon Body, connecting the meridian, blood vessels, and even cells throughout his body. A huge illusory image loomed behind his back.
Black wings! White wings! A pair of angel wings! One was filled with white feathers, and the other filled with black feathers! They were not material, as they were formed by pure energy. The wings gave Qin Fen a sacred aura.
The sixteen-star-class strength erupted in an upsurge. Strong airflows swept through the room in an instant. The documents were being blown to the skies, as his clenching of fingers produced a sound similar to a real thunderstorm.
“If you don’t agree to a duel with me, but instead wage a total war that might kill my brothers-in-arms, then I will kill your brothers in return.”
Qin Fen pulled back his arm by three inches, absorbing the air around him and concentrating them in front of his fist. It was a punch aimed towards Yang Duhong!
Simple, without any fanciness; just a simple, straightforward punch that tore through the air, seemingly tearing space apart at the same time, while the endless fist energy was pushed towards Yang Duhong.
Simple and direct, giving Yang Duhong enough time to prepare for a counterattack!
Danger! Yang Duhong’s blood simmered in time, signals of danger spread throughout his body. His hands did not choose to fight back, but rather, chose to block the punch in front of his chest. Unable to root his feet to the ground with the Wukong Technique, Yang Duhong was helplessly thrown across the room backward. The sturdy walls of the White House behind him was as fragile as tofu, the same could be said to the ground below him as he left a deep mark on the ground.
Boom! The skies within a radius of a hundred meters exploded, sending a thunderous shockwave that swayed the White House as if it was in an earthquake. Yang Duhong’s clothes were blown up by the explosion, his arms shaking uncontrollably as the blood in his body continued to boil. It was as if his internal organs were being displaced, his bones uttering a groan audible only to him.
Strong! Very strong! Yang Duhong looked at Qin Fen from a distance. He couldn’t understand why, as he possessed the same sixteen-star class as his opponent and had even activated the third-level of the biochemical beast fusion, raising his fighting power to the maximum, he couldn’t fight against Qin Fen’s fist without any trace of boxing intent!
Very strong! Way too strong! Solomon looked at Qin Fen’s back. Although both of us are sixteen-star class, there was a big gap in destructive power! When Qin Fen was fighting David Solomon, he did not use his full strength! Even Xue Tian is the same! The Xue Tian in a red, demonic battle state also gave people the feeling of unparalleled strength.
“You still want to ask me why?” Qin Fen’s voice revealed an aura that engulfs everything, “How about I just kill your brothers? That way you will come and fight me without me coming to fight you?”
Yang Duzun silently took out two pills from his ring — the Super Berserker Pill and the Super Armor Pill.
With just a punch, Yang Duzun realized an important thing. Qin Fen might be a sixteen-star level martial artist, but he was able to overcome the limits of the aura shield with his fist. That’s right! That was the true Humanity Aura Shield! Only those that succeeded in converting their true energy into elements were able to utilize energies of higher quality, which was the Humanity Aura Shield Energy.
This did not require training. As long as the conversion of energy into element was complete, the moment one uses their true energy, the aura shield would be activated.
Humanity aura shield! According to normal theory, the conversion of true energy into humanity shield would require martial artists to reach eighteen-stars. However, the person in front of me was only sixteen-stars!
Yang Duzun had no choice but to pay attention to it. Right now that sixteen-star class is able to form humanity aura shield. If he really has the luck to enter the eighteen-star class, what will the shield be? The Earth Aura Shield from the legends? Or the apex of the aura shield — the Celestial Aura Shield!
The Ying Yang energy of the Eight Shortages and Six Directions of the Supremacy Over All Art was transformed into an aura shield, transforming Duzun’s body into metal in the process. Duzun slowly opened his fist into a palm, flowing around him was various energies with different colors ranging from black, green, and red. A metallic taste could be felt from the energies.
Five Venom Palm! Qin Fen recognized the rarely seen Five Venom Palm that was being used by Yang Duzun! With the development of the times and pharmaceuticals, few have gone to practice the martial arts technique that could be countered easily.
Qin Fen didn’t expect that he would see the rare Five Venom Palm here. The level of the Five Venom Palm was in another realm. The strong toxins can be detoxified by the elite hospitals today, but the problem lies in the fact that it is useless to detoxify the venom, as the power channeled by the Venom Palm was sufficient to kill its victim within half a second.
Take the medicine, channel the energy, bringing forth the fusion of the fourth level of the biochemical beast! The mythical fourth level of the biochemical beast fusion! It possessed the fourth-level of regenerative abilities unimaginable by the common man!
Yang Duzun’s body shone with a layer of light and shadow. Stripes of dark green light intersect with each other to form a serpentine pattern! A high-tiered biochemical beast, the Celestial Snake King styled biochemical beast! Compared to the ordinary fourth level of biochemical beast fusion, it allowed for an increase of five percent in nerve reflex speed, strength, and pure speed. Its special ability was its venom!
Qin Fen still remembered that Lin Liqiang said that there were few biochemical beasts that were suitable for paleo martial arts in this world. The biochemical beast selected by Yang Duzun was very suitable for his paleo martial arts.
Without any referees or bells to commence the duel, both sides changed the atmosphere of the White House the moment their aura made contact with each other. The prideful eyes of Yang Duzun that was locked on to Qin Fen released its tyrannical power in an instant!
In an instant, Yang Dunzun entered the realm of his own real martial dao, Tyranny.
Tyranny —’The world revolves around me’.
Tyranny —’Nothing exists in this world’.
Tyranny — the combination of the body and the world into one — I am the world, the world is me.
Complementing the Eight Shortages and Six Directions of the Supremacy Over All Art with his tyrannical martial dao, Qin Fen and Yang Lie was no longer in the eyes of Yang Duzun, as he couldn’t even see anyone.
In this world, the universe seemed to have disappeared. Everything seemed to have gathered on his fists to break a statue in front of him. A human figure statue that looked like Qin Fen.
Yang Lie’s peaceful expression once again showed a trace of fear. His eyes twitched several times before returning to normal. The Tyranny martial dao was able to affect the opponent, which was one of its terrifying traits.
In Yang Duzun’s eyes there was only a stone sculpture of Qin Fen that was left. His goal was only Qin Fen, the one who influenced his son; the one who injured his brother and dared to challenge him with a bet.
Yang Duzun’s true aura shield that was condensed into a piece of steel plate had affected his skin in a flash. His whole body became half white and half black, like a huge Yin Yang Fish on his body. Even his wild, tyrannical smile was half white and half black. The Eight Shortages and Six Directions of the Supremacy Over All Art had its Yin and Yang energies cultivated to its mastery.
Without shouts or roars, Yang Duzun squinted his eyes. The entire White House seemingly vibrated, bringing forth an explosion from his feet that turned the White House into ashes. The spectating martial artists began to retreat while focusing on the battlefield. They saw Yang Duzun transform into a black and white light, casting to Qin Fen a shockwave that could easily disintegrate a large aircraft!
Yang Duzun took the lead and began his channeling. The true aura shield thunderously crackled within his body, pushing his tyrannical power to the limit. The Five Venom Palm was clenched into a fist, emitting a colorful light that brought out the impact of an overbearing power aura.
Tyrant Fist!
Yang Duzun slammed his fist from above like a celestial net covering the ground! Within the extreme martial dao of Yang Duzun’s, his fist was imbued with the aura of historical heroes. The historical aura that he could accumulate from the lessons of history broke loose in an instant!
Qin Fen sank his shoulders slightly and lowered his waist. Under the conditions of not moving any of his joints, he produced a series of crackling sounds resembling the impact of the tens of millions of mahjong tiles falling from the skies.
Qin Fen’s body unknowingly became transparent. Those beside him could see his bones through the skin, his skulls already turned transparent like glass.
Advancing from pulling out the right arm from his waist, the ground below became seriously affected as it cracked with a depth of tens of meters under the overwhelming pressure. That slow yet extremely stable fist brought upon the thunderous sounds of explosion, turning the environment around the body into a vacuum resembling a large, transparent crystal. The air was absorbed into both of the arms with the determination of becoming a true, huge dragon, and breaking out the power and strength of two dragons and ten elephants!
