The Favored Son of Heaven

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Just as expected!

The hearts of everyone instantly brightened.

The goal of Martial Madman this time wasn’t the five young martial artists who were in the limelight in front of him.

Qin Fen, the one that killed two of the Neo-Korea Federation’s Martial God, Bae Seong-Joon’s personal disciples, was currently the most popular person in the Sacred Martial Hall! Lauded as the king of newcomers by everyone without even a fight, Qin Fen was the real goal of the Martial Madman.

The attention of the people was all concentrated on Qin Fen.

Since the day he joined the Sacred Martial Hall, the Martial Madman had been hailed by the entire Sacred Martial Hall as a prodigy of martial artists and was the most promising one in becoming a Divine Beast martial artist.

However, after the arrival of Qin Fen, some people had begun to doubt their initial judgments as time went by. They began to think that it should be Qin Fen, not the Martial Madman, that bore the most potential in becoming a Divine Beast Martial Artist.

The most outstanding martial artist in the history of the Sacred Martial Hall was no longer the Martial Madman, but a new freak named Qin Fen!

Such thoughts might not be recognized by the entire Sacred Martial Hall, but many had begun to think so.

Both the old and new generations bore outstanding martial artists of their time, with one standing on top of the ring and the other watching quietly below the ring.

Although there was evidently no smell of gunpowder, the martial artists in the audience seats felt a little pressure on their chests, as if the air had become thinner as the scent that often arose before the storm wafted through the air.

Between the best martial artists of the new and older generations of the Sacred Martial Hall, who will emerge as victor today?

More and more martial artists directed their attention to Martial Madman.

As the chosen one to receive the attentive care and training from the Sacred Martial Hall, Martial Madman had an absolute advantage in terms of time! Qin Fen might have had extreme growth until recently, causing him to lag behind in time as compared to the Martial Madman.

Just from the warm-up battle of the Martial Madman, it could be witnessed from his secret art – the Thousand Buddha Palm – had contained four other sets of secret arts encompassing the fist, palm, fingers, and nails! Evidently, the Sacred Martial Hall had placed heavy investment in his training!

The performance of the Martial Madman was worthy of the investment of the Sacred Martial Hall, for he was able to combine five distinct sets of secret arts to defeat the five young and popular martial artists within the duration of a lightning strike.

Currently, there were more people in support of Martial Madman. Bearing the title of the most outstanding martial artist in the Sacred Martial Hall, along with his warm-up performance, his strength and fortitude were not easily dismissed by the spectators.

As for Qin Fen? Caesar doubtfully stared at the back of Qin Fen. Since the day Qin Fen killed Cai Renying, he had not fought ever since. With his isolated training for the past ten days, it was hard to gauge how much had he improved.

It was unable to clearly gauge his abilities! Brooks gauged Qin Fen with doubtful eyes. As a former opponent and current friend of his, Brooks found himself increasingly unable to gauge Qin Fen clearly. It was as if Qin Fen was surrounded by thick clouds of fog, as every strike of his displayed unprecedented power.

Completing the Nirvana Marrow Transformation Great Inborn at the peak of an eternal-star rank of fifteen-stars, Cai Renying’s measly power of fourteen-stars was incomparable to his.

Those succeeding in entering the ranks of the fifteenth-star were undoubtedly recognized as experts.

Under everyone’s attentive gaze, Qin Fen made his move.

He slowly moved his legs to the ring without shaking the earth, carrying his domineering aura.

Qin Fen’s movements were as casual as going out for a walk in the sunset after dinner, unusual for one going to face one of the most outstanding martial artists in the history of the Sacred Martial Hall.

Calmness reigned supreme over his body and mind.

Qin Fen hopped on the ring and looked at the Martial Madman, who had his hands behind him.

The Nirvana Marrow Transformation was something that never existed in all of Qin Fen’s opponents before this. At the same time, the transformation was also the secret of his repeated success in his battle against stronger opponents.

One could even say that the advantage Qin Fen possessed over a fourteen-star martial artist in terms of foundation largely stemmed from his completion of the Nirvana Marrow Transformation.

However, Qin Fen knew that such an advantage no longer existed the moment he faced Martial Madman.

If one were to insist on any other advantages, Qin Fen felt that the unique secret art, the World Martial Arts Master Outline would be his only advantage over the Martial Madman. Unfortunately, Qin Fen had yet to fully master and display the true power of the World Martial Arts Master Outline.

Contemporary internal arts were merely powers channeled from forcing the body. According to the explanation of several martial arts masters, the World Martial Arts Master Outline was an apex-level collection of secret arts across the world. If one was able to master the Outline, they would be able to easily and precisely identify and counter their opponent’s internal arts to gain the greatest advantage.

As for its disadvantages… Qin Fen held a clear understanding of them.

Through the several years Martial Madman had spent in the Sacred Martial Hall, the entirety of his body had been strengthened by countless superior medicine. Furthermore, with his privilege to freely roam the Secret Art Pavillion, the Martial Madman had great mastery in various secret arts. These experiences were incomparable by Qin Fen’s mere twelve hours in the Secret Art Pavilion.

The biggest disadvantage was still the aspect of star ranking. When the true energy of both sides were almost similar in terms of quality, the rank-power of Martial Madman would then be clearly revealed.

Lots of martial artists held their breath at this very moment as they stared intently on both contestants on the ring, for the fear that they would miss any detail from the exciting battle just by blinking their eyes.

Martial Madman suddenly made his move! He did not move with the speed of the wind as before, but rather on the same, relaxed pace similar to Qin Fen’s. He sauntered to Qin Fen without a glimmer of fighting intent.

He assessed Qin Fen with his bright red pupils like an x-ray machine and exclaimed, “You are hurt!”

Qin Fen nodded slightly without denying. The last time he defeated Cai Renying was not without a price. He thought that the drug of the Sacred Martial Hall and his true energy oscillation could heal his cracked arm bones quickly.

Qin Fen had underestimated the final strength of Cai Renying’s fourteen-star power on the verge of death. The seemingly small crack on his bone never fully recovered.

“Fighting me with injuries? It’s meaningless then.” The Martial Madman shook his head and walk past Qin Fen, saying, “Heal your injuries before fighting me. It is boring to play with a dead mouse. A live mouse is more interesting.”

Martial Madman went to the edge of the ring and looked down at Xue Tian, who was smiling with his katana, “Come up the ring, we shall have a duel.”

…

Xue Tian held his katana in his arms with a slight smile on his face, looking at Nash, the Martial Madman on the ring without moving.

“You don’t want to fight?”

Nash suddenly brought out his battle intent. Caesar and others who just got up felt the sudden explosion of battle intent, their hairs standing up on their backs as they looked worriedly at Xue Tian under the ring.

If people on the edge have strong reactions toward the battle intent, what about Xue Tian, who was the epicenter of where the battle intent was directed to?

…

Xue Tian still held a slight smile on his face, and his body was as usual, standing there without moving an inch with no signs of battle intent in his clear eyes.

The Martial Madman’s eyes twitched with faint red light within. His display of aggressive battle intent was completely ignored by his opponent, as if he wasn’t facing a living person, but a pile of soft cotton!

Otherwise, anyone – even a pig – would be stimulated by this battle intent and would at least have some feedback.

The slight smile constantly maintained by Xue Tian displaying a special status devoid of battle intent, in turn, extinguished whatever was left in the battle intent of Nash the Martial Madman.

Nash didn’t know what to say, and the opponent’s faint smile was very annoying. In the face of this faint smile, Nash couldn’t wait to go up and slap him, but his battle intent was quickly weakened by the smile. Nash wanted to start a fight but he wasn’t interested enough.

“We shall fight again once you’ve recovered…”

Martial Madman repeated himself again and jumped down from the ring without looking back. In the eyes of everyone, he quickly moved with the fast-moving technique that closely resembles teleportation, and disappeared without a trace.

What does this mean? The onlooking martial artists looked at each other uneasily.

What the hell is this? The upcoming showdown just abruptly came to a halt? The onlooking martial artists seemed to have scratched their hearts with hundreds of cat claws. The feeling was something that a man who was so fully-prepared to throw himself into a naked beauty in bed, only to hear her say, “I am having my period today…” would feel.

Or it was like a woman who was about to climax, only to feel that the man who was on top of her stop moving, only to tell her in a low voice.

“I am soft…”

That’s right! It was exactly this feeling! The onlooking martial artists soon projected their anger towards the Neo Taekwondo’s martial artists.

If it weren’t for Cai Renying’s battle with Qin Fen, perhaps they might be able to watch a duel between the best martial artists of the Sacred Martial Hall.

“Haha…”

Fenghua Danyun covered her cherry lips with her hands and smiled as she walked towards Qin Fen, her pair of watery pupils intently assessing Qin Fen, “You are really outstanding! You’ve become stronger after our last meeting.”

Qin Fen’s hairs were not provoked by the eyes of the Martial Madman filled with battle intent, but rather by the tender and watery gaze of Fenghua Danyun!

While it was clearly a tender and watery gaze, Qin Fen always felt that she was a hungry grey wolf stalking her prey, which was him.

Fenghua Danyun twisted her ankle and turned to descend down the ring. Although it was a quick action of jumping and landing, she was able to produce an illusion of a goddess descending from the heavens among every martial artist on the scene.

Asura turned her attention to Caesar and the others. The slender white fingers pressed against the chin, and the lips were gently opened to reveal white teeth, “Weird, you really have become a lot stronger in a short time, but the place that is supposed to be strengthened isn’t. Your strength just skyrocketed abruptly. It’s weird!”

Qin Fen looked at Asura’s back with a slight surprise. This woman seems to be even more amazing than what was told in stories. She was able to see the eccentricity of Caesar and the others just by looking at them casually.

Yang Lie became stronger. So did Caesar.

In a very short time, everyone in Qin Fen’s team had been becoming stronger at an extremely fast pace. However, Yang Lie’s improvement was different from the others.

Caesar and the others had undergone a qualitative change in their internal art, which urged a collective quantitative change within, which was something that even Qin Fen did not expect.

However, Yang Lie had vastly improved himself under Asura’s special training without undergoing any qualitative change in his internal art.

While it couldn’t be said for sure on which improvement technique was better, Qin Fen believed that combining both improvement techniques together would be the best method.

“What a weird bunch.” Fenghua Danyun said with a thoughtful look, her slender index finger tapping her chin, “I’ve decided! You must undergo special training with me for a while.”

“Especially you.” Fenghua Danyun turned to stare at Qin Fen on the ring, “At your current level, fighting that little Madman right now, even without injury, would only be at the level of sparring for him – your odds of winning are minimal.”

Qin Fen slightly nodded without objection. His goal to get on the stage just now was only to observe the power of one of the strongest martial artists in the Sacred Martial Hall. Qin Fen preferred to learn and comprehend from actual battles.

The chance of winning? Qin Fen smiled and went to the realm of mastery. Does The Martial Madman have no mastery? Nirvana Marrow Transformation is a big congenital success. Does The Martial Madman have no Nirvana Marrow Transformation?

Furthermore, with a gap difference of several years in training between the two that led to a difference in star-rank power, Qin Fen really felt that he couldn’t win the Martial Madman in battle today.

Of course, Qin Fen didn’t think that he would never ever win Nash. From the inductive reasoning recently, there wasn’t much improvement in power at initial glance. But if he completed his inductive reasoning, his power would greatly improve again within a short time.

Just like Ferrero’s opinion, Qin Fen also believed that he had reached the peak of his fury! The accumulation in the early stage had reached the peak the moment it erupted. If there was proper guidance in his training, the fury phase would be even more intense.

Asura Fenghua Danyun’s training? Qin Fen would like to try it for himself. After witnessing Yang Lie’s rapid growth in such a short period of time, his desire to try out the training intensified.

In a flash, Qin Fen’s eyes began to shine.

Fenghua Danyun looked at Qin Fen’s shining eyes and her calm heart suddenly trembled. Such excitement and determination within the eyes were a normal sight for the Head of Department of Martial Arts. Yet, she had never felt a sensation like this before.

A completely different feeling! Fenghua Danyun looked at Qin Fen with some curiosity. Why did the mind suddenly tremble with his eyes? It was not a tremble of fear, nor a tremble of appreciation. It seemed to be a trembling of the indescribable taste.

A tremble in the heart was usually uncomfortable. Yet, Fenhua Danyun felt a comfortable sensation from her heart trembles, with a hint of admiration for Qin Fen within.

Caesar and others directed their eyes to Qin Fen. It was indeed an honor to receive Fenghua Danyun’s special training, but it all depended on the decision by Qin Fen. Should he refuses the offer, everyone would also refuse the offer in solidarity.

This was no other than loyalty and chemistry! After many incidents, Qin Fen had acted as the hub that brought everyone together.

Qin Fen raised his head, showing his clearly outlined cheeks with a bright and confident smile, “I look forward to this special training.”