Chapter 493 - Tyrant Fist - Du Zun (1/2)

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.