"Grandfather, Second Uncle."
As Liu Xin and Liu Qingguang, father and son, were puzzling over something, Liu Qingfeng’s youngest son, Liu Yiming, pushed the door open without knocking. Realizing his impropriety, he quickly bowed to greet them.
"What has you in such a panic?" Liu Xin reprimanded with displeasure.
Among the third generation of the Liu family, Liu Xin admired and valued Liu Yidao the most, even once considering Liu Yidao the chosen one to lead the Liu family to glory. However, Liu Yidao was stuck in the Martial Grandmaster realm for many years, unable to break through to the God of War realm. In the end, he met a tragic death in Su Jiang.
As for Liu Yiming…
He was the Liu family disciple Liu Xin disliked the most, without exception! This was all because Liu Yiming had disliked practicing martial arts since childhood, or rather, his heart wasn't in martial arts. Instead, he wished to be in charge of the Liu family's business. However, he lacked business acumen and ultimately could only serve as the head of intelligence for the Liu family.
"Grandfather, someone has issued a challenge to you on the Divine Net!" Liu Yiming reported urgently.
The Divine Net was a website under the banner of the global martial arts organization, the God of War Palace. It was dedicated to serving martial artists worldwide, where they could exchange martial arts knowledge, trade items, post missions, and issue challenges. Due to the Divine Net's unique nature, it was the most closely watched website by martial artists globally, without exception! Much of a martial artist's information was obtained through the Divine Net. As the head of intelligence for the Liu family, Liu Yiming logged into the Divine Net daily to check for news. Just now, as he was logging in as usual, he saw a challenge addressed to Liu Xin! After briefly reviewing the content of the challenge, he rushed over to report to Liu Xin and Liu Qingguang.
"Wh-what?!"
Hearing Liu Yiming’s report in shock, both Liu Qingguang and Liu Xin were stunned. On one hand, they knew about the Divine Net and understood it to be the most authoritative information exchange platform in the global martial arts world, where the news was always true—the challenge Liu Yiming spoke of was undoubtedly real! On the other hand, Liu Xin was a veteran Two-Star God of War. In the martial arts world of Dragon Country, and even globally, there were few individuals qualified to challenge him. In Liu Xin's memory, neither he nor the Liu family had ever provoked any power with a strength equivalent to or exceeding a Two-Star God of War! Under such circumstances, how could someone suddenly challenging Liu Xin not shock Liu Xin and Liu Qingguang?
"Who is the opponent?" Liu Xin asked with a grim expression after a brief moment of shock. In the martial arts world, besides settling grievances through agreed-upon duels, there was another scenario—contesting rankings on the God of War List! The God of War List was a roster compiled by the global martial arts organization, the God of War Palace, which detailed all the powerful individuals from One-Star God of War upwards, categorized into five lists from One-Star God of War to Five-Star God of War. As a veteran Two-Star God of War, Liu Xin was ranked twenty-eighth on the Two-Star God of War List! At this moment, Liu Xin subconsciously assumed the challenger wanted to surpass him on the God of War List.
"The Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall!" Liu Yiming replied.
"I recall the Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall being ranked in the fifties on the Two-Star God of War List. Why would he challenge you, Grandfather?" This time, before Liu Xin could speak, Liu Qingguang asked with astonishment. Like Liu Xin, he also believed the challenger was aiming for a ranking on the God of War List! And as he said, given the Battle Dragon Hall Master's ranking on the Two-Star God of War List, there was no reason for him to challenge Liu Xin by skipping so many individuals.
"Second Uncle, the Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall's challenge is not ordinary; it's a death match with Grandfather!" After responding to Liu Qingguang, Liu Yiming felt that explaining it would be too troublesome. He directly opened the laptop he had brought and said, "I'll open the challenge post for you to see."
"Good!" Liu Xin and Liu Qingguang, father and son, who were full of questions, no longer hesitated upon hearing Liu Yiming’s words and responded in unison. Liu Yiming placed the laptop on the table and quickly opened the Divine Net page. The main page of the Divine Net was very simple, featuring only the words "Divine Net" and the account login interface. Liu Yiming quickly logged into the Liu family's account on the Divine Net. The page flashed and then transitioned to the actual Divine Net interface. As a global website, the Divine Net had a main page and sub-pages designed specifically for each country, including Dragon Country, featuring various languages. Members could not only interact on the main page but also on the sub-pages belonging to their respective countries.
"Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall Issues a Death Challenge to Liu Xin of Dragon Country!" Upon entering the main page of the Divine Net, Liu Yiming discovered that this challenge news had been pinned and highlighted by the Divine Net staff, becoming the hottest news on the entire Divine Net, with comments exceeding ten thousand.
"Open it!" Although Liu Yiming had previously stated it was a death match, Liu Xin was still somewhat surprised upon seeing the title of the challenge. This was because, according to the unwritten rules of the martial arts world, in a death match, one party would inevitably be killed in the duel—unless there was a deep-seated enmity between the two parties, almost no martial artist, especially those at the God of War level, would issue a death challenge! He was very curious as to why the Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall would issue a death challenge to him!
"Understood, Grandfather." Liu Yiming dared not delay. He quickly opened the challenge news and then stepped aside, allowing Liu Xin and Liu Qingguang, father and son, to browse. According to relevant reports from Dragon Country and announcements from the Ministry of Public Security, the father of an unnamed member of the Battle Dragon Hall was intentionally murdered by Liu Qingfeng of the Liu family in Dragon Country and his accomplices that year. However, Liu Qingfeng and the involved parties had not yet received severe punishment, and the entire Battle Dragon Hall felt indignant about this matter! In view of this, I am willing to step forward for the unnamed individual and hereby issue a death challenge to Liu Xin of the Liu family in Dragon Country—three days from now, I will proceed to the ancestral home of the Liu family in Dragon Country and engage in a death match with Liu Xin, until death do us part!
Note 1: Although the killer of the unnamed individual's father was Liu Qingfeng, he is too weak to be worthy of my challenge!
—Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall.
"So, that brat from the Su family is from the Battle Dragon Hall!" After reading the challenge content from the Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall, Liu Qingguang became furious, cursing, "This Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall is too arrogant!"
"Qingfeng must have been killed by this fellow!" Liu Xin frowned, his expression somber. Ever since he saw that video online, he had concluded that Liu Qingfeng had been killed. However, because Qin Yuanzheng and Qin Linhai, father and son, had not left Jinling and Donghai at the time, he and the Liu family had not known who had killed Liu Qingfeng. They had only subjectively believed that Liu Qingfeng was killed by the Military Department through 'fishing'!
"Dad, this possibility is very high!" Liu Qingguang's heart stirred upon hearing this, and then he said with murderous intent, " this bastard, to stand up for that scoundrel from the Su family, first killed Eldest Brother, and now wants to issue a death challenge to you. He deserves to die!"
"Grandfather, the Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall is ranked fifty-sixth on the Two-Star God of War List and only has one record of killing a Two-Star God of War. At that time, he killed the leader of an underground force from abroad, who had only recently broken through to the Two-Star God of War realm and was ranked in the eighties. With your strength, killing him would be no problem!" Liu Yiming also spoke, detailing the Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall's strength and ranking on the Two-Star God of War List, aiming to persuade Liu Xin to accept the challenge. On one hand, he wanted Liu Xin to kill the Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall to avenge his father, Liu Qingfeng! On the other hand, as the head of intelligence for the Liu family, he was well aware that this death match also concerned Liu Xin's personal reputation and the honor of the Liu family! This was because, in the global martial arts world, such public death challenges issued on the Divine Net were extremely rare. And among those challenges, there was only one case where the challenged martial artist did not accept the challenge, resulting in him being labeled a coward and becoming a laughingstock in the global martial arts community!
"Yiming, post a statement on the Divine Net accepting the challenge. The content should be just one sentence: I will wait at the ancestral home of the Liu family for the Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall to come and die in three days!" Liu Xin said coldly, his entire body exuding a terrifying and powerful aura, his words filled with chilling killing intent! He had cultivated to the peak of the Two-Star God of War realm, being an absolute overlord in this field. How could he possibly take the Hall Master of the Battle Dragon Hall seriously?
"Alright." Liu Yiming immediately nodded and took the order, then, in front of Liu Xin and Liu Qingguang, father and son, he posted Liu Xin's acceptance of the challenge.
On this day, the global martial arts world was shaken!
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