The Heavenly Road: God Hunters

Ch39 Hao Ryun's

"My name is Chen Hao, the young master can call you Chen. For my age more or less now I'm about 9 years old," he replied introducing himself.

"Ehh, why do you call me that. My name is Asta, just call me Asta. I also happen to be 10 years old. So maybe we can be friends" Asta said introducing himself.

"Chen, what exactly made you steal food in those stores. Where are your parents? Did they abandon you" Asta asked.

Chen Hao shook his head slowly, "My mother's father hasn't been around since I was a child, I didn't know who they were since I was a baby. I used to have two brothers who were just like me. We are outcasts. My brother and I lived together and were raised by Uncle Hao, until one day something tragic happened to my two brothers, now they have gone before me. Now it's just me and Uncle Hao who have survived to this day" Chen said of his life.

Chen continued his story of the twists and turns during his childhood with his brothers. Hearing that Asta was also filled with excitement, the story reminded him of his dream and goal of becoming a great Cultivator who could save people who needed help like him.

"Chen, can you take me to meet your Uncle Hao? Honestly hearing your story I want to see what kind of person Uncle Hao is," Asta asked Chen to bring him to meet Uncle Hao.

Chen nodded his head saying that he could have taken her to meet him.

"But, Chen. Before that I want to eat first, can you take me to the best restaurant in town?" Ask Asta to ask a restaurant.

"There are many restaurants in the city, but I have never entered any of them. I just heard from people that there was one really good restaurant. When I passed by the restaurant I did smell an amazingly delicious cuisine. I'm sure it might be the best restaurant here" Chen told him.

"Alright then we choose the restaurant," Asta invited and then pulled his hand.

Arriving in front of the restaurant Asta really smelled the aroma of very delicious cuisine exactly as Chen said, Chen was staring at the smell of the cuisine, his saliva did not even stop dripping.

Seeing the appearance and bum Chen who was a bum, the restaurant guard reflexively approached the two of them.

Asta then shook Chen to wake up as they were about to enter the restaurant.

"Stop..!! Don't you realize who you are...!! Stay away from this place, you're really not good at sight...!!!" The guards kicked Chen Hao.

Hearing these words made Asta grow furious with their attitude, but before he acted, Chen Hao withdrew his hand while shaking his head to Asta.

"Young master, if you want to eat come in alone, I will wait for the young master there," Chen Hao pointed towards the corner of the building.

"It is good that you understand" said the guard.

"Can't, if I eat then you have to eat, too," without saying much Asta immediately pulled Chen's hand to enter the restaurant.

"Young master, can you leave him alone. If this child enters the restaurant, other customers will be disturbed and choose to leave" the guard said, staring at Chen with a look of disdain.

Asta sharpened his gaze towards the guard trying to scare him with his aura. But his actions are useless. Asta felt a bad feeling when he saw the guard smiling at him.

"Young master, if you're willing to leave this bum I promise you young master will never be disappointed with our service here" the guard said with a smile.

"Chen, just ignore him you come with me" Asta exclaimed and pulled Chen's hand.

But he had not stepped forward the guard suddenly hit Chen's chest to make him pushed back.

"I told you not! We don't accept a vagrant here" the guard said, staring at Chen in disgust.

"You-you!!!"

Chen Hao lowered his face as he got up from his place.

"Young master, what this guard master said is true, my presence will only annoy other customers. Young master eat alone, Chen will be waiting for you here. Chen promised," Chen Hao once again asked Asta to enter the restaurant and eat alone.

Seeing the guard's attitude like that Asta's emotions again churned, he no longer tolerated the guard's attitude.

"Only a Knight Master would dare to be unworthy in front of me" Asta said slowly but clearly.

"Young master, I told you before what you can do to me" the guard challenged him.

Asta casually took out the Heaven-Splitting Sword from his ring. Seeing the figure of the young man seemed to be so easy to take out a level 4 artifact certainly made the guard a little worried, but his worry was too late because Asta was ready to send his manager.

"Young master, can we..."

"Impic Level Heavenly Art, Divine Slash,"

Without a second thought, Asta threw his sword at the guard, the sword energy created from the skill threw him into the restaurant. The guard was seriously injured because of it.

"You think I'll let you go after you call my friend a bum, you son of a bitch..!!!" Shouted Asta.

The patrons of the restaurant who were mostly cultivators instantly found out the origin of the commotion.

"This boy..?!! What exactly is the background...!!! How dare he mess up here..!!,"

Now everyone's attention was focused on the figure who defeated the restaurant guards with just a single slash strike. Cultivators who were previously enjoying the dish no longer have the appetite to continue eating.

It was seen the restaurant owner running frantically towards him, but before he could apologize for the behavior of his guards Cultivators who had also been provoked by emotion immediately stopped him.

"She..!! If you don't apologize immediately for what you did, then...." It had not been time for one of the cultivators to finish his words, a blackish sword slash energy floated towards him.

"Booommm...!!!!"

"Spirit Technique, Burning Freedom,"

The Cultivators were surprised by the sudden attack, they could not even see the speed of Asta's hand in swinging his sword.

After doing the spirit techniques of course Asta had to activate his Spirit Essence first, only then did all those people realize that the boy before them was not a careless figure, but a True Cultivator. They did not dare to continue the fight because they were afraid Asta already had the Ancient Animal Spirit as his Animal Spirit which was certainly not their match at once.

"Chen, we go," Asta asked Chen Hao not to eat at the restaurant.

"Young master wait a minute," said the restaurant owner again chasing after him.

The restaurant owner later apologized to him and offered him a free meal and compensation for the care of the unpleasant guard.

Asta then exhaled slowly before accepting the offer of the restaurant owner.

"If I could I'd like the owner of the restaurant to wrap up some food. I feel bad eating it here" he said as he watched a group of people watching him with fear.

"Our young master apologized in advance for not seeing the master properly," said the Cultivators, Asta just nodded his head slowly.

"Alright young master, you can wait for him for a moment for that. Come with me, young master," take the restaurant owner.

The guard that he had previously hit now could only resign to his fate now. He apologized to Asta and promised not to repeat the same thing in the future.

After getting some compensation and some food wrappers, Asta invited Chen Hao to hurry away from the place.

After there with Chen Hao's direction they wanted to meet the figure that Chen called his parents, Uncle Hao.

In a rather narrow alley a small hut built with makeshift items a middle-aged man was repairing an worn-out mask.

Uncle Hao looked smiling, but the look on his face changed for a moment in wonder, he asked who the young man next to him was.

"Uncle Hao, this is Young Master Asta who has saved me from Mr. Zhang," Chen said introducing Asta.

"Thank you, Young Master, your body will definitely return one day, sit down first" Uncle Hao told him to sit down.

"It's okay, after all I just feel that it's imperative for me to save someone who needs help, because I see they don't care at all as if they're better than you. Is this the way of behaving of a man who calls himself a virtuous person..?" Asta asked quite angrily with such condescending traits.

Uncle Hao widened his eyes to listen to such questions which are very rarely thought of, because discrimination itself is somewhat commonplace against people like him.

Smiling embarrassed Uncle Hao then told Chen to answer the question, Chen enthusiastically answered his question.

"As young masters see people will not care about things like whether we are human or not, sometimes just because we have the ability or wealth people will mostly discriminate against people like us. The Empire did give us a little help but not much reached us" Chen said.

"Young master, in our world like this. It is very common for our lowly people to live under discrimination, power and money are everything, we as weak people can only accept what is the destiny of God's will, fighting is useless," said Uncle Hao, continuing Chen Hao.

Asta exhaled slowly, "Many things I have not yet seen in this world and by looking at you two here my insight grew even more. If indeed strength is everything, then I will head towards the peak of strength and rebalance life. Even though I can't confirm it yet but I promise for this," Asta declared himself in front of the two of them.

"Haha... If only all men thought like you, son. Maybe now there are no more people living below like us. We keep your promise, son," Uncle Hao said in response to Asta's remarks.

"Yes, I promise!" he said it again.

"Alright then, Chen can you go buy a drink. It just so happens that I got some money earlier," asked Uncle Hao.

"Use mine alone," Asta said as he gave a bag of gold to the two of them.

"No, no, how could we use money from you even if you want to help us but at least we should give you money with money we have first, that's what we have in common," said Uncle Hao.

"Ahh, then uncle just save the money for later purposes," Asta said.

Uncle Hao nodded, Chen left the place to buy a drink.

"I heard there was a teenage boy who messed up at Wan Xeng Restaurant, he had a Spirit tattoo on his arm. If I may ask if you really are a True Cultivator?" Uncle Hao asked while looking at him sharply.

When the atmosphere was tense, Asta felt his breath become tight, he was like confined in a room that had no air at all.

When he looked into Uncle Hao's eyes, he felt as if he could not move his body. His body became numb, but Asta realized what situation was going on right now. Yet he could only quietly wait for Uncle Hao himself to take it off.

"I don't think Uncle Hao is actually a very great cultivator, I'm really amazed. But senior, can you pull back your technique, I'm having trouble breathing" Asta said with a look in his eyes that showed admiration for him.

"Hahahaha, that's just a story of the past, I am now nothing more than a vagrant" he said evasively and the atmosphere became calm again, Asta also does not feel any more difficulty in breathing.

'This uncles Hao was a good person, he was even willing to live desperately and throw away his identity in order to support some homeless children. He can be trusted,'

"Senior, I promised my teacher and my Animal Spirit not to speak of this to anyone. But it seems that I have made a mistake by using spirit techniques in public until the revelation of my identity, it might be okay if I also tell you about this truth. After all, from now on people will definitely look for me," said Asta admitted that.

"Haaaahh, it turns out that you already have a teacher, I thought I would get another great student, then who is your teacher, Asta?" Ask Uncle Hao.

"He was a famous Legend during his lifetime, I'm sure Uncle Hao must have heard of the Dark Fire God right? If you already know then there's no need for me to tell Uncle about him no" Asta said.

Hao did not look surprised at all he even looked ordinary, it was not something that surprised him, but then he suddenly laughed loudly.

"It looks like history will change again, upon his return from the dead will surely create a great turmoil for the war of decisiveness" muttered Uncle Hao.

"Asta, accept this, this is all I can give you at least this is better than the sword you used before. I hope you can use it very well," he said, giving Asta a black sword that looks very sharp. The sword even emitted a dark aura that was extremely gripping, like the sword had taken so many casualties during its use.

"This, what sword is this, why does my soul become more excited when I see it. No, this is not fighting spirit but bloodlust" asked Asta.

"Quick close your eyes with spirit if you want to survive" Uncle Hao ordered.

Asta immediately did as Uncle Hao commanded, fortunately Asta's consciousness had still not fallen deep enough by the sword aura.

"The name of this sword is the Night Devil, it is one of my God Artifacts that I got from Master to me" he said, giving it to Asta.

"But isn't this Uncle Hao's Master's gift, why would Uncle give something this valuable to me?" Ask Asta.

"Surely because you are also a Master student, just think of this as a gift from a college brother," he said with a smile.

"What..?! If Uncle Hao is also a student of my Master does not mean Uncle Hao is a brother-in-law with Manager Row," Asta guessed it.

"Ehhh, do you know him?" Ask Uncle Hao.

"Of course because of my arrival as well to meet him here, I will even participate in the Heavenly Art Tournament as a representative of the Association, the teacher is also there now does Uncle want to meet Master as well..?" asta said.

"No, no, no. I'm not that whiny kid, even though I miss Master too but now is not the right time to meet him" Uncle Hao said, Asta nodded.

"Uncle Hao, is this sword actually a Spirit Artifact?" Ask Asta.

"Initially this sword was an ordinary Artifact before it finally became a Spirit Artifact, with me the Night Demon had already killed so many Demons which was the reason this Sword became a Spirit Artifact. The aura it emits can make you bloodthirsty even go crazy, you can use it if your soul power is as strong as a Senior Cultivator, never use it rashly remember that, Asta," uncle Hao told him.

"Uncle, wait a minute, you said that strength is everything, isn't it with your strength now that you don't have to live hard. Then why are you bothering yourself with living here" Asta asked.

"Asta, strength is everything but with strength it is not necessarily able to solve everything. Strength is an absolute punishment, which is why it takes a strong and wise soul to control that power" Uncle Hao explained.

"So you..?!! Is trying to educate Chen Hao..?!! Then does Chen Hao know that you are a cultivator?" Ask Asta again.

"Yes, I was educating him and of course Chen already knew, after all this was just a test to control his emotions," Uncle Hao explained.

Asta agrees a little with this. He also became reminded of the method of his father and mother that makes it look like poor life.

Because Asta could not linger, he decided to leave, Uncle Hao did not forget to tell him about his real name also gave him a Communication Jade which allowed him to contact Uncle Hao whenever he needed his help.

"Remember this Asta, my name is, Hao Ryun and Chen Hao's real name is Hao Chen. You can call me anytime with that device if you need any help from me. Ohh yes don't forget also please give it to Master," Uncle Hao told him.

"Uncle, thank you for the gift" he said thank you.

"There's no need to thank, after all, it should be as a college brother giving gifts to his juniors, after all," Uncle Hao replied.

Asta nodded, and hurried away from the place towards the Red Dawn Association.

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Heavenly Note

Night Demon, was one of the level 7 Spirit Artifacts. Originally it was an ordinary Artifact but by using the blood of thousands of Demons who had purified it Night Demon so it had its own uniqueness. The nature of the bloodthirsty Demon, as if flowing into the sword.