The Favored Son of Heaven

Chapter 502: Hunting (End)

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

In a split second after the blades aura became scattered, it once again converged in waves after waves into the katana, like steels attracted to a magnet. In the next moment, the shiny blade flashed a blazing beam that was more glaring than the sun, but this blazing beam only carried piercing chills. It was the complete opposite of the Sahara desert’s heat which made one’s skin so dry it cracked.

Thousand Returning Blades, Sky Rejecting Slash! The blade in the hands of Xue Tian drew a motion trail of lightning in the air instead of a simple slash. The intricate blade beams twisted chaotically like a lightning stroke from the air and made it impossible to find the ultimate landing point.

Zuo Dongting suffered waist and abdominal pain. There was a violent blast of murderous aura from approximately five kilometers away! It was a murderous aura that would only be released by the sniper once the enemy was locked under high-precision aiming! This was what the sniper would do at the last moment before the shot was fired.

Again? Zuo Dongting was distracted for a moment and both hands holding Humanity Aura Shield clamped the katana. However, it could no longer stand the katana’s full power of striking and both of them fell from the air at high speed. The super-speed created friction against the scorching air and they slammed onto the ground just like two huge fireballs.

Tons of yellow sand flew up into the air, like a magma erupting from a volcano, but their color was a golden yellow and not fiery red. That was the huge force of impact when they hit.

The vast sand dunes disappeared without a trace in the collision and a massive golden sand vortex with a diameter of hundreds of meters emerged. The surrounding sand quickly gathered into the pothole as though falling into a funnel.

In the roar of the collision, a shrill sound of metal clangs echoed. Anyone familiar with weapons could identify that it was the sound of a blade being cut off by a hand.

Zuo Dongting was lying in the sand as he watched the exterminating blow of Xue Tian. ​His hands clamped the deadly blade and twisted to the side. The blade full of Humanity Aura Shield broke into two with a sorrowful howl. His wrists fluttered and shot half of the blade directly at Xue Tian’s throat.

Half-cut blade! Xue Tian’s head rose high and the broken blade flew right past his face and rushed straight to the sky. His legs slammed towards Zuo Dongting’s cheek and at the same time two fatal short blades popped out under the military boots.

Blades! Not only did Xue Tian have more than one blade, he had also hidden blades everywhere! Zuo Dongting also knew that Xue Tian was a weird young man who was a moving military arsenal. When the broken blade was shot and the Wukong technique flew away invertedly against the ground, Xue Tian’s pedaling blade technique pierced the yellow sand but did not pierce through the opponent’s body.

Zuo Dongting, lying in the yellow sand, gripped his palm repeatedly. A huge vortex suction was formed in the air and the yellow sand on his body was sucked into his palm. The unlimited yellow sand accumulated to hundreds of kilograms sucked in his palm in the blink of an eye. They swirled at such high speed that a giant basketball was formed. They squeezed each other and compressed into a smaller size at a very high speed.

The sound of the high-speed rotation was like the roar of a lion. The sand scorpions that lived in the desert couldn’t escape the fate of being absorbed and immediately turned into a few drops of liquid mixed within.

Sand absorption and sand compression were completed in an instant! Zuo Dongting had always been at a disadvantage since the battle started. Encountering Xue Tian who was injured, he attempted to snatch back the initiative immediately while their combos stopped. The sand ball that was spinning at a high speed mixed with the majestic Humanity Aura Shield broke the air and smashed towards Xue Tian’s face as he was charging towards him.

Azure Dragon Spurting Pearl! Zuo Dongting’s attack was not meant to kill Xue Tian. If one could kill Xue Tian by merely gathering hundreds of kilograms of sand, ​​then Xue Tian was no different than wallpaper.

He is stalling! I need to block! Xue Tian’s turned his body and his entire person rotated quickly like a spinning top. Two blades pop up at the wrist from the back of his hands, turning him into an enormous human-shaped drill. Countless yellow sand was brought up by this turning power and swirled around his body.

Zuo Dongting had regained his standing posture while Xue Tian was avoiding the sand ball. The arms raised abruptly and used the power of Capturing Dragon and Controlling Crane to lift the yellow sand from the ground as if forming rows of sand walls.

Puff puff puff puff... Xue Tian’s blade pierced through countless sand walls in an instant. Zuo Dongting’s expression returned to normal but he didn’t have the time to destroy and expel the two strange true energies in the body. The Humanity Aura Shield concentrated on his arms suddenly released a violent roar. The lion king-shaped mobile armor which had been overlooked by others and lingering in the sky for a long time had suddenly opened its mouth. A missile darted out of it and attacked the back of Xue Tian directly.

Zuo Dongting stepped forward, jumped, and looked from a distance up in the air. He spread out his palms and flew down in a diving position. He hit Xue Tian’s head, shoulders, and chest with Wuyue Fist! Mount Tai Capping!

The palms as big as a palm-leaf fan stirred up wind like river waves crashing. Swooshing sounds echoed throughout the desert.

Lin Ling’s eyes suddenly twitched and Zuo Dongting’s palm pressure was collected. His body twisted in the air to form the most accurate military posture technique to dodge a sniper and then slammed both his legs towards the sniper’s position at a distance.

Twice! In the short battle, there had been two sniper-locked killing intent! This kind of killing intent was targeted at the head every time. Such killing intent on the battlefield was far more frightful than the opponents’ usage of fists and blades. It was the taste of pure death.

Zuo Dongting once thought that as long as Gun King and his bizarre sniper weapon were destroyed in this world, it would not really hurt even if someone had a sniper technique like Gun King.

There is no second gun in the world that can launch such a terrifying bullet! Zuo Dongting knew that he was wrong today. The first bullets had just grazed his ear while the other one had penetrated into the abdomen. Additionally, the bullets that entered his body disintegrated instantaneously. It would not trigger an explosion but the venom hidden in the bullet began to secrete.

This was not a venom that could poison people to death immediately. This was a venom that slowly poisoned people to death! The existence of this bullet was the real bane! It even became difficult to clear the two true energies that invaded the body.

Kill the sniper! He must be killed immediately! Zuo Dongting was very clear that the moment one was suddenly locked as a target in a fierce battle, it would affect the judgment and reaction of the martial artist. If one did not make any judgments and react, the deadly bullets would come after being completely locked.

Boom! The blasts sounded in the desert. A gray-black mushroom cloud rose into the air with countless yellow sand. Xue Tian climbed out of the desert and spat up two mouthfuls of sand. Then he carried half of his katana in his hand and started chasing.

Ten kilometers... nine kilometers... eight and a half kilometers... seven kilometers...

Zuo Dongting was seven kilometers away from Lin Ling and he saw that the yellow sand that covered the sky was surging! That yellow sand was like a rewinding Lushan Waterfall, a volcano erupting, and even more like a yellow sand rain falling from the sky.

There was a person in front of the yellow sand that covered the sky! The red eyes glared with endless hatred and behind him was a pair of huge angel wings. One was pure white while the other was dark black, and energy completely unfolded on both sides. Each footstep set off a thunderous explosion. Countless yellow sands surged into the sky from the moment he left his standing position on the ground.

Qin Fen! Zuo Dongting stopped the Wukong technique and his feet were rooted in the yellow sand. He took a deep breath as his face seared in crimson red. Blending the three great secret arts: the Nine Sun Divine Art, Violet Clouds Divine Art and Inferno Arts, together with the original creation of Supreme Yang Sun Divine Art drumming in the body, the two true energies were forced out of the body swiftly. It was as though the skeleton maggots’ toxins were also pulled away from the body.

Whoosh... Black blood spurted out from his fingers along with the two true energies. The lower abdomen of the lion-shaped mobile armor that followed closely in the sky split open and a big spear revealed a ferocious sharp edge!

It was a big spear! With a length of nearly four meters, the spearhead’s cold edge was half a meter long. One shot was enough to pierce through several people. It was definitely a fatal weapon.

The big spear was shot from the lion’s body and Zuo Dongting jumped without looking back. He took the big spear and his right foot turned a little suddenly. While raising the sand, a violent true energy was shot backward. It was like a big cockroach running in the sand behind him! At the same time, he also started to attack Qin Fen!

A high-speed assault over a hundred meters sprint at a distance of thousands of kilometers!

The large spear in Zuo Dongting’s hands was like a top spinning at a high speed at the time of the assault. The spiral wind pressure formed by the spear’s tip made a creaking sound which made people think that it was a propeller from the helicopter.

Zuo Dongting once galloped on the battlefields with a big spear, Lion Tooth! Forget people, it could even penetrate through a big mountain made of cast iron!

Xue Tian chased behind him and carried his half-katana. He leaped high and chopped the lion-shaped mobile armor into two halves with his blade!

A mobile armor was indeed a mobile armor. Even though it had a prestigious appearance, it did not have any defensive capabilities. It was more of a symbol of identity or a transportation tool to save physical energy for Zuo Dongting.

A missile prevented Xue Tian’s pursuit slightly and a long spear flew out. The lion-shaped mobile armor had been able to achieve its full effect. Zuo Dongting did not care about any other roles a tool that did not have any defense power could play.

He didn’t look back and didn’t bother about the mobile armor falling from the air. He only had Qin Fen in his eyes! As long as I pierce through Qin Fen, I can charge towards the nasty sniper and kill him! Then kill Xue Tian ​​and the rest of the youngsters. That’s enough!

The goal was clear and there was not a single distracting thought. Zuo Dongting’s mind was fully devoted to this battle. He looked at Qin Fen who was running towards him. The distance between the two was less than a hundred meters. Not only could he feel each grain of sand’s movement under the body, he could also feel Qin Fen’s emotion. The kind of emotion was a mixture of killing intent, anger and... the mighty aura of power!

In an instant, the yellow sand that covered the sky was no longer just an accessory effect brought by Qin Fen’s high-speed running. These boiling yellow grains of sand, as well as the yellow sand that were not boiling, the fiery air in the Sahara desert quickly came together to Qin Fen!

Qin Fen’s strong punch radiated a magnificent aura of power! Zuo Dongting felt that he was not facing a human at this moment but the entire sky and earth in this area! Even the rooted yellow sand on the ground didn’t help him a bit!

The confrontation of Qin Fen was like a scene that felt only possible when millions of buffalo and rhinoceros were running. At that moment, a glaring arm emerged and it drew a perfect arc in the air. Zuo Dongting felt as though the sky had collapsed and his cheeks were slapped hard by a big mountain so that even his nose was aching.

There were less than a hundred meters between them and Zuo Dongting felt that the heavy fist really broke his nose. The source of this illusion was that punch! The effect of a mighty, heavy punch filled with anger and murder intent that was mixed the Sahara soul.

Although it was only an illusion, Zuo Dongting clearly understood that if he was really punched by Qin Fen on the head, it would still be crushed in an instant even if his head was made with cosmic warship material.

Even if it was slightly rubbed by the fist, the bridge of the nose would definitely suffer comminuted fracture! Any protection art would be useless! The same Humanity Aura Shield which was practiced by the seventeen-star class and the eighteen-star class, Zuo Dongting did not hold any advantage. Although the previous true energy and venom that invaded the body had been expelled, it did not mean that it would not damage the elemental energy.

Furthermore, Xue Tian’s two blades that pierced through when the venom and true energy were not expelled was not an attack without any effect! The biochemical beast could restore the body but could not recover the elemental energy! In a way, Zuo Dongting was still injured. If these injuries happened on a normal day, there would not be any impact, but it was different this time.

If he couldn’t take Qin Fen’s fist, then Xue Tian, who was suspended at high altitude and yet to launch an attack, would lock aura and join forces to launch an attack when the moment comes. Furthermore, there was that elusive third gunner who had never released an attack, making the outcome unpredictable.

Zuo Dongting’s most miscalculated part was not the martial strength of Xue Tian and Qin Fen but the unexpected gun that could hurt people! In the face of the threatening pursuit of Qin Fen’s Investiture of the Gods, Zuo Dongting’s lion roar permeated all around. The sound waves oscillated around the energy field and the high sound waves with ten meters radius were visible to the naked eye! The big gun in his hands aimed at Qin Fen’s throat!

Qin Fen’s left hand did the scooping moon posture and the body slanted in one step. He avoided the sudden spear thrust without the slightest error! Zuo Dongting sneered and his wrist bent. The big spear swept vertically to kill Qin Fen and the scooping moon posture’s left hand had touched the rotating big spear’s handle.

Zuo Dongting sneered even more. This is a spiral shot. Not to mention you, a seventeen-star martial artist, even if it’s Snake King...

Pa!

The power of the three dragons and ten elephants suddenly erupted. The moment Qin Fen caught the big spear’s handle, a fit of white eye that was visible to the naked eye floated out of the palm of his hand. It was a reaction that occurred when the high-speed rotation was suddenly stopped by a strong force.

Zuo Dongting’s hands and wrists were numb! Pure brute force! Perhaps if you want to stop an eighteen-star martial artist’s long spear from rotating by relying on the power of true energy, you need nineteen-star martial artists or martial artists of Ground Aura Real Energy. However, Qin Fen has another ability which was brute force! This kind of reckless behavior can’t reduce the pain caused by rubbing the palms!

However, Qin Fen did not feel any pain at all. Perhaps the pain of anger in his heart was way beyond what the pain of the flesh could interfere with!

“Give me the spear...”

Qin Fen roared furiously! The outburst of brute force! Zuo Dongting had a burning pain in his hands. The big spear was not an opponent at all under the brute force. He disappeared suddenly and the big spear flew into the air...

Qin Fen’s people also arrived in front of Zuo Dongting and the mighty Investiture of the Gods descended from the sky and slammed directly towards his head.

Zuo Dongting turned his arms up and his body sank slightly downwards. The aura of power in the body rose sharply like a towering mountain. The arm suddenly pushed up like a mountain rising from the ground. It was the Mount Tai’s Majestic Peak of the Five Mountains Fist Technique!

Sitting on Mount Tai. Energy boost with majestic intent. Brace the sky towers with bare arms!

Zuo Dongting’s own creation of Five Mountains Fist Technique gathered Shenzhou’s Five Mountains: ‘Majestic Mount Tai’; ‘Dangerous Mount Hua’; ‘Elegant Mount Heng’; ‘Peculiar Mount Heng’; and ‘Mysterious Mount Song’!

Zuo Dongting’s Mount Tai’s Grand Peak thrust upwards and the aura of power rose abruptly. In the face of Qin Fen’s mighty punch, he dared not play any technique of unloading and then raising because it would be a stepping stone for the opponent to raise the aura of power. The Humanity Aura True Energy erupted completely and Supreme Yang Sun Divine Art made his whole body red. Even the sweat excreted from his pores was red! That was not blood! It was real sweat that was mixed with bright red true energy! It was as if a pot of boiled hot water had gushed out from his entire body, with the color of the water being red.

Without shaking or trembling, his arms hit hard on Qin Fen’s Investiture of the Gods and forcefully stopped the punch. The blood was even more inflated and his chest felt some pain. His arms felt as if millions of steel needles just punctured them!

Investiture of the Gods was blocked but the mighty power could not be completely diffused. Zuo Dongting suspected that if it wasn’t for that one shot, the attacks on Qin Fen couldn’t be completely smooth. Can I spit out a mouthful of blood? Although the throat is sweet now, it didn’t really spurt the blood out.

Anger surged in the heart of Zuo Dongting! As an eighteen-star class martial artist, if I encountered the current Qin Fen on normal days, taking the punch will cause a little numbness to my limbs but it would not get to the point of almost spitting out blood. All this is because of that sly Xing Wuyi that enabled these young peoples’ perfect cooperation so well that my true energy became damaged. Only because of that, Qin Fen’s punch almost made me vomit blood.

Blocking Qin Fen’s fist, Zuo Dongting didn’t take any breaks. Even though his arm was sore and paralyzed, he still opened his eyes filled with fury and clenched his teeth tightly. He regathered the scattered Humanity Aura True Energy and a roar of a lion erupted from his throat. Taking a step forward, a punch slammed downwards from the top!

This attack released a magnificent aura of power. Zuo Dongting’s entire body moved in a wavy motion like a vast river, its direction was not straight apart and the slight change made the final angle become difficult to judge. The close body encounter revealed a trace of murderous danger. The body’s left and right swings showed more of a mystery.

One punch and three auras! Zuo Dongting’s Five Mountains Fist Technique contained the majesty of Mount Tai, the danger of Mount Hua, and the mystery of Mount Song in a punch!

With one punch, Zuo Dongting felt that this place had returned to his control. He could even feel the speed of Qin Fen’s heartbeat and blood flow.

From defense to attack, the time gap was so small that it was almost invisible. It was Zuo Dongting’s first real counterattack since entering the battle! He wanted to kill Qin Fen! Kill this leader! Before Xue Tian descended and before the nasty sniper locked target again!

In the face of Zuo Dongting’s counterattack, Qin Fen did not seem to see it and continued to thrust down on the pressed fist. The elbow drew a gorgeous arc with his fist down and the target was Zuo Dongting’s forehead!

Both sides suffer and neither side wins! Let’s perish together!

Zuo Dongting clearly read these words in the eyes of Qin Fen’s resentful eyes! The kind of aura of power that stormed forward swept the whole Sahara desert! They converged into Qin Fen’s body and burst out a fist intent of “Rather death than disgrace”. It twisted into a great suffocating torrent that came rolling vigorously.

“Let’s die together!”

The cry from the soul roared in the whole world!

Zuo Dongting’s fist posture changed and he slammed into the Qin Fen’s fist. It slammed the elbow that could create great achievements! Condensed with the collision of Humanity Aura Shield, a bomb-like roar lifted countless golden sand.

The two fists collided and the sand under Zuo Dongting’s feet seemed to be like soy oil as he couldn’t stop himself from flying out. His eyes showed signs of disbelief. This seventeen-star class’s punch actually broke his three of his Five Mountains’ soul! How could he foresee that this young man could blast such a firm punch?

Du Hen breathed a sigh of relief at the height of thirty thousand feet. Isn’t this Qin Fen too fierce? This Zuo Dongting is also in the Human Aura Energy level. Judging from the quality of the energy, he is not inferior to Qin Fen. The strength of the eighteen-star class has achieved absolute advantage in terms of volume. How can he be defeated?

Zuo Dongting disposed of all the doubts in his head immediately. Qin Fen’s super nano battle suit automatically repaired after tearing but still could not block the blood from gushing out of his pores at the tearing moment.

In other words, Qin Fen is hurt! Plus, it’s not a minor injury! The pair of wings that resembled the divine and demon suddenly disappeared at this moment...

It didn’t disappear... it was absorbed... or more accurately, it was absorbed into Qin Fen’s body.

The integration of four classes was fully completed in the prolonged battle! After Qin Fen flew backward for a few meters, he once again rushed to Zuo Dongting’s side and the Investiture of the Gods smashed again relentlessly.

Zuo Dongting smiled. The injured Qin Fen used this style again and he could take it as well even if the aura of power was unparalleled!

When Mount Tai’s Majestic Peak held the Investiture of the Gods, the smile on Zuo Dongting’s face stiffened. His mighty power suddenly disappeared without a trace. Qin Fen’s arms were like big pythons entwining both Zuo Dongting’s arm.

This is...

Zuo Dongting thought of Xue Tian behind the sky. If the blade flew down at this time... he reacted out of a martial artist’s instinct and lifted his knees up...

Qin Fen’s entangled hands were loosened and the thunderbolt steps of the extremely short distance erupted. He circled behind Zuo Dongting like the wind with his limbs opened and trapped the sleeping lion’s body from the back. The power of three dragons and ten elephants exploded again.

Creak... creak... creak...

With the bodies sticking together, the impact of true energy became too small... it turned into a wrestling force between the two. Qin Fen’s brute force played an important role at this moment. Zuo Dongting heard his bones being pulled bit by bit as if it would be ripped apart. Even the skin, flesh, bones and muscles would be ripped off! Even the eighteen-star Humanity Aura Shield could only barely counterbalance this attack.

“Zuo Dongting, do you remember Gun King?” Qin Fen dropped a cold sentence in Zuo Dongting’s ear. He tilted his head suddenly and revealed a terrifying throat. The roaring directly shook the clouds in the sky, “Shoot!”

A furious roar that contained the accumulated emotions for several days ignited the blood in Qin Fen’s body but infiltrated into the blood of Zuo Dongting like the coldest nitrogen.

‘Shoot’ was a simple word but it contained the signs of perishing together. Zuo Dongting knew that Qin Fen would not die this time because the height of the two was different and the sniper would certainly grasp this moment.

Zuo Dongting suddenly understood that Qin Fen did this for no other reason than to let his master ‘personally’ take revenge!

Aimed... locked... fire!

The bullet passed through a few miles of air rotating and it pierced into the heart of Zuo Dongting!

Puff! The blood was splashing and Qin Fen’s power of pulling Zuo Dongting’s limbs suddenly became the squeeze of a bear! The bones that were about to be pulled apart were strongly squeezed at this moment...

Crack... crack... crack...

Zuo Dongting’s bones made shattering sounds and the bullets invaded the body, triggering his last will to survive. He forcefully dragged himself out of Qin Fen’s bear hug.

Blood flew out from his chest. Zuo Dongting used a large force to shift to one side at a critical moment and so the bullet hit the heart position but did not hit his heart.

This was the true strength of a veteran in the field. He was different from any other opponent that Qin Fen encountered previously. Zuo Dongting had the steel-like will of the military and the survival ability of not giving up. The countless battle experiences were his magic weapon for his repeated victory.

There was no time to catch a breath and no chance to rest. Qin Fen’s eyes which had seemed almost enchanted had stuck up again. Unknowingly, the arm that was as fair as a white jade became as sharp as a knife because of the muscles’ creeping!

Heart Excising Hand! Zuo Dongting was almost shocked to the extent where he almost forgot to breathe. This young man was also hurt from the bear hug. Doesn’t he need to take a break? He has now achieved a slight advantage! Even if the heart can be shifted, the bullet had damaged the organs around the heart and even caused the heart to be hurt. Plus with the venom that was so poisonous, he didn’t need to resume at such a high speed. He could’ve even asked for Xue Tian’s help.

One blood vessel of Zuo Dongting’s arm was taken out in no time! It was the Heart Excising Hand again! Zuo Dongting’s newly created blood vessels were picked up again. Only until the third time was the Heart Excising Hand blocked by Zuo Dongting.

Counterattack? Zuo Dongting, the veteran of the field always remembered to fight back but Qin Fen erupted again without the need to regain his breath.

The furious roar of a dragon blew out from the lungs of Qin Fen. The whole person was like a dragon that went out of the sea. This roar completely fused into the million-year-old vast Sahara desert.

People had always perceived the Sahara as an enemy since the beginning of mankind. They believed that it invaded the land of mankind and from time to time, they thought that crossing it meant conquering it. However, very few people really cared and understood it.

With millions of years of loneliness and self-appreciation, the Sahara desert had its own temperament. At this moment, Qin Fen really integrated the entire soul of the desert into his own body, intertwined with his own hatred.

The moment Qin Fen’s lungs blasted the roar of a dragon, the Investiture of the Gods appeared again!

This aura of power of this punch was really climbing to the extreme and Zuo Dongting’s eyes widened rapidly. If there is even a little distance between the two parties, I will definitely take the risk to choose to dodge.

However, both of them were too close, so he could only block! In the face of this raging situation, Zuo Dongting forgot the thought of killing Qin Fen and the purpose of coming here as he was fully immersed in the face of this martial dao opponent. For years, he had never been able to really immerse himself because of the thought of fighting with Snake King. People were still emotional animals even when he tried to immerse himself. Hence, he couldn’t really achieve immersion.

Qin Fen’s life and death punch made Zuo Dongting really immersed! He remained silent and the five types of aura of power in the body: majesty, peculiarity, danger, mystery, and elegance, changed. The five types of aura of power and the Five Mountains Fist Technique had really sublimated at this moment of life and death. It had always only been a fusion of three types. This was the first time there was a fusion of five types.

The perfect punch! The real peak of the Five Mountains Fist with five auras combined and five mountains as one! The perfect defense!

Unlike Zuo Dongting’s immersion, Qin Fen’s eyes were filled with only hatred. The fist technique even deviated from the scope of Divine Boxing. It looked more like a demon! A free and unrestrained demon who could do as he pleased!

A punch was all it took to shatter the super defense of the perfect Five Mountains Fist Technique. The punch penetrated the combination of five auras and hit the heart of Zuo Dongting brutally.

Thump... puff...

Born in the military and leading a military life, the willpower of Zuo Dongting was absolutely strong. He could be regarded as a general with one of the most powerful martial dao in the military. The enemy of Snake King for all these years and the martial dao grandmaster of Eternal Star level still failed to block the punch by Qin Fen that was seemingly possessed by demons.

The punch hit straight at the heart and Zuo Dongting’s back blew open a hole as large as a basin. All the internal organs were crushed and blasted out with a mixture of blood. Following that, his body flew high into the sky... looking up at the endless sky...