Some people
were born extraordinary.
They possessed spiritual power from birth.
They could stir the power of heaven and earth.
Wind, rain, thunder, lightning.
Metal, wood, water, fire.
And more.
All were great powers beyond the mortal world.
To ordinary people,
the slightest outpouring
would become a towering calamity.
And many Heaven-Favored
were born
with wind coiling around them and rain swirling about them.
They could command thunderbolts
and possessed abilities unfathomable even to ghosts and gods.
Beyond such manifest Divine Abilities,
the Heaven-Favored might also possess all kinds of resistance.
For example,
those with water resistance could dwell underwater for long periods. Not only would their skin not turn pale and wrinkled, it would become smoother and fairer. Even if they held their breath beneath the water for a long time, their pores could draw oxygen from heaven and earth, allowing them to endure for a long while even with their mouths and noses submerged.
Those with fire resistance were naturally close to fire.
To a certain extent, they feared no flames.
Many years ago,
a fire broke out in a small village in a remote region of Great Xia.
All one hundred and thirty-two villagers were burned to death.
Only a three-year-old child
remained completely unharmed.
When people found the child,
he was crying amid the blazing flames.
Later, it was confirmed that the child
had been born with fire resistance.
The Heaven-Favored were exceedingly rare.
They were even rarer than cultivators.
Among hundreds of thousands of people,
there might only be one.
Xiao Chen possessed fire resistance.
It happened to counter the Demon Hound General's signature ability.
That was why he could kill him.
It could be considered a case of being perfectly restrained.
Yet even so,
Nalan Longfei still found Xiao Chen unfathomable.
After all,
what