Scarlet patterns slithered like living creatures across the surface of the massive Clear Sky Hammer. The Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring around Tang Hao suddenly blazed with red light, dyeing the originally pitch-black hammer completely blood-red. That dazzling crimson glow seemed ready to devour the very heavens and earth, making even the sunlight pale in comparison.
"Papal Palace, what a Papal Palace. Hahahahahaha..."
Tang Hao threw back his head and laughed, his laughter filled with boundless hatred and arrogance, shaking the entirety of Spirit City. Before everyone's horrified eyes, the muscles in his right arm bulged and veins stood out as the blood-red hammer slowly rose with his movement—
"Boom!"
With merely the opening motion, a terrifying shockwave tore up every stone slab within several hundred meters. Wherever the giant hammer passed, space shattered inch by inch, revealing pitch-black rifts in the void. The might of this strike was enough to level the entire Papal Palace!
Not only Tang San, but even Feng Yao looked up at the blood-red hammer that covered the sky. Its surface resembled a falling crimson meteor, pressing down slowly with the force to destroy heaven and earth, completely blocking out the sun.
"Is this the true Martial Soul Avatar?"
Feng Yao's pupils contracted slightly as stormy waves surged through his heart. His fingertips unconsciously brushed the qin strings, and a fiery light flashed in his eyes. Tang Hao's strike displayed not only absolute power, but also his understanding of a Tool Spirit: extremity and vastness. Tang Hao's attack range had essentially encompassed the entire Papal Palace.
Though both wielded the Clear Sky Hammer, Tang Xiao and Tang Hao displayed entirely different understandings of Tool Spirits. Tang Xiao's hammer techniques were founded upon the exquisitely intricate Clear Sky Nine Absolutes. Every move flowed as naturally as