This Defies Common Sense

"Huh? This is the 'renowned' Clear Sky Douluo?"

Seeing Tang Hao reveal his true face, a trace of disappointment appeared in Ye Cheng's eyes. Shaking his head, he said, "Sparring between juniors inevitably leads to accidental injuries. But you, a dignified Titled Douluo, actually had the nerve to bully a girl under sixteen. Is this all the magnanimity the so-called Clear Sky Douluo possesses?"

As he spoke, he turned to look at Zhu Zhuqing beside him. Looking at the damaged areas of her clothes from the earlier battle, as well as the blood that still remained, it was clear from the sight alone just how severe her injuries had been, even though they had already healed.

And so, when he turned back around, his face had already taken on the aspect of a Wrathful Vajra!

Before his anger had been stirred, Ye Cheng had seemed like an elegant young gentleman, refined as jade and gentle in manner.

But now, there was only one way to describe him: vicious and terrifying!

Thick killing intent spread outward!

Even the Live Stream Room's screen seemed to have been covered in a layer of blood-red haze.

Though separated by the screen, the viewers felt as if they could smell the stench of blood rushing toward them!

Only then did everyone realize that they had all been deceived by his elegant, harmless appearance.

A man who had roamed the world alone since the age of six and grown to his current level must have countless corpses piled beneath his feet!

In this world, there were things one had to fight for and seize in order to obtain! Someone who never killed and constantly preached benevolence and morality could never become a true powerhouse!

Just looking at the killing intent flooding the screen, no one could even imagine how many living beings had died by his hand.

In reality, at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Watching Ye Cheng truly lose his temper in the video and release his killing intent, Sword Douluo could not help but feel ashamed. Only now did he realize just how much Ye Cheng had held back during their battle. He had probably spent the entire fight desperately restraining his strength, afraid that he might accidentally beat him to death.

Thinking about it carefully, it made sense. A man who could slaughter Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts as easily as cutting vegetables before even attaching soul rings to his second martial soul—how could his strength have been limited to what he had displayed? Not to mention that afterward, he had absorbed nine Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings!

His strength had surely risen to another level.

Therefore, in his battle with him, Ye Cheng had probably done more than merely hold back—he had practically held back an ocean!

In the video.

Killing intent so thick it had practically solidified spread outward.

It covered the entire area in a layer of blood-red haze!

Tang Hao, standing at the center of it all, underwent a drastic change in expression. He had encountered countless powerful experts in his life, but this was the first time he had seen someone capable of materializing killing intent like this.

This was not a domain, yet in some ways, it surpassed one!

But using killing intent to suppress me?

Tang Hao could not help feeling somewhat disdainful. After all, he had passed through the Slaughter City Hell Road. Because of that, he had received Slaughter City's gift and gained the Divine Slaughter's Domain!

Once this domain was activated, enemies within the Divine Slaughter's Domain would have their strength suppressed by ten percent. In contrast, his own strength would be enhanced by ten percent!

And ten percent was merely the most basic effect. The Divine Slaughter's Domain's power would also increase along with the strengthening of its user's martial soul!

With Tang Hao's current strength, once he activated the Divine Slaughter's Domain, his opponent's strength would be suppressed by as much as twenty percent! Meanwhile, by absorbing the other party's almost tangible killing intent, he might receive an enhancement of more than twenty percent himself.

Therefore, upon sensing such terrifying killing intent from his opponent, Tang Hao did not find it troublesome. Instead, he tightened his grip around the hammer's handle. Blood-red patterns then emerged on the head of the Clear Sky Hammer as the Divine Slaughter's Domain silently unfolded!

But very soon, when the Divine Slaughter's Domain directly confronted the other party's tangible killing intent, Tang Hao immediately felt something completely different from before. It was a sense of helplessness, as though he had crashed into an unyielding wall of bronze and iron that could not be shaken in the slightest.

No matter how strong his past opponents had been, unless they possessed a domain like his and used their domain to resist his, they would inevitably be suppressed, their strength dropping by twenty percent. But this opponent before him had an aura that was steady and condensed, like refined steel tempered a thousand times!

"This is bad! The gap in strength is too great! Are Level 95 and Level 99 really as far apart as heaven and earth?" Tang Hao felt his Divine Slaughter's Domain struggle to advance even an inch beneath the other party's enveloping killing intent. He had never encountered such a situation before.

Could it be that once a person's killing intent grew powerful enough, not even the Divine Slaughter's Domain could do anything to it?

"Surprised?"

Ye Cheng looked coldly at Tang Hao. He seemed to know of his predicament, but had no intention of explaining. He merely began walking slowly toward him.

Step by step, his pace was calm and natural.

Yet Tang Hao could feel the pressure around him growing stronger and stronger as Ye Cheng approached.

He knew he could not remain passive any longer.

Once the other party's momentum reached its peak, he might not even have a chance to strike.

He had to break the stalemate!

"AAAAAHHHH!!"

Tang Hao suddenly let out a furious roar. Then, forcibly resisting the pressure, all nine soul rings around his body blazed with light!

Taking a huge step forward, his whole body spun like a whirlwind. The Clear Sky Hammer in his hand whirled at high speed as he charged straight at Ye Cheng.

From the look of it, he was about to risk his life.

Yet facing the menacing Tang Hao, Ye Cheng neither dodged nor evaded. He merely watched him with a calm expression. He had not even summoned his martial soul.

This behavior left everyone in the Live Stream Room utterly baffled.

What was going on? Why was he not even summoning his martial soul?

No matter how despicable and shameless Tang Hao might be, he was still a Titled Douluo.

Facing a Titled Douluo, he was actually not summoning his martial soul to fight? Did he really look down on him that much?

Wouldn't he end up getting capsized in the gutter later?

Hard to say, judging by this...

Everyone felt that Ye Cheng had underestimated his opponent. He would probably suffer a huge loss soon.

"I actually used the Great Sumeru Hammer right away. It seems that person put tremendous pressure on me." Tang Hao watched his on-screen self and easily recognized the move he had used.

The Great Sumeru Hammer was the Clear Sky Sect's true, never-to-be-passed-down secret technique!

In theory, it condensed all of one's soul rings into a single whole and poured them all into the Clear Sky Hammer, transforming them into the purest power and attack strength. It geometrically multiplied one's strength, forcibly shattered all restraints, and unleashed formidable power beyond one's own Soul Power!

It followed the path of overpowering ten thousand techniques with a single force. No matter how many soul skills or tricks the opponent possessed, none could contend with the Clear Sky Hammer's purest power and attack strength!

In theory, the power of the Clear Sky Douluo's Great Sumeru Hammer could be limitless.

Moreover, the Great Sumeru Hammer possessed an exceptionally powerful core skill. Back then, it was precisely this special skill of the Great Sumeru Hammer that had allowed him to severely wound the previous Pope, Qian Xunji. However, this skill also inflicted tremendous damage on its user. Unless he was at a critical juncture, he would never use it lightly.

"Too arrogant!"

Watching Ye Cheng in the video neither dodge nor evade, seemingly intending to take his hammer strike head-on, Tang Hao sneered. He was confident that, relying on the limitless might of the Great Sumeru Hammer, he could definitely make this arrogant fellow suffer badly.

But very soon, the development that followed in the video left him completely dumbfounded.

Facing Tang Hao's earth-shattering, incomparably powerful hammer strike, Ye Cheng merely slowly raised his right hand, pressed two fingers together like a sword, and thrust them toward the oncoming hammerhead!

Then...

One finger!

Just one finger!

Tang Hao's seemingly overwhelming hammer strike was stopped by that casual, effortless finger.

Silence!

Not only did the video fall silent, but the Live Stream Room fell silent as well.

Everyone stared blankly at the scene unfolding in the video, as if they had witnessed something utterly unbelievable.

Th-this stopped it?

He had not even used his martial soul—how could he possibly block it?

This made no sense!

Were Limit Douluos truly this powerful?

Sorry for being late. Something suddenly came up and disrupted my update plans. I originally wanted to post four or five chapters today, but for now I can only manage two.