Clear Sky Nine Arts Crumble at a Single Blow, Three Swords Suppress Tang Xiao!

Seven Titled Douluo!

Together with Ye Xian, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei, there were a full ten Titled Douluo powerhouses.

More than half of them had reached the level of Super Douluo.

Tang Xiao and the three Clear Sky Sect elders were utterly stunned.

Spirit Hall had deployed its full strength, determined to wipe out the Clear Sky Sect!

If there had only been the original three, the sect's remaining elders and disciples joining forces might still have given them a chance to fight.

But now, the scales had tipped completely.

Even if all five Clear Sky Sect elders were present, along with Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao, they likely would have struggled to stand against them.

Just as tensions reached their peak, and Tang Xiao's eyes turned crimson as he was on the verge of ordering a desperate fight to the death—

Within the Clear Sky Sect Mountain Gate, in an inconspicuous shadowy corner.

A young man dressed in the gray uniform of a Clear Sky Sect disciple stood pale as paper, his forehead covered in cold sweat. His body trembled slightly from overwhelming fear and the weight of the responsibility upon him.

He was Tang Rui, the core disciple secretly tasked by Tang Xiao with contacting reinforcements in a crisis.

He had personally witnessed the terrifying sight of Seventh Elder Tang Lie being slain by a single sword strike, and he had heard the cold interrogation outside that was like the judgment of a god.

He knew that the Sect Master and elders were under unimaginable pressure, and that the sect had reached a critical moment of life and death.

While everyone's attention was focused on the terrifying standoff before the mountain gate.

Tang Rui used trembling fingers to swiftly pull two items from an extremely concealed pouch at his waist.

One was a Divine Eagle chick no larger than a palm, entirely covered in dark green feathers.

Though the little eagle looked young, it possessed astonishing speed and endurance. It was a rare messenger breed painstakingly cultivated by the Clear Sky Sect, known as the Gale Falcon.

The other items were two jade talismans, each no larger than a fingernail and sealed with Soul Power.

One bore the embossed emblem of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, while the other was wrapped in a miniature totem of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.

Within the jade talismans was an urgent plea for aid branded with Soul Power:

The Clear Sky Sect has suffered a surprise assault at its mountain gate by the main force personally led by Spirit Hall Pope Ye Xian! We are in grave peril! We beg the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to send reinforcements at once! Let us stand together against this powerful enemy!

He quickly tied the jade talismans firmly to the Gale Falcon's legs.

Having done all this, he did not dare delay for even a moment.

He lightly tapped the Gale Falcon's head with a finger, sending a pulse of Soul Power into it.

The Gale Falcon's sharp eyes instantly lit up, as though it had received its final orders and coordinates.

It made no sound at all. It merely beat its wings fiercely!

"Whoosh—!"

A faint green streak, so subtle it was nearly impossible to detect, shot out from Tang Rui's hiding place like a ghost melting into the night.

It moved so quickly that only a faint afterimage remained where it had been.

Almost at the very instant the Gale Falcon vanished, an exceedingly faint glimmer seemed to flicker deep within Ye Xian's ice-blue eyes.

The cold curve at the corner of his lips seemed to deepen slightly, carrying an indifferent mockery born of absolute control.

"Heh..."

He did not intercept that streak carrying the plea for aid.

Because the battle here would soon be over.

By dawn tomorrow, the entire continent would know that the Clear Sky Sect had been destroyed.

At that point, any force intending to reinforce the Clear Sky Sect would abandon the thought.

"Sect Master Tang Xiao, it seems your Clear Sky Sect still refuses to give up?"

The Frost King Sword in his hand slowly rose, pointing at Tang Xiao's brow.

"Spirit Hall!"

Tang Xiao's eyes were crimson as blood, and the final thread of reason within him snapped completely.

All restraint, all thoughts of waiting for reinforcements, were burned to ashes by his towering fury.

"Roar—!"

A roar like that of a Primordial Fierce Beast burst from the depths of Tang Xiao's throat.

The Soul Power he had suppressed to the utmost instantly erupted like a volcano.

"Boom—!"

The nine soul rings beneath his feet suddenly burst forth with an unprecedented, dazzling radiance.

An aura several times more majestic and tyrannical than before soared into the heavens, forcibly opening a violent space of Soul Power within Ye Xian's icy domain.

Clear Sky Nine Arts!

The Clear Sky Sect's ultimate life-or-death secret technique was unleashed in an instant.

Tang Xiao did not probe him in the slightest, nor did he hold anything back.

From the very first move, he went all out.

He knew well that against a terrifying existence like Ye Xian, any hesitation meant death.

"Clear Sky Nine Arts—Breaking Character Art!"

"Penetrating Character Art!"

"Ten Thousand as One—Killing Character Art!"

Tang Xiao let out a beastly roar, gripping the enormous hammer that seemed capable of splitting mountains and severing peaks with both hands. His entire body seemed to merge with the hammer, transforming into a dark-golden bolt of lightning that tore through heaven and earth.

Ignoring the immense resistance brought by Ye Xian's domain, he used the terrifying Soul Power of a peak Titled Douluo as fuel, burning his speed, strength, and will to their limits.

Carrying an indomitable, mutually destructive momentum, the massive hammer smashed down viciously toward Ye Xian, who sat high upon the Frost King Throne.

Before the hammer even arrived, its utterly pure force of destruction had already descended.

This was the supreme combat technique passed down by the Clear Sky Sect: break all techniques with strength, decide the world with a single hammer.

"Sect Master!"

"Kill—!!"

Behind him, the Second Elder, Third Elder, and Fifth Elder saw Tang Xiao attack in rage and unleash the killing move of the Clear Sky Nine Arts. Their shared hatred and determination were likewise ignited.

They no longer hesitated. At the same time, they erupted with their strongest Soul Power. The massive phantoms of Clear Sky Hammers solidified as they prepared to follow their Sect Master and launch a thunderous combined assault.

Yet at the instant Tang Xiao's destructive force came within thirty feet of Ye Xian's head, Ye Xian moved.

He merely raised the Frost King Sword in his hand with extreme casualness.

An even purer, absolute chill instantly condensed around the sword in his hand.

First Sword—Frost Condensation!

Ye Xian lightly turned his wrist, and the Frost King Sword casually swept upward at an angle.

The movement appeared slow, yet it was actually so fast that it exceeded the limits of perception.

A hair-thin ice-blue sword light, brilliant beyond the ability to look at directly, suddenly shot from the sword tip.

The instant it appeared, time itself seemed to have been paused.

Tang Xiao's world-destroying Clear Sky Hammer, along with the raging lightning and dense Soul Power aura boiling around it, was instantly frozen.

A thick layer of Dark Blue Ice visibly spread across the hammer's surface.

The ice spread so swiftly that even Tang Xiao's hands gripping the hammer's handle could not escape, instantly becoming covered in Ice Crystal.

"What?!"

Unprecedented horror erupted in Tang Xiao's eyes.

He felt even his Soul Power freeze the instant it came into contact with that sword light.

Second Sword—Mountain Severing!

Ye Xian did not pause in the slightest, as though he were merely brushing away a speck of dust.

He turned his wrist, changing the Frost King Sword's upward sweep into a straight thrust.

"Clang—!"

A clear sword cry, so crisp it seemed capable of freezing the soul, rang through the skies!

An ice-blue sword radiance even more solid and sharp than before seemed to teleport, directly piercing through the massive Clear Sky Hammer that had been temporarily frozen in midair!