Lin Feng watched Tang Hao fly toward him. When he noticed the slight flush on Tang Hao's skin, the corners of his mouth rose.
Those unfamiliar with Tang Hao might have thought his blood and qi were merely surging too fiercely in battle. But Lin Feng, who knew of Tang Hao's injuries, was well aware that his old wounds had begun to act up.
Moreover, this flare-up would continue worsening over time and might even become something that took his life in the end.
"Wind Spirit · Fractal Sword!"
The folding fan in Lin Feng's hand swiftly transformed into a longsword. Then, the second black Soul Ring on his body lit up as he activated his Second Soul Skill, Wind Spirit · Fractal Sword.
Seven longswords condensed from wind suddenly appeared around Lin Feng and shot toward Tang Hao at a terrifying speed.
It was a twenty-thousand-year soul skill. In a clash between Titled Douluo, such an attack counted as a basic attack—something that could hardly kill anyone, yet could not be completely ignored.
"Hmph, overestimating yourself."
Tang Hao sneered disdainfully at the seven wind-condensed longswords. Then the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand spun, and the seven longswords cracked apart inch by inch beneath its overwhelming force. Within only a few breaths, Tang Hao forcefully dissolved the soul skill.
However, just as Tang Hao prepared to press the attack, he suddenly realized that the distance between himself and Lin Feng seemed to have grown.
"Wind Spirit · Fractal Sword!"
Another seven longswords appeared and shot toward Tang Hao from afar. Tang Hao frowned slightly, but still smashed the seven longswords apart one by one with his hammer. He remained calm up to this point, until...
"Wind Spirit · Fractal Sword!"
When Lin Feng used Wind Spirit · Fractal Sword for the third time, Tang Hao could no longer remain calm.
Using a twenty-thousand-year soul skill to probe his opponent was normal enough, but who kept probing again and again? The first two attacks had already been shattered by him with absolute dominance. By all rights, this probing should have stopped, yet Lin Feng seemed intent on continuing like this, as if he wanted to compete with him in endurance.
At the thought of endurance, Tang Hao's expression darkened.
The Clear Sky Hammer was inherently a powerful martial soul, famed for its immense offensive power and explosive force. Exploding Rings was something that pushed that explosive power to the absolute limit.
But its weakness was that it was difficult to sustain. Moreover, unlike the others from the Clear Sky Sect, after that great battle with Spirit Hall, his injuries had never received proper treatment and still tormented his body to this day. Especially after using Exploding Ring again just now, there was not a single part of his body that did not ache.
In this state, he would only be able to last for even less time. Realizing that the longer the battle dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be for him, Tang Hao felt alarmed.
Thus, without the slightest hesitation, his first and second Soul Rings instantly shattered. Then, the Soul Bone in his right leg radiated brilliantly—the thirty-thousand-year Giant Strength Mantis Right Leg Bone soul skill, Explosive Leap!
With two Soul Rings shattered and the Soul Bone's soul skill activated, Tang Hao instantly gained an utterly terrifying speed through that immense power, rapidly closing in on Lin Feng like a cannonball.
"A Titled Douluo with all six Soul Bones really is terrifying." Though Lin Feng spoke of Tang Hao's terror, there was not the slightest trace of panic on his face. As his fourth Soul Ring lit up, the Winged Tiger carrying him from behind spat out a vast amount of cloud and mist. It was Lin Feng's Fourth Soul Skill, Cloud Mist Control.
With Soul Power comparable to that of a Titled Douluo, the cloud and mist blanketed an area spanning several thousand meters in an instant, making Tang Hao want to curse.
He had exploded two Soul Rings in order to get close to Lin Feng as quickly as possible. Yet with Lin Feng's Cloud Mist Control, he could not even tell where Lin Feng was.
And aside from not knowing Lin Feng's location, this mist also gave him a very bad feeling.
Tang Hao's premonition was correct. After only a few breaths, he immediately coughed up a mouthful of blood.
It was not that the mist was poisonous. Rather, Lin Feng's soul skill was Cloud Mist Control, and that cloud and mist was something under Lin Feng's control.
Once that mist was inhaled into the body, Lin Feng could naturally use his control over it to wreak havoc inside Tang Hao's body and worsen his injuries.
Tang Hao had merely let his guard down for a moment, yet the mist he inhaled triggered his injuries, causing his body to gradually become unable to hold on.
Fortunately, Tang Hao was ultimately a level ninety-five Titled Douluo, while the amount of mist Lin Feng could get him to absorb without being noticed in such a short time was very little. Therefore, Tang Hao could barely suppress his injuries.
However, this state of suppressing his injuries was destined not to last, so Tang Hao knew he could not simply sit and wait for death.
Forcefully swallowing the metallic sweetness in his throat, Tang Hao shattered his seventh Soul Ring and used his powerful Soul Power to forcibly blast away the cloud and mist Lin Feng had released.
Immediately afterward, when Lin Feng appeared in Tang Hao's sight, Tang Hao's head Soul Bone lit up. It was the only Soul Bone on his body that did not increase his strength, and its skill was tracking lock-on, ensuring that a strike from his Clear Sky Hammer would hit its target.
Zhao Wuji also had this soul skill, but his was merely a thousand-year one, so he needed to release a Soul Ring and place it around the target for it to take effect. Tang Hao's Soul Bone, however, was ten-thousand-year, and even at the twenty-thousand-year level. Thus, merely fixing his gaze on a target allowed him to complete a spiritual tracking lock.
"This ends here!"
Tang Hao swung the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand. Then, the Clear Sky Hammer's Sixth Soul Ring shattered, and the hammer crashed toward Lin Feng with a world-destroying aura.
Facing the menacing Clear Sky Hammer, Lin Feng directly Teleported a hundred meters away. But immediately afterward, Lin Feng discovered that although Tang Hao's hammer had missed its first strike, its momentum did not diminish as it continued flying toward him.
"It's useless. This soul skill was made to counter teleportation soul skills like yours!" Tang Hao said through gritted teeth.
At first, he had indeed underestimated Lin Feng, so he had not used this tracking lock-on immediately. As a result, he had exploded two hundred-year Soul Rings and two Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings for nothing. His injuries had now reached a terrifying level. If he continued by exploding his last Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring or that Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, Tang Hao felt he might simply die on the spot.
"The Clear Sky Hammer combined with tracking lock-on is truly terrifying." Lin Feng said expressionlessly, then allowed the Clear Sky Hammer to approach him.
Just as the Clear Sky Hammer was about to smash Lin Feng into pulp, the Hundred Thousand Year Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Bone in Lin Feng's left leg lit up—the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone skill, Invincible Golden Body!
When the Clear Sky Hammer collided with Lin Feng's body, Tang Hao felt a tearing pain erupt from the web of his hand. The next second, Lin Feng's body was sent flying by the hammer, yet there was not the slightest injury on him.
Tang Hao: "..."
Dragon Duke: "..."
Snake Dowager: "..."
Wait, he took a Clear Sky Hammer with his body and came out uninjured? Was that even right?
PS: Some people were not very clear about the protagonist's martial soul, so I will explain it here.
Martial Soul: Soul, capable of undergoing a second awakening.
Soul Spirit: First Soul Spirit. The folding fan in the protagonist's hand can transform into a longsword. It is made from special metal and counts as an upgraded version of Xie Xie's first Soul Spirit from Dou San, upgraded from a hundred years to twenty thousand years, with the First Soul Skill, Wind Blade.
Second Soul Skill, Wind Spirit · Fractal Sword.
Third Soul Skill, Wind Bind.
Second Soul Spirit: The Winged Tiger on the protagonist's shoulder, disguised as a cat. It was upgraded from ten thousand years to thirty thousand years and granted the Fourth Soul Skill, Cloud Mist Control.
Fifth Soul Skill, Extreme Wind Meteor Kill.
Sixth Soul Skill, Xiao Wu's Soul Ring: Clone, Void.
As for why the Soul martial soul only has wind-element soul skills, first, using spiritual power to control elements existed in both Dou Er and Dou San.
Second, spiritual attacks were not a good choice in the early stages. Xiao Wu used Charm on Zhao Wuji and suffered backlash, while Canghui Academy was directly struck into vegetative states by backlash. When spiritual power was insufficient, soul skills carried too much risk. Therefore, the protagonist followed a path more like Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, adding Soul Rings. However, with Tian Meng's Million-Year Soul Ring, there was no need to fear choosing the wrong path early on.
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