"Aaaaaah!"
His scream echoed through the woods as Tang Hao slammed into the ground and spat out a mouthful of blood.
The impact had left a hundred-meter-wide crater. Tang Hao lay in it, covered in blood, while dust billowed around him.
"So strong."
"Who is he?"
"Are there really such powerful experts on the continent? Why have I never heard of him?"
That blow had left Tang Hao severely injured and terrified, but he had no time to keep lying there. He could feel Ye Wen's next attack already coming.
"Hah!"
With a roar, Tang Hao summoned every bit of strength he could muster and desperately tried to withstand Ye Wen's attack.
Boom! Boom!
"You're a coward with no sense of responsibility or manly courage, someone who only knows how to run away—a heartless ingrate! You act tough when you're facing the weak, but the moment you meet someone you can't afford to provoke, you turn into a complete waste!"
"I was only planning to beat up your son, but today, I'm taking you on too!"
Ye Wen swung at Tang Hao again with all his might.
Tang Hao could be considered a decent husband, but he was nowhere near a decent man, a decent family member, or a worthy successor to his sect.
If you stopped looking at things from the protagonist's perspective and ignored the praise heaped on Tang Hao by the supporting characters, you'd realize he was actually a pretty repulsive person.
Ye Wen had never cared much for Tang Hao. Since they'd crossed paths today, he wasn't about to let him off easily.
He might even kill him right here!
Whoosh!~
Bang!
Boom! Boom!
Ye Wen brought his hammer down hard once more.
"Ah!"
Tang Hao was caught in Ye Wen's relentless assault. Ye Wen struck him again and again, pinning him down until he was completely unable to defend himself.
No matter what Soul Skill he used, he couldn't gain the upper hand against Ye Wen even once.
"No! I can't die here! I can't die! I can't!"
Tang Hao still had too much to do, and a son to protect. When someone wanted desperately to stay alive, they feared death.
The terrifying power Ye Wen displayed filled Tang Hao with fear.
"Ninth Soul Skill!"
The Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Ring appeared beneath Tang Hao's feet, and the terrifying Ninth Soul Skill bore down on Ye Wen.
"Eight-Edged Overlord Hammer!"
Ye Wen wasn't the slightest bit afraid. Wild red light flared across his Eight-Edged Plum Blossom Hammer.
This hammer technique was one Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had developed himself, using the Eight-Edged Plum Blossom Hammer, a weapon at the Half-God Level.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had two ultimate hammer techniques. This was one of them; the other was even stronger, but required certain specific conditions.
The Eight-Edged Plum Blossom Hammer, blazing with wild red light, grew enormous as it met the Clear Sky Hammer's Ninth Soul Skill head-on.
Bang! Boom! Boom!
The impact was like the collapse of heaven and earth, shaking the very ground beneath them.
The surrounding space seemed to buckle beneath the terrifying energy. In the end, Tang Hao's power crumbled once more, and Ye Wen's blow sent him flying hundreds of meters away.
Tang Hao was badly injured again. He couldn't keep fighting. He could no longer withstand even a single one of Ye Wen's next blows, so he immediately used the momentum of being knocked away to make a desperate escape.
"Trying to run already?"
Ye Wen saw what he was planning and immediately unleashed Demon Whale Comprehension. The Ice Crystal Cage appeared again, trapping Tang Hao in the nick of time.
"Great Sumeru Hammer!"
"Explode Ring!!!"
Tang Hao decisively chose to Explode Ring. The immense force unleashed by the Clear Sky Hammer smashed into the Ice Crystal Cage and actually broke off a piece.
Tang Hao hurriedly squeezed through the opening, just large enough for a human body to pass through. Like a stray dog, he fled in a panic without daring to stop for even a moment.
Faced with Ye Wen's terrifying power, he had chosen to run again. He couldn't spare a thought for revenge for his son—right now, all he wanted was to survive!
Tang Hao fled for Nuoding City with all his might.
"Explode Ring is so powerful it even broke off a piece of my Ice Crystal Cage." Ye Wen was a little surprised by its strength. No wonder it was hailed as a move akin to a divine skill.
Watching Tang Hao flee for his life, he shouted, "Tang Hao! I won't go after your son for now, but I'm warning you: stay out of the younger generation's affairs. Otherwise, I'll make sure your son Tang San, you, and the entire Clear Sky Sect die!"
"Do you understand, Tang Hao?"
Ye Wen's voice rang in Tang Hao's ears. He knew he'd once again provoked someone he shouldn't have.
He etched Ye Wen's words into his heart. Even if he had a hundred times the nerve, he wouldn't dare cause the six-year-old Ye Wen, Evil Tiger, or Xiao Bai the slightest trouble again!
Otherwise, he wouldn't just bring disaster on Tang San and himself—he'd drag the Clear Sky Sect into it again too.
Ye Wen didn't pursue him. He could beat Tang Hao to a pulp, but if Tang Hao refused to fight and insisted on running, killing him wouldn't be easy.
Besides, in his Semi-human Form, he could only remain on land for six hours. There simply wasn't enough time to chase Tang Hao down and kill him. (Author: Think of the Soul Master Tournament finals, when Tang Hao beat everyone up and then fled with Tang San and Xiao Wu. Bibi Dong took people to kill Da Ming and Er Ming, but even after pursuing them for half a month, they still couldn't kill them. So, with a Titled Douluo of Tang Hao's caliber, once he finds a chance to slip away and is focused solely on escaping, he won't be easy to kill.)
The reason Ye Wen told Tang Hao he wouldn't kill Tang San was that he didn't want Tang Hao to worry about his son being killed and take Tang San away from Nuoding Academy. He wanted Tang San to stay there and cultivate by his side.
Once Tang San left Nuoding Academy, his life would take a completely different path—one Ye Wen couldn't foresee or predict.
There was a good chance he'd progress and grow even faster than he would at Nuoding Academy, under Yu Xiaogang's guidance!
Tang Hao would undoubtedly teach Tang San far better than Yu Xiaogang ever could!
What kind of person was Yu Xiaogang, anyway?
A scumbag who used Bibi Dong—who used a woman—to gain status and secure himself the title of Spirit Hall Elder, then plagiarized a wealth of Soul Master knowledge from Spirit Hall and came up with a half-baked theory called the Ten Core Competencies.
Ye Wen admitted that Yu Xiaogang knew a little about Martial Soul Theory, but not much—just a little.
He'd learned a few things from the Martial Soul Theory he'd plagiarized from Spirit Hall, but Yu Xiaogang's own research in the field was nowhere near that level.
Simply put, the knowledge he'd taken from Spirit Hall and his own abilities didn't match his position.
That was why his teaching was so poor.
At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang had trained the Shrek Seven Devils' physical strength by making each of them carry a basket full of rocks and go running?
That was how you trained monsters?
How was that any different from ordinary construction workers carrying baskets full of bricks?
Zhao Wuji's gravity field was right there—a perfect way to train their bodies and stamina! Instead of using it, he made them do this?
(Author: If you like this book, think it's pretty good, and can keep reading, please try to follow along during the early stages. Read-throughs are especially important for a new book.)
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