Meanwhile.
Above the outer world's sky vault, the Golden List, which had already calmed down, erupted once more with earth-shaking thunder.
Rumble!
Rolling thunder shook the land in every direction.
A terrifying pressure as heavy as mountains poured down from the nine heavens.
It was pure power.
An ultimate tyranny capable of crushing every obstacle.
The sky, once covered in ice and snow, was forcibly scattered by a dark gold radiance.
Everyone's attention was once again drawn to this sudden phenomenon.
Including Dai Mubai, who had been about to strike a killing blow.
He subconsciously loosened his grip and looked up at the heavens.
Lines of bold, vigorous characters branded themselves into the void like red-hot irons.
[Martial Soul Ranking, Sixteenth Place!]
[Name: Tang Hao!]
[Affiliated power: None (formerly affiliated with the Clear Sky Sect).]
[Martial Soul: Clear Sky Hammer!]
The picture shifted.
A middle-aged man draped in a tattered cloak, his face covered in stubble, appeared upon the Light Screen.
He was broad and powerfully built. Though dressed in ragged clothes and looking utterly dejected, his eyes contained a divine light that made hearts tremble.
In his hand, he held an incomparably massive Black Hammer.
Complex Divine Slaughter's Domain patterns were engraved upon its body, emanating a terrifying world-destroying aura.
Clear Sky Hammer!
The Number One Under Heaven Weapon Martial Soul!
With one hammer strike, Myriad Laws shattered!
Even merely watching the picture, everyone felt a suffocating heaviness bearing down on them, as though an invisible big hand had tightly seized their hearts.
This was the might of the Clear Sky Douluo.
This was the ruthless person who had once severely wounded the Spirit Hall Pope by himself.
Tang Hao in the picture suddenly swung the Giant Hammer and smashed it viciously toward the void.
Crack!
Space shattered like a mirror surface, and black lightning raged wildly.
That ultimate Power Aesthetics made countless Power Type Soul Masters boil with excitement.
Immediately afterward.
A majestic Heavenly Dao Sound echoed throughout the entire continent.
[Reward issued: Martial Soul Evolution!]
[Evolution direction: Great Luo Divine Hammer!]
[One Power Type Soul Bone obtained, two God-Bestowed Soul Rings obtained!]
Great Luo Divine Hammer?
Upon hearing this name, the entire Soul Master World erupted.
The Clear Sky Hammer was already a top-tier Weapon Martial Soul, yet it could actually evolve?
How terrifying would it become after evolving?
Above the Heavenly Curtain, golden light blazed brilliantly.
A thick golden pillar of light descended from the sky, directly ignoring the distance of space and instantly enveloping the depths of an unknown mountain range.
That was Tang Hao's hiding place.
The picture did not cut away. Instead, it clearly displayed the entire process of the evolution.
The Clear Sky Hammer in Tang Hao's hand began to tremble violently beneath the golden light.
Layers of black rust began to peel away from the originally pitch-black hammer body.
In their place emerged a brilliant dark gold radiance.
The hammerhead became even larger, and countless ancient, mysterious runes surfaced upon it. The runes flowed endlessly, as though they contained the Great Dao Principles.
The hammer handle transformed into a texture like Dragon Bone, warm to the touch yet indestructible.
Most shocking of all, around the hammerhead, the phenomenon of Starfall faintly appeared.
A sacred aura surpassing the mortal world spread from the newly born Martial Soul.
The Great Luo Divine Hammer was complete!
Beneath a waterfall in some desolate mountain.
Tang Hao felt the terrifying enhancement flowing from the Martial Soul in his hand, and a wild joy finally appeared on his weathered face.
He suddenly gripped the hammer handle tightly, Soul Power surging through his body like rushing rivers.
"Good!"
"What a Great Luo Divine Hammer!"
Tang Hao threw back his head and roared, the sound waves shaking the waterfall into flowing backward.
Though being ranked sixteenth left him somewhat unwilling to accept it.
In his eyes, the Clear Sky Hammer was Number One Under Heaven. How could it fail to even enter the top ten?
Yet these tangible rewards immediately made him cast aside his dissatisfaction.
With this evolved Martial Soul, along with those two God-Bestowed Soul Rings.
His strength would surely soar by leaps and bounds!
When the time came, whether he sought revenge against Spirit Hall or protected Xiao San, he would have absolute confidence.
Without any hesitation, Tang Hao sat down cross-legged and began absorbing the rewards descending from the sky.
He had to grow stronger.
For Ah Yin, for his son, he had to return to his peak!
Clear Sky Sect, its hidden refuge.
Sect Master Tang Xiao stood at the edge of a cliff. Watching his imposing younger brother upon the Heavenly Curtain, he trembled all over with excitement.
Tears even welled up in his fierce eyes.
"Hao..."
"This is the glory of our Clear Sky Sect!"
"The Clear Sky Hammer has evolved. Even our ancestors never received such an opportunity!"
Tang Xiao clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging into his palms without him noticing.
The Clear Sky Sect had sealed its gates for years, enduring endless grievances and suppression.
Now.
The Golden List had appeared, and the Clear Sky Hammer had received a God Level evolution.
What did this mean?
It meant the Clear Sky Sect had hope of revival!
It meant the title of Number One Under Heaven Sect would once again resound across the continent!
At this moment, the entire Clear Sky Sect erupted in celebration.
All the disciples straightened their backs as they watched Tang Hao on the Heavenly Curtain, their eyes filled with fervor and worship.
However.
Where there was joy, there would naturally be disdain.
Heaven Dou City, within a dark Secret Chamber.
Tang San sat alone in the shadows, with only his Purple Demon Eyes flickering with an eerie gleam in the darkness.
He raised his head and looked through the gap in the window at Tang Hao, who was receiving his reward upon the Heavenly Curtain.
At this moment, Tang San's face showed none of a son's joy.
Instead.
An extremely cold sneer curled at the corner of his mouth.
"Heh."
"Sixteenth place?"
Tang San gave a soft snort, his voice carrying undisguised disappointment and contempt.
"Father, Father, you truly have grown old."
"The once-mighty Clear Sky Douluo can only rank in such an insignificant position."
In his eyes, Tang Hao, as his father and one of the greatest pillars of support on his road to revenge, should have been stronger.
If he could not even enter the top ten, how much help could he possibly offer Tang San's future plans?
Tang San's slender fingers lightly tapped against the table, his expression growing increasingly gloomy.
Family?
Perhaps such a thing had once existed after he crossed over into this world.
But with one setback after another, with Xiao Wu's sacrifice, and with his near-pathological thirst for power.
That meager affection had long since been replaced by calculations weighing gains and losses.
Upon Tang San's chessboard.
Whether the Shrek Seven Devils, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, or even his father, who had placed such high hopes upon him.
They were all merely tools to help him become a God.
Since they were tools, there was only the distinction between useful and useless.
"Great Luo Divine Hammer..."
"I hope that after evolving, you will at least be somewhat useful."
"When I truly need you to stand in front of me, do not fail to withstand even a single move from Bibi Dong."
Tang San withdrew his gaze and stopped looking at the picture on the Heavenly Curtain.
He took out a stalk of immortal herb from his Soul Tool and stuffed it into his mouth without hesitation, chewing it.
Only his own power was real.
As for that man who did nothing but hide in deep mountain forests and drink himself senseless?
As long as he could block a fatal blow for Tang San at the critical moment, he would have fulfilled his responsibility as a father.
On the other side.
Dai Mubai's palm, capable of crushing rocks, was about to close.
At that critical moment.
A clear sword cry suddenly exploded within the main hall of Taibai Restaurant.
The sound was not particularly deafening, yet it seeped everywhere like spilled mercury, piercing clearly into every person's ears.
The previously stagnant air was instantly sliced apart.
A streak of azure light poured down from the second floor, so fast that the naked eye could not possibly capture it.
One sword!
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