All Things as Sword

Facing Tang Hao's enraged hammer strike descending with the force of Mount Tai crushing down.

Because he had just been forced back by one of Tang Hao's whip kicks.

As he rapidly retreated, Dugu Qiubai had no way to dodge and could only raise the Three-Foot Green Edge before him.

In an instant, Tang Hao's Clear Sky Hammer, smashing down from midair, collided with the Three-Foot Green Edge in Dugu Qiubai's clone's hand, producing a thunderous bang!

Afterward, Dugu Qiubai's clone was instantly sent flying backward. He flew a long distance and only came to a stop after landing and staggering back many steps.

"How is it not broken?"

Seeing that the Three-Foot Green Edge in Dugu Qiubai's clone's hand had not broken beneath his full-force hammer blow, Tang Hao found it somewhat unbelievable.

He could tell that the longsword in Dugu Qiubai's hand was merely an ordinary sword, not a martial soul.

An ordinary sword should not have been able to remain intact after taking a full-force blow from his Clear Sky Hammer.

It should have broken!

After being blasted away by Tang Hao's hammer, Dugu Qiubai landed and staggered back many steps before finally stopping.

Shaking his numb right hand, Dugu Qiubai's clone looked at Tang Hao again, the fighting spirit in his eyes growing even more intense.

"Summon your martial soul. Without using your martial soul and soul skills, you cannot possibly be my match!"

Seeing that the black-clad swordsman before him still had not summoned his martial soul, Tang Hao could not help frowning.

But Dugu Qiubai did not answer. He merely tightened his grip on the Three-Foot Green Edge again, rapidly converting vast amounts of True Qi into Sword Qi and fiercely pouring it into the longsword in his hand.

Clang!

In an instant, countless streaks of Silver Sword Qi burst forth from the Three-Foot Green Edge. Amid a crisp sword cry, the ground was instantly riddled with countless pits by the Sword Qi.

After circulating the Intent Sword Body Great Art and rapidly converting the Heaven and Earth Everlasting Spring True Qi within his body into Sword Qi.

Dugu Qiubai once again used Lingbo Microstep, rushing toward Tang Hao with bizarre footwork, as swift and ghostlike as a phantom.

Clang!

Raising the Three-Foot Green Edge in his hand once more, Dugu Qiubai no longer intended to engage Tang Hao in close combat this time. Instead, he directly swung his sword, sending Sword Qi filling the sky shooting toward Tang Hao.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Seeing Dugu Qiubai release countless streaks of Sword Qi, Tang Hao's expression changed slightly as he continuously retreated at high speed, evading the Sword Qi from Dugu Qiubai's clone.

However, Tang Hao's speed was clearly inferior to Dugu Qiubai's, who had stopped probing and was now charging forward at full force with Lingbo Microstep beneath his feet.

Just as Tang Hao retreated.

Dugu Qiubai's clone instantly closed in before Tang Hao again at an even faster speed.

Sword Radiance flickered and surged from the Three-Foot Green Edge in his hand. With one swing, he unleashed Sword Qi filling the sky, then amid that endless Sword Qi, swung his sword again at Tang Hao.

Naturally, Tang Hao frowned and roared in anger at Dugu Qiubai's attack, swinging the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand to meet Dugu Qiubai's Three-Foot Green Edge once more.

The Clear Sky Hammer did block the Three-Foot Green Edge in Dugu Qiubai's hand.

But Dugu Qiubai's clone had simultaneously sent Sword Qi scattering throughout the sky, each streak incomparably sharp and capable of slicing through gold and severing iron.

Even Tang Hao's Soul Power protection could not block Dugu Qiubai's clone's Sword Qi. Countless wounds were instantly cut into his body by the razor-sharp Sword Qi.

Although the wounds were neither large nor deep, blood still rapidly gushed out, dyeing Tang Hao's clothes red.

This made Tang Hao's expression turn incomparably ugly.

"Third Soul Skill: Earth Hammer!"

After blocking the Three-Foot Green Edge swung by Dugu Qiubai's clone, Tang Hao discovered that he could not stop the Sword Qi released by Dugu Qiubai's clone. He immediately circulated his Soul Power to stop the bleeding while roaring in anger and instantly activating his third soul skill.

For a time, as the third Soul Ring surrounding Tang Hao lit up.

After Tang Hao swung the Clear Sky Hammer and angrily smashed it against the Three-Foot Green Edge again.

A yellow shockwave suddenly erupted and rapidly spread in all directions.

When the shockwave struck Dugu Qiubai's clone, it directly sent Dugu Qiubai's clone flying away.

After knocking Dugu Qiubai's clone away, Tang Hao gripped his Clear Sky Hammer martial soul and leaped fiercely into the air. Raising the Clear Sky Hammer overhead, the second, fourth, and fifth among the nine Soul Rings surrounding him lit up in succession.

Second Soul Skill: Concentration Break!

Fourth Soul Skill: Evil God Break!

Fifth Soul Skill: Brilliant Burst!

As the three Soul Rings around him lit up one after another in rapid succession, the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul in Tang Hao's hand rapidly grew larger. In the blink of an eye, it transformed from a delicate hand hammer into a massive forging hammer with a head larger than a winter melon and a handle over a meter long.

At the same time, dazzling yellowish-brown, black, and crimson light bloomed from the Clear Sky Hammer in turn, and an intense wave of Soul Power instantly erupted.

"Hah!!"

With a furious shout, Tang Hao raised the enlarged Clear Sky Hammer and swung it high through the air, preparing to smash it down upon Dugu Qiubai's clone.

Sensing the intense energy fluctuations radiating from the Clear Sky Hammer empowered by three soul skills.

If that hammer struck him, he would definitely suffer serious injuries!

Yet although he had been blasted away, Dugu Qiubai was exceptionally calm at this moment, without the slightest panic.

As a swordsman, especially one who had created a sword technique like the Dugu Nine Swords that countered every move as it came.

Dugu Qiubai's greatest trait was calmness.

The more dangerous the situation, the calmer Dugu Qiubai became.

Facing Tang Hao's menacing hammer blow, which seemed capable of shattering everything.

Dugu Qiubai held the Three-Foot Green Edge and instantly activated his self-created lightness technique, the Willow Catkin Movement Technique.

The Willow Catkin Movement Technique was a movement technique Dugu Qiubai had created after observing willow catkins dancing in the wind.

Once used, this technique made the body as light and nimble as willow catkins.

After using the Willow Catkin Movement Technique, Dugu Qiubai's clone borrowed the gust created by Tang Hao's hammer swing and swiftly drifted backward, perfectly evading Tang Hao's strike.

Tang Hao's hammer blow thus struck nothing but empty air, merely blasting a huge pit into the ground.

After using the Willow Catkin Movement Technique to rapidly widen the distance.

Dugu Qiubai's clone once again stepped on Lingbo Microstep and arrived before Tang Hao. Wielding the Three-Foot Green Edge in his hand, he unleashed the Dugu Nine Swords and continuously attacked Tang Hao.

Dugu Nine Swords, Whip Breaking Stance!

Though called the Whip Breaking Stance, this move of the Dugu Nine Swords did not merely counter whip-type weapons.

It countered nearly all short weapons, including whips, daggers, axes, hammers, and more.

Facing Dugu Qiubai's relentless attacks with the Dugu Nine Swords.

Tang Hao continuously swung the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand, blocking the sharp longsword wielded by Dugu Qiubai's clone.

Sword and hammer collided without cease, producing a series of clang!, clang!, clang! sounds.

But unfortunately, as a soul master, Tang Hao's hammer technique was not particularly strong.

At the very least, it was certainly inferior to Dugu Qiubai's swordsmanship.

Although Tang Hao possessed the self-created soul skill Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, it required him to seize the initiative before he could use it, continuously building power and unleashing wave after wave of increasingly powerful attacks until he defeated his enemy.

But under the Dugu Nine Swords of Dugu Qiubai's clone, Tang Hao had completely fallen into a disadvantage. Even if he pushed the hammer techniques of the Clear Sky Nine Wonders to their limit, he still could not seize the initiative, much less use the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

Facing Dugu Qiubai's offensive, Tang Hao realized that he was completely outmatched in skill alone.

Shocked and enraged, Tang Hao ultimately activated another soul skill.

"Eighth Soul Skill: Thousand Jun Bulwark!"

As the eighth Soul Ring surrounding Tang Hao lit up.

Amid a majestic surge of Soul Power, a yellowish-brown polyhedral barrier instantly condensed around Tang Hao, protecting his body and blocking the attacks of Dugu Qiubai's clone.

Immediately afterward, Tang Hao roared again and activated his sixth soul skill once more: Earth Ant Emperor Slash!

For a time, the sixth Soul Ring surrounding Tang Hao suddenly lit up.

As Tang Hao swung his Clear Sky Hammer martial soul and fiercely smashed it down at Dugu Qiubai's clone from afar.

A sharp, yellow crescent-shaped blade of light burst from the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul, overturning the ground along its path like a tsunami as it sped directly toward Dugu Qiubai's clone.

Looking at the overwhelming rocks and earth being lifted up before him, roaring toward him like a tsunami, like a surging mudslide.

Dugu Qiubai's clone naturally would not choose to confront it head-on. Instead, he swiftly used the Intent Sword Body Great Art once more, transforming himself into a sword and soaring into the sky, evading Tang Hao's Earth Ant Emperor Slash.

However, after fighting Tang Hao for so long, Dugu Qiubai had more or less grasped the level of strength of Titled Douluo on the Douluo Continent. It was time to end this.

As Dugu Qiubai's clone transformed himself into a sword and took to the air, evading the attack range of Earth Ant Emperor Slash.

In midair, Dugu Qiubai's clone held the Three-Foot Green Edge, its Sword Radiance flickering. He swiftly slashed downward several times, sending silver Sword Qi shooting out and instantly cutting up a large swath of grass below.

After cutting up a large swath of grass, Dugu Qiubai's clone circulated his True Qi and made a grasping motion toward the ground with his left hand.

A vast amount of grass instantly soared into the sky and was drawn before Dugu Qiubai.

For a moment, Dugu Qiubai's clone stood in the air, circulating the Intent Sword Body Great Art as he thrust the longsword in his hand forward.

In an instant, vast amounts of Silver Sword Qi were poured into the endless grass floating before him in orderly formation.

The grass filling the sky instantly straightened, its entire surface gleaming with silver light and radiating incomparably sharp auras as it was all transformed into grass swords.

Intent Sword Body Great Art, Sword-Control Technique!

Then, as Dugu Qiubai fiercely slashed his sword toward Tang Hao.

The silver Sword Grass filling the sky fell like rain, shooting toward Tang Hao with overwhelming force and a howling roar.