Tang Hao

"Fuck!" Bai Yuan cursed as he looked at Law Three Cannon in midair, its cannon muzzle aimed at him.

"Master, don't worry. I'm here." Bai Yu suddenly appeared before Bai Yuan, forming a Sword Finger with her hand and pointing it toward the sky.

Yu Xiaogang froze. A cold glint flashed through the sky, and Law Three Cannon was pierced straight through. Its bloated body exploded in midair like a biological bomb.

A nauseating stench spread through the air. Yu Xiaogang, being the closest, was instantly hit by it. Bai Yu grabbed Bai Yuan and lightly leaped back more than a hundred meters.

Bai Yuan was dumbfounded.

"Bai Yu, was that Sword Qi you just used?"

Bai Yu looked at Bai Yuan with her clear burgundy eyes and tilted her head slightly. "Master, what is Sword Qi?"

Bai Yuan didn't want to speak.

Damn system!

Biased, biased, so damn biased!

He cursed inwardly.

However, when he thought of how the number of people he could bind would increase in the future and his cultivation would soar, he gradually calmed down and turned his gaze toward Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.

This time, Law Three Cannon's explosion had affected Yu Xiaogang the most, with Tang San second. However, Yu Xiaogang had been wearing a mask, which barely reduced eighty percent of the damage. Even so, his Martial Soul had been destroyed, and his body was still seriously injured.

Tang San, meanwhile, was already lying on the ground, foaming at the mouth.

Bai Yuan laughed loudly. "Yu Xiaogang, how was that? This is the power of a cultivator—my disciple's strength. Beating the two of you is as easy as beating dogs."

Yu Xiaogang barely managed to stand, blood hanging from the corner of his mouth.

"A cultivator? Your disciple? What a joke. With your little bit of strength, you think you can teach a disciple like this in just a few days? Do you take me for a fool? That finger strike just now was nothing more than a Self-Created Soul Skill like Xiao San's." Yu Xiaogang wiped the blood from his lips.

Bai Yuan snorted disdainfully. "Believe it or not. I can only say that a frog at the bottom of a well cannot know how vast the heavens and earth are, nor how boundless the universe is."

Bai Yuan shifted his gaze to Tang San, and killing intent immediately surged within his dark eyes.

Tang San had truly wanted to kill him just now.

Tang San barely crawled to his feet and faced Bai Yuan.

"The two of you will die here today!"

Bai Yuan moved toward Tang San.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang's expressions both changed.

Suddenly, Bai Yuan's expression changed as well. He felt an immensely powerful aura lock onto him.

That aura contained incredibly intense killing intent, and its owner's strength was overwhelmingly powerful. It seemed that if he took even one more step forward, he would face merciless annihilation.

Tang Hao!

That name instinctively appeared in Bai Yuan's mind.

He immediately understood.

So, during the time Tang San had been following Yu Xiaogang, Tang Hao had always been secretly protecting him. Under normal circumstances, there simply had been no chance for him to act.

"Consider yourselves lucky today!" Bai Yuan decisively retreated, grabbed Bai Yu's little hand, and ran toward the forest nearby.

Tang San looked toward the master, while Yu Xiaogang lowered his head in thought.

Elsewhere.

Bai Yuan ran while pulling Bai Yu along, but that terrifying aura still had him locked on, with no intention of letting him go.

"Damn it!" Bai Yuan cursed inwardly.

Bai Yu asked, "Master, they've both lost their strength. Why are we running away?"

Bai Yuan said nothing. He pulled Bai Yu along at an even faster pace, but increasing his speed did nothing to ease his unease. On the contrary, as time passed, the sense of crisis in his heart only grew stronger.

As they ran, a tall figure suddenly stepped out from the woods and blocked their path.

The newcomer wore a simple gray robe, with messy black hair draped over his shoulders. His weathered, aged face bore a pair of cloudy eyes that looked as though they belonged to a man in the twilight of his years.

"Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao!" Bai Yuan called out the man's title and name with a grave expression.

A trace of surprise appeared in Tang Hao's cloudy eyes. "You know me?"

Bai Yuan feigned calmness. "The youngest Titled Douluo on Douluo Continent, Tang San's father. Of course I know."

"Oh? Since you know I'm Tang San's father, you still dared to try to kill him." Tang Hao's calm voice rang through the forest.

Bai Yuan said, "If others do not offend me, I will not offend them. I had no intention of becoming enemies with Tang San. I even wanted to take him as my disciple. But since he wanted to kill me, was I supposed to stretch out my neck and wait to be slaughtered?"

In truth, if Bai Yuan had known Tang Hao was lurking in the shadows, he would never have dared to make a move. But since he had acted, he did not regret it.

Tang Hao's stiff face twisted into a smile. "Well said. But now I want to kill you. Do you choose to stretch out your neck and wait to be slaughtered, or do you intend to put up useless resistance?"

Tang Hao took a step forward, and Bai Yuan felt as if a mountain had been placed upon his back, forcing him to his knees.

"Tang Hao, you've gone too far! Do you have no sense of reason at all? Tang San was the one who tried to kill me first! Tang San isn't dead now. Let Master and disciple leave, and we'll consider this matter settled. How about it?" Bai Yuan forced the words out.

Tang Hao snorted. "Reason? On Douluo Continent, fists are the truth. Today, I want to see who would dare come reason with me after I kill you."

Terrifying Soul Power pressure burst forth, and Bai Yuan felt as though his body was about to shatter.

"Don't bully Master!"

Bai Yu formed hand seals with both hands, and a Green Lotus appeared before her. She shifted to stand in front of Bai Yuan, barely blocking part of the Soul Power pressure for him.

With Bai Yu's current cultivation, this was already the limit of what she could do.

"Ding! Detected that someone intends to humiliate the host in front of the host's disciple. Hidden function, A Master's Dignity Cannot Be Trampled, is activating..."

"Ding! A Master's Dignity Cannot Be Trampled successfully activated. Whenever the host is about to be humiliated in front of a disciple, the host will temporarily gain cultivation surpassing that of the person attempting to humiliate the host."

"Ding! Host's cultivation has been raised to the Peak Golden Core Stage."

As Bai Yuan listened to the cold mechanical voice in his mind, he suddenly felt a flawless, perfectly round Golden Core appear within him, followed by an immense surge of power.

The Soul Power pressure that had originally been like a raging storm was not even a gentle breeze before Bai Yuan now.

Bai Yuan was delighted inwardly.

The system actually had such a hidden function.

It seemed the system was not biased after all!

Didn't this function practically make him invincible?

No, if the other party did not humiliate him, or did not do so in front of his disciple, Bai Yuan would still be finished on the spot.

Bai Yu also felt the invisible force pressing down on her vanish, and a tall figure stepped in front of her.

"Master," Bai Yu called.

Bai Yuan turned back with a smile. "Bai Yu, it's all right now. Leave everything to your master."

"Mm." The little girl nodded obediently.

Bai Yuan turned his gaze toward Tang Hao. His raised right hand emitted a dense black radiance from its palm, gradually condensing into shape. A black hammer silently appeared in Tang Hao's hand.

Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red—nine Soul Rings rose from beneath his feet.

Even so, Tang Hao's expression remained incomparably grave.

He sensed a threat from Bai Yuan, an unprecedented threat. Even when Titled Douluo had joined forces to besiege him in the past, he had never felt such an intense sense of danger.

"Bai Yuan, let's call it off! You had good reason to act this time, and Tang San did not cause you any losses. Let this matter end here, all right?"

Bai Yuan could not help laughing.

Why did those words sound so familiar?