Clear Sky Sect's Secret Technique: Ring Detonation

Scarlet blood sprayed out as Tang Hao staggered back a hundred meters in pain, his heart filled with shock.

"How is this possible? He's clearly only a Level 94 Title Douluo, yet he was able to break through my Clear Sky Body Protection and injure me!"

Tang Hao clutched his injured arm, his heart trembling.

Though years of cultivation had not brought his strength back to its peak, he could still defeat several Title Douluo experts.

Yet now, facing Lin Yuan, Tang Hao finally understood what true, crushing pressure felt like.

He had already reached a conclusion.

If this boy was allowed to live, he would surely stir up a bloody storm across the Douluo Continent.

Tang Hao used his acupoints to seal his still-bleeding wound, then rested the Clear Sky Hammer on his shoulder and said coldly, "To possess such talent at such a young age, you truly are a rare genius. Unfortunately, those who do not know how to proceed steadily rarely live long."

Lin Yuan stood with one hand behind his back, his right hand still held in its previous posture. "I have to admit, aside from being better at talking, His Excellency Haotian doesn't seem to have anything particularly remarkable."

"If you hadn't acted so stubbornly back then, the Clear Sky Sect might still have been the Clear Sky Sect of old. Unfortunately, as a sinner, all you can do is hide away and barely scrape out a living."

Tang Hao's eyes turned murderous. "Wretch, you're courting death!"

Lin Yuan laughed. "Then let me see His Excellency Haotian's true strength. Otherwise, there would be no point in coming here."

"You insolent brat, you truly don't know the immensity of heaven and earth. Since you are so arrogant, I'll blunt your edge today."

Tang Hao lunged forward. The Clear Sky Hammer in his hand expanded with the wind, and the instant the Tool Martial Soul that blotted out the sky appeared, both soul beasts and nearby humans felt as though their chests were being crushed.

"Hahaha, good!" Lin Yuan laughed. "It's been many years since I met someone worthy of my full attention. I hope Clear Sky Douluo can give me an unexpected battle."

Lin Yuan streaked across the sky like lightning, hurling the Asura Demon Sword with all his might. A blood-red wave of energy howled forth and slammed fiercely into the Clear Sky Hammer.

Boom!

Piercing explosions rose and fell in succession.

Dugu Bo, within Sunset Forest, immediately stood up. Sensing that familiar yet unfamiliar aura, he murmured, "Such an earth-shaking presence... could it be... the world's number one Tool Martial Soul, the Clear Sky Hammer?"

"Why does the other aura feel so familiar?"

Dugu Bo decided to investigate. Transforming into a hundred-meter-long serpent, he sped toward the distance, leaving behind a trail of emerald smoke and dust across the ground.

As the dust settled, two figures emerged.

Lin Yuan stood expressionlessly, invincible where he was.

Tang Hao, in contrast, clenched his fists. A lock of hair drifted down, blood ran down his face, and sword energy had cut across his cheek. The bright red blood glittered brilliantly, like flowing crimson clouds.

Seeing Tang Hao in such a wretched state, Lin Yuan shook his head in disappointment and said indifferently, "I thought the youngest Title Douluo of that era possessed some formidable strength and methods. It seems I overestimated you."

Upon hearing this, Tang Hao's blood surged within him, rushing toward the crown of his head as if it were about to burst through his flesh. His face flushed red with humiliation and fury. He had actually been disgraced by a junior.

The previously calm Clear Sky Hammer suddenly erupted with bloody light. Surging Soul Power spread in all directions like raging waves, twisting the air everywhere it passed.

Nine Clear Sky Absolutes, Tremor!

The so-called Nine Clear Sky Absolutes were not nine skills, but nine methods of exerting force: "Void, Seal, Pierce, Penetrate, Entangle, Tremor, Break, Kill, Collapse!"

The power and technique corresponding to each were entirely different.

Tang Hao's movement was exceedingly simple. He stepped forward with his left foot and stomped heavily onto the ground. Amid a thunderous boom, cracks instantly spread across a vast area of earth beneath him, centered on his left foot.

His right arm, holding the Clear Sky Hammer, instantly stretched behind him. Every muscle in his body tensed completely in an instant, and intense black light merged him and his hammer into one.

His left heel lifted, leaving only his toes supporting him against the ground. The trouser leg around his left calf burst apart, revealing muscles even harder than granite.

The next moment, the Clear Sky Hammer swung out without a sound.

Right Arm Soul Bone Skill, Heaven and Earth Reversal—Azure Luan, Sky-Howling Break!

In an instant, an emerald Azure Luan silently appeared in the air. Surging energy spread outward like raging waves, twisting the air everywhere it passed.

Lin Yuan swung his right arm, striking directly and without mercy against the top of Tang Hao's incoming Clear Sky Hammer. As the surging force howled past, the forest within a thousand meters was instantly snapped in half.

Even the nearby soul beasts were reduced to ash by the force of that energy, dying on the spot.

Pfft!

Tang Hao suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and stumbled to the ground. His entire body trembled as he could not believe that he, the youngest Title Douluo, had been defeated today by Lin Yuan, who was only in his teens.

How was this possible?!

Tang Hao struggled to his feet, trembling as he said, "Y-you, who exactly are you? How do you possess such vast power?"

Lin Yuan stood with one hand behind his back and replied coolly, "My name is Lin Yuan. My title is Asura."

"Asura Lin Yuan... I never expected that after so many years, the Douluo Continent would still have such a young Title Douluo, and one with strength this formidable. Good, good!"

Tang Hao breathed heavily, forcefully wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth. With bloodshot eyes, he glared at Lin Yuan and said, "I, Tang Hao, will remember today's humiliation. Lin Yuan, if the opportunity arises someday, I will make you pay a terrible price."

"You want to leave?"

Lin Yuan snorted coldly and appeared directly in Tang Hao's intended escape route. Slowly raising his right hand above his head, a power like a heavenly calamity roared forth. He then said lightly, "You do not have that chance."

Tang Hao clenched his teeth and stomped his right foot fiercely onto the ground. The first two soul rings on his body instantly exploded.

"Oh? Is this the Clear Sky Sect's secret technique, Ring Detonation?"

Lin Yuan grew interested. "I've heard that Ring Detonation can greatly increase one's power. Today, let me see for myself how powerful a Title Douluo's Ring Detonation truly is."

The Clear Sky Sect's secret technique allowed each soul ring to undergo Ring Detonation. After detonation, the soul ring's power would erupt completely, instantly becoming the user's own strength and merging into their attack, producing power far beyond their original limits.

During Ring Detonation, the higher the quality of the soul ring, the greater its effect.

This was the Great Sumeru Hammer's life-or-death technique, with each soul ring unleashing a single attack. Once all soul rings had undergone Ring Detonation, the user would also enter a weakened state.