Trick Activated Twice, Easily Crushed

Tang Hao staggered backward, his right arm severed at the shoulder as blood gushed like a fountain. He clutched the wound tightly with his left hand, his face twisted by excruciating pain and utter terror.

This is bad!

This judgment flashed through Metagross's core processor. Lu Feng had told it to "drag it out" and "not kill him instantly."

But now... something seemed to have gone terribly wrong.

Were these "Held Items" bound to a Spirit Master's body? Exchanging "Held Items" meant... directly dismembering the Spirit Master?

Its scarlet eyes flickered rapidly as it tried to analyze the situation and find a remedy.

As for Tang Hao, after the initial agony and shock, boundless rage and madness swallowed him whole! His Spirit Bone had been taken, and his arm severed!

"You beast! I'll kill you!!" His remaining Soul Power burned wildly. Holding the hammer in one hand, his remaining soul rings lit up one after another with blinding light. He was going to detonate every soul ring and perish together with it!

A terrifying energy storm began to gather!

Metagross instantly calculated the outcome. It had dismantled the opponent's Spirit Bone in a single move, so there was no point pretending anymore.

It might as well finish the opponent in one go.

Its scarlet eyes locked onto Tang Hao again, terrifying psychic power erupting as the target of this Trick was his left leg.

"Argh!!!"

Tang Hao let out a shriek so miserable that his voice cracked! The opening motion for Ring Detonation was interrupted.

Trick activated for the second time!

"No!!!"

Feeling that strange sense of attributes appearing on his thigh, Tang Hao realized that even after giving it everything, he was powerless to stop it. Yet in the next instant, his desperate scream abruptly stopped.

The same terrifying stripping force! His left leg was wrapped in silver light at the base of the thigh and torn away! Blood splattered once more!

Tang Hao completely lost his balance and fell. The energy from Ring Detonation spiraled out of control due to the agony and loss of his limbs, rebounding within his broken body and making him convulse in pain, unable even to scream.

Looking at Tang Hao twitching on the ground, left with only one arm and one leg, Tang Hao wearing two yellow-green helmets.

Metagross sighed helplessly. Its golden clawed toes clenched into a fist, and brilliant silver-white light, like a miniature star, suddenly gathered around its knuckles. Even the surrounding air seemed to warp under the pull of its mass!

Meteor Mash!

A silver-white meteor tore through space, carrying unmatched physical force as it struck Tang Hao's chest with perfect accuracy. Tang Hao lay on the ground, already half-crippled and unable to rise.

"Pfft!"

There was no violent explosion, only a dull sound, like something punching through rotten leather.

Tang Hao's body was slammed deep into the arena floor like a rag doll. His breastbone shattered completely, blood spraying wildly as the madness in his eyes swiftly faded, leaving behind only ashen despair and emptiness.

Golden light descended, taking away the dying, mutilated Tang Hao.

Yet the Prodigy Arena did not take away the two bloodstained Spirit Bones, as though they had been designated as loot.

Metagross found the Spirit Bones somewhat disgusting. Pokemon did not bleed, and the Spirit Bones were useless to it anyway.

It directly slapped the Spirit Bones away, smashing a small pit into the ground.

At the same time, Tang Hao had just been teleported outside when he saw Metagross on the Sky Screen casually swat the Clear Sky Sect's inherited Spirit Bones out of the arena as though it were sweeping away trash.

Tang Hao spat out a mouthful of blood and completely passed out.

With Tang Hao's defeat, the rewards that belonged to him were transferred to Metagross.

Its level instantly rose to Level 94, and its psychic power increased tremendously. Once it completed Mega Evolution, its combat strength would rise to an even higher level.

It had also relied on its own powerful Mental Power to unleash such intense fighting spirit and enter the arena directly.

The entire Douluo Continent was as silent as a graveyard.

This time, the fear had seeped into everyone's bones.

That silver monster... it seemed not even it had expected such a result?

The horror caused by that kind of "accident" was even more chilling than deliberate slaughter.

And the Spirit Masters, especially those who possessed Spirit Bones, felt more than just a chill. They were terrified out of their wits.

Their Spirit Bones... could actually be instantly torn from their bodies before such a monster?

One had to know that those who made it onto the Heavenly Pride Ranking were basically all Titled Douluo. At that level, they would more or less possess several Spirit Bones.

If their arm or leg Spirit Bones were stripped away, they might barely retain the strength to fight. But what if they possessed a skull Spirit Bone?

Wouldn't that mean instant death?

What exactly was going on in this Pokemon World? Did every prodigy possess such methods, or was Metagross merely an exception?

In Spirit Hall, the scepter in Bibi Dong's hand trembled slightly.

She looked at the two bloodstained Spirit Bones floating on the Sky Screen, then unconsciously touched the places on her body where her own Spirit Bones were located.

Her heart was filled with shock. No one could be certain whether that move was exclusive to Metagross.

If it was not an exception, then the Spirit Bones on Spirit Masters' bodies would become fatal weaknesses.

Then what place would the Douluo Continent even have on this Heavenly Pride Ranking? They might as well award every position to the Pokemon World.

Before long, the Heavenly Pride Arena Tournament ended, and Metagross vanished along with the two Spirit Bones.

As the Sky Screen disappeared, the entire Clear Sky Sect, from its mountain gate and main hall to its training grounds, sank into a deathly silence colder than the Extreme North.

Seeing Tang Hao's miserable state, every Clear Sky Sect disciple, whether an old guard loyal to the sect or a younger generation that harbored grievances against Tang Hao, felt a chill surge from their spines to the tops of their heads, followed by volcanic humiliation and fury!

"Bastard!!!"

"That monster... it stole our Clear Sky Sect's Spirit Bones!!"

"Whatever mistakes Tang Hao made, he is still one of the Clear Sky Sect! The inherited Spirit Bones are even more the sect's supreme treasures!"

"What a disgrace! What a disgrace!!"

Several elders with their beards and hair bristling slammed their hands onto the tables and rose. The terrifying aura of Titled Douluo erupted uncontrollably, making the beams and pillars of the hall tremble.

The inherited Spirit Bones had been taken. This was no longer a personal grudge, but a trampling of the entire sect's dignity and legacy!

Tang Xiao sat in the sect master's seat, his face livid. The veins on the hands resting on the armrests bulged as they trembled slightly.

He looked at his younger brother's miserable state on the Sky Screen, at those floating, bloodstained Spirit Bones, while heart-wrenching pain and fury enough to burn the heavens churned within his chest.

Even if Tang Hao had brought disaster upon the sect, even if there were knots in their brotherly relationship, he was still Tang Xiao's blood brother! Still of the Clear Sky Sect's bloodline! Not to mention that what had been taken were the very foundations passed down through generations of the sect!

"Sect Master! Give the order!" An elder's eyes were bloodshot. "Gather our forces. Even if we have to scour the entire continent, we must find the source of that Sky Screen and locate that so-called Pokemon World! Recover the Spirit Bones and repay blood with blood!"

"That's right! Repay blood with blood!" Suppressed but furious agreement rang through the hall.

Tang Xiao took a deep breath, and it seemed to carry the taste of rust. He slowly raised a hand, suppressing the unrest in the hall.

His voice was hoarse, yet carried unquestionable gravity:

"The grudge must be avenged. The bones must be recovered." Every word seemed squeezed from between his teeth. "But look carefully at our opponent."

He pointed at the Sky Screen image that had not yet faded. "That monster used a method we have never heard of to casually remove Hao's limbs and Spirit Bones. At the time, Hao had already used the power of Ring Detonation."

The hall instantly fell silent, leaving only heavy breathing. The anger had not faded, but a thread of icy reason began to seep in.

That was right. Although Tang Hao was no longer in the sect, they knew the power of his Clear Sky Hammer and Ring Detonation well.

Yet before that silver monster, he had been so utterly vulnerable... it even seemed that the monster had not attacked with its full strength?

Distortion World.

Lu Feng looked at the two damaged Spirit Bones in his hand, then at the innocent-looking Metagross, and said in exasperation:

"Metagross, what are you doing? I told you to disgust the opponent to death with the helmet recoil strategy. Is that how you use psychic power?

Who told you to use Trick to exchange items and tear off someone's Spirit Bones? Will they still dare to enter the arena after this?"

Metagross felt aggrieved too. It could clearly have sent its opponent away with a single Meteor Mash.

Instead, it had fought that sort of trash for so long. After returning, it had no idea how many Pokemon would mock it.