Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Every swing of the Clear Sky Hammer brought a sonic boom as it smashed heavily down all over Dai Mubai's body!
Torso, limbs, head!
With every blow came a crisp crack, and deep hammer-shaped craters appeared clearly across Dai Mubai's body!
Before long, accompanied by one final dull impact, Dai Mubai crashed to the ground, blasting out an enormous pit!
This time, nearly every bone in his body had been shattered. He lay limp on the ground like a puddle of mud, coughing up blood again and again before finally passing out completely.
Even so, Dai Mubai still had not died!
"What tenacious vitality."
Tang Hao praised him, put away the Clear Sky Hammer, pulled his black robe tighter around himself, then turned and cast a deep look at Tang San amid the crowd.
Then, before everyone's eyes,
Tang Hao bent down, slung the Dai Mubai who had been hammered soft as mud over his shoulder, and gave the forest surrounding Shrek Academy another cold glance.
"I'll be taking him."
After leaving behind those icy words, Tang Hao pushed off with both legs and shot into the air. After several leaps, he vanished from Shrek Academy.
With Tang Hao gone, even the air around Shrek Academy seemed to relax somewhat.
The scouts from various factions who had been hiding in the shadows, intending to profit from the chaos, swallowed hard after witnessing the Clear Sky Douluo's peerless ferocity and silently withdrew from the scene.
After Dai Mubai's betrayal half a year ago, the forces behind them had all believed that Dai Mubai would either be executed or tortured to death in the laboratory.
They had never expected him to return alive from that world, so they had not made thorough preparations against Shrek Academy.
Thus, they had been dispatched in an emergency and were insufficiently prepared. Most of those leading the teams were merely Soul Douluo-level.
For Soul Douluo to make a move and rob a Title Douluo of his prey—there was not the slightest chance of success.
Especially since nearly everyone present had recognized that this Title Douluo was the infamous and terrifying Clear Sky Douluo!
Who on the entire continent had not heard that the Clear Sky Douluo of old had forcibly broken out of Spirit Hall's encirclement and slaughter?
And just moments ago, after personally witnessing the Clear Sky Douluo hammer beastified Dai Mubai blow after blow into something like a boneless chicken claw, the many experts hidden in the shadows could not help but shudder.
Their assessment of Tang Hao had also risen from peerless ruthless man to utterly inhuman.
Rob the Clear Sky Douluo of his prey?
Were they tired of living, or did they think their lives were too long?
For a few coins a month, why gamble with their lives?
Naturally, Flender and Zhao Wuji had seen all these details as well.
"Are you all right?"
Flender asked, glancing at the savage wound gouged into Zhao Wuji's chest.
Zhao Wuji lowered his head and looked at the wound. He shook his head slightly, his gaze deep as he looked toward the woods surrounding Shrek Academy and sensed the various auras within gradually fading away. "Just a minor injury. It won't take my life."
"I thought there would be a hard battle ahead. With the Clear Sky Douluo making a move, he saved us a great deal of trouble."
Flender fell silent.
Yes.
The two of them had actually noticed something was wrong long ago.
Several days earlier, many unfamiliar faces had appeared outside Shrek Academy, and those strangers had been openly asking around for information about Shrek Academy.
They had nothing to fear.
Naturally, Zhao Wuji and Flender had noticed these abnormalities.
They knew those people were spies sent by the major powers across the continent to gather information on Shrek and Dai Mubai, waiting to capture Dai Mubai as soon as his one-year term ended and he returned to Douluo Continent.
But Zhao Wuji and Flender had been utterly helpless about it.
Or rather, they had no way to deal with it.
In secret, Flender had sought Tang Hao out once. Tang Hao's reply had been that Dai Mubai held no value to the current Shrek Academy, so when the time came, they could simply let those people take Dai Mubai away.
If they dared harm Shrek Academy, he would act.
But now, the plan could not keep up with the changes. Who could have expected Dai Mubai, after making a trip to another world, to become so crazed that he would directly attack the two of them, his teachers?
And who could have expected that even the two of them, both Soul Saints, would not be a match for Dai Mubai as he was now?
"That's fine. At least Shrek Academy is safe and sound."
Flender looked gratefully in the direction Tang Hao had departed.
He knew that Tang Hao had subdued Dai Mubai in full view of everyone and taken him away, which in truth meant taking away a massive problem.
Looking deeper, Tang Hao was already wanted by Spirit Hall. Now that he had also taken Dai Mubai, a target sought by nearly every power on the continent, danger would surely surround him at every turn.
It would not only be Spirit Hall. People from all the major factions would also investigate his whereabouts.
Although Tang Hao had acted to protect Tang San, no matter what, he had indirectly protected the Shrek Academy that Flender had painstakingly built.
He had protected Flender's life's work.
That alone was enough for Flender to feel profoundly grateful to Tang Hao.
Meanwhile, Tang San stood frozen on the training grounds, completely and utterly stunned!
"Just now... was that Father?"
The same face, the same bearing—and after subduing Dai Mubai, he had even looked in Tang San's direction!
With that one glance, Tang San could confirm that mysterious Title Douluo was absolutely his father!
For a moment, Tang San felt as if his brain could no longer process everything.
Even though he was living a second life, even though his true age far exceeded his outward appearance, everything before him still felt dreamlike.
Although he had noticed from certain details before that his father was somewhat unusual, he had never once considered this possibility.
The contrast was simply too great!
Who could have imagined that the alcoholic, incompetent, dispirited father he remembered was actually a Title Douluo-level expert?!
And his ninth Soul Ring had been red—the legendary 100,000-Year Soul Ring?!
A legendary Soul Ring—didn't that mean his father was an absolute powerhouse on the entire continent, one of the very strongest among the strong?!
For a moment, Tang San felt that the worldview he had built over all these years was beginning to collapse.
Flender naturally noticed this and walked over to pat Tang San on the shoulder. He said softly, "I know you have many questions, but now is not the time."
"Wait a few days. When the time is right, I will answer every question you have."
Who knew whether the experts from the major factions lying in ambush around Shrek Academy to capture Dai Mubai had all left? If they discussed the Clear Sky Douluo now and someone overheard them, their information would be exposed, and they would be finished!
Once Spirit Hall learned that Tang Hao had a son, Tang San would be in absolute danger.
Not only Tang San—even Shrek Academy would be in danger.
Spirit Hall had always cared only about results and would stop at nothing!
High in the sky, the light screen belonging to Cuihua suddenly flickered violently. A white beam of light even more dazzling than before descended in the direction of Suotuo City.
And at this very moment, war had already erupted within Suotuo City!
Ning Fengzhi openly entered Suotuo City with Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.
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