"Clear Sky Hammer martial soul, rank-99 power-attack battle spirit master!"
Before a battle, shouting out one's background and revealing intelligence and information to the opponent seemed like an extremely foolish thing in Qian Xunji's view.
To native people of Douluo, revealing one's martial soul was a symbol of identity, status, and strength.
Yet in Qian Xunji's eyes, it was a foolish act, because letting the enemy know the information about one's martial soul was equivalent to giving the enemy an opportunity to formulate tactics targeting the weaknesses of that martial soul.
Take the core characteristics of the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul, for instance: strength and explosive force.
The Clear Sky Hammer martial soul took pure strength suppression and formidable explosive force as its core, enabling it to challenge opponents of higher ranks and possessing a natural suppression effect on tool martial souls.
Of course, the premise was that the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul could hammer and hit the enemy in the spirit master's hands.
The greatest weakness of the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul was that it was simply too heavy, which resulted in the user having slow movement speeds and high spirit power consumption.
Foolish Douluo natives only knew how to fight with stubborn head-on collisions, refusing to dodge, refusing to fight a war of attrition, and even less willing to wage guerrilla warfare.
Yet Qian Xunji was a transmigrator, a normal person, not some foolish Douluo native.
Although the fourth trial of the Asura God Trial required defeating Tang Chen head-on in a direct collision, and forbade the use of Divine Origin Realm spiritual power as well as spiritual-attribute spirit skills.
Still, Qian Xunji had high attack, high defense, and fast speed; two out of these three dimensions far exceeded Tang Chen's.
"What a rude junior." Seeing that Qian Xunji had long failed to shout out his background and information, Tang Chen said with a trace of displeasure.
The spirit masters watching from afar also revealed strange expressions and gazes.
On Douluo Continent, all spirit masters knew that before a spirit duel, one needed to report one's martial soul, spirit power level, and cultivation system.
Did this mysterious Armor Douluo before them not even know the most basic etiquette?
"Rude?"
"If that is how you feel, then so be it. This seat does not care about other people's views of him."
Qian Xunji's tone was calm and distant, completely devoid of emotion.
Be oneself in life and in action.
To live happily, one must not fall into internal friction because of other people's views and words.
Qian Xunji raised his sword with his right hand, pointing the tip at Tang Chen, and spoke once more: "The battle can begin now, can it?"
"Let's fight!" Tang Chen answered domineeringly.
The voice, amplified by spirit power, reached the ears of everyone present.
The crowd held their breath and opened their eyes wide, unwilling to miss a single upcoming second.
A battle between limit douluos was not something one could see just by wanting to.
So fast, Tang Chen was startled inwardly.
Holding the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand, guarding it in front of his neck, he blocked Qian Xunji's thrusting strike.
Yet the tremendous impact of the force still forced him to take a step back, failing to completely block this sword.
Tang Chen's gaze focused on the golden treasure sword tightly gripped in Qian Xunji's right hand, only to see the golden flames on the blade begin to spread and diffuse.
The golden flames traveled along the contact surface between the hammer and sword, creeping outward to ignite the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul, burning and purifying his own spirit power.
The Angel Spirit's characteristic of purifying the spirit power within others? The instant Tang Chen felt doubt in his heart, he used the Shock Art from the Nine Heavens Hammer Arts, generating a shockwave to shake off the golden flames clinging to the Clear Sky Hammer.
Meanwhile, the shaken-off golden flames did not extinguish along with it.
A noble spirit master lord who was watching the battle was very unlucky to have his body ignited, and a miserable scream issued from his mouth.
The golden flames instantly swallowed him entirely, turning him into ashes. When the cold wind in the mountains blew, he scattered like flying dust, achieving the feat of having his bones ground to powder and scattered in the wind.
This scene lasted only a few short seconds, yet it was someone's entire lifetime.
This scene caused most of the people who had come to watch the battle to feel a chill in their hearts, and the emotion of fear spread outward.
One had to know that watching battles in the spirit duel arena was practically free of mortal danger.
And it was precisely for this reason that low- and mid-tier spirit masters with low cultivation dared to come and watch the battles of limit douluo powerhouses.
Yet what they never expected was that the moment the fight started, some unlucky soul died amidst the aftermath of the combat.
In the sky, sword and hammer collided, producing crisp metallic sounds like a piece of death metal music.
Below, countless spirit masters executed Martial Soul Possession, trying their absolute best to escape, solely to carve out a sliver of survival amidst the sky-full rain of golden sparks.
"Is this what a great battle between limit douluos is like?"
"Even the aftermath within the combat is enough to cause countless spirit masters to lose their lives."
Ning Fengzhi, who was protected at close range by Bone Douluo Gu Rong and had not suffered any injuries, wore a look of terror.
In the limit douluo battle before their eyes, neither side had yet used spirit ring or spirit bone skills to exchange waves; merely using the most basic combat methods, the aftermath of the fight had already caused countless watching spirit masters to die.
If the two of them unleashed their ultimate moves and used hundred-thousand-year spirit skills, wouldn't that...
Thinking of this, Ning Fengzhi reached out and tugged at Gu Rong's sleeve, signaling the other party to carry him and fly a bit further away.
The person who similarly harbored the thought of getting further away from the battlefield was none other than Yu Yuanzhen, the Thunder Douluo.
"Limit douluo powerhouses truly are terrifying."
Yu Yuanzhen felt extremely fortunate that his past self had not let emotions get the better of him due to the death of the Blue Lightning Jade Clan member "Yu Xiaogang", rushing to Heaven Dou City to find Qian Xunji for a fight and demand an explanation.
That sword thrust aimed at the throat was so fast that his eyes could only see afterimages, and his body simply could not react in time.
Eyes: I saw it.
Brain: Dodge quickly.
Body: You guys make it sound so easy, is this speed something I can react to in time?
"Do the two sect masters share the same thought?" The Heaven Dou emperor had executed Martial Soul Possession, using a flying spirit skill to distance himself from the battlefield, and upon seeing Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen drawing close, he greeted them.
Although the other party was the emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire, neither Yu Yuanzhen nor Ning Fengzhi had the time, energy, or mood right now to exchange pleasantries and idle chatter with him.
The Heaven Dou emperor met with a cold reception, yet his face still wore that expression of indifference where mountains could collapse before him without a change in emotion, making it impossible to tell whether he was pleased or angry.
Having witnessed a limit douluo battle today, he finally understood what a wise decision his instant kneeling in the past had been.
As for the domestic nobility and the private armies of the nobles, if they died, they died.
It was only a pity they hadn't all died completely.
The moment the Heaven Dou emperor's gaze captured the figure of Qian Daoliu alongside the little girl beside him, the very first thought that bubbled up in his mind was precisely this.
This exquisitely featured little girl could become the crown princess of the Heaven Dou Empire, the future empress, and the empress dowager, as well as the grand empress dowager, protecting the Heaven Dou Empire for over a hundred years.
Qian Daoliu, who was watching the battle without blinking, failed to notice that calculating gaze from the Heaven Dou emperor.
"So Tang Chen, who has always been on the fierce offensive, also has a day when someone else attacks him fiercely." Off to the side, Green Phoenix Douluo saw that Tang Chen was constantly suppressed by Qian Xunji throughout the battle, remaining in a state of raising his hammer in defense while small wounds continually emerged on his body, and laughed as he spoke.
If not for Qian Daoliu being right beside him, Green Phoenix Douluo would have used the term "that reckless brute Tang Chen" to address him.
Bibi Dong had a small body and huge eyes, her mouth wide open in an expression of astonishment.
She thought to herself: Lesson learned, lesson learned.
This method of utilizing an absolute speed advantage for close-quarters hand-to-hand combat and continuous attacks, giving the owner of the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul zero opportunity to unleash grand, sweeping movements or build up power for attacks, was simply marvelous.
If she had known this kind of combat style in her past life, she could have engaged in close-quarters grappling with Tang San, preventing the opponent from using spirit ring and spirit bone skills, and forcing him to respond purely with basic attacks.
Bibi Dong: This emperor could have been beaten to the point of using a second life?
"Nine Heavens Hammer Arts, Brake Slash, Collapse Slash!"
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