The End

"Everyone, attack together!"

Clatter!

With a roar, countless Naruto clones hurled their Martial Souls in unison. The surging chains intertwined and fused together like a black tsunami, blotting out the sky and moon as they crashed down!

Boom!

Dust billowed!

Tang Hao, at the center of the crowd, was swallowed by the ocean of chains, forming an ugly ball of tangled links.

"We've got him! Everyone, pull!"

Thousands of Naruto clones gritted their teeth, muscles taut. Moving as one, they hauled on the chains, pulling with all their might!

The chains creaked taut! Sparks flew from the tangled ball at the center as it shrank slightly!

Just then, white light crackling with electricity burst through the gaps between the chains. Within, Tang Hao panted like an ox, steam rolling off his body. His eyes lit up with white light as he roared furiously!

"A rabble!"

Boom!

With a deafening crash, the enormous ball of chains shattered. Tang Hao emerged into the open and grabbed dozens of broken Chains of Heaven.

He yanked hard!

Surging power raced along the Chains of Heaven toward the other end! Dozens of Naruto clones stared wide-eyed, as though they were trying to pull a speeding train!

They had no time to react!

Dozens of them were yanked into the air by the Martial Souls in their hands. Gripping the chains, Tang Hao twisted at the waist and spun around. The chains in his hands roared through the air, their trailing Meteor Hammers smashing down with tremendous force!

The Meteor Hammers arced through the sky. A fierce wind slapped them in the face as dozens of Naruto clones streaked across the heavens, struggling to open their eyes.

Before them were their fellow clones, eyes wide and scattering in terror—and the ground below, rapidly swelling into view.

This Shadow Clone, born mere seconds ago, drooped his eyelids in speechless resignation.

"Huh? Am I gonna die?"

Boom!

Like a derailed train, the Meteor Hammers swept through the packed sea of clones in an instant. Dust billowed high, and the clones Tang Hao had sent flying rained down from the sky.

The chains clenched in his hands vanished. Tang Hao summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and rested it heavily on his shoulder. Beneath his feet, nine Soul Rings appeared in sequence: yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red.

The space in front of him had been cleared, only for the sea of people around him to rapidly fill it again.

The Clear Sky Hammer in his hands was about to come crashing down—

Clatter!

Tang Hao's arm halted mid-swing. He glared back over his shoulder.

Hundreds more chains lashed out with a clatter, tightly binding his raised arm. Countless Naruto clones pulled on their Martial Souls, desperately trying to hold him back.

"Restrain all four limbs! Use your Soul Skills however you like! Don't conserve Soul Power!"

Black runes surfaced beneath his skin, only to be instantly blasted apart by the Soul Power within Tang Hao.

The black Soul Ring beneath his feet flashed.

"Aah!!"

Dragging hundreds of people behind him, Tang Hao snapped countless chains. He bent forward, back arched, and roared in fury. The Clear Sky Hammer crackling with electricity in his hand came crashing down like lightning!

"Sixth Soul Skill!"

Boom!!

The earth split open. The ground heaved high before crumbling apart, and countless Naruto Shadow Clones nearby were flung into the air by the upheaval in the blink of an eye!

Through the haze, Tang Hao, free of restraint, lowered his stance. His muscles bulged as he charged forward head-on, truly like a beast breaking loose!

The rumbling never ceased.

A streak of blood-red light flashed past, and the ground became a surging sea.

Chunks of earth, as large as mountains, flew everywhere. In the rising clouds of dust, countless Naruto Shadow Clones lay mangled before turning into smoke and vanishing.

In a world where all power belonged to the individual, even such overwhelming numbers couldn't bridge the gap between them.

Without a way to harm a Titled Douluo, even the largest army of grunts was just health packs for a hero unit. Everyone there was only buying time.

At the far end of the sea of people,

Thirty thousand clones were scattered across the earth. The battlefield was simply too vast.

Even though the front had become a merciless meat grinder, the Shadow Clones at the rear could do nothing, constrained by the range of the Chains of Heaven. They could only watch from afar, helpless.

Still, with Tang Hao slaughtering his way through the crowd, it was only a matter of time before he reached them.

"Thirty thousand ganging up on one guy, and he's still killing you all! Do you even know how to play?"

"Where'd you get thirty thousand? There are at most twenty thousand! The other ten thousand ran off ages ago!"

As expected of Naruto's Shadow Clones. Even at a time like this, they were still bickering nonstop.

Hearing that ten thousand had already run away, many turned to look. Nearly ten thousand Shadow Clones scattered like a dense swarm of ants, fleeing into the forest and even the mountains, vanishing without a trace.

Forget Tang Hao—even the Shadow Clones were now utterly confused, with no idea where the original was.

"Damn it! The original sold us out!"

Naruto, standing atop a boulder, shouted, then waved his hand and gave an order. "The control squad, fall back! The cannon fodder squad, move up! Activate the reserve hidden energy! Hold him back!"

"Wait, we have squads? Since when?"

"And who the hell are you? Why should we listen to you?"

The surrounding Shadow Clones frowned and chattered over one another.

The Shadow Clone under fire from the others flew into a rage, stamping his feet as he shouted,

"I'm Shadow Clone A..."

Boom!

Right before their eyes, before the Shadow Clone could finish speaking, an enormous chunk of rock whistled down from the night sky and landed directly on him! A wave of air filled with stone fragments swept over the crowd. Countless Narutos looked at the boulder before them, then turned toward the sea of people in front of them.

The rumble in their ears grew closer. Falling fragments pattered at their feet, and that blood-red figure drew nearer without a care!

The sea of two thousand people was about to be punched straight through!

"All right, the dead deserve respect. He's in charge! Everyone, stop him!"

The last group surged forward!

Tang Hao dodged several chains flung at him from behind without slowing down. Gripping the Clear Sky Hammer with both hands, he twisted at the waist and swung it hard at the crowd before him!

The Clear Sky Hammer tore through the air, kicking up a gale and instantly sweeping away the people in front of him!

With the path cleared, Tang Hao stamped his feet down hard. The ground cracked open once more as he shot forward—but as soon as he took a step, countless Shadow Clones who had been lying in wait for ages burst out of the ground, arms spread as they lunged at him.

Tang Hao merely snorted and glanced at them with an imperious look. A mere few hundred Spirit Kings—he could simply smash straight through them!

But just as he thought this, Tang Hao's eyes suddenly widened. He instinctively tried to stop. The Soul Power of the people blocking his way was churning wildly, rampaging through their bodies. They were going to...

Self-destruct?

Boom!

Several fireballs of Soul Power soared into the air!

As if someone had pressed an activation switch, the surrounding Shadow Clones all abandoned their Martial Souls and deliberately sent their Soul Power into chaos. They charged forward, their whole bodies glowing with a dangerous light, one after another!

Behind them, explosions roared without pause. They were making their final stand.

"Ugh..."

Naruto, carried on a Shadow Clone's back, was drenched in cold sweat. He clenched his teeth and tried to keep his mind as empty as possible, while memories as chaotic as a storm rampaged through his brain. Should he pass out at a time like this?

Right now, Naruto was a little envious of that idiot Naruto.

No matter how many Shadow Clones he created, those empty-headed clones placed only the tiniest burden on the original when they disappeared.

He didn't dare create too many,

and the fewer than ten people in this small squad barely stood out among the fleeing crowd.

The leading Shadow Clone kept running without slowing, his expression grave. He looked back at the continuous explosions in the distance, then at the original's increasingly weak breathing. "Move faster! At this rate, the original really is going to die!"

The group picked up speed. Suddenly, a roar that shook heaven and earth came from behind them.

"Get out of my way!"

The roaring fireballs were torn apart. Tang Hao, trailing a long comet-like tail, snapped the chains holding him back and hurtled into the air in a sorry state, panting. All he had left on his body was a scrap of cloth to cover his shame!

Countless black chains shot out of the ground, trying to drag Tang Hao back down.

Tang Hao ignored the chains winding around him again. His gaze swept over the pitch-black earth, over the fleeing crowd of tens of thousands—and his eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets!

"You think you can run!?"

"Seventh Soul Skill!"

The black Soul Ring beneath his feet flashed. The Clear Sky Hammer, now illusory and azure from end to end, with arcs of electricity leaping across it, emerged from Tang Hao's body and suddenly expanded outward.

The Chains of Heaven wrapped around him were instantly burst apart by his Haotian True Body, shattering inch by inch!

On the Douluo Continent, how powerful did a Spirit Master have to become before they were honored as a true strong one? Since ancient times, every race and nation had almost unanimously chosen the same threshold.

Spirit Saint!

And that threshold was the Martial Soul Avatar!

The enormous Haotian True Body rapidly grew larger, illuminating the sky. But Tang Hao, enveloped and protected by his Martial Soul Avatar, suddenly turned deathly pale.

"Ugh—"

He spat out a mouthful of blood.

Tang Hao's aura grew ragged. His bloodshot eyes turned cloudy, and he instinctively raised a hand to cover his mouth, but blood seeped through his fingers.

His old injuries had been stirred up again.

Crack!

Tang Hao clenched his teeth so hard they shattered, not caring in the slightest. He forced the blood in his throat back down and raised his hand as he shouted,

"Martial Soul Avatar!"

The Haotian True Body solidified and expanded again, growing into a towering mountain. The hammerhead pierced straight through the clouds, revealing the starry sky beyond!

By stirring up his old injuries and using his Martial Soul Avatar, Tang Hao had prepared to level the entire mountain range, leaving no one alive!

In other words,

"It's over!"

Tang Hao opened his bloodied mouth and declared it with absolute certainty.

It seemed that Bibi Dong's warning call reached his ears. Naruto's original weakly raised his head and stared into the distance. Beneath the moonlight, several streaks of light had appeared on the horizon at some point, tearing through the sky as they raced toward him.

"Phew... It's finally over..."

Naruto sighed with relief, then passed out.