Qian Renxue was completely caught off guard by this ambush. Her attention had been fixed on Mo Lin the entire time, and she had never expected someone to attack here. Even if she summoned her Martial Soul now, it was already too late.
"Thud—"
Yet the seemingly unstoppable flying hammer abruptly stopped before Qian Renxue. What blocked it was a dragon claw.
That dragon claw was Mo Lin's dragonized left hand. Compared to the massive hammer hurtling toward them, the claw could only be called a "little baby," yet it had effortlessly stopped the hammer.
Only then did Qian Renxue look past the hammer and realize that it had not been thrown. A man stood behind it, tightly gripping the hammer's handle and leaning forward. He seemed to have exerted tremendous force and was still pushing with all his might, but under the control of Mo Lin's dragon claw, neither he nor his Tool Martial Soul could advance even a fraction.
Feeling the force transmitted through his left hand, Mo Lin realized that he had both underestimated his current strength and overestimated Tang Hao's present abilities. After awakening the Winged Dragon Martial Soul, Mo Lin's strength had reached an utterly terrifying level even without manifesting his spirit bones. Mo Lin's spirit bones had completely fused with his body, becoming one with it; manifesting them was equivalent to dragonizing his body. As for Tang Hao, after severing one arm and one leg himself, his strength had naturally plummeted. He could not even fully exert his pure strength due to the difficulty of applying force. His current power was nowhere near as formidable as he had boasted in the original story.
When Mo Lin had received Tang Hao's ambush just now, it had felt like catching a small paper ball. He had