He could use Tang Hao to gauge the strength of his current power.
Qian Xunye looked down at Tang Hao. "Why wouldn't I dare?"
With that, he gripped the Dark Sword and slashed straight down.
"Just as I thought! Everyone from the Six-Winged Angel Clan is this arrogant! My chance has come! I have to seize this opportunity to seriously wound him in one fell swoop!" Tang Hao rejoiced inwardly and immediately unleashed one of the Clear Sky Sect's three great techniques: Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique!!
"Then come on!"
"Argh!"
Tang Hao charged forward with the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique.
Boom!
"Come on, then!!"
Tang Hao roared as he swung his hammer in a frenzied barrage.
"Bring it on!"
Qian Xunye was equally fierce, wildly swinging the Dark Sword in his hand in a relentless series of slashes!
The two clashed head-on.
They exchanged a mad barrage of blows!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The two sides launched into an intense confrontation!
"Ten consecutive hammer strikes!"
"Twenty consecutive hammer strikes!"
"Thirty consecutive hammer strikes!!"
"Forty consecutive hammer strikes!" Tang Hao's hammer blows grew fiercer and fiercer, and he became more exhilarated with every strike. "Come on, Qian Xunye! If you've got what it takes, fight me head-on to the end!!"
The Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique consisted of eighty-one hammer strikes, each one stronger than the last. The power of every strike accumulated and stacked.
When the final eighty-first strike came, all the power accumulated beforehand would be unleashed in one explosive burst.
Its might would be astonishing!
Thus, in terms of destructive power, the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique was actually stronger than any single move of the Nine Clear Sky Absolutes. Its power was second only to the Grand Sumeru Hammer.
However, the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique was not very practical in actual combat, because it was easily interrupted.
Once interrupted, the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique could no longer display its power.
That was why Tang Hao kept taunting Qian Xunye, trying to provoke him into a head-on clash. He wanted to stack the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique all the way to its final strike, then unleash the power of that last blow and seriously wound Qian Xunye in one fell swoop.
And now, seeing that Qian Xunye had no intention whatsoever of avoiding his edge, Tang Hao grew excited!
At last, he saw a chance to turn defeat into victory!
"Fifty consecutive hammer strikes!"
"Sixty consecutive hammer strikes!"
"Seventy consecutive hammer strikes!!"
"Arghhh!"
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
"Hahaha! Almost there! I'm almost at eighty consecutive hammer strikes! Soon I'll be able to unleash all the power I've accumulated! Then will be his death!" Seeing that the eighty-first hammer strike was nearly upon him, Tang Hao's heart blazed with excitement.
"Seventy-nine consecutive slashes!"
"Eighty consecutive hammer strikes!!" Tang Hao's excitement was practically written all over his face. The power of the eightieth strike collided head-on with Qian Xunye once again.
"It's here! It's here! Finally, it's here! Hahahaha! Qian Xunye! You dared not avoid my edge—you're dead for sure!"
"You can't block this final strike!!!" An exhilarated grin had already spread across Tang Hao's face. He was completely fired up.
His killing intent soared, and his confidence brimmed.
He prepared to smash his most terrifying hammer strike viciously toward Qian Xunye. "Chaotic Wind! Eighty-one hammer strikes!! Die!!!"
However, at that moment.
A strange smile suddenly appeared on Qian Xunye's face.
Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo had long since secretly prepared their power. At that instant, they unleashed their martial soul fusion skill.
"Martial soul fusion skill, Two Extremes Still Domain!!"
The martial soul fusion skill of Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo was an immensely powerful control ability. It could freeze both space and time for a brief period.
Tang Hao's most domineering and powerful eighty-first hammer strike was restrained by Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, frozen in midair!
His strongest strike had missed completely!
"What!!!"
"??????"
Tang Hao was dumbfounded on the spot.
He had never expected Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to act at this moment!
Qian Xunye sneered. "What a noisy, irritating fool! Did you really think I would keep clashing head-on with you until the end?"
Only then did Tang Hao realize that he had been played.
Tang Hao completely lost it, cursing furiously in rage. "Qian Xunye! You fucking have no martial honor!!!"
"Heh, martial honor? Do you think we're sparring in some friendly contest? This is a life-and-death battle between sworn enemies, and you're still talking about martial honor? Isn't that ridiculous?"
As he spoke, Qian Xunye unleashed the power of the Dark Sword's fifth soul skill in one burst.
The sword in his hand became incomparably massive.
"Alright, your little performance ends here!"
As his words fell, the ten-meter giant sword came slashing down with Qian Xunye's swing.
Terror filled Tang Hao's eyes. "No!!"
Splurt!
"Ahhh!"
Tang Hao's left arm was severed on the spot!
A deep fissure was also carved into the ground.
Tang Hao clutched the severed stump as blood gushed from it. He knelt on the ground, screaming in agony, and despair once more appeared on his face.
Once limbs that had absorbed soul bones were forcibly torn off, severed, or shattered, a soul master's rank would plummet.
After his left arm was severed, Tang Hao's soul power instantly dropped by five ranks.
His cultivation fell directly to the Soul Douluo level, and he could no longer even use his ninth soul ring.
Tang Hao had reached the end of the road.
"Dad!!!!" Tang San, who had been anxiously watching the battle outside from within the wooden hut, was beside himself with worry. His eyes were bloodshot, and his fury soared. Though his father had not treated him particularly well,
he was still his father!
"He's too strong! That man is far too strong! Dad is no match for him. If Dad is killed, I may lose my life too!" Tang San panicked.
He knew that he was currently an ant who could be crushed to death with a casual pinch. He did not dare go outside or make even the slightest sound. He tightly covered his mouth, terrified of being discovered.
Yet Tang San had only just arrived in this world and did not understand the soul master system. He did not know that a Titled Douluo could easily sense the situation inside the wooden hut from this distance, even without seeing it.
"Tang Hao, now, your time to die has come."
Beneath the moonlight.
High in the night sky.
Qian Xunye spread his six dark wings. The night sky and moon formed his backdrop, while the sole hundred-thousand-year red soul ring beneath his feet dyed the black earth with a layer of crimson.
He was preparing to deliver the final killing blow to Tang Hao.
"Die, Tang Hao!"
"Ninth soul skill, Dark Judgment, Myriad Spirits Return to the Void!!"
Qian Xunye finally unleashed his strongest ninth soul skill. In that instant, the Dark Angel behind him soared into the heavens.
At this moment, the night sky above the entire Holy Soul Village was completely shrouded in darkness.
A huge rift tore open in the dark-covered sky, as though space itself had been ripped apart.
Countless powers of dark origin formed into a colossal dark judgment sword stretching ten thousand zhang.
The giant sword slowly descended from that abyssal rift.
"What terrifying power..."
Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo raised their heads to stare at the dark judgment sword. Their bodies could not help but tremble slightly as bone-deep dread surged up from their hearts.
They could sense that the power of this sword would far exceed anything they imagined.
Tang Hao's body trembled as well. The feeling of death nearly engulfed his entire body, but he had no way out.
Tang Hao finally unleashed his strongest move as well, erupting with all his power at this moment.
"Qian Xunye! Even if I, Tang Hao, die, I'll drag you down with me!!"
"Let's die together!"
"Secret art! Ring Detonation!!!"