After returning, Qiangu Aoshi spent the night absorbing and refining his gains, raising his soul power from level 65 to level 70.
The next day, Qiangu Aoshi returned to Black Prison.
When Tang Hao saw Qiangu Aoshi again, his face turned pale, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
He roared fiercely despite his inner weakness:
"What are you here for again?"
After being beaten by Qiangu Aoshi yesterday, Tang Hao's soul power had fallen from Titled Douluo to Soul Sage.
Tang Hao hated Qiangu Aoshi to the bone now.
Qiangu Aoshi summoned his Coiling Dragon Staff, a meaningful smile curling across his lips.
"What am I here for? What do you think?"
Qiangu Aoshi swung the Coiling Dragon Staff and viciously brought it down on Tang Hao.
"Ahhhhhh..."
Tang Hao's pig-slaughtering screams echoed throughout the entire arena.
Qiangu Aoshi was a very kind person. While beating Tang Hao, he also healed him, ensuring he would never beat him to death.
At last, after a round of beating, rings of soul rings burst out from Tang Hao's body.
Qiangu Aoshi immediately set his sights on the red Blue Silver Emperor soul ring.
After telling Thousand Jun and Demon Subduing to stand guard for him, Qiangu Aoshi sat cross-legged and began absorbing that red hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
Tang Hao lay sprawled on the ground, his body shaking violently, his eyes bloodshot, and his breathing ragged. He watched helplessly as Ah Yin's sacrificial soul ring was absorbed into Qiangu Aoshi's body.
He screamed in heartbreaking anguish.
"No! Ah Yin! Give Ah Yin's soul ring back to me! Give it back to me..."
This scene was like a grand drama unfolding before their eyes.
Its title was "The Useless Husband."
Tang Hao could only watch as Qiangu Aoshi gradually absorbed Ah Yin's soul ring completely. Aside from glaring with bloodshot eyes and panting heavily, he could do nothing.
A hundred-thousand-year soul ring truly was not easy to absorb.
But Qiangu Aoshi's physique was incredibly powerful. Since he could absorb the sixty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger soul ring, he could naturally absorb the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor soul ring.
His body was enveloped in blue light as enormous energy surged through his meridians, continuously absorbed through the circulation of the Mysterious Heaven Technique.
It took an entire day and night before Qiangu Aoshi finally succeeded in absorbing it.
When Qiangu Aoshi opened his eyes, he grinned.
At twelve years old, he was already a level 74 Soul Sage!
He summoned the Coiling Dragon Staff. The crimson dragon coiled around its shaft seemed to come alive, and long, faint dragon roars continuously rang out from within the staff.
Yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, red. This soul ring configuration was enough to terrify anyone who heard of it, and the rings rose and fell around his body.
Demon Subduing laughed as he stepped forward and heavily patted Qiangu Aoshi on the shoulder.
"Hahaha! Good kid! A twelve-year-old Soul Sage, with a hundred-thousand-year seventh soul ring too! You've really done me and Sixth Brother proud!"
Thousand Jun also walked over, looking at Tang Hao, whose face was ashen.
"Now Tang Hao only has the cultivation of a Soul Emperor left. Aoshi, squeeze every last bit of value out of him in one go."
Qiangu Aoshi nodded, smiling maliciously at Tang Hao.
"First Father, Second Father, that was exactly what I had in mind!"
Very soon!
"Ahhhhhh..."
Pig-slaughtering screams rang out across the arena once more.
"You little bastard, if you have the guts, kill me!"
Qiangu Aoshi did not kill him, but after half an hour of relentless beating, he finally squeezed every last bit of value out of Tang Hao.
The Clear Sky Hammer martial soul burst out!
The Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique burst out!
The Clear Sky Nine Techniques burst out!
The Great Sumeru Hammer burst out!
All six soul bones in his body burst out one after another!
There were also several clusters of soul power, the last remnants of soul power within Tang Hao's body.
The surviving Tang Hao had completely become a cripple. With more breaths leaving than entering, he lay collapsed on the ground like a pile of rotten meat.
Without his martial soul, soul rings, soul power, or soul bones, the Clear Sky Douluo who had once shaken the continent had become history.
Qiangu Aoshi put away the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul, intending to use the Clear Sky Hammer to hammer Tang San the next time he saw him.
Qiangu Aoshi only dabbled in the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique, the Clear Sky Nine Techniques, and the Great Sumeru Hammer, while also making a copy for Spirit Hall.
As for Tang Hao's six soul bones, Qiangu Aoshi did not want a single one. He wanted to obtain a full set of hundred-thousand-year soul bones, so he had no desire to absorb these soul bones that ranged from thirty thousand to sixty thousand years.
Thus, he gave all those soul bones to Thousand Jun and Demon Subduing, the two Douluo.
Thousand Jun and Demon Subduing each took two, intending to fill the parts they lacked.
They could not keep the remaining two soul bones for themselves, so they brought them back for the other offerings of the Consecration Hall.
Soul bones were rare. Other than the First Offering, Qian Daoliu, even Golden Crocodile, Lion, Azure Luan, and Light Feather did not possess a full set of soul bones.
Tang Hao had managed to obtain a full set only because he had slaughtered soul beasts on a massive scale. Everyone from the Clear Sky Sect was this kind of selfish person, draining the pond to catch all the fish and caring only for themselves.
Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect's five elders were all cut from the same cloth, wantonly slaughtering soul beasts for soul bones and rapidly increasing their strength by absorbing them.
Although it was understandable for soul masters to hunt soul beasts, slaughtering them on a massive scale was another matter entirely.
After these people from the Clear Sky Sect slaughtered to their heart's content, what would the soul masters who grew up later do when they needed soul rings?
That was why these tumors had to be eradicated.
Soul beasts were a resource. Killing was one thing, but wholesale slaughter was unacceptable.
Back to the main topic!
Thousand Jun and Demon Subduing each obtained two soul bones. While absorbing them, they entered seclusion to cultivate, preparing to make a single push toward level 97 soul power.
They had been stuck at level 96 soul power for many years and had never found an opportunity to break through.
Among the soul bones they received, each had one sixty-thousand-year soul bone. Those were inherited soul bones of the Clear Sky Sect.
This allowed them to see an opportunity to break through.
At the same time!
After dragging her feet for so long, Bibi Dong finally approved the documents appointing Qiangu Aoshi as Holy Son.
She officially announced to the outside world that Qiangu Aoshi was Spirit Hall's Holy Son.
But Bibi Dong was clearly narrow-minded.
Although she had granted Qiangu Aoshi the position of Holy Son, she neither assigned him personnel nor gave him any work. It was no more than an empty title.
Qiangu Aoshi sneered. Bibi Dong's little tricks truly were beneath notice.
This was a fantasy world. Even if it was the lowest rung of fantasy worlds, it was still a place where strength reigned supreme.
Did she think such petty maneuvers could bind Qiangu Aoshi's hands and feet?
That only meant she was overthinking things.
Once Qiangu Aoshi's strength rose in the future, he could simply kick Bibi Dong aside.
Therefore, to increase his strength, Qiangu Aoshi prepared to venture out and gain experience.
Perhaps he might run into a few experience packs and quickly break through to Soul Douluo, or even Titled Douluo.
Thousand Jun and Demon Subduing were still in seclusion, so Qiangu Aoshi went to the Consecration Hall and informed Qian Daoliu.
Qian Daoliu smiled as he took hold of Qiangu Aoshi.
"Aoshi, I watched you grow up, so I know you inside and out. I have complete confidence in you."
"Xue'er is carrying out a mission in the Heaven Dou Empire. If you are going out to train, why not go to the Heaven Dou Empire and help Xue'er?"
"Xue'er talks about you every day..."
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