I Am... the Blazing Sun That Will Rise (Please Urge Me to Update)

His gaze swept across the lines of information before him.

[Thus Burns the Dawn · Destruction +1]

[Type: Five-Star Light Cone (Garden of Recollection)]

[Attributes: HP/Attack/Defense +50%]

[Effect 1: Increases the wearer's speed by 12%. When dealing damage, ignores 18% of the target's Defense.]

[Effect 2: After the wearer uses their Ultimate, gains one stack of [Blazing Sun]. While holding [Blazing Sun], the next attack deals 60% additional damage.]

[Effect 3: Permanently +2 to the maximum limit of [Destruction Damage]]

[Note: Life ought to be reduced to ashes, just as Thus Burns the Dawn.]

[Light Cone slot updated. Please inspect it yourself.]

Xu Yuan: "!!!"

Awesome. This was Phainon Template Power's exclusive Light Cone.

Next, Xu Yuan fixed his eyes on the attributes section.

HP, Attack, and Defense—all three core attributes had been boosted by 50%. The numbers were beautifully simple and brutal.

A premium growth-type percentage boost, a godly late-game ability.

As expected of something produced by the Garden of Recollection, a great power renowned across the universe. The true cosmic orthodoxy.

As for the three effects of this exclusive Light Cone, they covered acceleration, defense penetration, bonus damage, and more.

Xu Yuan especially remembered that, once fully stacked, this Light Cone could ignore 36% of Defense.

Simply put, every future enemy would lose one-third of their Defense the moment they met him. Dawnmaker would be able to cut to its heart's content.

The key was the third effect. An extra two points of Destruction Damage was simply too good.

And Xu Yuan also had the [Tooth-for-Tooth Armor]!

When he cut someone, he directly ignored one-third of their Defense. Yet if they hit him, they had to endure reflected damage equal to 250% of his shield value.

That was downright underhanded, but he loved this move.

If it wasn't disabled, it was enabled?

Sorry, it had never been disabled to begin with.

After a brief consideration, Xu Yuan equipped the five-star Light Cone—[Thus Burns the Dawn].

In an instant, Xu Yuan clearly felt his physique strengthen. His overall defense and speed underwent a qualitative leap.

Unlike the boosts from [Tooth-for-Tooth Armor], damage reduction, shields, and lucky hit chance were too intangible.

It was not like boosts to HP, Attack, and Defense, whose effects were immediate.

After carefully sensing his newly strengthened power, Xu Yuan finally gathered his thoughts and left with Jingliu.

When he looked up, Yu Xiaogang and Tang San had already emerged from Soul Hunting Forest with heavy hearts and complicated expressions.

After leaving Soul Hunting Forest, they took a country road through the outskirts.

However, Jingliu suddenly spoke at that moment.

"Little brother, I sense an aura approaching that is closely related by bloodline to that body-snatching cultivator."

"It should be the Titled Douluo you mentioned before—Tang Hao. He'll arrive in half a minute."

"Big sister, I want to fight him one-on-one."

Hearing that, Jingliu asked with some concern, "Little brother, you only have two Soul Rings. Are you sure you don't need my help?"

"Big sister, my first and second martial souls can fuse and transform. You only need to watch my back."

"Yu Xiaogang is too weak to serve as a whetstone. This one will do."

Xu Yuan assessed his current overall combat power. With the exclusive Light Cone added in, facing Tang Hao head-on would not be a problem.

"If so, then I shall do as you say, little brother."

Still wearing a strip of black cloth over her eyes, Jingliu held the Tanhua Sword in one hand and waited with an aura that had returned to simplicity.

Then...

Xu Yuan summoned his martial soul—Dawnmaker—and looked into the distance.

He spotted an unwelcome guest.

In the distance, while Tang San climbed into the carriage with a gloomy expression, a hooded middle-aged man in a black robe seized the chance to stop the lone Yu Xiaogang.

That man was Tang Hao—Tang Hao the Hammer.

A moment later, Tang Hao released the pale-faced Yu Xiaogang and began scanning his surroundings with his black eyes.

In an instant, Tang Hao locked onto Xu Yuan's location.

With a flicker of his body, Tang Hao appeared before the two of them at high speed and demanded coldly:

"A powerful illusion-type Soul Skill aura. Boy, was it you who tampered with my son Tang San's first Soul Ring?"

Tang Hao reeked of alcohol. Perhaps it was a Titled Douluo's instincts, coupled with the fact that criminals often returned to the scene of the crime.

After hearing Yu Xiaogang's account, Tang Hao had immediately found his prime suspect.

"You're Tang Hao the Hammer, Tang Hao?"

Xu Yuan raised a brow and shielded Jingliu behind him.

"So fearless. You were the one behind what happened to my son, weren't you? And you recognized my identity too. I can't let you live."

Perhaps the alcohol had gone to his head. After blindly stumbling onto the truth like a dead mouse finding a cat, Tang Hao attacked directly.

The next second, Tang Hao activated his martial soul.

Since they were out in the wilderness, far from Notting City, Tang Hao unleashed his full aura without holding anything back.

"Boom!!"

As soon as the Titled Douluo's imposing aura spread, the surrounding ground and trees suffered devastation, shattered beyond recognition.

Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red.

Nine Soul Rings hovered silently at different points around Tang Hao's body, the final ring glowing with an especially brilliant crimson light.

"Truly terrifying, Clear Sky... Haozi Douluo."

Xu Yuan showed Tang Hao no respect at all. The moment Tang Hao summoned his Clear Sky Hammer martial soul, Xu Yuan made his move as well.

"I am... the Blazing Sun that will rise!!!!"

Dawnmaker emitted a faint golden glow. Its blade was azure at the center, while a slender semicircular ring extended from its hilt, resembling half a blazing sun.

Xu Yuan held Dawnmaker upright. One Thought, God or Demon!!

"Buzzz~~"

Two black Soul Rings, so dark they seemed to shine with depth, rose and circled Dawnmaker.

Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings. Two of them.

This child absolutely could not be allowed to live.

Tang Hao's pupils shrank at the sight. Swinging his Clear Sky Hammer, he turned into a black afterimage and charged over.

Xu Yuan raised Dawnmaker high and instantly used Secret Technique Points.

"Beginning of the End"!

"Ignite the Dawn!"

A pair of broad yellow-purple wings instantly grew from his back. As the wings folded together, they created several black-red energy spheres.

With the force of thunder and a scorching aura that made the space along their path tremble, they crashed into Tang Hao.

The attack came too suddenly. Tang Hao only had time to hold the Clear Sky Hammer across his body and forcibly take the blast.

A terrifying force struck him. Before he could launch a counterattack, Tang Hao felt the world in his vision change.

And then...

A voice boomed like thunder.

"Everlasting World-Burning shall bear it."

"With the wrath of countless Core Flames—"

The voice belonged to Xu Yuan, yet it was incomparably deep and majestic.

In that instant, Xu Yuan slapped a hand against his chest and directly activated his Ultimate.

An invisible force field rapidly spread outward, locked onto Jingliu, whom he had long regarded as a teammate, and gently pushed her far away.

The host had kicked someone from the room. I will... fight alone!!

Immediately afterward, the entire sky shifted as winds and clouds churned.

Dawnmaker and Worldbearing Flame, his two martial souls, instantly fused into one. The surrounding space twisted violently as it boiled.

"Rumble—!!"

Endless golden blood rose from the earth, flowing upward like magma before gathering into a sphere.

It floated between heaven and earth. Within it, one could faintly see a golden orb encircled by a stellar ring.

A towering figure with wings upon its back slowly unfurled from a curled position.

"Dun↑ dun↑ dun↑ dun↑ dun↓ dun↓~~"

Lofty, resounding hymns instantly rang out through the void, bringing the world a symphony of destruction!

War drums thundered, beating against every heart.

Night fell, yet Dawnmaker rose like a blazing sun!

Boom!!!

The towering figure had blazing golden hair, eyes dazzling as Golden Eyes, and in its right hand, Dawnmaker slashed heavily through the air.

"Rip—!!"

Shatter fate's curse, and never submit to it!

The blazing sun rose, and a pair of long, broad yellow-purple wings of light instantly spread open.

Golden radiance spanning ten thousand zhang poured down, making the entire world listen to the sun's roar.

With the supreme bearing of a creator god, Xu Yuan brutally and tyrannically tore apart the darkened heavens!

"Burn this body to ashes!!!!!"

The blazing sun of [Destruction], the Seat of All Worlds—the Template Power of Khaslana had officially descended upon this world!