"Long!"
Tang Hu froze, blood surging to his head as he shouted.
However...
Tang Long, now only half a man, could no longer answer him. Both hands braced against the shaft of his Clear Sky Hammer, holding his upper body upright.
His eyes and expression were frozen, as though time had stopped the moment he was cut in half.
Li Chen pulled out his blade. Tang Long's severed waist was smooth as a mirror, but unfortunately, his intestines and organs soon slid out onto the ground, ruining that beauty.
Li Chen withdrew his long saber. The lengthy soul tool blade in his hand glowed, absorbing the blood on its surface by itself.
This long soul tool blade had been modified from the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife. It could absorb its target's vitality and even grow in level on its own.
The saber had absorbed Tang Long's life force in an instant. Otherwise, with his Soul Emperor-level vitality, he might still have had a chance of being saved even after being cut in half.
"Motherfucker! I'll kill you!"
Seeing his good brother die so horribly, Tang Hu's already bullheaded mind stopped thinking altogether, and he lunged at Li Chen again.
"Clear Sky Nine Absolutes! Sixth soul skill: Mountain-Splitting Earth-Rending!"
Tang Hu's eyes were blood-red. Gripping the hammer shaft with both hands, he smashed it down at Li Chen's head with all his strength!
Had the Clear Sky Sect not restricted the Great Sumeru Hammer's Ring Detonation method to a single successor per generation, Tang Hu would have dearly loved to detonate every soul ring he possessed right then.
However...
Facing Tang Hu's all-out strike, Li Chen, who had only just advanced to Soul Emperor, showed not the slightest panic.
Bzzzt~
Li Chen crouched, darted to Tang Hu's side, and then slashed out