Tang Chen's Defeat and Death

"Clear Sky Nine Absolutes—break!"

Seal, contain, pierce, penetrate, bind, shake, shatter, sever, collapse.

Tang Chen wielded the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes with dazzling skill, swinging the Clear Sky Hammer so fast that nothing could get through.

He blocked every one of Lin Feng's elemental attacks.

Tang Chen glared at Lin Feng, killing intent blazing in his eyes. Blocking the attacks wasn't enough. He had to kill Lin Feng.

Only then could he turn the battle around!

"Lin Feng, if you're a man, fight me fair and square!"

"Hiding in the back like a turtle doesn't make you a hero!"

Lin Feng remained unmoved. He raised a hand, and a barrage of elemental attacks engulfed Tang Chen's position.

"Tang Chen, did I knock the sense out of you?"

"You're a berserker who fights up close, and I'm a mage who fights at range. You want me to give up ranged attacks and trade blows with you? I'm not stupid enough to pit my weakness against your strength."

"Thunder Shakes All Creation!"

Lin Feng unleashed another ability of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's torso bone. Hundreds of purple Lightning Balls formed and swept toward Tang Chen, crackling across the sky.

Tang Chen was already struggling to keep up. Surrounded by the purple Lightning Balls, he couldn't get even half a step closer to Lin Feng.

The clash between the two Peerless Douluo destroyed more than half of Xilu City with its shockwaves alone.

Fortunately, Lin Feng had sent Ah Yin to evacuate the people beforehand. A Soul Douluo and a healing Soul Master, she rescued the vast majority of them and could immediately heal anyone who was injured.

That kept the battle from causing heavy casualties.

Tang Chen was seething. He had already detonated six Soul Rings, but now his eyes hardened. With two more sharp bursts, he detonated another two.

Their energy surged into his body, raising his power once again.

Tang Chen swung his hammer, and the air exploded. Every elemental attack within ten meters before him was smashed to pieces.

"Lin Feng, die!"

Tang Chen charged, swooping toward Lin Feng like a great bird spreading its wings across the heavens.

Lin Feng felt a fierce gust strike his face, but he didn't even blink.

"Mental Paralysis Ray!"

Divine light shot from Lin Feng's eyes. At his current level of spiritual power, one Mental Paralysis Ray made even a Peerless Douluo like Tang Chen feel as though a huge hammer had struck his head. His mind went blank.

The power gained from detonating eight Soul Rings failed to land on Lin Feng. Instead, it slipped out of Tang Chen's control while his mind was blank. He staggered, pain tearing through his organs.

"Eighth Soul Skill—Great Five-Element... Destruction Divine Light!"

Lin Feng's eyes turned fierce. Rather than use the pure-energy attack of the Great Five-Element Annihilation Divine Light, he chose the space-time attack of the Great Five-Element Destruction Divine Light. He would leave Tang Chen nowhere to dodge.

Five multicolored feathers rose behind Lin Feng, shimmering with a hazy Light of Time and Space. Space rippled violently, and that misty five-colored glow covered the sky above all of Xilu City.

The ordinary people without Soul Power knew only to flee.

The Soul Masters who did possess Soul Power sensed the suffocating surge of energy overhead and dropped to their knees.

In a battle between Peerless Douluo, even the faintest shockwave could wipe out swathes of Soul Kings and Soul Emperors.

Tang Chen was also a Peerless Douluo, and he had a Head Soul Bone. After a while, he managed to recover.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

The moment he came to, Tang Chen began coughing violently. Only then did he realize that the power from his eight detonated Soul Rings had gone out of control while his mind was blank.

If his body hadn't been so strong, the rampaging energy would have blown him apart.

Tang Chen hurried to rein in the energy. Then he looked up.

Damn it all!

Lin Feng had already finished charging his attack. The hazy light of the Great Five-Element Destruction Divine Light was hurtling straight toward him.

Tang Chen's pupils shrank to pinpricks. A terrible sense of danger sent chills down his spine. Fortunately, countless battles over the years had honed his instincts, and his body reacted on its own.

"Great Sumeru Hammer—Ring Detonation!"

The last Soul Ring on Tang Chen, a hundred-thousand-year ring, exploded. Its energy surged back into him, driving his power to its peak.

Heaven and earth trembled. The skies changed color!

Like a god descending, Tang Chen now wielded power infinitely close to the divine.

Tang Chen had always met his enemies head-on.

This time, however, he used the near-divine power bought with all nine of his Soul Rings to smash a hole in space, then plunged into the void.

A cold smile crossed Lin Feng's face.

Trying to run? Not a chance!

The Great Five-Element Destruction Divine Light was a space-time attack. It pursued Tang Chen straight into the void.

A black hole burst open in the sky. A moment later, Tang Chen's screams rang out from within it.

The screams grew louder, and Tang Chen, who had already escaped into the void, fell back out of the black hole.

His entire right arm was gone, along with half his shoulder.

He had probably tried to meet the Great Five-Element Destruction Divine Light head-on with his Clear Sky Hammer. The attack's space-time power had erased that part of his body.

The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's Light of Time and Space could gravely wound Di Tian.

Lin Feng was now even stronger than the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord. In his hands, the Light of Time and Space had transformed, leaving almost no one below the divine level capable of resisting it.

Tang Chen collapsed to the ground, barely breathing.

All the power he had gained by detonating his nine Soul Rings had been spent.

His expression went numb. He neither begged for mercy nor hurled curses. He held on to the last shred of dignity befitting a Peerless Douluo.

Tang Chen stared straight at Lin Feng. After a cough, he spoke in a hoarse voice:

"Lin Feng, I lost. I came to kill you, so I know you won't spare me."

"But I have one last question. How... did you break through so quickly?"

"You're only twelve. A few months ago, you were just a Soul King. Spirit Hall even stripped you of your Soul Power and Soul Rings. Even if you recovered your Soul Power, you shouldn't have become a Peerless Douluo."

Lin Feng waved a hand and unleashed Platinum Army Breaker. Tens of thousands of feathers formed around him.

"If I had to give you a reason, I'd say it's the power of love."

After all, the Marriage System required love.

So Lin Feng wasn't wrong.

When love disappeared, the level ninety-two Soul Power he had taken from Bibi Dong was compensation for his lost youth.

"Love?!"

Tang Chen was baffled. Love couldn't feed him or quench his thirst. How could it grant power?

Lin Feng offered no further explanation. With a flick of his fingers, tens of thousands of feathers descended on Tang Chen and tore his body to shreds.

Tang Chen, one of the Soul Master World's Two Peaks, had fallen.

That was the end of him.