Tang Hao Unleashed! Martial Soul Avatar!

"Impossible... This is absolutely impossible..."

Flender's lips trembled as he muttered in a hoarse, quavering voice, his words thick with disbelief.

He felt the entire understanding of the world and its powers he had built over decades collapse beneath that single punch.

Cao Kun... just how strong was he?!

How far beyond belief did the power he'd hidden truly reach?!

The night wind began to stir again, carrying a heavier scent of dust and blood.

Deep within the ruined forest, a faint trace of Soul Power spread through the air.

It belonged to Tang Hao.

That trace of Soul Power slowly began to surge.

Then it grew violent!

Cao Kun turned his head slightly. His gaze pierced the drifting dust and crossed a hundred meters to land precisely on the wreckage of fallen trees.

The corner of his mouth lifted. There was no pride in it, no desire to show off—only the detachment of someone with absolute command of his power,

and perhaps a hint of anticipation for the fight to come.

"Clear Sky Douluo?"

Cao Kun's calm voice reached every ear.

"I hope your Clear Sky Hammer is a little tougher than your bones."

Before the words had faded,

a terrifying aura suddenly erupted from the heart of the dust-choked ruins a hundred meters away!

Boom!!!

Its force burst forth like a volcano awakening after ten thousand years!

Then,

a blinding crimson light shot into the sky, staining half the night red!

The light was thick and blood-soaked, steeped in slaughter and carrying the overwhelming authority of a sovereign!

A vast red Soul Ring slowly rose from its center!

Its color was a searing bloodred that made the soul tremble!

Along its edge, ten golden markings flowed like divine brands, radiating an ancient, savage power that threatened to destroy everything!

A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring! Tang Hao's ninth Soul Ring!

This was the second time Tang Hao had revealed his Soul Rings.

But it was the first time he had unleashed the power of his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

The moment that crimson ring erupted, the entire Dense Forest seemed to sink into a boundless sea of blood!

Even the air grew heavy.

Invisible pressure crashed down like a solid mountain.

The trees still standing at the battlefield's edge groaned beneath it. Their trunks bent, and leaves and branches fell away!

"Roar!!!"

A howl like an ancient Ferocious Beast waking at last exploded from deep within the ruins, filled with boundless rage and humiliation!

The sound swept out like a shock wave, blowing the dust aside and revealing the scene within.

Tang Hao slowly rose from the heap of fallen trees and broken stone.

Most of his worn cloak had been torn away, exposing a scarred, heavily muscled bronze torso.

A vivid streak of blood marked his mouth, and his arms trembled slightly at unnatural angles. Taking that punch head-on had clearly cost him dearly.

Yet the eyes beneath his hood burned with rage fierce enough to consume everything!

Gone were the coldness and indifference. In their place was the frenzy of a man driven beyond reason, ready to fight to the death!

"I underestimated you..."

Every word Tang Hao spoke dripped with hatred and bloodlust.

"Good... Very good!"

He jerked up a hand and savagely wiped the blood from his mouth, as though he could wipe away his humiliation with it.

"Now!"

Tang Hao snapped his head up, bloodshot eyes locking onto Cao Kun a hundred paces away. Violent Soul Power gathered around him like a hurricane.

"I'll show you..."

"what the real Clear Sky Douluo is!"

As Tang Hao's final word exploded through the air,

his right hand suddenly closed around empty space!

Buzz!

An enormous black hammer appeared in his hand!

Ancient and heavy, with sharply defined edges, it radiated a black light that seemed to devour everything.

Its mere appearance sent visible ripples through the surrounding space!

The Clear Sky Hammer's true form!

"Seventh Soul Skill—Clear Sky True Body!"

Tang Hao's roar shook the heavens like thunder!

At his cry, the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand swelled with the wind!

Black light surged skyward as it grew into a monstrous hammer more than a hundred meters long!

Its head was a mountain, its handle a colossal pillar!

A vast, crushing sense of power rolled outward like a tangible tide, as though it could bring down the sky!

The ground shook violently. Loose stones across the battlefield rose as if weightless!

The hundred-meter hammer stretched across the night sky. Beneath it, the crimson Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring slowly revolved, bathing the weapon in light that made it look like the armament of a demon god from hell!

Tang Hao looked tiny beneath the hammer, but the world-shattering force radiating from him merged with it, reaching an unprecedented peak!

"Die!!!"

Tang Hao's eyes blazed red. He looked utterly possessed!

His hands closed around the giant hammer's unseen handle, every muscle in his body swelling hard as steel.

He poured all his Soul Power, all his rage, and all his humiliation into this one strike!

The hundred-meter hammer moved!

Bearing the terrible will to crush stars and annihilate all things, it swept toward the figure a hundred paces away, small as an ant—Cao Kun.

It came crashing down!

Before the hammer reached him, the pressure of the air compressed beneath it struck first!

The ground looked as though an invisible plow had torn through it. Hard earth and stone crumbled to dust, and a massive trench raced forward!

Space groaned under the hammer's path, twisting and collapsing!

This strike carried all the fury of Tang Hao, the Clear Sky Douluo!

It was a killing blow fueled by a Super Douluo's Soul Power and will!

Its force alone could have reduced anyone below a Titled Douluo to ash in an instant!

In the distance, Zhao Wuji stopped breathing under that world-ending pressure. His heart felt clenched in an invisible fist.

Only two words remained in his mind: Can't breathe!

Flender had gone deathly pale. His body shook, his mind went blank, and one thought remained: It's over! Everything's over!

Yet Cao Kun stood motionless before the hundred-meter hammer descending like divine punishment.

Not a ripple crossed his face. Only the faintest trace of... disappointment flickered in his eyes.

"Impressive display!"

Cao Kun's voice rang out, reaching every ear clearly through the earthshaking roar.

"But that's all it is."

The instant those words left his mouth, Cao Kun finally moved!

He slowly raised his right hand, spread his fingers, and made a light pressing motion toward the descending hundred-meter Clear Sky Hammer, as though it might shatter the whole earth!

Dooong!!!

The toll of a bell rang across heaven and earth without warning, ancient and boundless, as though it had traveled through endless ages from the dawn of chaos itself!

It was not especially loud, yet it carried an indescribable majesty, like the first note to sound when heaven and earth were born!

Wherever the bell's toll reached, the world-ending pressure of the Clear Sky Hammer faltered!

The violent Soul Power raging through the air was instantly smoothed away and suppressed!

Twisted space seemed to be flattened by an invisible hand, returning to clarity!

Above Cao Kun's head, strange ripples spread through space.

An enormous object slowly took shape from the void!