A Domain? You're Not the Only One Who Has One!

It was a bell!

Its entire body was a deep yellow, like primordial chaos before creation, when all things were still one!

Its surface was not smooth. It was covered in countless ancient, mysterious, incomprehensible patterns and symbols!

Those patterns were not still. They slowly shifted through the light of chaos, appearing and vanishing.

They seemed to depict the birth and death of the primordial universe, holding the deepest secrets of time, space, matter, and energy!

The bell's mouth was unfathomably deep, as though it opened onto the boundless void of chaos. It radiated a terrifying aura that could devour and smelt all things!

This was the Chaos Bell!

Cao Kun's Weapon Martial Soul Avatar!

The moment the colossal Chaos Bell appeared, an indescribable pressure burst outward!

It was not the savage, destructive aura Tang Hao wielded.

It was something loftier, more profound, more fundamental... the power of order!

As though the bell existed to suppress chaos, set the world in its proper place, and return everything to the absolute order of its primordial beginnings!

Before that pressure, the savage might of Tang Hao's hundred-meter Clear Sky Hammer met its match. It was forcibly suppressed, its strength cut by a third!

Even the glow of the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring seemed to dim!

"What?!"

For the first time, genuine shock and disbelief appeared in Tang Hao's bloodshot eyes!

He had roamed the continent, yet never seen a Weapon Martial Soul so strange or so unnerving!

The aura of that bell even made the essence of his Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul tremble deep within his soul... on instinct?!

"Then let me see..."

"Just how powerful that Clear Sky Hammer of yours really is!"

Cao Kun spoke slowly, his tone calm.

The next instant,

He swept his outstretched right hand forward.

Clang...!!!

At Cao Kun's gesture, the hundred-meter Chaos Bell hovering above his head moved!

There was no earth-shaking howl, no path torn through space.

The Chaos Bell simply charged straight toward the descending hundred-meter Clear Sky Hammer, moving in a way that seemed slow yet was too fast to perceive!

The chaotic runes flowing across its body flared, and its deep yellow light blazed!

Within the bell's mouth, fleeting visions of countless stars being born and dying and galaxies turning flashed past!

A terrifying power that could suppress the ages and smelt chaos gathered on its surface!

The next instant,

The Clear Sky Hammer and the Chaos Bell collided head-on in midair!

Then,

BOOOOM...!!!!!

A thunderous crash beyond description shook heaven and earth!

Blinding light swallowed everything!

Visible shock waves packed with destructive energy and fragments of space swept wildly outward from the point of impact!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom...!!!

At the edge of the battlefield, the towering trees that had survived the earlier aftershocks were uprooted and ripped apart by the blast!

Layers of earth peeled away, and solid rock was crushed to powder as easily as tofu!

Violent torrents of energy sliced through space like billions of invisible blades, drawing sharp cracks from the air!

"Damn it!" In the distance, Zhao Wuji felt an irresistible force slam into him. He fought it with all his strength, but the shock wave still drove him back!

Flender fared even worse. The blast hurled him through several branches before he managed to grab a thick limb and steady himself.

His clothes were torn and his body was drenched in blood. Only horror and stunned disbelief remained in his eyes!

Meanwhile,

At the center of the battlefield,

Tang Hao's eyes blazed red as he unleashed all his strength!

"Aaah..."

He roared wildly, pouring a lifetime of Soul Power, all his will, and the blood-red energy of his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring into the hundred-meter Clear Sky Hammer without holding anything back!

He would smash that strange bell and the arrogant brat behind it to dust!

Blood-red light blazed across the black hammer. Countless fine crimson patterns flashed, releasing an even fiercer aura!

Yet the oncoming Chaos Bell remained as steady as a mountain!

The chaotic runes flowing across its surface shone with an even more mysterious light, and a deep yellow halo rippled outward.

The Clear Sky Hammer struck the Chaos Bell with force enough to split mountains, part seas, and shatter stars. Yet that power vanished as though it had sunk into the sea.

The slowly turning halo of chaos dissolved it layer by layer, devouring and absorbing it!

It felt less like striking solid metal than plunging into a boundless swamp of chaos that swallowed every ounce of force!

"Impossible!!!"

Tang Hao roared in disbelief inwardly.

He could clearly feel his mountain-shaking power being rapidly dismantled by that bizarre bell!

Even more terrifying,

An indescribable force, one that seemed capable of dissolving the essence of all things, was creeping back along the hammer and eating into him!

His Soul Power, his will, even the murderous aura he took such pride in—all of it grew sluggish and weak before that force!

The storm of energy from their first collision had yet to subside when the two hundred-meter behemoths recoiled through the violent torrents.

The Chaos Bell's deep yellow light wavered slightly, but the runes flowing over its surface remained steady, as though it had merely felt a passing breeze.

The hundred-meter Clear Sky Hammer, on the other hand, had developed several fine cracks across its black surface!

They were tiny,

But to Tang Hao's bloodshot eyes, they were a glaring mockery!

Tang Hao locked his immense Spiritual Power on Cao Kun, a hundred paces away, searching his face for any sign of exhaustion or strain.

Instead,

He found only unfathomable calm, and beneath it, the faintest trace of... mockery?

"So this is the Clear Sky Hammer?"

Cao Kun spoke again. "Not bad. It actually withstood a tenth of my power."

A tenth?!

Boom!

Those words struck Tang Hao's rage-filled heart like a thunderbolt from the heavens!

His pride as the Clear Sky Douluo and the continent's youngest Titled Douluo, the supremacy his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring had given him, the ultimate power he had pursued all his life...

Cao Kun had trampled it all underfoot,

And ground it to dust!

"Pfft...!"

The fury welling up inside him, together with the backlash from his clash with the Chaos Bell, proved too much. Tang Hao spat a mouthful of hot blood!

"You...!"

Tang Hao's voice shook with fury, every word steeped in hatred.

"Brat!!! You've truly made me angry!!!"

"I'll destroy you so completely... there won't be a body left to bury!!!"

At that moment,

The last shred of reason in Tang Hao's eyes vanished beneath a tide of madness!

He would hold nothing back and test Cao Kun no further!

He would give everything he had to destroy the insect who had humiliated him and trampled his dignity, along with that strange bell!

"Seventh Soul Skill... Clear Sky True Body!"

Tang Hao roared again.

The hundred-meter hammer's image grew more solid, more massive!

Blood-red light from the Soul Ring poured into it, forcibly sealing the fine cracks in its body!

Then,

An even more terrifying aura, one that seemed to freeze the soul, erupted from Tang Hao!

"Slaughter Barrier!!!"

Bzz...!!!

A terrifying blood-red domain exploded outward from Tang Hao!

In an instant, it engulfed the entire battlefield, Cao Kun a hundred paces away, and the colossal Chaos Bell!

Within the domain, heaven and earth changed color!

The sky turned blood-red. A crimson moon hung high above, shedding an eerie light.

The air reeked of blood so strongly it turned the stomach, as though the battlefield lay amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood!

Countless twisted, wailing shades flickered in and out of the crimson space. Their silent screams battered the mind!

The ground became dark red scorched earth, with molten lava flowing through its cracks!

A crushing force descended, powerful enough to inspire despair.

Within this Slaughter Barrier, Tang Hao was the sole master!

His strength, speed, and senses rose to their limits.

Everything his enemies possessed, meanwhile, was relentlessly weakened and eroded!

"Is this the power a Super Douluo can unleash?!"

At the edge of the battlefield, Zhao Wuji felt the omnipresent pressure and the assault on his mind. His face went deathly pale, his eyes full of horror.

So this was the Clear Sky Douluo's power?!

In that blood-red hell, he felt like a lamb awaiting slaughter. He could barely summon the thought of resisting!

At that moment, Zhao Wuji's hunger for power burned more fiercely than ever!

"The Slaughter Domain?"

At the heart of the blood-red barrier, surrounded and assailed by countless wraithlike shades, Cao Kun merely raised an eyebrow.

There was not a trace of fear on his face.

Instead, he looked... intrigued?

"Impressive power."

His appraisal was mild, as though he were admiring a rare work of art.

The wraiths' shrieks could have shattered a Soul Douluo's mind in an instant. Yet when they struck him, they were no more than a breeze brushing a mountainside. They could not shake him at all.

"But..."

Cao Kun paused, then spoke with open disdain:

"You're not the only one with a domain."