Sovereign's Descent! Huo Yuhao!

Immediately afterward.

The enormous black Clear Sky Hammer behind Tang Hao suddenly flared, fierce black light surging around it. The massive hammer swelled in the wind until it stretched over a hundred meters long.

Its enormous head resembled a small mountain.

Red markings emerged across the massive Clear Sky Hammer. The red hundred-thousand-year soul ring on Tang Hao's body abruptly detonated, turning the black hammer entirely red.

The colossal hammer, over a hundred meters long, plummeted from the sky, smashing straight toward the Pope's Hall above everyone's heads.

In an instant, the air throughout Spirit City warped. Every Soul Master below the Soul King rank became utterly unable to move.

"The Clear Sky ultimate technique-Ring Detonation of the Great Sumeru Hammer!"

Sword Douluo Chen Xin sprang up in alarm, instantly releasing all nine soul rings before resolutely placing himself in front of Ning Fengzhi and Qian Renxue.

Strike where the enemy must defend.

This was the Tang Family's favorite trick.

"Tang Hao, how dare you!"

Pope Bibi Dong's expression changed drastically. She was about to act when she saw Huo Yuhao move.

Wang Qiu'er moved with him from the competition stage.

"Yuhao! Catch the spear!"

As the Golden Dragon Spear flew out, Wang Qiu'er spread her arms and threw herself toward Huo Yuhao.

Great Sumeru Hammer! Ring Detonation!

Tang Hao might currently have only rank ninety-five soul power, but once he unleashed this Self-Created Soul Skill, even if it failed to reach the demigod level, it would at least reach rank ninety-eight or the Level 99 Limit Douluo level.

Although Huo Yuhao was confident, Wang Qiu'er would not let him face it alone.

After all, they had only just reunited.

Seeing Wang Qiu'er throw herself toward him, Huo Yuhao opened his arms to meet her, thinking, Qiu'er, won't this expose you?

This works too.

Although Huo Yuhao was confident he could settle the contest with Tang Hao, the process might not have been simple. But Qiu'er's decision to join him had directly rewritten the established script. Even if Tang Hao possessed an instantaneous burst of power approaching a demigod's, everything would be fine as long as they had the Golden Dragon Spear.

Under countless shocked gazes, a shield of rose gold, ice blue, and pale gold spread before them, and the Eye of Destiny emerged at its center.

A resounding dragon's roar rang out.

Wang Qiu'er's body merged directly into Huo Yuhao's.

Immediately afterward, a layer of brilliant golden armor lit up around him. This was Huo Yuhao and Wang Qiu'er's Martial Soul Fusion Skill-Dragon's Roar of Destiny!

"Eye of Destiny!"

Huo Yuhao stood with spear in hand, gazing up at the descending hammer as he activated the power of fate.

The Great Sumeru Hammer delivered the ultimate burst of power. Its strength lay in maximizing instantaneous destructive force, but its weakness was that, at the moment of release, the user's mental defenses weakened and their soul power ran wild, briefly exposing the paths followed by their bloodline power and soul rings.

Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Destiny not to forcibly restrain Tang Hao's body, but to predict the flow of power within this strike, glimpse its trajectory in advance, dissipate its force, and disrupt his spiritual power.

In the sky.

Tang Hao's spiritual power instantly suffered what felt like a crushing blow, and blood spilled uncontrollably from his seven orifices.

Yet he did not withdraw his hammer. He forcibly activated the Divine Slaughter's Domain, driving himself into an even greater frenzy. The enormous hammer in the sky paused only briefly before smashing down again.

Huo Yuhao did not hesitate either. Holding the Golden Dragon Spear, he soared upward.

At the same time, his fifth soul ring abruptly blazed.

Pride of the Ice and Snow Emperors!

Huo Yuhao forcibly poured all the might of the Ice and Snow Emperors into the Golden Dragon Spear, unleashing his strongest strike in the Martial Soul Fusion state.

"Hah!!!"

Seeing Huo Yuhao shoot skyward, Tang Hao roared even louder.

His momentum would not allow him to retreat. This was also the essence of the Clear Sky Hammer.

Boom!

Immediately afterward.

A heaven-shaking crash erupted.

In an instant, the air throughout Spirit City warped. The thunderous crash, like punishment from the heavens, made the entire city tremble violently.

The crash faded.

The Clear Sky Hammer in the sky shattered like glass. Blood mist scattered as Tang Hao was hurled backward, while the Golden Dragon Spear shot straight into the heavens.

What... what a powerful spear strike!

At that moment, Qian Daoliu, who had been preparing to intervene from the Worship Hall, froze in place, then involuntarily swallowed with an audible gulp.

Back in the arena, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, Poison Douluo Dugu Bo, Pope Bibi Dong, Ghost Douluo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and the other Titled Douluos of Spirit Hall all stood petrified. Their gazes were fixed on the same spot as Qian Daoliu's.

The Titled Douluos were all dumbstruck.

Tang Hao was equally shaken. That spear strike had not only forcibly torn apart his Divine Slaughter's Domain, but had also severely injured his internal organs.

Tang Hao's Clear Sky Hammer followed the path of pure strength. With the Divine Slaughter's Domain reinforcing it, it had forged his momentum of sweeping all before him.

Yet.

His opponent's spear seemed even stronger.

After all, it was a Divine Artifact. Even if Ring Detonation could bring the Clear Sky Hammer to the demigod level, the Divine Slaughter's Domain was merely a planar domain and had not evolved into the divine Asura Domain. It remained several tiers beneath a true Divine Artifact. The Golden Dragon Spear was a pseudo-Divine Artifact approaching the level of a Super Divine Artifact, not to mention that it contained the fused power of two great Ferocious Beasts.

But Tang Hao was still Tang Hao. If the Clear Sky Hammer's momentum faltered here, he would lose that domineering spirit that acknowledged neither self nor heaven.

"Damn it! Break!"

Tang Hao threw his head back and roared in defiance, "Clear Sky Nine Techniques-Void, Seal, Pierce, Penetrate, Bind, Quake, Break, Halt, and Collapse, unite!"

"Great Sumeru Hammer!!!"

With his low shout, Tang Hao's first through seventh soul rings all detonated. Extremely violent energy surged into the Clear Sky Hammer. "Die!"

Tang Hao had become almost completely frenzied, and the Clear Sky Hammer swelled in the wind once more.

This truly mountain-sized Clear Sky Hammer radiated an overwhelming presence, suppressing even the auras of the powerful figures below.

This was Tang Hao, once the youngest Titled Douluo on the Douluo Continent. This hammer strike fully displayed the imposing might of the continent's greatest genius.

"Sovereign's Descent!"

Huo Yuhao had not expected Tang Hao to go this far, but he did not retreat. He immediately unleashed the Sovereign's Descent taught to him by his old mentor Mu En, merging his spiritual power into his attack.

Moreover, this was a Soul Skill Mu En had created himself. Once someone was defeated by a user of Sovereign's Descent, its unique spiritual power would not only rampage through their body and wreak destruction, but would also leave them feeling submissive and powerless whenever they faced that user again.

Of course.

This was still far from enough.

Huo Yuhao no longer held anything back. Three streams of soul power-brilliant gold, white, and gray-surged into the Golden Dragon Spear like a tide.

Indeed, these were the ultimate powers of his three martial souls: Spiritual Eyes, Ultimate Ice, and Holy Necromancer.

He chose neither soul bones nor Soul Skills, nor even Self-Created Soul Skills. Instead, he used the most primitive method, stacking all the soul power from soul beasts whose cultivation totaled several million years, along with the energy of his teacher Electrolux, into the Golden Dragon Spear.

He unleashed his strongest strike!

As the Clear Sky Hammer smashed down.

By now, Bibi Dong and the others had another opportunity to intervene, yet even Qian Daoliu in the Worship Hall could not react in such a short time. After all, a Clear Sky Hammer powered by the consecutive detonation of seven rings was no longer something an ordinary Titled Douluo, or even a Super Douluo, could stop.

At present, in all of Spirit Hall.

Only three people remained capable of stopping this strike: Limit Douluo Qian Daoliu, Pope Bibi Dong, and Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena.

Of course.

There was also Huo Yuhao!

Yet in everyone's eyes, Huo Yuhao, holding the Golden Dragon Spear in midair, looked like an ant beneath the nearly hundred-meter Clear Sky Hammer. He seemed far too frail.

"Roar!"

A resounding dragon's roar echoed throughout Spirit Hall as an enormous golden dragon took shape in the sky.