Catching the Clear Sky Hammer with One Hand; Tang Hao Was a Murderous Fiend, and Ah Yin Despaired

Ye Tian smiled calmly at the expectant Ah Yin and poured a bucket of cold water over her hopes.

For a Soul Beast, encountering an Auspicious Beast was the honor of a lifetime.

If a Soul Beast received an Auspicious Beast's blessing, it would be blessed with good fortune.

But if it failed to receive that blessing and was cursed instead, it would never find happiness. Misfortune would follow it for life.

Such was the influence of an Auspicious Beast. It was the will of heaven.

Ah Yin's face darkened to its utmost at Ye Tian's words.

She knew that if she insisted on marrying Tang Hao, misfortune would surely follow, perhaps even falling upon their descendants.

Tang Hao saw the hesitation on Ah Yin's face and flew into a rage.

"Where did this little brat come from? You dare pretend to be an Auspicious Beast to tear us apart? Who gave you the nerve?"

"Get lost, or don't blame me when I smash you!"

He and Ah Yin truly loved each other. They were about to marry and spend their wedding night together.

Who would have thought some damned Auspicious Beast would appear out of nowhere? He refused to believe in such nonsense.

"How dare you show such disrespect to an Auspicious Beast!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo roared and summoned his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum Martial Soul.

He knew better than to reveal Ye Tian's true identity at a time like this, so he addressed him only as an Auspicious Beast.

When Tang Hao and Ah Yin saw that Chrysanthemum Douluo was a Titled Douluo, both their expressions changed.

They had not expected one of the three to be a Titled Douluo.

This was going to be troublesome.

"Heh. So what if you're a Titled Douluo?"

"Do you think the Clear Sky Sect is so easy to bully?"

At the sight of Chrysanthemum Douluo's nine Soul Rings, Tang Hao summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and unleashed a crushing pressure.

The Clear Sky Sect was the foremost sect on the Douluo Continent. Its name ought to give them pause.

Ye Tian looked at Tang Hao's eight Soul Rings and sensed his Soul Power Level, then paused in surprise.

Tang Hao's Soul Power Level had already reached level eighty-seven. He and Ah Yin had probably come to the Star Dou Great Forest to live in seclusion and marry.

It seemed Spirit Hall's intelligence was wrong after all. Its information on Tang Hao's Soul Power Level was inaccurate.

He had thought as much. How could Tang Hao have only just become a Soul Douluo?

"Heh. It's only a Clear Sky Hammer, yet you dare flaunt it before me."

"How about this? If you can beat me, I'll let you leave alive."

Now that Ye Tian had the strength, he wanted to use Tang Hao to test it.

"Brat, you're far too arrogant."

"Even if it costs me my life, I'll teach you a lesson today!"

Tang Hao was seething at Ye Tian's arrogant words.

A little brat had dared look down on his Clear Sky Hammer. Unforgivable.

"Brother Hao, don't! He's an Auspicious Beast. You can't attack him!"

Seeing that Tang Hao was about to strike, Ah Yin hurried to stop him.

Failing to receive the Auspicious Beast's blessing was bad enough. If they attacked him too, happiness would be further beyond their reach.

"Ah Yin, don't let him fool you."

"What Auspicious Beast?"

"He's just a little brat."

"No one is stopping us from getting married today!"

Tang Hao no longer cared about anything else. He shoved Ah Yin aside, swung the Clear Sky Hammer, and brought it down on Ye Tian.

So what if the other side had a Titled Douluo?

He was not afraid!

If it came to that, he would use Ring Detonation. He refused to believe he could not kill a Titled Douluo.

"How dare you!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo roared and moved to intervene.

But Ye Tian merely waved a hand, sending out a surge of Soul Power that forced Chrysanthemum Douluo and Bibi Dong back.

"Old Chrysanthemum, Sister Dong'er, stay out of this. Let me have some fun."

Ye Tian spoke casually, then released the Slow Domain. Time around them slowed as he drew on Titan Power, swung his fist, and drove it forward.

In an instant, Tang Hao felt his body slow dramatically. He struggled to break free.

He knew this was the power of a domain.

He had never expected a little brat to command one.

Could he really be an Auspicious Beast?

Bang!

While Tang Hao was still reeling in shock, Ye Tian's fist struck the Clear Sky Hammer and unleashed terrifying force.

Before Tang Hao could react, the immense power surging through the hammerhead sent him flying.

Bibi Dong, Ah Yin, and Chrysanthemum Douluo stared in shock.

The Clear Sky Hammer was the foremost tool Martial Soul on the Douluo Continent, with tremendous explosive power and the ability to overwhelm its foes.

No one dared meet it head-on with their bare body.

Yet Ye Tian had done just that.

"Not bad. My physical strength really has improved a lot."

"Come on, then. Let me see what the Clear Sky Sect can do."

Ye Tian shook out his small fist and crooked a finger at Tang Hao, his face full of mockery.

As the Clear Sky Sect's most outstanding genius, Tang Hao had never been ridiculed like this.

Ye Tian's actions trampled on his dignity.

To regain face and make Ye Tian suffer, Tang Hao decided to use his full strength. He unleashed the chilling Divine Slaughter's Domain.

The moment the domain opened, killing intent so dense it seemed tangible blanketed the area. The nearby Blue Silver Grass withered and died.

Ah Yin, Bibi Dong, and Chrysanthemum Douluo were all startled by the Divine Slaughter's Domain.

What kind of domain was this? It was so powerful that it made a person's killing intent almost solid.

"Heh. The Divine Slaughter's Domain!"

"Tang Hao, you've finally shown your true face."

"Ah Yin, you see it now, don't you?"

"Only someone who kills often can refine their killing intent to its utmost and awaken the Divine Slaughter's Domain."

"Ah Yin, he's a fiend who kills without blinking. You chose the wrong man."

When Ye Tian saw Tang Hao use the Divine Slaughter's Domain, he seized the chance to blacken Tang Hao's character.

After all, in everyone's mind, killing intent was born from slaughter.

The more people someone killed, the stronger their killing intent became.

Tang Hao's killing intent had become completely tangible. Anyone could take him for a murderous fiend.

And Tang Hao truly was a killer. He had killed nearly a thousand people in Slaughter City.

"B-Brother Hao, where did all that killing intent come from?"

"How many people have you killed?"

Ah Yin believed Ye Tian. She now understood why the Auspicious Beast had suddenly appeared to stop her from marrying Tang Hao.

The Tang Hao she had known for years was a murderous fiend.

How many lives must he have destroyed for his killing intent to condense into a domain?

The thought alone terrified her.

As the Blue Silver Emperor, she carried the bloodline of royalty among Plant-type Soul Beasts and symbolized life.

Her boundless vitality made Ah Yin naturally love peace and hate slaughter.

Tang Hao's tangible killing intent and Divine Slaughter's Domain sickened her.

Had she known Tang Hao was a murderous fiend, she never would have befriended him.

"Ah Yin, listen to me. I can explain."

"My killing intent and the Divine Slaughter's Domain both came from a special place: Slaughter City."

"I could only leave alive after passing Slaughter City's trials."

"The killing intent and the Divine Slaughter's Domain were my rewards for passing."

Tang Hao knew Ah Yin was kind and hated slaughter, so he immediately tried to explain.

Bibi Dong's and Chrysanthemum Douluo's expressions shifted slightly at his words.

As Spirit Hall Saintess and an elder of Spirit Hall, they naturally knew of Slaughter City.

Any Soul Master who emerged from Slaughter City was among the most gifted in the world. Such a person would become a top-tier powerhouse with formidable strength.

But Slaughter City's trials were too difficult. Over the past thousand years, only a handful had made it out alive.

They had not expected Tang Hao to be one of them.

"Ah Yin, don't believe his explanation."

"Slaughter City is the place where the Asura God left his divine inheritance. Who says everyone inside is utterly evil? Many were captured and taken there to complete the Asura God's inheritance."

"To leave Slaughter City alive, you have to kill nearly a thousand people."

"Who can guarantee there wasn't a single innocent person among them?"

"Just because those people were weak, did they deserve to become stepping-stones for the strong and be slaughtered without mercy?"

"Ah Yin, you're too naive."

"Before Tang Hao went to Slaughter City, he knew its rules. He didn't go there to eradicate evil. He wanted to use the power of evil to grow stronger and obtain the Divine Slaughter's Domain."

"He was lying to you just now."