The Angel Duel Arena was an immensely powerful skill, a downright unreasonable rule-based skill. As such, it could not be activated instantly and required a long time to charge.
Huo Yuhao followed one principle: use an ox-cleaving blade to kill a chicken. If he could go all out, he would never hold back his strength.
In truth, with his current cultivation, he could easily kill Tang Hao even in a head-on fight. But since there was a more reliable method, why not use it?
That was why he had begun activating his Angel Duel Arena the instant Tang Hao appeared. Only now had the Soul Skill finished charging, but Huo Yuhao felt the timing was perfect.
After all, Tang Hao had fought for so long without so much as touching him, yet had already exhausted over half his Soul Power and shattered six of his Soul Rings.
Huo Yuhao looked at Tang Hao expressionlessly, as though looking at a dead man, and his lips parted slightly.
"Angel Duel Arena, activate!"
In an instant, a blood-red light flashed from Huo Yuhao's body and enveloped Tang Hao. Then both figures vanished from where they stood.
Swept away by the bloody light, Tang Hao appeared in a mysterious space. Everything around him was pitch-black, and his body felt weightless, unable to find any purchase. Stranger still, the fluctuations of his Soul Power seemed to be weakening. He could feel his Soul Power dropping in level.
From level ninety-four, it fell all the way to level ninety. Then his ninth ring, the blood-red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, was sealed away. He could neither use nor summon it.
He discovered that within this mysterious space, his cultivation had actually fallen to that of a Soul Douluo.
What was going on? Just what kind of skill was this? Countless questions flooded Tang Hao's mind, while an inexplicable fear welled up in his heart.
Then his surroundings lit up, allowing him to see exactly where he was. This was an enormous arena. It appeared circular, yet stretched beyond the limits of his sight. There were no clouds, sun, or stars in the sky, only boundless darkness.
The light came from the arena itself, and the sight immediately filled Tang Hao with a suffocating dread.
But in the next instant, he spotted Huo Yuhao, and the fear in his heart turned completely into despair.
He sensed that Huo Yuhao's cultivation was still at the Titled Douluo level. His Soul Power Level was also unchanged: level ninety-five.
His own cultivation, however, had dropped into the eighties. Even when they were both Titled Douluos, he had been powerless against Huo Yuhao. Now he had only eight Soul Rings and the cultivation of a Soul Douluo, while Huo Yuhao's cultivation had not changed at all.
Didn't that leave him with nothing but certain death?
What the hell was this place? Why had this happened to him?
Just then, a strange voice rang out from every direction.
"Welcome to the Angel Duel Arena. You will engage in a fierce battle here. Only when one side dies can this battle to the death end and the survivor leave this space. This duel is absolutely fair and impartial. Countdown: five, four, three, two, one. Begin."
The moment the countdown ended, Huo Yuhao unleashed all his Soul Power and shot toward Tang Hao.
Tang Hao had no time to curse the Angel Duel Arena's unfairness. He raised his Clear Sky Hammer to defend himself, but as a mere Soul Douluo, how could he possibly contend with Huo Yuhao, who possessed two divine Martial Souls?
Tang Hao was defeated in their very first exchange. A single punch from Huo Yuhao sent him flying far away, while the Clear Sky Hammer slipped from his grasp and hurtled dozens of meters away.
The gap was simply too great.
Suppressed by the power of this space's rules, Tang Hao had no room to fight back whatsoever. This time, Huo Yuhao's Bloodthirsty Threads finally met no resistance. They completely bound Tang Hao's body, then tightened mercilessly.
Huo Yuhao walked toward Tang Hao step by step. His Blood Angel Wings blotted out the sky, blood-red threads filled the air, his eyes shone scarlet, and dense bloody energy spread over his entire body. He truly looked like a fiend from hell.
There was nothing to say. He had no personal grudge against Tang Hao. Tang Hao's only mistake had been becoming Tang San's father.
And so he was destined to die. It was all fate. When he thought about it, Huo Yuhao had personally witnessed Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin's death, and now he was about to send Tang Hao and Tang San on their way as well. He was sending the whole family off together, every last one of them!
Tang Hao was still struggling desperately. The Bloodthirsty Threads crazily drained his blood, leaving his entire body shriveled. Already plagued by lingering internal injuries, he was now on the verge of death.
Huo Yuhao had no habit of torturing people. He used his spiritual power to draw Tang Hao's body before him, then thrust one hand forward with sudden force, his hand covered in Blood Angel Claws reaching for Tang Hao's heart.
He crushed it outright!
Then Tang Hao became a cold corpse. Soon, a crisp chime sounded in Huo Yuhao's mind, as sweet to his ears as heavenly music.
"Congratulations on killing Tang Hao, one of the Three Harms. Item obtained: Beauty Compendium! This is a powerful cultivation method that emphasizes the union of yin and yang and can help cultivators rapidly increase their levels. Host, please investigate its specific functions yourself. Item grade: red. It can be taken out of this world and used in the main world. It does not count toward the completion rewards."
Beauty Compendium?
What was that?
Curiosity immediately stirred in Huo Yuhao's heart. The system said it was a cultivation method, but why did its name sound so strange? Still, since it was red-grade, it had to be something good. Huo Yuhao had no time to deal with it now. He could only study it patiently later.
After killing Tang Hao, he not only received his reward but also successfully left the Angel Duel Arena. Once outside, Huo Yuhao casually tossed Tang Hao's shriveled corpse aside, and it struck the ground heavily.
At the sight, tears of blood and anguish flowed from Tang San's eyes, but his reason still overcame his impulses. Taking Xiao Wu's hand, he used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and fled into the distance.
Unfortunately, how could Huo Yuhao let him have his way? Hadn't he waited this long precisely to kill him? The system had already said that the Three Harms System's primary purpose was to eliminate Tang San. Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao were really just extras.
He fled, Huo Yuhao pursued, and even wings could not have saved him!
Before absolute strength, any struggle was meaningless. With just a glance, Huo Yuhao immobilized Tang San, then forcibly crushed him to death with spiritual power.
With that, Huo Yuhao's mission was finally complete. He had spent more than twenty years carrying out this mission in this world, and today it had finally ended.
After letting out a long breath, he felt a sudden lightness in his heart. This was the relief of being utterly free, and it was intoxicating!
Soon, the system's notification chime sounded in his mind.
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