The Ultimate Secret of the Great Sumeru Hammer, Ring Detonation-You're the Weakest Titled Douluo I've Ever Seen!

"Does that matter?"

An Jing looked down from above at the startled, uncertain Tang Hao, his silver hair stirring in the wind, his voice as cold as ice:

"All you need to know is that from the moment you appeared, we became mortal enemies. Neither of us will rest until the other is dead."

Before his words had faded, his right index finger traced an elegant, eerie arc through the air.

"Sixth Soul Skill, Spatial Prison."

Riiip-!

As his fingertip swept down, the space beneath Tang Hao abruptly sank, as though the center of gravity of the entire world had been hollowed out in an instant.

Before the Clear Sky Douluo could dodge, he discovered to his horror that the dimensions within three feet of him had been completely severed from reality. Light warped and refracted, forming a crystal-clear, three-dimensional cage.

He tried punching through its walls, but the force of his blows seemed to fall into endlessly folded alien dimensions, where it was steadily diluted and dissolved.

This was An Jing's supremely overbearing Sixth Soul Skill.

A prison of laws that independently isolated three-dimensional space. Unless his own spiritual power and Soul Power both ran dry, ordinary methods could not hope to shake it in the slightest.

Having done all this, An Jing did not even glance at Tang Hao. He merely beckoned casually into the void with his left hand.

Space folded, turning the ends of the earth into a single step!

Over a hundred meters away, Tang San and Xiao Wu had been about to escape amid the chaos when the world suddenly spun around them. Their surroundings raced backward, and in a single instant, they were forcibly dragged like marionettes to within a few feet of An Jing!

"Touch my son, and you're dead-!!"

Seeing Tang San's life hanging by a thread, Tang Hao nearly split the corners of his eyes with fury inside the spatial cage. Terrifying scarlet veins instantly filled his eyes.

The urge to protect his son overwhelmed all reason. Tang Hao roared furiously, and the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand, dormant for so many years, abruptly swelled against the wind,

Two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red-a full nine Soul Rings pulsed wildly beneath his feet. The eighth, a deep-black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, erupted with a dazzling, savage light!

"Eighth Soul Skill, Sky-Piercing Strike!"

Ultimate, unadulterated strength and murderous energy detonated in that instant, like a black blazing sun rising in defiance of heaven.

Under the terrifying pressure of a Titled Douluo fighting for his life without restraint, the once-unshakable three-dimensional spatial cage cracked beneath that utterly unreasonable blow. Spiderweb fractures spread across it before it shattered inch by inch with a thunderous roar!

With the cage broken, Tang Hao's momentum surged higher, his killing intent flooding the heavens. He became a bolt of black lightning and swooped down from midair with world-destroying force, intent on pulverizing An Jing and everything within a hundred meters before fleeing with Tang San!

"A broken body riddled with lingering injuries, and you dare talk of pressing your advantage?"

Facing the gigantic hammer crashing down in a frenzy, An Jing curled his lips into a bone-chilling, vicious smile.

He stood motionless at the center of the gale, but the air pressure around him solidified and layered upon itself within a ten-thousandth of a second.

"Third Soul Skill, Boundless Expanse."

Clang-!!!

A sharp crack rang out, nearly tearing through their eardrums. The Clear Sky Hammer, powerful enough to cleave mountains and sever peaks, abruptly stopped less than half a foot from An Jing's face.

Countless transparent spatial faults rippled through the air like indestructible, invisible crystal walls. No matter how the veins bulged on Tang Hao's forehead or how violently his killing intent surged, his hammer could not advance another fraction of an inch!

A mere handspan became a boundless heavenly chasm!

"That's all the strength you have? You really are... the weakest Titled Douluo I've ever seen."

An Jing's calm murmur exploded in Tang Hao's ears like a sentence pronounced by the god of death.

The next instant, An Jing unleashed the right fist he had long been priming!

The punch not only incorporated the surging kinetic amplification of his Two-Word Battle Armor, but also carried thousands of cubic meters of surrounding air compressed to its absolute limit.

As his fist shot out, space before his knuckles visibly collapsed into folds. The blow landed squarely on Tang Hao's utterly unguarded abdomen!

Bam-!

Like a mighty bell struck by a god, Tang Hao's burly body doubled over violently. He spewed a thick mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of his organs,

His entire body became a streak of light hurled hundreds of meters backward, while countless spatial blades almost impossible to see mercilessly sliced him apart, shredding his robes and covering him in bloody gashes!

"Raaagh-!"

Tang Hao forced himself to regain his balance, his killing intent verging on madness.

Rather than retreating, he advanced, unleashing the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes in rapid succession. Black shadows filled the sky, their savage howls tearing through the heavens as they bombarded An Jing from every angle without a single blind spot.

Yet beneath the protection of "Boundless Expanse," An Jing remained as steady as a rock.

Those heavy blows, powerful enough to move mountains and flatten seas, struck the spatial faults like clay oxen sinking into the ocean. A few violent remnants of force managed to penetrate the barrier, only to be effortlessly dispersed and deflected by the radiant Two-Word Battle Armor enveloping him.

After several rounds of furious attacks as relentless as driving wind and rain, An Jing remained composed and completely unscathed.

Tang Hao, by contrast, had meridians already riddled with damage. Under the repeated assault of his old injuries and the spatial cuts, they were close to rupturing, and his aura rapidly weakened.

"What an uncanny brat..."

Bracing himself on the Clear Sky Hammer, Tang Hao knelt on one knee and panted heavily, staring fixedly at his opponent. His heart brimmed with indescribable shock, fury, and frustration.

Every attack felt as though it had struck a mire that sucked away all its strength. He possessed divine might, yet could not even touch his opponent's actual body.

If this continued, he would not only fail to save Tang San-he would meet his own end here as well!

At that thought, a grim, desperate resolve flashed through Tang Hao's eyes.

He planted his foot heavily, straightened his blood-soaked back, and stared coldly at An Jing:

"Boy, I don't care what exalted figure taught you, but today... consider it an honor to die beneath this move!"

"The secret of the Great Sumeru Hammer-Ring Detonation!!"

With a savage roar that shook the nine heavens, the first six Soul Rings beneath Tang Hao's feet erupted in dazzling blasts one after another, all within the same instant!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Six rings detonated together!

An ultimate, overwhelming power, like that born of sacrificing his soul, violently collapsed and reassembled within Tang Hao, becoming pure divine strength that transcended the laws.

The Clear Sky Hammer, originally several dozen feet across, abruptly expanded until it blotted out the sky and sun. The ancient demonic patterns engraved on its body lit up with blood and golden light, and with the force to smash the void, it came crushing down upon An Jing's head!

"Ring Detonation? At least you haven't disappointed me completely."

Sensing the destructive pressure overhead, An Jing narrowed his eyes slightly, finally shedding some of his disdain.

His seventh, jet-black Soul Ring abruptly blazed!

"Seventh Soul Skill, Sky Avatar!"

Humm-!

Silver radiance soared into the sky around An Jing. The murmurs of gods seemed to echo from the depths of the void, and dominion over the entire firmament gathered within him.

"First Soul Skill, Dust!"

"Third Soul Skill, Boundless Expanse!"

"Fourth Soul Skill, Change Heaven and Earth!"

With his Martial Soul Avatar and Two-Word Battle Armor operating beyond their limits, his multiple Soul Skills fused seamlessly. The once-pure spatial faults abruptly transformed into an inverted furnace of heaven and earth,

Drawing upon the annihilating power of the void, it surged upward against the colossal hammer that obscured the heavens!

Rumble-!!!

Two ultimate, world-destroying forces collided violently above Shrek Academy!

The clouds overhead evaporated in an instant, and rifts in the void spread wildly like black lightning.

The ultimate brute force of the Great Sumeru Hammer, fueled by six detonated rings, finally smashed straight through the spatial faults of "Boundless Expanse"!

The terrifying shock wave became a tangible ring of nuclear-blast radiance that spread furiously outward. An Jing felt his chest tighten, and like a burning meteor, he was smashed into the ground by the lingering force that tore through the laws themselves!

Boom!

Shrek Academy's buildings across several thousand meters turned to dust in an instant, and the ground caved into a charred crater hundreds of feet deep!

For the first time in his life, someone had forcibly broken through An Jing's spatial defenses with brute strength.

Yet Tang Hao, who had forcibly detonated his rings, suffered far more grievous injuries.

The backlash of the Great Sumeru Hammer mingled with the shredding force of spatial annihilation, tearing back the flesh across half his body and exposing stark white bone. He continued hurtling backward, vomiting blood uncontrollably.

But he was, after all, a god of slaughter who had crawled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. The instant the explosion's shock wave carried him backward, he bit through the tip of his tongue and forcibly squeezed the last trace of Soul Power from his meridians,

His bloody hand swept through the air, gathering Tang San and Xiao Wu, who had also been thrown aside by the shock wave, tightly into his arms. Tearing through the smoke and shattered void behind him, he became a blood-red afterimage and vanished into the distant sky beyond Shrek's ruins.