Tang Hao froze at the sight of Su Bai's sudden appearance. Then, as though something had occurred to him, he let out a vicious laugh.
"You're Su Bai?"
"You little brat! You beat up my son, stole what belonged to our family, and still dared to show your face before me. Clearly, you have no idea who I am!"
As he spoke, an ancient, pitch-black hammer appeared in Tang Hao's hand, exuding an indescribable sense of power. Nine Soul Rings rose beneath his feet. The ninth was a deep crimson, its bloody glow striking terror into the heart as a horrifying aura surged outward.
Merely hovering in the air, he exerted enough pressure to leave everything around him struggling for breath. The weeds below bent low, and even the air seemed to have been compressed solid.
"Tell me, how would you like to die?"
Su Bai raised an eyebrow at that.
"Sorry, I have no plans to die yet."
As soon as the words left his lips, he tightened his hold on Xiao Wu, and the two of them vanished in an instant.
"Teleportation?"
Seeing Su Bai disappear, a trace of bewilderment entered Tang Hao's eyes.
"Isn't that the little rabbit's Soul Skill? How can he use it too?"
"And that distance..."
At the thought, a hint of wariness surfaced in Tang Hao's eyes.
Su Bai's Martial Soul was far too strange. He had clearly used Blue Silver Grass before, yet now he could use Teleportation as well. He had to be snuffed out as soon as possible.
How vast was a Titled Douluo's Soul Power? Tang Hao released his Soul Power and immediately located Su Bai.
"You little brat, you think you can escape like this? Ridiculous!"
Su Bai did not reply. Holding Xiao Wu, he kept using Teleportation, rushing toward the place he had prepared.
Xiao Wu lay against his chest, her eyes brimming with tears.
"Su Bai, you idiot! Why did you come back?"
"He's a Titled Douluo! Hurry and run!"
Su Bai flicked Xiao Wu's forehead and smiled.
"What are you afraid of? At this point, it's probably too late for me to run alone anyway."
"Don't worry. I'm not stupid enough to come here just to die."
A fierce gust came whistling from behind them.
Tang Hao swung the Clear Sky Hammer, aimed it toward them from afar, and brought it down with brutal force.
An overwhelmingly tyrannical blast of wind erupted from the hammer, hurtling toward them at such speed that it would strike in the blink of an eye.
Boom!
The instant the hammer's wind exploded, Su Bai vanished again. The blast struck the ground, smashing a massive crater into it. Countless cracks spread outward like a spiderweb.
"He can still use Teleportation?"
Tang Hao frowned, but his expression otherwise remained unchanged.
He was a Titled Douluo, while that brat Su Bai was so young that he could be no more than a Soul Ancestor. How could he possibly compete with him in Soul Power?
Then, as though something had occurred to Tang Hao, murderous intent flashed through his eyes. An immense killing aura suddenly materialized around him and spread outward. For a moment, every living creature within several miles felt its life snuffed out, trembling in terror.
Divine Slaughter's Domain!
After all, he was still a fugitive wanted by Spirit Hall. If Spirit Hall discovered his whereabouts, not only he but Tang San would be implicated as well.
"Stop running. She's a Soul Beast. It's only right and proper for Soul Masters to hunt Soul Beasts!"
Tang Hao locked onto Su Bai's retreating figure and spoke calmly.
Hearing those shameless words, Su Bai could only find them laughable.
Any Soul Master could say that, but you, Tang Hao, have no right!
Don't you know perfectly well where your ninth Soul Ring came from?
Didn't you discover long ago that Xiao Wu was a Soul Beast? Why didn't you kill her at the start?
Wasn't it because you wanted to save a Soul Ring for Tang San that you kept Xiao Wu around all this time?
Tang Hao himself was a double-dealing dog.
"If it's only right and proper, why did you fight back when Spirit Hall hunted you down?"
Su Bai sneered, throwing those words back at him as he continued using Teleportation.
"Wasn't Spirit Hall hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast back then too?"
Tang Hao froze at those words, bewilderment entering his eyes.
Spirit Hall's pursuit of them had been a major incident at the time. It had directly caused the world's foremost sect, the Clear Sky Sect, to withdraw from the world, and plenty of people knew about it.
But how many years ago had that been?
The person before him was so young. Who had told him about it?
As far as Tang Hao remembered, Su Bai had no parents.
"Where did you learn that?"
Su Bai said nothing. Looking ahead, he could barely suppress the grin curling at the corners of his lips.
When Su Bai refused to answer, the murderous aura in Tang Hao's eyes grew even more palpable. He wanted nothing more than to seize Su Bai right then and tear him into ten thousand pieces.
"So you won't talk?"
"In a moment, I'll make you spill everything willingly!"
Tang Hao roared and shot forward like lightning, his black clothes fluttering through the air as he brought his hammer down.
Bang!
As the blow descended, Su Bai finally stopped, making no further attempt to teleport.
A trace of satisfaction entered Tang Hao's eyes, and he deliberately restrained the strength of his strike.
He did not want the fellow before him to die too easily. After all, he still had questions to ask.
Unexpectedly, Su Bai held Xiao Wu tight with one arm and slowly raised the other. Without making the slightest attempt to dodge, he met the Clear Sky Hammer head-on!
A layer of Blue Silver Emperor instantly appeared over his arm, winding tightly around it and interweaving into armor.
Bang!
The Clear Sky Hammer seemed to carry ten thousand pounds of force. As it fell, the armor shattered, the Blue Silver Emperor strands forming it breaking one after another.
At the very moment it shattered, golden light flashed over Su Bai's body. A ring of light appeared beneath his feet, accompanied by four Soul Rings.
Domination Domain!
He switched to the Golden Lion Mastiff. Golden light blazed from his body, his bones crackled explosively, and his entire figure seemed shrouded in gold, brimming with power.
Bang!!!
A thunderous crash rang out. When the Clear Sky Hammer struck Su Bai's arm, it actually produced the ringing clash of metal against stone, the sound rolling outward.
"What is this?"
For the first time, shock appeared in Tang Hao's eyes. He had never imagined that Su Bai, a mere Soul Ancestor, could actually block his attack head-on.
"How is this possible?"
Moreover, Su Bai's Soul Power had risen so quickly that it had completely exceeded Tang Hao's expectations.
Tang San and Su Bai were clearly about the same age, yet their levels were worlds apart. One stood in the heavens, the other on the earth.
No. This boy must not be allowed to live!
Tang Hao's murderous intent grew more terrifying than ever. Just as he was about to stop holding back, he caught sight of the shattered armor out of the corner of his eye. His gaze abruptly went blank, and he stared fixedly at it.
"Th-this is the Blue Silver Emperor?!"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! I've already put Ah Yin away. There can't possibly be a second Blue Silver Emperor in this world! Who exactly are you?"
"Where did your Martial Soul come from?!"
Under the weight of that immense shock, even Tang Hao became somewhat incoherent, roaring like a madman.
A cold sneer curled at the corners of Su Bai's lips. Suddenly, the phantom of a beautiful woman appeared behind him.
That phantom was none other than Ah Yin!
"What? Don't you even recognize your own wife?!"
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