The sun sank in the west, and a crescent moon hung in the night sky as the light gradually faded.
On a small hill outside Heaven Dou City, fierce winds howled past, whipping dust into the air.
A burly man in black robes stood motionless on a flat rock halfway up the slope. His eyes remained fixed on a nearby hilltop, as though he had fallen deep into thought.
Behind him, an enormous black hammer floated in midair.
Had a Soul Master of the older generation been there, they would surely have cried out in astonishment, for that enormous black hammer was the Clear Sky Hammer, once the continent's foremost tool martial soul.
Suddenly, nine soul rings-yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, and red-rose slowly from beneath his feet, one after another.
"Seventh Soul Skill-Clear Sky True Body!"
His seventh soul ring flashed. The enormous black Clear Sky Hammer behind the robed man suddenly blazed with surging black light. Expanding into the wind, it grew to over a hundred meters long, its immense head resembling a small mountain.
Red markings emerged across the gigantic Clear Sky Hammer. The hundred-thousand-year red soul ring around the man abruptly lit up, and the black hammer turned entirely red.
The hundred-meter-long colossal hammer plummeted from the sky, aimed straight at the summit of the small hill.
Boom!
The hammer struck the hill in a violent explosion. The summit instantly collapsed, debris flying and smoke billowing in every direction.
When the dust settled, a tall, imposing figure stood there. Strange red markings flickered across the enormous black hammer in his hand, coiling around it and lending it an eerily seductive beauty.
The black-robed man folded his arms and looked coldly toward the summit. "Hahaha! I broke through! I, Tang Hao, finally reached level