["Ring Detonation!!!"]
[The Clear Sky Ancestor's divine soul had barely finished speaking.]
[In his hand was that gigantic Clear Sky Hammer, wreathed in the might of Ring Detonation, suppressing heaven and earth.]
[That gigantic Clear Sky Hammer came crashing down at Tang San before the formation, carrying terrifying force that tore through the firmament!]
["Take care to comprehend it, so the painstaking effort I put into this trial will not have been in vain."]
[The aged, powerful voice pressed down with the hammer's wind. The six elders turned deathly pale and cried out in unison, "This is bad!!"]
[Even they dared not meet this hammer strike head-on, and immediately intended to take Tang San and retreat swiftly to the rear.]
["No!" But Tang San did not leave. He merely gazed at the falling hammer, the golden light in his eyes growing ever brighter as he murmured, "A trial... comprehension... the mysteries of the Great Sumeru Hammer?"]
[In an instant, countless insights flowed into his mind along the divinity upon the hammer.]
[Gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into a ring, then detonate it abruptly when Soul Power climbed to its critical point, pouring all its might into the Clear Sky Hammer-this was Ring Detonation!]
[And the key to sensing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and commanding the power of the source was none other than divinity!]
["So that's it..." Tang San abruptly raised his head, a look of understanding lifting the corner of his lips. "No wonder so few have mastered the Great Sumeru Hammer despite the Clear Sky Sect's ten-thousand-year legacy. This art isn't merely about tempering Soul Power at all. Its core requirement is divinity!"]
["Against outsiders, this Immortal Legacy · Eight Hammers Barrier Formation uses divinity as its barrier. Even if Spirit Hall's Soul Masters possessed the power of a Peerless Douluo, they couldn't breach it in the slightest without sufficient divinity, ensuring the sect's absolute safety. Internally, however, it can draw upon the might of the ancestor's divine soul to temper the younger generations. Those who fathom divinity can inherit the legacy..."]
[First Elder Tang Ming shuddered all over at these words and suddenly looked at Tang San, his eyes filled with horror. "You... you saw through the true essence of both the formation and the Great Sumeru Hammer from just a single strike?!"]
[Tang San did not answer. The Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul in his left hand merely shuddered abruptly.]
[Humm!!]
[The second pitch-black Soul Ring rose from the hammer, a dense black halo flowing around it. At first glance, its age did not seem high, yet the oppressive gravity it emitted froze the surrounding air.]
["A fifty-thousand-year... Heavy Armor Bug King Soul Ring?" an elder blurted out. "This Soul Beast is unique to the Star Dou Great Forest, renowned for its defense and strength. Its compatibility with the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul is nearly perfect, and its explosive power rivals even an ordinary seventy-thousand-year Soul Ring!"]
[His words had barely fallen.]
["Ring Detonation!!"]
[Tang San gave a quiet shout, drawing forth Soul Power with his fingertips.]
[That fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring instantly shattered! Incomparably violent power surged through his meridians into the Clear Sky Hammer. The palm-sized hammer swelled in the wind, the ancient inscriptions carved into it lighting up one after another, faintly resonating with the ancestor's gigantic hammer falling from the sky.]
["He actually detonated his ring?!" Sixth Elder Tang Yuran's eyes nearly popped out. "That's the core secret art of the Great Sumeru Hammer! The ancestor only demonstrated it once, and he's already learned it?!" "Such comprehension... such comprehension outshines the past and present!"]
[The next moment, Tang San stamped his foot and shot into the sky. The Clear Sky Hammer in his hand carried the might of Ring Detonation as he met the ancestor's heaven-destroying, earth-annihilating strike head-on!]
[BOOM!!!]
[The tremendous crash shook all of Bright Moon Mountain, shattering mountains and splitting the earth!]
The beings of both worlds all held their breath at that moment.
As they watched what appeared on the Sky Screen, an uproar instantly erupted.
"Good heavens! Has this Tang San gone mad? He actually dared to take the ancestor's divine soul's Ring Detonation strike head-on?!"
"And he claimed his divinity far exceeded six percent... I think his arrogance has gone too far! That's the Clear Sky Ancestor, an existence who touched god level!"
"But he learned Ring Detonation after just one look! That comprehension is terrifying. Maybe he really does have some ability?"
"Unlikely, far too unlikely! I think this hammer's going to pound him into pulp!!"
Yet before the two worlds could digest this turn of events, the revelation continued:
[In midair, Tang San's figure remained straight and tall. His robes had been slashed to tatters by the fierce wind, and a trace of golden blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were astonishingly bright.
[He had taken it!]
[He had taken the ancestor's divine soul's Ring Detonation strike head-on!]
["This... how is this possible?!" First Elder Tang Ming's voice trembled. "At level ninety-five, he withstood the ancestor's Ring Detonation?!"]
[Tang San ignored everyone's shock. He merely wiped the blood gently from the corner of his mouth, the Purple Demon Eye and golden divinity illuminating each other in his eyes.]
["The warm-up is over."]
[He spoke softly. The next second, the Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul behind him abruptly surged!]
[Seventh Soul Ring-Hundred Thousand Years · Nine-Section Fish Dragon!]
[Seventh Soul Skill · Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul Avatar!]
[Humm!!]
[The entirely gold-glazed Blue Silver Emperor grass spread wildly, instantly covering the entire mountaintop. Golden divine radiance flowed across every blade, and an immense aura of life washed over them.]
[In the end, it actually coiled together into a gigantic Blue Silver figure, almost equal in size to the Clear Sky Ancestor's divine soul.]
["Such an enormous Martial Soul Avatar?!" Tang Xiao cried out.]
[After all, Martial Soul Avatars were generally only a few times larger than one's own body at most. A Martial Soul Avatar this enormous was simply a tale from the Arabian Nights!]
[Before everyone could recover from their shock, the Clear Sky Ancestor's divine soul had already swung his Clear Sky Hammer, bringing down another strike!]
[Seeing this, Tang San remained unhurried, and his eighth scarlet Soul Ring abruptly lit up.]
[Eighth Soul Ring-Hundred Thousand Years · Evil Orca King!]
[Eighth Soul Skill · Blue Silver Evil Demon Mirror's Destruction!]
[As his words fell, the Blue Silver Grass filling the sky instantly condensed into a gigantic ice-blue mirror. Eerie black light flowed across its surface as it blocked the space directly before the formation.]
[At that very moment, seeing that one strike had failed, the ancestor's divine soul swung his gigantic hammer again. Golden hammer light blasted toward the mirror with the force to destroy heaven and annihilate earth!]
[CLANG!!]
[A clear ring resounded through the clouds. Ripples spread across the mirror, and it actually reflected all that hammer light back!]
["This Soul Skill... can reflect attacks?!" Sixth Elder Tang Yuran stared, dumbstruck. "That's far too bizarre!"]
["It does more than reflect," Tang San said mildly. "I can also shatter it to devour attacks." With that, he moved his fingertips. The mirror abruptly shattered into countless Blue Silver fragments, shredding the reflected hammer light to pieces.]
[Immediately afterward, the ninth Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring rose with a thunderous rumble!]
[Ninth Soul Ring-Hundred Thousand Years · Sky Azure Bull Python!]
[Ninth Soul Skill · Blue Silver Sky Azure Dragon Soul!]
[Roar!!]
[A piercing dragon's cry rang throughout Bright Moon Mountain, and a gigantic dragon, azure-green from head to tail, soared into the air from the Blue Silver Grass.]
[The dragon's body coiled around the eight Soul Rings serving as the formation's nodes, its immense draconic might forcibly suppressing the formation's operation!]
[With the dragon's body entwining the eight seventy-thousand-year Heaven and Earth Soul Rings, their rotation abruptly slowed, and even the ancestor's divine soul grew somewhat dimmer.]
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