"With his level ninety-six Soul Power, coupled with the terrifying destructive power of the Clear Sky Hammer."
"This time, our Douluo Continent will definitely gain a firm foothold in this other world!"
Yu Xiaogang seemed to have regained his confidence and started spouting off again.
However, the images in the sky screen gave the people of Douluo little time to rejoice.
On the Great Desolate Ancient Plain.
The tremendous commotion Tang Hao had just caused by releasing his Martial Soul had clearly drawn the attention of other beings on this wasteland.
Ahead, amid the crimson windblown sand.
A sudden, urgent rush of air rang out.
Immediately afterward, a terrifying rhinoceros, seven or eight meters tall and covered in black scales, with three horns, charged straight out of the sandstorm.
This was none other than one of the Great Desolate Ancient Plain's savage Demonic Beasts, the Three-Horned Demon Rhino!
Its strength rivaled that of a human expert at Form Creation Realm Great Accomplishment!
"Roar!"
The Three-Horned Demon Rhino immediately let out a roar, clearly taking Tang Hao for prey that had invaded its territory.
It lowered its head and charged straight at Tang Hao.
Watching the enormous Demonic Beast bear down on him, Tang Hao snorted coldly.
"Just in time!"
"I'll use you, beast, to test what this world is worth!"
Rather than retreat, Tang Hao advanced. His right leg suddenly drove against the ground, and the seventh black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring around him instantly blazed with light.
"Seventh Soul Skill, Martial Soul Avatar!"
Boom!
The Clear Sky Hammer in Tang Hao's hand swelled in the wind.
In the blink of an eye, it became a sky-supporting giant hammer over thirty meters long!
His terrifying Divine Slaughter's Domain instantly spread across a hundred-meter radius, enveloping the Three-Horned Demon Rhino.
"Great Sumeru Hammer!"
Holding nothing back, Tang Hao directly unleashed the Clear Sky Sect's strongest secret technique.
Gripping the hammer's handle with both hands, he smashed it down viciously at the Three-Horned Demon Rhino below with the terrifying force of Mount Tai crashing down.
This strike gathered all the strength of a level ninety-six Super Douluo.
Even a real mountain peak would have been instantly smashed flat!
Meanwhile, on the Douluo Continent.
Everyone held their breath, staring at the sky screen without daring to move, afraid of missing anything.
"Smash it to death!"
"Show that world's Demonic Beasts the might of our Douluo Continent!"
Soon, the sky-supporting giant hammer, over thirty meters long, finally collided with the Three-Horned Demon Rhino's horn, which shimmered with Yuan Power.
BOOM!!!
At the instant of contact, an earth-shaking explosion resounded across the ancient plain.
The violent energy shock wave hurled the surrounding crimson sand and soil dozens of zhang into the air.
Then, under the expectant gazes of Douluo's people, the enormous Three-Horned Demon Rhino actually let out a cry of pain.
A crack appeared in the longest horn atop its head under the physical blow of the Clear Sky Hammer.
The tremendous impact drove all four of its legs into the soil, smashing a huge crater into the ground!
"He won!"
"His Excellency Haotian is mighty!"
"Hahaha! I knew a Super Douluo could run rampant in that world!"
Seeing the Three-Horned Demon Rhino beaten down against the ground, the Douluo Continent instantly erupted in cheers that toppled mountains and overturned seas.
Yu Xiaogang was so excited that tears streamed down his aged face.
"Did you see that?!"
"Who said our Douluo World wasn't up to it?!"
However, Tang Hao in the light screen felt not the slightest joy of victory.
Instead, his expression had turned utterly grim.
Only he knew what an enormous price he had paid to gain the upper hand with that strike!
"What strange energy..."
Tang Hao's hands, still gripping the Clear Sky Hammer, were trembling violently.
He discovered in shock that when the vast Soul Power he had just poured into the Clear Sky Hammer came into contact with the black Yuan Power on that Demonic Beast.
It had quickly melted away.
To maintain the Great Sumeru Hammer's might, the level ninety-six Soul Power he took such pride in was draining away at a terrifying speed.
After just one collision, a full thirty percent of the Soul Power in his body had been consumed!
By contrast, although one of the Three-Horned Demon Rhino's horns had been broken by the blow, the black Yuan Power around it showed no sign of dissipating.
The dense Heaven and Earth Yuan Power in the surroundings poured endlessly into its body, helping it rapidly heal its injuries.
"ROAR!!!"
Feeling the pain, the Three-Horned Demon Rhino instantly went berserk.
It suddenly raised its head, its blood-red eyes fixed on Tang Hao in midair.
Immediately afterward, the black scales covering its body suddenly flared open.
A pillar of black Yuan Power, even more violent than before, shot straight out of its horn.
Faced with that pillar of black Yuan Power piercing heaven and earth, Tang Hao had nowhere to dodge and could only steel himself to meet it head-on.
With a roar, he poured every last bit of his remaining Soul Power into the Clear Sky Hammer.
The sky-supporting giant hammer, over thirty meters long, smashed toward the black pillar once again.
Boom!
The two forces collided thunderously in midair.
This time, however, there was none of the evenly matched struggle from before.
The black pillar of Yuan Power tore straight through the Clear Sky Hammer's defenses like a force crushing rotten wood.
Crack!
With a sharp crack, the Divine Slaughter's Domain that Tang Hao took such pride in instantly filled with fractures, then exploded apart.
"Pfft!"
With his domain shattered, Tang Hao reeled as though struck by a heavy blow and spat out a great mouthful of blood on the spot.
His burly body flew backward like a kite with its string cut.
He rolled over a dozen times across the ground before slamming heavily into a massive boulder and finally coming to a stop.
Tang Hao was now covered in blood, the webs of his hands split open by the impact. He no longer even had the strength to grip the Clear Sky Hammer.
With just a single counterattack from a Demonic Beast.
The mighty level ninety-six Clear Sky Douluo had actually been severely injured!
At this sight, the glimmer of hope that had just ignited across the Douluo Continent was instantly extinguished.
On Shrek Academy's training field.
Tang San's eyes nearly split with anguish, and he could not help crying out in grief.
"Dad!"
He clenched his fists tightly, yet was powerless to do anything but watch his father suffer grave injuries in another world.
Beside him, Yu Xiaogang was like an eggplant struck by frost, completely wilted.
He opened his mouth, hoping to say something else to salvage his dignity.
But looking at Tang Hao lying on the ground and vomiting blood in the light screen, he ultimately could not squeeze out a single word.
In the image, the Three-Horned Demon Rhino clearly had no intention of sparing Tang Hao.
It let out a furious roar, set its thick legs in motion, and charged straight at Tang Hao.
Black Yuan Power gathered once again on its half-broken horn.
Tang Hao was about to die on the spot.
At that critical instant, a deafening tiger's roar suddenly came from the distant sky.
An enormous black shadow that blotted out the sun descended like a meteor, carrying an indescribably savage, baleful aura.
Boom!
The black shadow slammed down directly in front of the Three-Horned Demon Rhino, stamping a bottomless crater into the earth.
Only then did the people of the Douluo Continent see it clearly.
It was a terrifying giant tiger over a hundred zhang in size, covered in black fur, with a pair of enormous black feathered wings on its back!
This was a member of the Heavenly Demon Tiger Clan, one of the Demon Region's Three Great Tiger Clans in the Martial Universe!
And judging by the Yuan Power fluctuations radiating from this Heavenly Demon Tiger, it had already reached the terrifying Nirvana Realm!
The Three-Horned Demon Rhino had been insufferably arrogant just moments earlier.
But when it saw the colossal creature before it clearly, it was terrified beyond measure.
It did not even have the courage to flee, collapsing limply to the ground in fright, its entire body shaking like chaff in a sieve.
Then a trace of disdain flashed through the Heavenly Demon Tiger's eyes.
It casually raised its mountainlike paw and lightly swatted the Three-Horned Demon Rhino.
Bang!
There was no suspense whatsoever.
The Three-Horned Demon Rhino, which had just severely injured Tang Hao, was like a block of tofu beneath that enormous paw, instantly smashed into a puddle of minced flesh!
Not even a fragment of bone remained.
At this sight, the entire Douluo Continent was dumbfounded.
Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest.
The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, the forest's two overlords, were so frightened that they lay flat on the ground, not even daring to raise their heads.
"Big brother... isn't this tiger's aura far too terrifying?!"
The Titan Giant Ape spoke in a deep, muffled voice filled with fear.
The Sky Azure Bull Python swallowed with difficulty.
"Pressure of this level is even more terrifying than those legendary Soul Beasts."
"If we really had to make a comparison."
"This fierce tiger from another world is at least equivalent to a super Ferocious Beast over five hundred thousand years old on our Douluo Continent!"
Five hundred thousand years!
As that concept surfaced in their minds, the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts felt a wave of despair.
Meanwhile, at Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang also heard a nearby student's shocked cry.
"How can some wild beast that casually wanders out in this world possess such heaven-destroying, earth-annihilating strength?!"
Meanwhile, elsewhere, in the Martial Universe.
After swatting the Three-Horned Demon Rhino to death, the Heavenly Demon Tiger slowly turned its head and glanced at Tang Hao on the ground.
Facing those enormous tiger eyes, Tang Hao felt his entire body tremble.
He did not even have the strength to raise the Clear Sky Hammer and could only stare helplessly at the creature.
However, the Heavenly Demon Tiger merely snorted contemptuously.
In its eyes, this ant without the slightest trace of Yuan Power fluctuations was not even worthy of filling a gap between its teeth.
Then it gave the black feathered wings on its back a powerful beat.
Amid a howling gale, the Heavenly Demon Tiger's enormous body shot straight into the sky and vanished into the clouds in the blink of an eye.
Only Tang Hao remained, slumped there alone with a despondent expression.
The tremendous sense of defeat instantly aged this Clear Sky Douluo by over a decade.
The image on the sky screen slowly froze.
[Explorer No. 1, Tang Hao.] [Encountered Form Creation Realm Demonic Beast, Three-Horned Demon Rhino. Severely injured.] [Encountered Heavenly Demon Tiger, one of the Demon Region's Three Great Tiger Clans.] [Status: unable to fight, barely clinging to life.] [Live feed temporarily suspended.]
As Tang Hao's image faded, the majestic voice rang out from the sky screen once again.
[Switching to Explorer No. 2's perspective...]
As ripples flowed, the second explorer's figure gradually appeared within the screen of light.
An imperial retainer of the Heaven Dou Empire.
A rank ninety-one control-type Titled Douluo, Dugu Bo!
The scene shifted, revealing an eerie swamp shrouded year-round in green poisonous mist.
A nauseating stench of decay permeated the surroundings.
This was none other than a notorious deadly region in the Martial Universe, the Poison Gas Swamp!
And Dugu Bo had landed right in the center of this swamp.
The moment he landed, Dugu Bo smelled the deadly poison permeating the surrounding air.
But rather than feeling afraid, he took a deep breath with a look of enjoyment.
"Hahaha!"
"Heaven truly favors me!"
Looking at the surrounding green poisonous mist, Dugu Bo could not help throwing back his head and laughing.
"I've spent my entire life handling poison, and my Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor poison is unrivaled under heaven."
"A place like this is practically my home turf!"
Dugu Bo straightened his back, brimming with confidence.
The nine Soul Rings around him instantly lit up, and a cloud of sickly green poison gas surged from his body, enveloping him completely.
As far as he was concerned, so long as he remained within this poisonous mist...
No matter what kind of otherworldly Demonic Beast it was, if it dared approach him, his poison would leave not even a scrap of bone behind.
On the Douluo Continent.
Inside the Heaven Dou Empire's imperial palace.
Watching Dugu Bo in the sky screen, Xue Ye could not help letting out a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness, Mr. Dugu is well versed in the art of poison."
"Landing somewhere like this instead makes him a fish in water."
The ministers around him nodded repeatedly as well.
After all, Dugu Bo's poison was a renowned weapon of mass destruction on the Douluo Continent.
But their delight did not last long.
In the sky screen, within the previously tranquil Poison Gas Swamp...
A series of gurgling bubbles suddenly sounded.
Then, beneath Dugu Bo's somewhat puzzled gaze...
An enormous creature slowly rose from the swampy mire before him.
It was a gigantic Demonic Beast shaped like a toad, but its back was densely covered in poisonous spines.
Dark green venom flowed all over its body.
The foul stench it emitted corroded even the surrounding air, making it sizzle.
This was a peculiar Demonic Beast bred within the Poison Gas Swamp, the Jade Poison Demon Toad!
At the sight of this disgusting toad, Dugu Bo gave a disdainful sneer.
"An ugly brute like you dares show off your poison skills before me?"
"Today, I'll let you taste what truly deadly poison is!"
Dugu Bo thought nothing of this Demonic Beast whatsoever.
He raised his right hand, and his eighth, black Soul Ring instantly blazed with light.
"Eighth Soul Skill! Time Freeze!"
With his shout, a visible cloud of sickly green poison gas swept toward the Jade Poison Demon Toad!
Yet, faced with Dugu Bo's eighth Soul Skill, powerful enough to make even a Titled Douluo give it a wide berth...
The Jade Poison Demon Toad did not even try to dodge.
Then it opened its enormous, blood-red maw, which reeked of a foul, fishy stench, and sucked hard!
Whoosh!
Then, beneath Dugu Bo's utterly horrified gaze...
The deadly Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor poison he took such pride in actually turned into a stream of green liquid, which the Jade Poison Demon Toad swallowed straight into its belly in a single gulp!
The toad even gave a remarkably humanlike burp, a trace of longing for more appearing in its eyes.
"Th-this... how is this possible?!"
Dugu Bo's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, and his entire body froze on the spot.
His eighth Soul Skill, unrivaled under heaven, had actually been eaten as a snack by a toad???
But before Dugu Bo could recover from his shock, the Jade Poison Demon Toad suddenly puffed out its cheeks.
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