Tang Hao vs. the Nirvana Realm Ancient Dragon Ape!

Meanwhile, elsewhere, inside Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong sat on her throne and could not help letting out a cold laugh.

"Rules always serve the strong and those in power."

"No matter how strong that Lin Dong is, he has no foundation, after all."

"To preserve the Main Family's dignity, the Lin Clan's higher-ups will surely kill him on the spot."

Bibi Dong wholeheartedly approved of the Supreme Elder's actions in the screen of light.

Any destabilizing factor that threatened the ruling class's authority had to be eradicated completely.

At that moment, within the heavenly screen, in the Martial Universe.

In a cesspit in a backyard in Lin City.

Yu Xiaogang clung to the edge of the pit with both hands. Seeing the Supreme Elder step forward to suppress Lin Dong, he burst out laughing.

Foul-smelling sewage flowed into his mouth, but he did not care at all.

"You stupid brute!"

"If you'd followed my tactical guidance earlier and known when to stop on the Arena Stage, how could you have ended up like this?"

"This is the price of ignoring my theories as Grandmaster!"

On the Arena Stage in Lin City's Arena.

Lin Dong stood ramrod straight beneath the pressure of two Nirvana Realm experts.

He looked at the two Supreme Elders blocking his path, making no attempt to hide the cold smile on his face.

"Ten years ago, when he crippled my father's dantian on this very stage, where were you?"

Amplified by Yuan Power, Lin Dong's voice carried throughout the Arena.

"Today, I'm merely reclaiming the justice I'm owed."

"And you couldn't wait to jump out?"

"Is this the Lin Clan's fairness?"

The Supreme Elder on the left wore an icy expression. He raised his right hand, gathering Nirvana Flame in his palm.

"A branch family rebel who has no respect for his elders."

"You have no right to point fingers at the Main Line's conduct."

"Today, I'll cripple your cultivation and make you kneel in the Lin Family Ancestral Hall until you die to atone for your crimes!"

Amid the rubble at the edge of the Arena Stage.

Hu Liena lay pinned to the ground by the Nirvana Realm pressure, unable to move.

She looked up at the lofty Supreme Elder, her heart filled with fear.

She wanted to latch onto Lin Dong, but now he was facing the very pinnacle of power in the entire Great Yan Dynasty.

Faced with the Supreme Elder's direct threat, Lin Dong made no move to retreat.

He extended his right hand, and the dark-red Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd instantly appeared in his palm.

Without reservation, he poured the Spiritual Power in his Niwan Palace and the Yuan Power in his dantian into the halberd.

Lin Dong raised the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd, pointing its tip straight at the two Nirvana Realm experts before him.

"You want to cripple me?"

Lin Dong's gaze was utterly savage, without the slightest trace of compromise.

"You two old dogs are welcome to try!"

At those words, the Supreme Elder on the left's expression turned thoroughly dark.

The Nirvana Flame in his palm surged violently, and he struck straight down at the crown of Lin Dong's head.

At that hairbreadth moment.

"Stop."

A calm voice, carrying absolute authority, suddenly rang out from the highest point of the Arena.

The instant that voice sounded.

The violently turbulent space above the Arena Stage was forcibly smoothed out by an even more terrifying power.

The Nirvana Flame in that Supreme Elder's hand went out without a sound.

A middle-aged man in a purple-gold robe appeared out of thin air in the center of the Arena Stage.

He stood between the two Supreme Elders and Lin Dong.

The Lin Clan's patriarch, Lin Fan!

Upon seeing him, the two Supreme Elders immediately reined in their auras and bowed their heads in salute.

Lin Fan ignored them.

He turned toward Lin Dong, who held his ancient halberd and radiated murderous menace, and undisguised appreciation flashed in his eyes.

"Well done."

Lin Fan spoke.

"The Lin Clan has always valued strength alone."

"Today, you defeated Lin Langtian head-on upon the Arena Stage."

"That makes you the most outstanding genius of our Lin Clan's younger generation."

At this point, Lin Fan paused and swept his gaze across the entire Arena.

"From today onward, the seeded spot in the Hundred Dynasties War belongs to Lin Dong!"

"The entire clan's resources will be directed toward supporting you!"

At those words, the entire Arena instantly went wild.

There was no punishment.

There was no execution.

Not only did the patriarch decline to hold Lin Dong accountable for severing Lin Langtian's right leg.

He instead publicly bestowed upon him a spot in the Hundred Dynasties War, representing the Great Yan Dynasty's highest honor!

The two Supreme Elders' faces were livid, but they dared not utter a single objection.

Lin Dong glanced at Lin Fan, and the savagery in his eyes gradually subsided.

With a turn of his wrist, he put the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd back into his Universe Bag.

Lin Dong understood.

In this world, so long as you demonstrated absolute value that even the rule-makers could not ignore.

The rules would make way for you.

On the Douluo Continent.

At Shrek Academy's training ground.

Tang San stared at the screen of light, utterly stunned.

Just moments earlier, he had been methodically explaining that Lin Dong had no foundation and would surely be erased by a great clan's rules.

Yet in the very next second.

The Lin Family's highest authority had personally stepped in and given Lin Dong all the best resources and the spot!

This slapped Tang San's face swollen.

His supposedly "worldly-wise" analysis, of which he had been so proud, became an enormous joke before absolute talent and strength.

In Spirit City, at the Pope's Palace.

The cold smile on Bibi Dong's face froze as well.

She watched the green-robed youth whom everyone in the screen of light regarded with awe.

"Those truly in power value only benefits."

Bibi Dong murmured to herself.

"The value Lin Dong has shown far exceeds that of the crippled Lin Langtian."

"So he survived and won their support."

A trace of unwillingness flashed in Bibi Dong's eyes.

This pure law of the jungle was even more direct and brutal than her methods of controlling Spirit Hall.

In a corner of the ruins of Lin City's Arena.

Hu Liena lay on the ground, looking up at Lin Dong on the Arena Stage.

Her breathing grew exceedingly heavy.

"The Hundred Dynasties War..."

"A vast battlefield gathering the greatest geniuses of countless dynasties..."

Hu Liena clenched her fists tightly.

Not only would she follow Lin Dong, she would follow him into that Hundred Dynasties War!

As long as she could stay by this man's side.

She would be able to see the scenery at this world's very summit!

Just then.

Ripples churned violently across the heavenly screen.

The image of Lin City in the Great Yan Dynasty began to dim.

Golden text once again illuminated the skies of the entire Douluo Continent.

[Lin City decisive battle event: livestream temporarily suspended.]

[Seventh batch of explorers: continent-wide random selection begins!]

[Number of selections this time: 5.]

At the sight of those lines.

The hearts of everyone on the Douluo Continent, who were still reeling in shock, once again leaped into their throats.

The heavenly screen's selections were always their greatest nightmare.

Golden light flickered wildly across the screen of light.

Three seconds later.

Five names radiating an imposing aura froze in the very center of the screen!

[The seventh batch of explorers is as follows:]

[1. Clear Sky Sect, Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao.]

[2. Spirit Hall's young master, Qian Renxue.]

[3. Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's sect master, Ning Fengzhi.]

[4. Shrek Academy, Ma Hongjun.]

[5. Million-year soul beast, Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.]

The instant those five names appeared.

The entire Douluo Continent erupted.

At Shrek Academy's training ground.

Tang San's eyes suddenly went wide, their corners splitting open.

"Dad!"

Tang San let out a hysterical scream.

Ma Hongjun's legs gave way, and he collapsed to the ground, a large patch of his crotch instantly soaked.

"I've been chosen... I don't want to die!"

In Spirit City's Pope's Palace.

Bibi Dong shot to her feet, crushing the scepter in her hand to pieces.

"Xue'er!"

The daughter she had always kept hidden in the deepest recesses of her heart had actually been chosen by the heavenly screen as well.

At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong stared at the list in the sky, their eyes nearly splitting with fury.

"Sect Master!"

Ning Rongrong had been taken away to serve as a cauldron, and now even their sect master, Ning Fengzhi, was to be sent into that hell!

On Sea God Island.

Bo Saixi looked at the fifth name, her heart violently shaken.

The million-year soul beast, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

He was the strongest combatant currently alive on the Douluo Continent.

Even an existence of this level could not escape the heavenly screen's forced selection!

[Teleportation countdown begins.]

[Three, two, one.]

The countdown reached zero.

Five massive pillars of golden light descended from the sky.

They instantly took these five experts and soul beasts, who held exceedingly high standing on the Douluo Continent, out of this world.

The scene on the heavenly screen shifted.

[First-person perspective now activated: Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao.]

The scene gradually became clear.

This was a primeval forest filled with a savage, untamed air.

Towering ancient trees blotted out the sky and sun.

The air was thick with the smell of blood and an exceedingly violent demonic aura.

[Martial Universe location: Great Desolation Commandery, Ancient Ruined Ravine.]

[This place was a gathering ground for high-tier Demonic Beasts, with danger lurking on every side.]

Tang Hao appeared out of thin air in a clearing.

He wore a tattered black robe, his disheveled hair hanging over his shoulders.

The moment Tang Hao landed, he sensed the terrifying pressure in the air.

Without the slightest hesitation, he unleashed his Martial Soul.

Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red.

Nine Soul Rings instantly rose from beneath his feet.

That bright red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring radiated a dazzling red light.

An enormous iron hammer, pitch-black and covered in dark gold patterns, appeared in his hand.

The Clear Sky Hammer.

"No matter what this place is."

Tang Hao gripped the Clear Sky Hammer, his eyes brimming with an overbearing arrogance that looked down upon the world.

"I, Tang Hao, will smash through it with one blow!"

Just as Tang Hao was about to investigate his surroundings.

Footsteps that shook the earth and mountains suddenly came from deep within the primeval forest ahead.

The trees ahead were brutally flattened.

A terrifying giant ape, over fifty zhang tall and covered in black dragon scales, appeared directly in Tang Hao's sight.

An Ancient Dragon Ape.

A Nirvana Realm Demonic Beast.

The Ancient Dragon Ape lowered its head to look at the human holding an iron hammer on the ground, spraying a stream of white air from its nostrils.

Tang Hao felt the suffocating pressure emanating from the Ancient Dragon Ape.

Not only did he refuse to retreat.

Instead, he roared in fury, and his red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring lit up.

"Great Sumeru Hammer!"

Tang Hao kicked hard against the ground, launching himself into the sky.

He swung the enormous Clear Sky Hammer, smashing it straight at the Ancient Dragon Ape's head with power that could destroy heaven and earth.

The Ancient Dragon Ape watched the iron hammer crashing down from midair.

It did not dodge.

It merely raised its right claw slowly, casually blocking upward.

In midair, Tang Hao's Clear Sky Hammer slammed into the Ancient Dragon Ape's right claw with the full power of his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Dazzling red light erupted.

An immense recoil traveled straight through the hammer's handle into Tang Hao's arms.

Crack.

The teeth-grating sound of bones fracturing rang out.

The sleeves covering Tang Hao's arms instantly burst into shreds.

The blood vessels in his arms could not withstand the terrifying physical counterpressure and burst open.

Blood splattered.

Tang Hao's body, which had been soaring into the sky, shot backward at ten times the speed of his approach.

He crashed heavily into the primeval forest below.

Only after smashing through more than a dozen towering ancient trees did he strike the ground, leaving a deep crater over a dozen meters across.

In midair, the Ancient Dragon Ape withdrew its right claw.

Not even a white mark remained on its palm, which was covered in black dragon scales.

Douluo Continent.

Shrek Academy's training ground.

Tang San dropped heavily to both knees.

He stared fixedly at the screen of light, his eyes filled with extreme terror he could not accept.

"Impossible!"

Tang San clutched his hair with both hands, his voice shrill.

"That was the Great Sumeru Hammer! The Clear Sky Sect's strongest ultimate technique!"

"With Father's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring empowering it, even a Peak Douluo wouldn't dare take that hammer strike's physical destructive power head-on!"

Beside him, Zhao Wuji swallowed, trembling all over.

"Little San..."

"That monster's physical defenses have already exceeded the limits of matter on the Douluo Continent."

"The Clear Sky Hammer couldn't break through its defenses at all when it struck its hand."

The legend of the Clear Sky Douluo's invincibility.

Before a Demonic Beast from another world, it had been utterly shattered in a single exchange.

Great Desolation Commandery, Ancient Ruined Ravine.

At the bottom of the deep crater.

Tang Hao spat out a large mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.

Enduring the excruciating pain of his broken arms, he used Soul Power to force his battered body upright.

He raised his head to look at the Ancient Dragon Ape in the sky, its body over fifty zhang tall.

A sense of extreme danger engulfed him completely.

This Demonic Beast had not used any energy at all.

Its most basic physical strength alone had utterly crushed the Great Sumeru Hammer he took such pride in.

Roar!

The Ancient Dragon Ape opened its enormous, blood-red maw and let out a deafening roar.

It raised its right foot, aimed at the deep crater where Tang Hao stood below, and stomped straight down.

Its enormous sole blocked out the sunlight overhead.

The terrifying wind pressure pressed the surrounding trees flat against the ground.

There was nowhere to dodge.

A trace of crazed resolve flashed through Tang Hao's eyes.

"Ring Detonation!"

He let out an explosive shout.

The first, second, third, fourth, and fifth Soul Rings beneath his feet exploded simultaneously!

Violent Soul Power surged wildly within his body.

He poured all the power generated by Ring Detonation into the Clear Sky Hammer.

The Clear Sky Hammer instantly swelled to thirty meters in size.

Tang Hao raised the giant hammer with both hands, thrusting it up against the enormous descending sole.

Boom!

The giant hammer collided with the sole.

The energy shock wave produced by Ring Detonation spread outward in all directions.

But this resistance lasted less than a second.

A surge of dark Nirvana Qi erupted from the Ancient Dragon Ape's sole.

The Nirvana Qi directly destroyed the defensive layer of Soul Power on the Clear Sky Hammer's surface.

Under the pressure of this Nirvana Qi, countless cracks split across the enormous, thirty-meter Clear Sky Hammer.

Bang.

The Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul shattered outright.

The backlash from his shattered Martial Soul instantly struck Tang Hao's body.

Tang Hao bled from all seven orifices.