Tang Wulin did not retreat.
Gripping the Clear Sky Hammer with both hands, he met the female Evil Soul Master's charge and brought down his first hammer strike.
Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
Clang-!
The first strike smashed into the female Evil Soul Master's Blood Armor, and a crack appeared across the surface of the dark red armor.
The blow numbed the female Evil Soul Master's arms and sent her stumbling half a step backward. The smile froze on her face.
He had switched to a Martial Soul without a Soul Ring, yet its combat power was even fiercer than that of his Martial Soul with a Soul Ring?
Just what kind of monster is he?
Tang Wulin's second strike followed close behind. Drawing on the rebound from the first, it landed with even greater force.
Clang-!
The crack in the Blood Armor widened. The blow sent the female Evil Soul Master staggering back two steps, and a trickle of black blood seeped from the corner of her mouth.
The third strike.
Clang-!
Half the Blood Armor shattered. The female Evil Soul Master was smashed into a seat back, her bones making a grating sound.
The fourth strike.
Clang-!
The female Evil Soul Master spat out a great mouthful of black blood, and the dent in her chest grew deeper.
Back in the first Douluo Continent, practically everyone in the Soul Master World knew that when facing the Clear Sky Hammer, they must never give the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer a chance to build up.
The Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer might have been a bit of a chicken rib, but once its power stacked up, neither gods nor ghosts could stand in its way.
Unfortunately, this was the third Douluo Continent, and the Clear Sky Hammer had not appeared in the world for at least ten thousand years.
True fear finally appeared in her dark red eyes.
The eight-year-old child before her struck harder with every blow, one hammer strike following another, his power building layer upon layer, with no intention of stopping.
If this went on, she really would die here today.
"I can't let him keep going!"
The female Evil Soul Master gritted her teeth, and her First Soul Ring lit up. First Soul Skill, Swift Rush.
It was a movement Soul Skill of the Blood Bat Martial Soul, capable of unleashing tremendous speed in a short burst.
Her wings beat fiercely, and she turned into a dark red afterimage, charging toward the hole at the front of the carriage, intending to break off her fight with Tang Wulin for the moment.
As long as I avoid getting entangled with him first and then attack him by surprise, I'll win.
If I don't suck his blood to replenish myself, I won't be able to vent this anger!
Just then.
"First Soul Skill, Star Wheel Chain!"
A clear shout rang out from behind Tang Wulin.
A yellow Soul Ring rose from beneath the little girl's feet. An ice-blue Star Wheel Ice Staff had appeared in her hand, and the star wheel at its tip spun at high speed. Ice-blue light instantly coiled around the Evil Soul Master.
Star Wheel Chain, lock on.
The female Evil Soul Master's Swift Rush was interrupted, leaving her rooted to the spot, unable to move.
Tang Wulin instantly realized his chance had come.
He looked at the female Evil Soul Master rooted to the floor, and a flash of inspiration suddenly struck him.
He had not comprehended a single one of the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes,
but at that moment, the intent of leaving nothing behind with a single hammer strike suddenly became clear to him.
Break.
Pure destruction.
Tang Wulin gripped the hammer in both hands and poured all his Soul Power into the Clear Sky Hammer. The Golden Dragon King Bloodline surged fiercely within him.
He swung the hammer up and brought it down.
"Break!"
The seventh of the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, the Breaking Character Technique.
The instant the face of the hammer struck the female Evil Soul Master, its force penetrated her body and exploded outward from within.
Boom!
The female Evil Soul Master's body exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
Dark red clots of blood and bits of flesh flew everywhere, splattering the seats, walls, and ceiling of the carriage. An overpowering stench of blood filled the air in an instant.
Tang Wulin panted, looking at the mess spread across the floor before him. His stomach churned a little.
Had he ever killed anyone?
Not in his previous life, nor in this life when he sparred with Tang Hao in his dreams.
This was the first time he had truly taken a life. Though his opponent was an Evil Soul Master, and though she would have killed more people if he had not killed her, the sensation and the sight still made his stomach contract.
But he quickly came to his senses.
There were still children in the carriage.
Tang Wulin had no time to think. He darted forward, pulled the girl into his arms, and pressed her face against his shoulder. At the same time, he shouted:
"Everyone, close your eyes! Cover the children's eyes!"
The passengers in the carriage had still been standing in a daze. Only when they heard his shout did they come to their senses, hurriedly covering the eyes of the children beside them and turning their own heads away.
Trembling, the attendant also fumbled to draw a curtain across, blocking the bloody scene from view.
The girl was held in Tang Wulin's arms, the tip of her nose against his shoulder. She could smell a faint, unusual fragrance on him.
Her body was still trembling slightly, but her hands involuntarily clutched his clothes.
"You didn't look, did you?" Tang Wulin asked softly.
"...I saw half of it."
"Don't look at things like that again."
"...Mm."
With the attendant's curtain blocking the view, things in the carriage were finally much better.
Tang Wulin put away the Clear Sky Hammer and took a deep breath.
"So that's how the Breaking Character Technique works."
He silently committed the insight he had gained in that instant to memory.
Each of the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes was a different way of using force. When Tang Hao taught him, he had only been able to copy what he saw, but with that strike just now, he had truly unleashed the intent of breaking.
Tang Wulin let her go and turned to look at the devastation in the carriage.
The carriage was a mess.
Seats lay at crooked angles, shattered glass covered the floor, and hot wind poured through the hole in the roof, making the curtain flap and snap.
The attendant had cleaned up most of the pool of dark red blood on the floor with a soul-guided cleaner, but the iron-rust smell of blood in the air would not dissipate anytime soon.
Just then, the door at the front of the carriage was flung open, and three security guards in dark blue uniforms rushed in, Soul Guidance Train security team badges pinned to their chests.
Their leader was a burly man in his thirties with a heavy, fleshy face.
He was on full alert as he rushed in, but when he saw the scene in the carriage, he abruptly stopped in his tracks.
Broken glass all over the floor, toppled seats, a great hole in the roof, and bloodstains on the floor that had not been completely cleaned up.
His gaze swept across the entire carriage before finally settling on Tang Wulin.
An eight-year-old boy stood in the aisle, his body smeared with blood. Though the guard found it hard to believe, judging by the scene, the boy seemed to have something to do with it.
"What happened?"
The attendant hurried over and gave him a detailed account of what had happened.
The security captain's expression froze.
He looked Tang Wulin up and down several times, then glanced at the blood on the floor, his brow furrowing even more deeply.
"You killed her?"
"Killed who?" Tang Wulin tilted his head, looking utterly innocent.
"That Evil Soul Master? Didn't she use a Blood Escape Technique to get away?"
The guard stared at him.
He looked down at the pool of blood on the floor that had not been completely cleaned up, then back up at Tang Wulin's innocent face.
"Blood Escape Technique?" The corner of the guard's mouth twitched.
"You call this... this a Blood Escape Technique?"
He pointed at the dark red marks on the floor, his voice rising out of pitch.
"You smashed her into blood mist with one hammer strike, and you're telling me that was a Blood Escape Technique?"
Tang Wulin's expression did not change. "She flew away, and I couldn't catch up. Isn't that what a Blood Escape Technique does?"
The guard nearly laughed in exasperation.
In all his years on the security team, he had seen people lie through their teeth, but never anyone who could lie through their teeth like this.
Any person could tell that the stuff on the floor was freshly exploded blood and flesh. What kind of Blood Escape Technique left bits of flesh all over the floor?