Tang Hao: What Incredible Powah
Windblown sand and the stench of blood filled the valley.
Tang Xiao had thought it was all over, that he and his brother were fated to die here today.
Who could have expected the sudden turn of events?
Tang Hao, who had been like a dead dog just a moment ago, suddenly sprang to his feet and sent their old father flying with a hammer blow.
Tang Xiao stared in utter astonishment. How had he never known his second brother was this fierce?
Tang Hao held the Clear Sky Hammer in one hand, with no sign of injury anywhere on his body. Under the infusion of divine power, his first eight Soul Rings, which had all shattered during Ring Detonation, had actually been reforged.
Killing intent radiated from him as he struck an overbearing pose.
"You... forced my Xiao Wu to her death and got Ah Rou killed..."
Tang Hao stared coldly at his fellow sect members and elders, his voice laced with icy murderous intent.
"Today, we'll settle this blood debt once and for all."
No one present had anticipated this sudden turn of events.
Watching Tang Zhen go flying, the Fifth Elder's expression changed drastically, and his heart filled with doubt and alarm.
The sect master, a Super Douluo, had been sent flying by a single hammer blow from Tang Hao, who had only just broken through to the titled rank?
The Fifth Elder soon believed he had figured out the reason.
In his eyes, Tang Zhen was clearly still favoring his two fine sons. He had deliberately put on an act and held back in front of everyone, hoping to use being knocked away as a pretext to give Tang Hao and his brother a chance to escape.
The sect master is softhearted, but this old man won't indulge you.
With that thought, the Fifth Elder let out a furious roar, raised his great hammer, and charged straight at Tang Hao.
The Sixth Elder and Tang Lie, who stood nearby, thought the same. No matter how powerful a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's Sacrifice was, it could never send Tang Zhen flying with a single hammer blow.
They immediately moved to flank Tang Hao from both sides.
"Still stubbornly refusing to see reason even now? Take this!"
Watching the Fifth Elder charge at him with such ferocity, Tang Hao's face filled with disdain. His opponent was only level ninety-two, while he had a full set of Soul Bones and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. What did the Fifth Elder have to fight him with?
His Ninth Soul Ring suddenly blazed with light.
"Ninth Soul Skill..."
This was the Ninth Soul Skill Xiao Wu had sacrificed herself to give him.
Xiao Wu knew full well that her beloved Hao-gege had nothing but brute strength, with all his skill points invested in physical burst damage and no long-range means of holding enemies in place or controlling them.
So, during the Sacrifice, she had deliberately bestowed the Soft Bone Rabbit's long-range control ability upon this Soul Ring.
On his scruffy, bearded face, Tang Hao forced an incomparably seductive expression.
"Charm-"
Tang Hao roared, gave his burly body a slight twist, and cast a coquettish, faintly bashful glance at the Fifth Elder charging straight at him.
In that instant, the Fifth Elder felt as though heaven and earth had come to a standstill.
In a daze, the world in his vision changed completely.
He saw Tang Hao dressed in a skin-tight bunny girl outfit, striking coquettish poses for him, while he himself walked slowly toward Tang Hao, as though Tang Hao were a peerless beauty capable of toppling kingdoms.
The Fifth Elder's sanity points plummeted. He felt as though his brain had been elbowed; it was simply too painful to look at.
He desperately wanted to look away and refused to move his feet forward, but Tang Hao kept calling to him from across the way: "Take a look, just one more look. Come a little closer..."
His survival instinct kept elbowing his cerebellum, trying to wake him up: "One more look and you'll explode. A little closer and you'll melt."
The Fifth Elder's entire brain burned until it practically gave off blue smoke. When he finally broke free of the bizarre Soul Skill and focused his eyes, his face turned deathly pale.
Directly above his line of sight was a great hammer blazing with blood-red light that flooded the heavens...
"You take a hit from me too-go repent in hell!" Tang Hao roared.
"Boom..."
The Fifth Elder sacrificed himself for others, voluntarily offering his body to the earth and becoming fertilizer to nourish the soil.
The Sixth Elder and Tang Lie, who had been holding the rear as they closed in, slammed to a halt. Watching the Fifth Elder, who had been charging in front, vanish in the blink of an eye, they both roared:
"Fifth Brother!"
Tang Zhen, who had recovered, was so furious that he spat out a mouthful of old blood on the spot.
"You wretch! You've killed several elders in succession, you monstrously unfilial beast!"
"Form the Clear Sky Formation! Everyone, follow me and kill this fiend!"
At Tang Zhen's furious command, the hundreds of Clear Sky Sect disciples were afraid, but under their sect master's leadership, they swiftly moved in to surround Tang Hao.
Faced with layers of enemies, Tang Hao showed no panic whatsoever. Instead, he threw back his head and laughed wildly:
"Hahahaha-"
"Powah... what incredible powah!"
"Die! All of you, die-"
"It was all of you! You're the ones who killed my little sister Xiao Wu!"
Tang Hao roared, selectively forgetting that this pursuit was a script he himself had devised.
At this moment, he was completely immersed in the persona of a grief-stricken, furious war god whose beloved had been killed, his heart filled with killing intent that surged to the heavens.
"Eighth Soul Skill, Clear Sky Pole Vault."
As Soul Power poured into it, the long handle of the Clear Sky Hammer in Tang Hao's hand rapidly extended.
His body rose with it, using the spring of the move to swing high into the air.
Not only that, Tang Hao, high in the sky and taking advantage of his elevated position, gripped the super-long hammer handle and began swinging it in midair...
Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
"Be buried with my little sister Xiao Wu!"
High in the air, Tang Hao played whack-a-mole from above with the Clear Sky Sect disciples on the ground.
"Bang... bang... bang..."
Each time the great hammer fell from the sky, the ground collapsed violently, leaving one deep crater after another.
With every blow of the hammer, the foul-smelling black water that came with the Soul Skill splashed everywhere, pouring down like rain and leaving the nearby disciples dizzy and lightheaded from the stench.
To the Clear Sky Sect disciples' despair, Tang Hao should have fallen back to the ground once his downward momentum was exhausted, but the recoil produced when the super-long hammer handle struck the ground bounced him back into the air.
The Clear Sky Sect disciples, unable to fly, simply could not reach Tang Hao high above. They could only cover their heads and flee in all directions on the ground, only for Tang Hao to pick them off one by one from the air, using his Eighth Soul Skill to execute Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
Every target he struck took a hammer blow. A glancing hit cost them half their life, while a direct hit turned them into spring soil to better nourish the flowers.
Tang Hao brought his hammer down, then used the recoil to bounce to the other side and strike again. He bombarded the ground wildly from the air, like a Wind Baboon repeatedly leaping back and forth through the trees.
"Stop your rampage!"
Tang Lie and the Sixth Elder could no longer spare a thought for the fear brought on by the Fifth Elder's death. Gritting their teeth, they charged over, but before they could get close, they ran headfirst into a heavy hammer flinging black water. The force of more than ten accumulated layers of Chaotic Cloak sent them flying backward, coughing blood.
At the sight of this carnage, Tang Zhen's eyes nearly split with rage. He unleashed all his Soul Power and intercepted Tang Hao at the risk of his life, only to collide head-on with another Chaotic Cloak strike from the super-long hammer handle, now bearing several more accumulated layers and Asura Divine Power. He too was sent flying in a sorry state by a single blow.
Tang Zhen looked at the split, bleeding skin between his thumb and forefinger, then at his second son cackling as he slaughtered people in midair. The beating had left him questioning his entire life.
Could it be that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's Sacrifice also came with a delayed burst of power?
Great Ferocious Land.
Gu Yue, who had been silently watching the drama unfold, also fell into thought.
Just a little earlier, he had sensed the Asura God's presence.
The Asura God had sneakily stuffed a soul into the body of a newborn baby boy, and that baby had kicked the original soul to death as though it were a stray by the roadside.
Immediately afterward, another soul bearing the presence of the sea had been sent into the baby boy next door.
That had left Gu Yue dumbfounded. This part hadn't been in the original story. There was another expert?
Now, watching Tang Hao use the Eighth Soul Skill he had specially selected for him, combined with Asura Divine Power, to hammer everyone in the Clear Sky Sect as though they were his grandsons, Gu Yue was even more dumbstruck.
He even wondered whether he had given him the wrong Soul Skill.
He had created that Lone Bamboo with his own hands, so how had he never known it was this outrageous?
Just as Gu Yue was watching with relish-
Everything suddenly went black before his eyes.
The ancient era.
Beneath the Ancient Tree of Life, the Goddess of Life looked in some puzzlement at the young dragon before her, who had been studying the restriction a moment ago but had turned around and fallen into a daze.
Then space rippled, and a graceful figure appeared out of thin air beside her.
Meanwhile, in the Silver Dragon King's Sea of Consciousness, when Gu Yue's senses returned, all that remained before him were the wholly illusory Time-Reversal Trajectory and a little silver-haired, purple-eyed girl.
Gu Yue blinked, countless question marks popping up above his head.
He was back already?
Bastard!
He had been enjoying the show! Didn't she see that it was just reaching its climax?
He had expected this episode to end with Little Scumbag's birth, but he had never imagined she wouldn't even let him finish watching before bringing him back.
With nowhere to vent the feeling of ten thousand ants crawling through his heart, Gu Yue stretched out both demonic claws, grabbed little Gu Yuena's delicate, doll-like cheeks, and kneaded and pulled them.
Little Gu Yuena's cheeks reddened from the pinching. Her big eyes filled with grievance as she puffed up in indignation and struggled, with no idea what had gotten into her old father.
As far as she could tell, Gu Yue had merely touched that streak of light and spaced out for a brief moment. Who could have expected him to start randomly kneading her little cheeks as soon as he came to?
As Gu Yue kneaded little Gu Yuena's cheeks, he cursed inwardly:
Damn cliffhanger dog, who taught you to end a chapter there?!