Before the hammer arrived, the gale had already arrived, blocking Tang Hao's escape route and causing pain on his face and the backs of his hands.
Tang Hao protected the child with one hand, wielding the Clear Sky Hammer with the other. His eyes flashed with bloodshot, and his seventh spirit ring shone. The Clear Sky Hammer surged in the wind, instantly reaching a hundred meters in length.
Then, his ninth spirit ring ignited. A wolf's howl echoed, and a green wolf's head appeared atop the mountain-sized hammer.
With a crackle, lightning erupted, instantly extinguishing the gale. The massive Clear Sky Hammer collided with Silver Hammer's Pegasus Meteor Hammer. Ultimately, the Clear Sky Hammer, infused with a hundred-thousand-year spirit power, emerged victorious. As Silver Hammer stared in astonishment, the Pegasus Meteor Hammer shattered.
Tang Hao sprang to his side. Before Silver Hammer could react, his eighth spirit ring ignited, and the massive hammer head crashed down.
Silver Hammer was horrified, but with its spirit shattered, how could it withstand Tang Hao's blow?
Desperate, it instinctively raised its hands to shield itself with soul power, but the Clear Sky Hammer instantly shattered them.
"Wow!" With a scream, Silver Hammer, like a cannonball, smashed through a mountain before crashing to the ground in a cloud of dust.
"Tang Hao, you're courting death!" Jin Zhong, after all, had been Yin Chui's partner for decades. Seeing Yin Chui's plight, he was filled with grief and rage. Seizing the moment Tang Hao unleashed Lingtian Strike, he unleashed the final Golden Bell of his ninth spirit skill, accurately landing on Tang Hao, suppressing him.
"Tang Hao, you're dead! My ninth spirit skill, the Invincible Golden Bell, will..."
Before Jin Zhong Douluo could finish his words, a cracking sound ripped the massive golden bell's surface, sending countless lightning bolts emanating from the cracks.
Seconds later, the golden bell exploded with a bang.
Looking at Tang Hao again, he had lost another spirit ring, leaving only two remaining: one black and one red.
Recalling the hideous expressions of Qian Xunji and Jin Zhong, Yin Chui threatening Alang, Tang Hao's rage surged again. He bent his legs slightly and leaped over Jin Zhong's head, channeling all the energy from the explosion of his seventh spirit ring into his Clear Sky Hammer. He smashed it down on his head.
Amidst Jin Zhong's screams, Tang Hao's Clear Sky Hammer finally descended, breaking through his absolute defenses and striking him squarely in the face. Jin Zhong's head exploded like a watermelon, dissolving into a cloud of blood as it plummeted to the ground.
"How could he have repelled us all at once and killed Jin Zhong? How is that possible?" Yin Chui, severely wounded by Lingtian's blow, lay on the ground, staring blankly at the scene before him.
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Two spirit rings, one black and one red, rose from Tang Hao's feet. He held Tang San in one hand and swung the Clear Sky Hammer in the other, pointing it forward at Qian Xunji. His eyes were icy as he shouted at Qian Xunji while swinging the hammer: "Qian Xunji, return my wife's life!"
Meanwhile, atop a distant mountain, Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong watched the unfolding events below.
"What do you think?" Lin Hanye asked Bibi Dong and the women within his sea of consciousness with a smile.
"In terms of pure strength and attack power, this ring explosion is indeed a formidable secret technique. However, Qian Xunji's spirit power and martial spirit quality are ultimately superior to Tang Hao's. If he fully exploits his aerial advantage, the Clear Sky Hammer's power will be greatly diminished. The power Tang Hao gains from the ring explosion will ultimately be short-lived. If Qian Xunji can dodge those last two blows, victory is possible. But with Qian Xunji's skill level, he won't be able to do so."
The usually taciturn Ice Dragon King pondered for a moment before offering a fairly balanced assessment.
The other women nodded in agreement.
Bibi Dong sneered and added, "I'm afraid that idiot Qian Xunji is still fantasizing about making Tang Hao suffer the backlash from the Ring Explosion like his father, Tang Wei. That way, he could easily win. Absolutely foolish. If Tang Hao were truly as incompetent as Tang Wei, how could Tang Chen have confirmed him as the heir to the Clear Sky Douluo throne?"
Lin Hanye remained noncommittal. The original novel didn't detail this battle in detail, but if Qian Xunji had used his Angel Spirit's aerial advantage and joined forces with his two personal guardian Douluos to take on Tang Hao, he undoubtedly would have had a strong chance of victory. But he was too cautious about his own life, and watched the two personal guardian Douluos get hammered to death and crippled.
He imagined using the Golden Bell and Silver Hammer to consume Tang Hao's Great Sumeru Hammer, then suffer the backlash, while he, in the end, claimed Tang Hao's life.
In truth, Qian Xunji had indeed harbored such thoughts.
Tang Hao, having expended his first seven hammer blows, felt Qian Xunji sense that Tang Hao's body was now strained, akin to Tang Wei at the end of his strength. With a fierce roar, he grasped the Angel's Holy Sword, unleashing his angelic form to charge at him.
Fortunately, with the lessons learned from the Golden Bell and Silver Hammer, and the fact that Lin Hanye had demonstrated how to counter the Clear Sky Hammer during their duel with Tang Chen, Qian Xunji didn't completely lose his mind, standing still and letting Tang Hao attack.
Instead, he adopted a kite-flying tactic.
In aerial combat, the Clear Sky Hammer was no match for the Seraphim. This meant Tang Hao couldn't reach Qian Xunji at all.
Desperate, he resorted to using the Clear Sky Hammer Nine Absolutes.
Gradually, Tang Hao fell into a disadvantage. Combined with the massive soul power consumed in the previous battles with the Golden Bell, Silver Hammer, and the severe backlash from the Ring Explosion, his body began to show signs of failing.
Tang Hao and Qian Xunji battled for three days and three nights.
Finally, Tang Hao gave up, coughing up a large mouthful of blood.
Meanwhile, the child in Tang Hao's arms, deprived of food and water for three days and nights, gradually died, and was then possessed by Tang San from another world.
Lin Hanye witnessed all of this, and then, through mind-sharing, transmitted this information to Bibi Dong, the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress, the Ice and Fire Dragon King, and the others.
They all wore sneers.
Seeing Tang Hao's vulnerability, Qian Xunji was overjoyed. The six wings behind his angelic form flapped, and he quickly flew to Tang Hao's side, slashing down with a sword.
Tang Hao had no way to dodge, let alone retaliate. Desperate to protect his child, he forcibly detonated his eighth spirit ring. The energy released by the eighth ring's explosion barely blocked Qian Xunji's strike, sending him flying.
However, he himself was struck back like a cannonball, crashing through a mountain.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, he used his spirit power and body to protect the child in his arms, otherwise Tang San, who had just taken over his body, would have been shattered to pieces.
But Tang Hao wasn't so lucky. He was bruised and bloodied, and even suffered three broken ribs.
"Tang Hao, accept your judgment."
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