"What was that?"
Yue Guan and Gui Mei, supporting each other, looked back hesitantly.
The place where the huge explosion had occurred was clearly where they had just been fighting Tang Hao.
Could it be that just after they left, someone else engaged Tang Hao in battle?
Gui Mei flew into the air, frowning as he looked at the mushroom cloud in the distance, and suggested to Yue Guan below.
"Do you want to go and check it out?"
"No, you and I are seriously injured right now, and we can't exert more than 20% or 30% of our strength. If the people fighting Tang Hao are anywhere near his power level, I'm afraid we won't make it back to Spirit City today."
Yue Guan looked toward the battle with lingering fear, shaking his head repeatedly.
He hadn't expected that in just over a dozen years, Tang Hao would actually reach level 95, and the combined strength of himself and Gui Mei could only be described as vulnerable before Tang Hao.
Even when they used their bipolar static field, it was still broken by Tang Hao's hammer.
Thinking back to the giant hammer radiating terrifying power, Yue Guan shuddered.
Back then, Tang Hao was only level 90 and was able to beat Qianxunji to death. Yue Guan never thought himself stronger than Qianxunji.
Unlike the loyal Gui Mei, Yue Guan had come to the Spirit Hall solely for glory and wealth. He had no intention of dying for it.
Seeing his firm stance, Gui Mei hesitated for a moment before descending. The two supported each other and continued heading toward the Spirit City.
...
"Dugu Bo, you fool."
Gu Rong's angry voice exploded in Dugu Bo's ears, making his head buzz.
"?"
"Why do you say that? I've used all my power to attack Tang Hao, just as I was instructed!"
Dugu Bo asked in confusion.
He and Gu Rong were communicating through voice transmission, so he wasn't afraid Tang Hao would hear they were on the same side.
"Idiot, that soul beast is just a young spirit master, what if she was killed in the explosion?"
"Was your head kicked by a donkey?"
"Do you remember why we're here?"
Chen Xin also interjected, shouting at Dugu Bo.
"I—I screwed up?"
After being scolded, Dugu Bo finally realized what he had just done...
He had been lurking in the nearby forest and saw that Tang Hao looked exhausted after his fight with Ju Gui. With a golden opportunity in front of him, he immediately transformed into the Ghidorah King.
Following the mission assigned by Yu Xiaowei, he poured all his amplification soul skills into one blow, using up most of his soul power and unleashing his maximum destructive power, turning the area around Tang Hao into a terrifyingly poisonous zone.
However—
He had gotten too excited and forgotten about Xiao Wu.
It didn't matter whether Tang San died or not, but Yu Xiaowei had ordered that the soul beast girl must not be killed, even if she only had a single breath left.
Just as the three of them were scolding Dugu Bo—
The smoke and dust gradually dissipated, leaving behind a faint green mist.
Through the thin fog, three disheveled figures appeared at the base of a crater 100 meters wide.
When they got a clear look at Tang Hao's appearance, the four of them were stunned.
They saw white bone armor enveloping Tang Hao, fully armed. Even Dugu Bo's poisonous green mist couldn't leave a trace on him.
However, Tang San and Xiao Wu, covered in dust, had suffered greatly. Whether it was the technique just now or the current poisonous fog, the two of them would have died upon contact.
At the time of the explosion, if Tang Hao hadn't used his soul bone skill to protect the two, he might have been killed by the blast.
Seeing that Xiao Wu was unharmed, Dugu Bo and the four people in hiding finally sighed in relief.
Tang Hao raised the Clear Sky Hammer, pointed it at Dugu Bo from afar, and shouted:
"Who are you, and why did you suddenly attack me?"
Facing Tang Hao's overwhelming pressure, Dugu Bo couldn't help but retreat two steps.
Before he could speak, Yu Yuanzhen's figure suddenly appeared in the air.
"Oh, I didn't expect that after all this effort to come out, there'd be such a surprise waiting."
Then, Gu Rong and Chen Xin also appeared. Besides Ning Fengzhi hiding in the shadows, the strongest combat force of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had gathered.
Seeing the four Titled Douluo surrounding him, Tang Hao gave a bitter smile.
He was strong—
But not strong enough to take on two level-95 Titled Douluo with martial soul fusion skills, especially with three of them being at least level 95.
Worst of all, his old injury had relapsed.
Looking back at his trembling son, Tang Hao gritted his teeth. At worst, he would detonate his ring again.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Liu Erlong was the first to awaken.
Yu Xiaowei's eyes lit up, and he rushed over and asked:
"How's my sister? Did you gain anything?"
Flender, who followed him excitedly, also looked at Liu Erlong with eager anticipation.
He had heard from Yu Xiaowei that after absorbing this immortal grass, Liu Erlong's martial spirit might evolve again.
A martial spirit evolution—that was an opportunity even Titled Douluo rarely had!
But Liu Erlong didn't answer. Instead, she stared at her hand intently.
A golden flame appeared in her palm.
Rolling waves of heat surged out, making Yu Xiaowei and Flender feel suffocated in their chests.
The extremely high temperature made the surrounding air seem to distort.
Liu Erlong finally spoke.
"My Fire Dragon flame is even hotter now, and I have a strange feeling that I can control it."
After saying this, she threw the fireball at a boulder.
Strangely, the flame quietly adhered to the stone—it neither burned wildly nor extinguished.
Liu Erlong stretched out her palm and clenched it tightly.
The previously calm flame immediately erupted, rapidly spreading over the entire stone. In the blink of an eye, the large boulder as tall as two men turned to ash.
After burning the stone, the golden flame transformed into a fist-sized ball, lying there quietly.
Seeing the Fire Dragon's transformation, Yu Xiaowei immediately shouted in surprise:
"Sis, sis, come look at her martial spirit—has it evolved?"
But after Liu Erlong summoned her Fire Dragon Martial Spirit, the three sighed in disappointment.
Unfortunately, her martial spirit hadn't evolved.
"Tang Hao, hand over the 100,000-year-old soul beast, and I'll spare your life!"
The voice of Sword Douluo Long Ji and the four Titled Douluo echoed through the wilderness.
Tang Hao's pupils shrank. He likely realized that the sheer intensity of his earlier battle with Ju Gui had attracted the attention of the four Titled Douluo from Heaven Dou City.
Upon seeing Xiao Wu, they harbored evil intentions and wanted to seize the 100,000-year-old soul beast.
Tang Hao turned to look at Tang San and Xiao Wu embracing tightly, and memories of Ah Yin surfaced in his mind.
Why?
Why must love between humans and soul beasts always be destroyed by people like this!
Thinking of Ah Yin's tragic end, Tang Hao was furious. The black light from his Clear Sky Hammer erupted, swirling with the wind, transforming into the size of a small mountain.
The poisonous mist vanished instantly, and the air became significantly fresher.
He roared with bloodshot eyes:
"You all die!!!"
Great Sumeru Hammer!!!
Ring Detonation!!!
But what made Tang Hao spit blood was—
As soon as they saw him launch a Ring Detonation, the four shameless Titled Douluo in front of him...
actually ran away!!!