Chapter 168: Black Dice And Epitaph Still Have Rehearsal
Adam’s clear gaze looked at Xu Zhou, his mild voice entering his ears.
“Did you always do it this way before?”
Perhaps knowing that Adam had no intention of attacking, Xu Zhou sat cross-legged on the ground and also opened up.
“I’ve always done it this way.”
“There’s no other way.”
“My Innate Soul Power is only level six, theoretically normal cultivation would make me at most a Soul Saint.”
“I didn’t want to stop at Soul Saint, so I tried every means to acquire cultivation resources, using Profound Water Pills to improve my aptitude.”
“At that time, as an ordinary person in the sect, the only way to acquire a large amount of cultivation resources was through this method, ruthlessly shearing the sect’s wool.”
“In the path of cultivation, no matter what means are used, as long as you can reach the end, that’s a good method.”
“Without the resources I’ve sheared over these years, I couldn’t have become a Titled Douluo.”
Adam looked at his appearance, nodded slightly, and his figure gradually disappeared in the Dream Space.
Next, he still had to deal with the two Soul Douluos of the Body Sect. The Body Sect was different from the Profound Nether Sect; they were famously reckless, probably requiring some effort.
While Adam was dealing with Yu Tao and Lang Ya, the two brothers, Huo Yuhao was appreciating the performance Tang Feng brought him.
Tang Feng leaned on his Haotian Hammer, standing in front of Xilu City’s gate.
Due to the pressure, sweat dripped from his chin onto the cracked ground, leaving spots of water traces.
“Hmph!”
“Do you really want to make an enemy of Clear Sky School?!”
Huo Yuhao said with great interest:
“Heh, interesting.”
“Clearly, you came to Xilu City on your own to provoke me.”
“Yet you say I want to make an enemy of Clear Sky School.”
“I’d like to see just how much the so-called Haotian Hammer weighs.”
Huo Yuhao was too lazy to continue talking with this fool whose brain was underdeveloped and whose mind was completely undeveloped.
Nine soul rings disguised by spiritual power appeared around Huo Yuhao’s body.
Two yellow, two purple, three black, two red; the two Hundred Thousand Year soul rings didn’t need disguising, just let the second and third soul rings take their place.
“Spiritual Endowment”
Huo Yuhao infused his spirit into the ground, making the originally inanimate earth suddenly “come alive.”
Tang Feng noticed that the ground under his feet began to surge like the sea, with countless bottomless cracks spreading toward him.
“Hmph!”
He snorted coldly, and the Haotian Hammer in his hand quickly grew larger until the hammer body was the size of two people before stopping.
He lifted his foot and stomped heavily on the surging ground, causing cracks to extend across the entire earth like a spider web. Using the reaction force, Tang Feng charged straight at Huo Yuhao.
The large hammer in his hand began to swing in the air, the hammer technique wild yet aesthetically pleasing—it was clearly the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique inherited by Haotian Sect for ten thousand years.
Tang Feng was indeed a Titled Douluo of Haotian Sect; in the short distance of a few hundred meters, he had already stacked up to forty hammers.
The pitch-black Haotian Hammer in his hand, accompanied by the swings, unleashed a violent aura that made the hammer body glow red.
When he was still ten meters from Huo Yuhao, a flash of doubt appeared in Tang Feng’s eyes, not understanding why Huo Yuhao wasn’t dodging.
However, with his muscle-filled brain, he didn’t think much about it. Veins bulged on his hands, ferocious muscles strained his clothes, and with a fierce expression, he swung the giant hammer, its shadow directly covering Huo Yuhao’s entire body.
Huo Yuhao looked at the increasingly close Haotian Hammer and slightly opened his left hand toward the hammer body.
Seeing this, Tang Feng’s eyes widened, extreme anger surging in his heart as he shouted loudly:
“You actually want to use your flesh to confront Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique and Haotian Hammer?!”
“Good! Go die!!!”
The Haotian Hammer accelerated again at the end, but ten centimeters from Huo Yuhao’s palm, it suddenly stopped.
Tang Feng’s pupils contracted; he was still maintaining his forward charging posture, and he could clearly feel the Haotian Hammer in his hand still swinging forward without any obstruction.
But it just couldn’t touch the opponent’s palm.
It was as if an entire world was hidden in the ten centimeters between the hammer and the palm.
Mu En, watching from the city gate, had his eyes light up slightly and couldn’t help but nod.
“An extraordinary young man.”
“The realm of Super Douluo has actually touched upon spatial laws.”
“This use of space is truly impressive.”
Tang Feng lacked Mu En’s insight and only knew he couldn’t reach Huo Yuhao now, so he swung the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique in the air again to change his body’s direction.
Upon landing on the ground, before he could charge into the sky again, he saw countless tentacles formed of soil extending from the ground under his feet, tightly binding his legs.
The tentacles continued to spread upward bit by bit, and the ground under his feet cracked open to both sides, the fissures bottomless.
“So annoying!”
Tang Feng had to stop stacking Chaotic Wind and spun the Haotian Hammer in front of him, using gusts of gale to tear apart those soil tentacles.
After breaking free, he stomped the ground fiercely again and flew into mid-air. Looking at the increasingly violent ground below, he knew he couldn’t land casually anymore.
Titled Douluos already possessed flight ability, but the Haotian Hammer could better stack its hammer technique on the ground.
In mid-air, Tang Feng directly lit up seven of his nine soul rings. The Haotian Hammer in his hand continued to grow larger, thunderbolts winding around the hammer body, and the surrounding gravity began to be affected.
He began stepping with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Steps underfoot, charging toward Huo Yuhao again at extreme speed.
Clear Sky School, as Tang San’s direct lineage, naturally possessed Tang Sect secret skills, even some more complete than Tang Sect’s.
Tang Sect was purely a clown.
Unfortunately, this charge still failed to break through Infinite Void Technique, so he could only wildly change positions, swinging the Haotian Hammer from various tricky angles.
To the residents of Xilu City, in the sky, the Enthusiasm Leader stood motionless in place, while Tang Feng was like a black meteor assaulting the Enthusiasm Leader from all directions.
With the final impact, Tang Feng was gasping for breath in mid-air, knowing conventional methods wouldn’t work.
“I’ll let you see Clear Sky School’s secret art.”
“Explode Ring!”
As Tang Feng’s words fell, the first five soul rings on his body suddenly exploded, the violent energy from the soul ring explosions pouring into the Haotian Hammer.
In Huo Yuhao’s vision, red light glowed on Tang Feng’s meridians, with faint signs of energy leakage; clearly, his body couldn’t withstand such intense Explode Ring.
Due to the powerful energy, the Haotian Hammer continued to expand, then the hammer body turned completely red, its terrifying aura cracking the ground below.
Seeing this, appreciation appeared in Huo Yuhao’s eyes.
“The first person to invent Explode Ring and Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique was indeed a super genius.”
“A Haotian Hammer whose quality and bloodline aren’t top-notch can actually rival a super martial soul with this unique skill.”
“Unfortunately, it seems Clear Sky School has been around for ten thousand years, yet Explode Ring and Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique haven’t changed at all.”
“Just like ten thousand years ago.”
Tang Feng felt slight pain, his voice becoming hoarse.
“Shut up!”
“How dare you comment on Clear Sky School?”
Tang Feng exploded his sixth soul ring again, energy madly pouring into the Haotian Hammer, causing space around the Haotian Hammer to begin twisting.
Huo Yuhao shook his head and said:
“You’re still exploding?”
“Your meridians are indeed tough, but the probability of breakage is never zero.”
With that, Huo Yuhao’s eyes bloomed with black light—that was the soul skill “Black Dice” and “Epitaph” from the Golden Tortoise Skull.
A dice appeared above Tang Feng’s head, spinning before settling on the highest six dots.
The Black Dice soul skill ranged from one to six dots, with the number representing the intensity of misfortune.
It was originally random, but Epitaph could observe future possibilities and lock onto one future born from Huo Yuhao’s own interference.
Since the Black Dice was released by Huo Yuhao, it naturally belonged to a future he could interfere with.
The six-dot Black Dice turned into black mist and disappeared, merging into Tang Feng’s body.
Tang Feng looked horrified as his internal meridians suddenly emitted breaking sounds.
“Impossible!”
“My meridians have been tempered a thousand times!”
“It’s just exploding six rings! How could they break!”
Tang Feng was now panting like an ox, his eyes bloodshot. He wanted to quickly stop the Explode Ring and energy infusion.
But he found his control had gone wrong!
The technique that had almost become muscle memory erred at this moment—stopping the Explode Ring turned into exploding another ring!
The seventh soul ring suddenly exploded!
“No!!!!”
What followed was beyond Tang Feng’s control; the energy from the seventh soul ring madly surged into his body and Haotian Hammer.
He crashed heavily to the ground, then roared toward the sky as violent energy rampaged through his meridians.
The meridians, already showing breakage, began to shatter inch by inch like dominoes!
Without meridians to constrain it, soul power rampaged through Tang Feng’s body like wild bulls, wantonly destroying muscles and organs.
Red light appeared all over Tang Feng’s body, large amounts of leaking soul power surging from his mouth.
It was clearly on the verge of self-explosion.
Mu En at the city gate was also dumbfounded, not knowing what happened—why was that Haotian Sect Titled Douluo suddenly about to self-explode?
Huo Yuhao’s Black Dice could only be seen by himself; others couldn’t see it.
Mu En sighed slightly; if a Titled Douluo who exploded seven rings self-detonated here, many people would probably die.
His eyes focused, dragon roars echoing around him as golden Light Soul Power shot into the sky, transforming into a golden dragon.
The dragon stretched its body freely, carrying boundless might as it charged toward Tang Feng.
Huo Yuhao, who was preparing to activate Susanoo in the sky to protect Xilu City, nodded at Mu En upon seeing this and then deactivated Susanoo.
The golden dragon opened its mouth, accompanied by earth-shaking dragon roars, swallowing Tang Feng into its belly.
Then the dragon turned into a light cocoon, tightly wrapping him within.
Light Soul Power and Explode Ring soul power battled in Tang Feng’s body as the battlefield.
Neither side cared about Tang Feng’s life; Light Soul Power quickly swept through the Explode Ring soul power, transferring this violent soul power outside through the light cocoon, transforming it into pure Heaven and Earth Origin Energy.
It didn’t take long for all the Explode Ring soul power in Tang Feng’s body to return to heaven and earth. The light cocoon slowly dissipated, and he crashed heavily to the ground.
Mu En looked at Huo Yuhao in the sky and said softly:
“Spirit Ice, the opponent still has one breath left.”
“But his internal meridians are completely shattered; he’s no different from a cripple.”
“Heh, this fool, clearly unskilled in Explode Ring, yet using it like this—reckless.”
“That guy is yours to handle.”
“Feel free to deal with him boldly; I’ve recorded the entire process with Magic Net.”
“If Clear Sky School dares to act on this, they will face condemnation from the entire Continent.”
“Though I think Clear Sky School won’t cause trouble on Heaven Dou Plain for a fool who crippled himself.”
Tang Feng, still clinging to life in the distance, heard this, spat out a mouthful of blood, wanted to retort, and then completely fainted.
As a Titled Douluo of Haotian Sect, his Explode Ring was masterful; he never expected it to fail today!
Huo Yuhao smiled and said to Mu En:
“Thank you, Dragon God Your Excellency, for your help.”
“If this guy really exploded, I’d probably have to rework the land outside Xilu City.”
Mu En also laughed a few times, shook his wheelchair, left the city gate, entered Xilu City, strolled around first, then went to check on the Orphanage.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao used telekinesis to drag the distant Tang Feng over like a dead dog to his side and said:
“Root First Group, come out.”
The First Group, upon receiving the order, arrived before Huo Yuhao at extreme speed, stood at attention, and saluted.
Huo Yuhao nodded slightly and threw Tang Feng at their feet, saying:
“Throw him into Xilu City’s prison.”
“Find a doctor to heal him; don’t let him die.”
“Then go to Enthusiasm Headquarters and find Crazy Bull Bose.”
“Tell him to use this Vajra Douluo for Ultimate Insult rehearsal.”
“I’ll inspect from time to time.”
“Remember not to let this guy die.”
With that, Huo Yuhao left the city gate to check on Adam’s situation and see if he needed help.
After all, he was a level 93 Titled Douluo with a pretty strong martial soul.
