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Tang Xiao was at the center of the formation. The light of the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand was the most intense. He held the hammer with both hands and poured his spirit power into the core of the formation without saving any. At the same time, he took in the great power sent by the five elders. In an instant, a huge phantom of a hexagram formation map appeared.
Tang Xiao was the core and the five elders were the anchoring points. The map was quickly drawn beneath their feet and then it slowly lit up. Inside the map, the grand and vast Clear Sky Hammer intent became solid. The heavy force field made the ground for hundreds of meters around sink down a little bit. The air became as thick as mercury.
The phantoms of six Clear Sky Hammers rotated slowly and joined together above the map. They formed a giant hammer phantom that stood tall between heaven and earth. It looked as if it could push down the heavens. Destructive energy was wildly compressed and built up inside it. Its locked target was exactly Tang Chen, who was standing with his spear in the air.
A wild wind began to blow hard with the formation as its center. Facing this sect combined attack grand array that was enough to make even a super Douluo change color, Tang Chen's eyes finally moved a little bit. But it was not fear. Instead, it was a kind of keen interest in seeing his prey finally show all its claws and teeth.
The light of the Clear Sky Formation shone brightly. Under the guidance of the map, the spirit power of the six top powerhouses of the Clear Sky Sect was like a hundred rivers running back to the sea. It wildly surged toward Tang Xiao at the core formation eye.
Clear Sky Avatar!
Tang Xiao roared out and his voice shook the heavens. In the next second, the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand suddenly broke out with an unmatched pitch-black light. The hammer body grew bigger very quickly in the wind. The Clear Sky Avatar that appeared this time was over a dozen zhang larger and grander than when he had used it alone before. The hammerhead was like a small mountain. The phantoms of the other five elders' Clear Sky Hammers even appeared faintly on the pitch-black hammer body.
The heavy, overbearing, and destructive auras joined and mixed together. This made the pressure from this avatar almost reach the scary level of Rank 99. This was exactly the main point of the Clear Sky Formation. It briefly joined everyone's power to make the core person use a heaven-shaking strike that went past their own limits.
Rebellious son, die!
With a roar of anger, Tang Xiao's eyes turned blood-red. He poured all the grand spirit power gathered from the formation into the mountain-like Clear Sky Hammer in his hand. The power was almost enough to break his meridians apart. Right after that, his body joined with the giant hammer avatar. He was like a falling star cutting through the sky. He carried an unstoppable and scary aura that promised to crush everything as he flew hard toward Tang Chen in the air.
Heaven-Soaring Strike!
The giant hammer swung down. It looked as if even the sky would be mixed up and torn apart by it. This hammer strike seemed like something you could not avoid and could not stop. Facing this scary strike that would make even an ordinary super Douluo choose to run away for a moment, a cold light flashed in Tang Chen's eyes. He did not choose to hit it head-on, and he was not in a hurry to run away either. A strange circle of blue-gold light suddenly lit up on his left arm. His bones made a small humming sound and an ancient, grand aura spread out.
Azure Slowing Divine Claw!
With a low shout, Tang Chen made a phantom clawing movement with his left arm toward the loud, mountain-like giant hammer. There was no physical claw shadow, but an invisible, untouched, yet very deep slowing force field instantly covered Tang Xiao and his massive Clear Sky Avatar. This was exactly the left arm bone skill that came from the hundred-thousand-year spirit beast, the Sky Azure Bull Python. This skill was not a direct attack or a defense. Instead, it worked on the domain of time and speed.
It was able to greatly delay the target's speed in an instant. The Heaven-Soaring Strike was originally as fast as a lightning bolt and could not be stopped. Now, its speed dropped down suddenly at a clear rate under the power of the Azure Slowing Divine Claw's strange force field. After that, Tang Xiao seemed to fall into an invisible swamp. The path of the Clear Sky Hammer he swung became clear and slow. That unmatched giant force also had a short stop because of it.
In that short moment of slowness, Tang Chen's eyes narrowed. The red fifth spirit ring beneath his feet suddenly broke out with a bright light.
Fifth Spirit Skill, Fate's Sorrow!
His cold voice rang out and the void realm behind him suddenly twisted. A huge phantom of a vertical eye slowly came out. It looked like it was made from pure golden light and deep runes. The vertical eye was cold and had no heart. In the deep part of its pupil, the river of fate seemed to flow without stopping. It gave off a vast aura that saw through everything and judged karma. In the next second, the golden vertical eye opened up fast.
A blue-gold beam of light shot out without a sound from the pupil. It was compressed to the extreme and seemed able to pierce the soul and fate. Its speed was so fast that it completely ignored the distance of space. It hit Tang Xiao's forehead with perfect control at the most important moment. Tang Xiao was delayed by the Azure Slowing Divine Claw. His old strength had ended while his new strength had not come up yet.
There was no physical hit and no energy explosion. There was only a mental force shock that you could not even imagine. It directly hit the soul origin and moved fate. It instantly poured into Tang Xiao's mind.
Ugh, ah!
Giving a painful and short groan, Tang Xiao's forward movement completely stopped. The moment the blue-gold beam went inside, his mind was replaced by emptiness and confusion. His soul seemed to be thrown into rough waves. His mind felt a hard trance and broke into pieces. His control over the Clear Sky Formation and the running of his own spirit power both had a short loss of control. Although this trance lasted for less than the time of a breath, Tang Xiao quickly began to get better.
This was because he was helped by the medicine power of the clear sky violet gold pill and his own strong mental force. But for a powerhouse of Tang Chen's level, one breath of time was already enough. Just as Tang Xiao's eyes got their focus back and a roar was about to come out from his mouth again, a cold voice rang out behind him like the whisper of a god of death.
The formation is not bad, but unfortunately, your mental force is still too weak.
Hearing these words, the hair all over Tang Xiao's body stood up straight. A chill shot from his tailbone right to the top of his head. Win and loss, life and death, seemed to have lost their doubt at this exact moment. In the next second, the golden dragon spear in Tang Chen's hand was pushed straight out without any extra moves.
A deadly feeling of danger was like ice water poured over his head. This let Tang Xiao force a small bit of clarity from the soul shaking. He ignored the sharp pain in his meridians and wildly moved the mountain-like Clear Sky Hammer in his hand to swing and block at an unbelievable angle and speed. He barely escaped the disaster. Finally, he just managed to put the hammer face in the way of the golden dragon spear's push.
A loud sound of metal hitting exploded out like a god beating a drum. The golden spear light and the pitch-black hammer energy wildly ate and destroyed each other. They broke into waves of destructive energy that once again flattened a section of the already messy ruins below. However, in this head-on fight, Tang Chen did not seem to use his full power.
At the moment the spear and hammer met and the light was at its highest point, another change happened. On the arm Tang Chen used to hold the spear, blue-gold light quietly ran. A completely different but equally grand and heavy life force broke out. In the next moment, many thick and strong vines grew wildly from the body of the golden dragon spear.
They were glowing with a blue-gold circle and looked as if they were alive. Then they spread out. They followed the spear shaft, went past the point of hitting, and with lightning speed, they tied up the handle of the Clear Sky Hammer Tang Xiao used to block. Then, like a bug on a bone, they instantly climbed and covered Tang Xiao's arms and body that were connected to the Clear Sky Avatar.
The time of the Blue Silver Emperor's appearance was perfect. It was exactly at the moment when Tang Xiao was blocking with all his might. His old strength was gone and his new strength change was at its slowest point.
What?!
Seeing this, Tang Xiao became white with shock right away. He wanted to use the spirit power in his body to break these vines. But the tying power of the Blue Silver Emperor went far past his imagination. It made a perfect link with the golden dragon spear's attack, which caused his struggle to fail.
In this short moment of holding back that could almost be ignored, Tang Chen's left hand had already made a sword finger and was raised up high. At his fingertip, an extreme coldness was wildly gathering and compressing. It seemed to freeze time and space and make the soul shake.
Emperor Sword, Ice Extreme Peerless!
As soon as he finished speaking, his left hand with fingers held like a sword had already cut down through the air toward Tang Xiao. Tang Xiao was briefly held back by the Blue Silver Emperor and his movements were stopped. There was no sword qi flying across, and there was no slow process of frost spreading either. There was only a clear icy-blue sword light.
It was compressed to the extreme as if it was made from ten-thousand-year deep ice essence. It broke from his fingertip and went away in a flash. The speed of this sword light went past thought. As soon as it appeared, it seemed to ignore space and cut directly into the chest of Tang Xiao's huge Clear Sky Avatar.
A sharp cracking sound that made one's heart turn cold rang out. Followed by that, a loud boom happened. The Clear Sky Avatar that was hit by the icy-blue sword light was like it was hit head-on by an invisible giant hammer. The massive hammer body was instantly covered with cracks that looked like a spiderweb. The scary Clear Sky Formation's power inside it was also forced to stop from the inside by that extreme cold and sharp sword intent, and then it was frozen.
Ah!
Giving a sharp scream, Tang Xiao's martial soul true body was instantly broken into pieces. He himself was like a kite with its string cut. Blood came out wildly from his mouth as he was taken away by that giant force and coldness that he could not stop. He crashed hard from the high sky down toward the ground.
Sect Master!
Watching this scene, the five Clear Sky Sect elders below who were keeping up the formation became white with fear. The bad hit from the broken formation made them all groan at the same time. Their blood and energy turned over wildly. They wanted to run up to help or make the formation again without thinking. But Tang Chen's attack was far from over.
That Ice Extreme Peerless cut was not just a sword light that broke the avatar. It was also a match, a starting point for the Extreme Cold Domain. At the same time Tang Xiao's body hit the ground, it blew a huge ice hole into the earth.
With that ice hole as the center, a clear white cold wave spread out at a fast speed like an absolute zero circle. Wherever the cold air went, the air froze into ice pieces and fell down. The ruins were covered with a thick layer of ice. Even the flow of spirit power became very slow. The ones to take the first hit of it were the five Clear Sky Sect elders.
They were the closest ones and their auras were not steady because of the formation hitting back. They did not even have time to make a good defense or run away. They had only just put up their spirit power shields when the white cold wave hit them right in the face.
The shields instantly froze and broke apart like paper. The deep cold ignored their defenses. It directly went into their arms and legs, freezing their blood and locking their spirit power. In the blink of an eye, along with the dying Tang Xiao at the bottom of the hole, the five strong elders were all turned into six ice statues in different shapes. Their faces were full of fear and pain. At this moment, it looked like only the blowing cold wind stayed in the world, along with those six ice statues on the ruins that showed a cold light in the sunshine.