Chapter 200: I'll Give You Three Seconds to Leave; Otherwise, Die!
"And you still have the face to call me Seventh Elder."
Tang Lie's eyes widened in fury as he suddenly stepped forward. With that heavy step, a burst of pressure instantly erupted from his body.
To Tang Lie's surprise, although Tang Yuehua's face turned slightly pale under this pressure, she clenched her teeth and refused to take even half a step back.
A deep shock flashed through Tang Lie's eyes. He had not expected that his niece, publicly known as a useless person, could actually withstand even a sliver of his pressure.
He let out a cold snort and ultimately withdrew it.
But the anger in his heart immediately overwhelmed his rationality again. Pointing at Tang Yuehua's nose, he cursed loudly, "What kind of madness has possessed you?!"
"Why would you publicly announce your departure from the Clear Sky Sect in front of so many people?!"
Tang Lie's voice echoed within the soundproof barrier as he bitterly questioned her, "Do you know how heartbroken your elder brother is because of this foolish act of yours within the sect?!"
"How much humiliation has this brought upon a sect that has already secluded itself from the world? What do you take the sect that raised you for?!"
Staring directly into her eyes, Tang Lie's weathered face carried a final trace of expectation. "Yuehua, tell me honestly, were you coerced by the Heaven Dou royal family or some other force into doing this?"
"Tell me. Don't be afraid. Come back to the sect with me!"
Return to the sect? Go back and continue being that worthless person? Or be kept like a caged bird, forever confined within those desolate mountains?
Thinking of the young man currently hiding behind the screen, the one who could grant her power, she knew she could no longer go back.
Tang Yuehua took a deep breath and straightened her slender yet frail back. Her gaze showed no fear as it met Tang Lie's killing intent head-on.
"Seventh Elder, there's no need for you to make wild guesses. No one in this world coerced me."
Her voice was calm. "Leaving the Clear Sky Sect was my own decision, made willingly and after careful consideration."
Hearing this utterly resolute answer, Tang Lie was so furious that he laughed instead. "Good, good, good! What a 'willing choice'! What a 'careful consideration'!"
"Since you are so ungrateful and stubborn, then today, I will act on behalf of your deceased parents and properly teach you, this ignorant girl who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth!"
Killing intent surged from Tang Lie's body. "Today, I must take you back to the sect to face family punishment! You should know very well what kind of miserable fate awaits those who betray the sect!"
The moment his words fell, a massive Clear Sky Hammer emitting terrifying heat instantly appeared in Tang Lie's hand!
What was astonishing was that his Clear Sky Hammer was completely different from Tang Hao's ice-type attribute.
Tang Lie's hammer was dark red, and blazing flames coiled around its body. It was actually a fire-attributed Clear Sky Hammer!
Just as Tang Lie raised the blazing hammer and prepared to charge at Tang Yuehua, she stood still, unmoving.
Although facing the attack of a Titled Douluo made her extremely nervous, with cold sweat forming in her palms, she knew very well that Lin Yuan would never ignore her.
And sure enough!
At the instant Tang Lie took his second step forward, a sharp sound of air being torn apart suddenly rang out!
In the next moment, a silver spear, radiating sharp killing intent, shot in like lightning from outside the elegant room!
With unmatched penetrating force, the spear slammed fiercely into the hard floor between Tang Lie and Tang Yuehua.
The tail of the spear trembled violently, emitting a dragon-like humming sound!
Immediately after, a calm yet domineering voice clearly entered Tang Lie's ears. "She, I will protect."
Hearing this sudden voice, Tang Lie stopped in his tracks. Not only was he not alarmed, but he even let out a cold chuckle.
In fact, the reason he had immediately summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and pretended to attack Tang Yuehua earlier
was precisely a calculated move to test whether someone in the shadows would step in to protect this so-called traitorous niece.
Though Tang Lie appeared hot-tempered and crude, as the Seventh Elder of the Clear Sky Sect, he was actually a shrewd and cunning old fox.
However, what he did not expect was that this very act of clever probing would soon cost him his life!
If he had merely tried to persuade Tang Yuehua verbally, without harboring real killing intent, the Lin Yuan hidden in the shadows might have spared his life and simply driven him away (impossible).
Unfortunately, he had chosen his own path to death.
At this moment, Tang Lie had no idea that death had already descended upon him. Nor did he fear exposing his identity as a Titled Douluo within the sensitive environment of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
After all, no one would know it was him.
Lowering his head, he glanced at the silver spear martial soul embedded in the ground. After searching his memory, he found that he had never seen such a martial soul before.
This spear was definitely not the signature martial soul of any well-known Titled Douluo on the continent.
Since it wasn't one of those troublesome old monsters, Tang Lie had nothing to fear!
During these years of seclusion, he had already successfully advanced from Soul Douluo to the Titled Douluo realm!
And today's inevitable battle would be his first time displaying his strength to the outside world as a Titled Douluo!
He would use his enemy's blood to consecrate his blazing Clear Sky Hammer!
In the next moment, Tang Lie stopped hiding his power. His soul power erupted like a volcanic explosion!
Beneath him, two yellow, two purple, and five black soul rings, nine in total, slowly rose and pulsed with terrifying pressure.
Holding the flaming Clear Sky Hammer in one hand, Tang Lie scanned the room arrogantly and shouted, "Who exactly are you? Which force on the continent do you belong to?!"
"Do you not know that Tang Yuehua is a member of my Clear Sky Sect? And yet you dare interfere in my sect's family matters?!"
Tang Lie sneered repeatedly, continuing to probe, "Could it be that you are an enshrined expert secretly cultivated by the Heaven Dou royal family? Or from some other force?"
"Since you dared to act, why hide like a rat? Come out and face me if you have the guts!"
Just as his words fell—
"Heh."
A cold laugh filled with disdain suddenly echoed within the room.
"A frog at the bottom of a well like you is not worthy of knowing my name."
"A mere low-level Titled Douluo who has just stepped past rank ninety, yet you dare speak so arrogantly before me. What exactly gives you such confidence?"
Along with this arrogant voice,
Tang Lie suddenly saw a flash of silver before his eyes.
Zhao Yun's tall and heroic figure, clad in white robes, appeared like a ghost at the spot where the spear had landed.
With a casual motion of his hand, the silver spear embedded in the ground flew back into his palm, instantly returning to him.
Holding the spear, Zhao Yun looked calmly and indifferently at Tang Lie, as if he were looking at an ant.
Being stared at with such contempt, Tang Lie immediately felt an unprecedented humiliation.
His brows furrowed tightly as he laughed in anger. "You ignorant brat who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth, what arrogance!"
Indeed, due to Zhao Yun's unfathomable cultivation, having reached the level of an Ultimate Douluo, his appearance remained that of a man in his early thirties.
Meanwhile, Tang Lie appeared much older.
Thus, in Tang Lie's eyes, Zhao Yun was nothing more than a somewhat talented junior.
A man in his thirties, how powerful could he possibly be? Soul Saint? Or Soul Douluo?
Yet this fool failed to consider that, as a Titled Douluo, he could not perceive even the slightest trace of Zhao Yun's true cultivation!
Zhao Yun had no interest in wasting words on someone already doomed to die.
He casually raised his silver spear, pointing it directly at Tang Lie. His tone carried no emotion. "I will now mercifully give you three seconds."
"Take your hammer and get out."
"Otherwise, die."
Hearing these arrogant words, Tang Lie burst into laughter as if he had heard the greatest joke in the world.
"What nonsense! Have you not seen my nine soul rings? Do you know I am a Titled Douluo?!"
Tang Lie sneered disdainfully. "And you still dare speak so arrogantly, telling me to get out? Truly a foolish brat courting death!"
"Good! Since you wish to die, then today I will let you, this frog in a well, witness what true Titled Douluo power is!"
With a ferocious expression, Tang Lie glared fiercely at Tang Yuehua. "It seems this rebellious girl has taken refuge with your hidden force!"
"I don't know what despicable methods you used to make her so determined to leave Clear Sky Sect."
"But today, I will use this Clear Sky Hammer in my hand to smash all of you into minced meat. I will make you regret ever provoking my Clear Sky Sect!"
Before his words had even fully fallen, Tang Lie stopped wasting time. His third purple soul ring suddenly lit up with dazzling brilliance!
"Third Soul Skill: Blazing Sun!"
Gripping the hammer with both hands, Tang Lie leaped into the air. The blazing hammer in his hands expanded in size, carrying terrifying heat capable of melting steel as it smashed downward violently!
This strike not only targeted the ground but could also summon numerous flaming boulders.
Yet facing this attack, Zhao Yun showed no sign of panic.
He did not even release a single soul ring.
Zhao Yun merely flicked his wrist casually, executing an extremely ordinary spear technique.
A crisp and thunderous metallic clash exploded within the elegant room.
That seemingly slender silver spear effortlessly struck the weakest force point of the massive Clear Sky Hammer.
The terrifying explosive flames and immense force vanished instantly, like mud sinking into the sea, completely neutralized by Zhao Yun's exquisite spear technique.
Tang Lie's third soul skill had been resolved just like that!
Tang Lie's expression changed drastically, his pupils shrinking violently as shock surged within his heart.
Although this attack was only his third soul skill, the power of Titled Douluo's third soul skill was still immensely terrifying.
There was no way a Soul Douluo could block it so easily without even releasing a soul ring, let alone interrupt it mid-execution!
Could it be that this seemingly thirty-year-old man was not a Soul Douluo, but a hidden Titled Douluo?!
But the moment this absurd thought appeared, Tang Lie immediately rejected it.
Impossible!
The youngest recognized Titled Douluo on the continent was Tang Hao!
And when Tang Hao broke through rank ninety, he was already forty-four years old!
The spear-wielding man before him looked barely over thirty. How could he possibly be a Titled Douluo?
Tang Lie concluded that Zhao Yun must have secretly used some forbidden technique to block his third soul skill.
However, his stubborn arrogance would soon cost him dearly.
"Brat, stop being arrogant! Take another strike from me!"
Tang Lie roared as his sixth black ten-thousand-year soul ring burst with dark light!
"Sixth Soul Skill, Martial Soul Clone!"
In an instant, Tang Lie actually summoned a second blazing Clear Sky Hammer.
Under this soul skill, all his attack power doubled, and the two hammers struck in coordination with terrifying force.
Immediately after, Tang Lie controlled both hammers to crash toward Zhao Yun.
The violent shockwave swept through the entire room. If not stopped, Moon Pavilion would likely be torn apart by the aftermath!
However, just before this destructive wave could spread—
Zhao Yun casually waved his left hand, and a transparent yet indestructible soul power barrier instantly enveloped the entire space.
When the power of Tang Lie's twin hammers struck this barrier, it was like a breeze brushing over water, unable to create even the slightest ripple.
Facing the two flaming hammers crashing down upon him, Zhao Yun's eyes turned cold.
He simply thrust his silver spear forward, unleashing two sharp spear lights.
No flashy movements, no amplification skills used.
Those pure spear strikes instantly pierced through the two massive flaming Clear Sky Hammers.
Tang Lie's proud sixth soul skill was effortlessly shattered by Zhao Yun's simple thrust!
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