Chapter 20: Eight Treasures Chicken vs. Clear Sky Douluo, Liu Shen's Elegance, the Goddess of Life Breaks Down!
After stepping out, the little child blinked his somewhat innocent, confused eyes and looked at the scruffy, ragged, strange uncle in front of him. In a soft, childish voice, he asked:
"Uncle, who are you?"
"Did you come to our village to beg for food?"
"Village Chief Grandpa said beggars can be given some dried meat, but they can't be given milk. Little One still needs milk to grow."
Beg… beggar?
Hearing those words, Tang Hao's old face instantly flushed the color of pig liver.
He was the dignified Clear Sky Douluo, a man who had once smashed the Pope with his hammer. Yet, in the eyes of this ignorant little brat, he was mistaken for a beggar?
"Insolence!" Tang Hao roared in anger. He slammed the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand heavily onto the ground, yet not a speck of dust was stirred.
"You ignorant child! Since you don't know how to appreciate kindness, don't blame me for using force to make you submit. Watch carefully!"
Boom!!!
In that instant, Tang Hao decided to hold nothing back. The terrifying soul power of a rank 95 Titled Douluo erupted completely.
Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red!
Nine dazzling soul rings instantly rose from beneath his feet—especially the final blood-red hundred-thousand-year soul ring, which radiated a suffocating sense of pressure.
"Clear Sky True Body!"
But he still wasn't finished. With a furious roar, the Clear Sky Hammer in Tang Hao's hand rapidly expanded with the wind. In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a gigantic black hammer over a hundred meters long, hovering above Stone Village.
For a moment, a massive shadow appeared, instantly covering the entire village.
"Huh? What's that?"
"That hammer is huge. Is it an outsider?"
"Village Chief, that outsider seems hostile to us… Wait, why does he feel so weak?"
…
As the Clear Sky True Body loomed overhead, the villagers of Stone Village were finally alarmed. One after another, they ran out, looking at Tang Hao at the village entrance and the giant hammer in the sky, all with puzzled expressions.
However, the expressions of these villagers looked very different in Tang Hao's eyes.
"Hmph! Afraid now, aren't you?"
Just as he was about to continue demonstrating his power and force, these ignorant, backward villagers and that willow tree were about to submit to him, and an unexpected clucking sound suddenly came from behind him.
"Hm?"
Tang Hao turned around suspiciously but didn't see anyone behind him. Only when he looked down did he realize that the Clear Sky Hammer he had planted into the ground was blocking a local chicken scratching around for food.
"Cluck cluck!"
The chicken tilted its head, looked at the huge hammer in front of it, and then at the hammer's owner. Immediately, it let out an annoyed cry. Within its tiny green-bean-sized eyes, an extremely human-like trace of irritation appeared.
Ever since living in Stone Village, it had been constantly bullied by the little brat. The feathers on its backside had practically been plucked bald. It had been holding in its frustration for a long time and could only vent its anger on poisonous insects.
And today, of all days, some blind human had the nerve to wave a black lump of metal in front of it and even stare at it like that?
Unbearable. Absolutely unbearable!
"Cluck!"
The Eight Treasures Chicken was furious.
Flapping its nearly featherless wings, it shot forward like lightning straight toward the Clear Sky Hammer in Tang Hao's hand.
"Hmph, a mere chicken dares to act so arrogantly?" Seeing the Eight Treasures Chicken charging at his hammer, Tang Hao sneered with complete disdain.
"This is the number one tool-type martial soul in the world. Do you think it's made of paper?"
Tang Hao didn't even bother swinging the hammer. Instead, he simply released protective soul power around his body, intending to shock the chicken into submission.
However, in the next second, a scene occurred that made the entire Douluo Continent question reality itself.
"Clang!"
A piercing metallic sound rang out.
In the instant the seemingly ordinary chicken pecked the Clear Sky Hammer with its beak, the weapon martial soul known as the strongest in the world, the hammer that even dared to smash the Pope's Palace, was instantly pierced straight through.
"Cluck cluck cluck cluck!"
As if still unsatisfied, the Eight Treasures Chicken began pecking the hammer frantically, as if it were pecking grains of rice.
Every time it pecked, a transparent hole appeared in the Clear Sky Hammer.
In just three breaths, the enormous Clear Sky Hammer had been pecked full of holes like a sieve.
The moment his martial soul was damaged, Tang Hao felt as if he had been struck by lightning. A mouthful of blood burst from his lips, and his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
"My… my Clear Sky Hammer…"
Tang Hao collapsed into despair. He had never imagined that the martial soul he was most proud of couldn't even defeat a random chicken at the entrance of someone else's village!
"Cluck!"
But the Eight Treasures Chicken clearly held grudges. After destroying Tang Hao's hammer, those tiny green-bean eyes turned toward Tang Hao's leg with malicious intent.
Seeing the beast coming again, Tang Hao didn't dare be careless. He hurriedly tried to dodge.
But although Tang Hao was fast, the Eight Treasures Chicken was even faster. Especially in this terrifying gravity environment, it was born and raised here and could move freely without restriction.
Tang Hao, on the other hand, was already suppressed by gravity. After suffering such severe injuries, his movements became even more sluggish.
In a single moment of delayed evasion, the Eight Treasures Chicken's wing came crashing toward him.
This seemingly light wing carried an extremely terrifying force.
Bang!
Tang Hao was instantly sent flying dozens of meters away. Like a human-shaped sandbag, he slammed heavily onto the ground beside the village entrance, half of his body embedded into the soil.
...
At the same time, back in the Douluo Continent, everyone was completely stunned.
Whether it was Shrek Academy, Spirit Hall, or the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, everyone stood with mouths wide open, staring at the Clear Sky Douluo who was being chased and beaten by a chicken.
No one even dared to breathe loudly.
However, unlike them, the focus of the gods in the God Realm had been completely different.
The moment Tang Hao arrived at the entrance of Stone Village, the gods had already noticed the charred willow tree.
Douluo God Realm, Forest of Life.
The Goddess of Life was staring intensely at the charred willow tree through the sky screen.
As the God King who governed the laws of life in the universe, her sensitivity to the life aura was the sharpest of all. It was also the ability she was most proud of.
But the moment that the willow tree appeared, this supreme goddess of the God Realm fixed her gaze on the single swaying willow branch.
Her delicate body began trembling uncontrollably, and her face was filled with fear.
"That… that aura…"
At this moment, the Goddess of Life felt even her voice trembling, already carrying a hint of sobbing.
"That is not ordinary vitality. That is the supreme life force born from death!"
"The law of life contained within that single branch alone is likely billions of times vaster than my entire Forest of Life!"
Hearing her words, the God of Destruction frowned slightly and stepped forward. Looking at the small village and the charred willow tree within the sky screen, he clearly showed disbelief.
"Xiao Lü, are you saying that tree has a stronger life force than you?"
Upon hearing that, the Goddess of Life gave a bitter smile. A deep sense of helplessness appeared in her eyes.
"Stronger than me?"
"No, Destruction."
"In front of it, I feel like a seed that has just sprouted."
"…while it is an endless forest that stretches across the heavens, vast and boundless."
End of Chapter