Tang Hao looked at the white haired boy, who now stood about a dozen meters away from him, in shock.
He couldn't understand how this boy had left his grasp on him. He didn't even know when the boy has escaped his hold.
"This is a pretty isolated place. I guess you don't have any good intentions?"
Rayne looked around the place that's filled with grassland, mostly of blue silver grass.
As a matter of fact, there was no signs of any human inhabitation within ten miles around this place.
Tang Hao exploded with all his soul power pressure, completely focused on Rayne.
But Rayne paid no heed to it. The energy pressure couldn't get past his Infinity.
"..!!"
Tang Hao looked at Rayne with gloomy cold eyes, as he remembered Yu Xiaogang's words on the special martial soul.
Tang Hao attributed Rayne's ability to escape from his grasp to the special eye martial, Six Eyes.
Tang Hao rushed at Rayne in an attempt to crush him. But whenever he almost touched Rayne, he vanished and appeared a few meters away from him.
"Teleportation?!" Tang Hao blurted in shock. The reason why he's so shocked is that he didn't see any soul ring, or any signs of soul bone on Rayne.
"I'd like to see how long you can keep using that skill before falling down!" Tang Hao continued to try to catch him. But he didn't use his martial soul or soul bone skills. It was already a disgrace for him to take action against a six-year-old boy.
"Well, teleporting within a few dozen meters don't cost me much soul power. If you're waiting for me to exhaust my soul power, you're wasting your time. With my Six Eyes, my soul power consumption for a technique of this level, is almost close to none. I can keep doing this all day." Rayne generously explained in a casual tone, as he was teleporting all over the place.
Tang Hao chased after him with high speeds, but couldn't get a hold of Rayne.
Tang Hao stopped after he understood that, he was just wasting his time if he tried to catch Rayne, without using any of his real strength.
He also couldn't believe the fact that, a top soul skill like teleportation is being used by Rayne so casually, with very little soul power expenditure.
At the same time, Tang Hao was afraid of Rayne's eye martial soul that gives this boy such incredible strength.
This further strengthened his determination to kill Rayne for good. He cannot allow this boy to grow up. Otherwise, he might be an unstoppable disaster for both his son and his sect.
"Grandmaster was correct. Your martial soul is indeed very powerful. Too powerful to be left alive!"
Tang Hao's soul power surged, as a black hammer with bloody aura, appeared in his hand.
This is Tang Hao's martial soul, Clear Sky Hammer! One of the top tool martial souls in the Douluo continent.
In this era, it is even called the strongest martial soul by many.
The blood red aura of slaughter on Tang Hao's Clear Sky Hammer is due to the influence of Death God Domain, which he had obtained from Slaughter city back in the past.
As Tang Hao summoned his martial soul, nine soul rings rose up under his feat. The ninth soul ring was especially eye-catching.
Two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red.
This is Tang Hao's soul ring configuration. It is without a doubt the best soul ring configuration, if you ignore freaks of nature like Rayne, in his life as God of Contract.
Tang Hao looked at Rayne with a menacing look and said, "I was feeling hesitant to kill a junior like you before. But now I've made up my mind. A menace like you cannot be allowed to grow."
His killing intent was on full display.
"Heh, you're pretty decent actually. I'll give you that. Of all the Title Douluo I've met so far, you fall into the intermediate tier. Mind you, I've seen quite a lot." Rayne looked at Tang Hao with a smile, as he assessed him.
"But… were you holding back? Is it because of my appearance as a six-year-old? You seem to be on the impression that I'm at your mercy, but…"
As he was talking, his Kāma markings started to spread on the right side of his body.
First stage Kāma seal activation!
Increases all stats and technique power by about twenty times.
At the same time, silver white dragon scales appeared on his forearms and under his eyes.
Two gray silver pointed curved horns grew out from his head.
He used a partial Human-Dragon transformation, further enhancing his overall stats. At the same time, he made sure not to leak any of his bloodline aura.
"You're the actual weaker one here. If you don't step up to the next level, you'll die soon."
After his Kāma was activated, he went on to say, "In your current state, you're full of openings to me. Fighting me, while still holding back, in such an injured state is no better than begging to be killed."
"Where is the Clear Sky Absolutes? Disorderly Wind Cloak Technique? Great Sumeru Hammer? Ring Explosion Technique? Use them all while you still have the chance." Rayne spread his hands and said with a carefree smile.
"You talk a lot of nonsense! Die!"
Tang Hao moved at speeds incomparable to before, and smashed his Clear Sky Hammer at Rayne with thunderous force.
The shockwave and wind generated by the swing of the hammer destroyed the surroundings.
Rayne dodged it effortlessly, at the same time pointed his hand at Tang Hao.
"Dismantle."
An invisible slash cut at Tang Hao, catching him off guard. But it didn't cause him any great injury. Only a big flesh wound without much bleeding.
While stunned by the invisible slash, Tang Hao didn't stop and swung his hammer at Rayne with more force and speed.
After being injured, Tang Hao didn't dare to underestimate Rayne anymore, just because of his six-year-old appearance.
'Hmm… even with all my current enhancements, I still don't have enough power to kill a Super Douluo in one strike. My low soul power level is holding me back. But it's still easily manageable.' Rayne thought.
His current soul power level is 20. Even 9-turn level energy can't ignore the gap of more than eighty levels.
And he couldn't use up his soul power recklessly by blindly increasing the power of his techniques.
"Death God Domain!" Tang Hao shouted, and a bloody killing aura spread out from him and covered about 200 meters of radius with himself as the center.
Rayne felt the power of this domain, but it couldn't get past his infinity. So he didn't suffer any weakening effect of Tang Hao's Death God Domain.
"Clear Sky Absolutes!"
With a roar, Tang Hao started to use the six specialized methods of welding Clear Sky Hammer with great efficiency.
Clear Sky Absolutes are the six techniques passed on to every disciple of Clear Sky Clan. It is created to better control the great power and weight of Clear Sky Hammer.
Seeing Tang Hao use some substantial skill, Rayne had a grin on his face.
He held his hands forward and took a stance. Gray-silver aura surrounded his fists.
"Void Dragon Destruction Fist!"
Rayne met Tang Hao's attacks head-on.
Each of Tang Hao's hammer attacks were deflected, or outright erased by Rayne's fist.
Tang Hao felt the crisis of death from Rayne's gray-silver aura coated fist. He didn't dare to come into contact with it.
By this point, Tang Hao knew that he has bit off more than he could chew.
This six-year-old white haired boy was sending chills down his spine. This level of power that is impossible for a six-year-old to wield. It scared Tang Hao.
"This can't continue!"
Tang Hao's seventh soul ring lit up as he shouted.
"Clear Sky Hammer Spirit Avatar!"
Tang Hao's Clear sky hammer turned into a giant golden hammer. He smashed that hammer on Rayne with an earth shaking force. It was like a small mountain.
Seeing Tang Hao's powerful attack approaching, Rayne put both of his hand forward. The space bent and distorted around him. It became like a mirror in mid air.
"Void Dragon Destruction Fist - Reflect Mirror!"
Bang-
As Tang Hao's true avatar attack struck at the mirror-like space, the mirror-space had a ripple. It resembled the image of a calm surface of lake rippling when a small stone is thrown in it. Then, the impact force returned to Tang Hao with twice the speed and power.
"What?!"
Tang Hao's fifth soul ring lit up, and a black energy shield formed around him. But it couldn't withstand the impact for even a second, and struck Tang Hao hard.
Tang Hao fell to the ground with a huge impact, as he held his right hand, grimacing in pain.
"Damn it…" A line of blood was on the corner of Tang Hao's lips.
"This can't be happening! Me losing to a six year old brat?!"
If not for the pain he is feeling right now, Tang Hao would've even thought that he is in a nightmare.
Never in his fifty plus years of life did he think, he would be beaten to this point by a six-year-old boy.
From an outsider's perspective, this situation might even look comical.
He finally had it enough, and used one of his stronger skills.
Tang Hao's hundred thousand year red spirit ring abruptly flared, that black giant hammer suddenly turning all red in an instant.
"Ninth Soul Skill – Gigantic Hammer!"
The power of this soul skill of a hundred thousand year soul ring! It's power was on a whole another level compared to the Spirit Avatar seventh soul skill.
This red hammer smashed at Rayne with heaven shaking momentum. The shockwaves generated by this swing destroyed a great portion of his isolated grassland. The land was still trembling from the after shock.
But…
Tang Hao was shocked and baffled at what he's seeing right now.
When his Clear Sky Hammer reached just a few centimeters away from Rayne, it completely stopped.
All the impact and force applied on the Clear Sky Hammer vanished, unable to move forward.
Seeing this incomprehensible phenomenon, Tang Hao completely abandoned the thought that he is fighting a six-year-old boy.
He understood that, what he is facing now is a monster beyond human understanding.
His survival instincts were screaming the word 'danger'!
Right now, despite his pride, Tang Hao wanted to run away.
Tang Hao jumped back and started to swing his hammer at Rayne in a way, that accumulated strength and momentum with each swing.
But no matter how he attacked, Tang Hao's attack simply couldn't reach Rayne. The attacks stopped just a couple dozen centimeters away from Rayne.
Because of the uniqueness of Infinity, Tang Hao wasn't able to properly accumulate strength and momentum.
Tang Hao felt a great sense of powerlessness at this time. His attacks are all ineffective. And he couldn't even attempt an obvious escape, as he would definitely be intercepted by Rayne's space skills.
Rayne looked at Tang Hao with an interested look.
"Disorderly Wind Cloak Hammer Technique? While it is an excellent technique for blacksmithing, it's weakness in battle is quite evident." Rayne murmured.
"What do you know?!" Tang Hao roared and his first five soul rings trembled.
"Exploding ring!"
Tang Hao's first five soul rings exploded one after another. His power increased significantly.
He swung his hammer at Rayne a few dozen times, then jumped up and shouted.
"Great Sumeru Hammer!"
This was the strongest attack Tang Hao has used in this fight. But the intent is not to damage Rayne, but create a big enough distraction to escape.
Tang Hao came to the conclusion that, he couldn't break through Rayne's unknown method of defense, even with a full nine ring exploding Great Sumeru Hammer.
Rayne flew to Tang Hao with incredible speed, and avoided the Great Sumeru Hammer quite easily.
"No matter how powerful an attack is, there is no point if it doesn't hit." Rayne said with a mocking grin.
With a quick movement, Rayne instantly appeared in front of Tang Hao.
He pointed his right index finger at Tang Hao. A ball of red light was condensed above Rayne's finger instantly.
"Limitless Reversal – Red!"
Rayne fired the cursed technique reversal – red, to generate a very powerful repulsive force, in close range of Tang Hao.
Boom-
The powerful repulsive force sent the unsuspecting Tang Hao flying, tumbling down the place. The grassland suffered great destruction due to the effects of red.
Rayne, then, quickly disappeared from the spot.
"What?!"
Tang Hao, who got back his balance after being flung too far, stood up already. He was shocked and immediately turned to look for Rayne.
But the moment he turned his head, a small fist covered his vision. Tang Hao instantly recognised this fist.
Bang-
Before he could react, the small fist belonging to Rayne, punched Tang Hao's face with powerful and focused force.
"Black Flash!"
Black lightning like sparks erupted at the point of impact between Rayne's fist and Tang Hao's face.
The power of the punch increased greatly.
The tremendous force distorted Tang Hao's face and send him flying with shockwaves generated.
Bang-
Rayne caught up to Tang Hao mid air, and punched at his ribs with another Black Flash. Rayne punched him to the ground with earth shaking force.
Tang Hao spat out a lot of blood as he crashed to the ground, creating a massive crater spanning up to 20 meters in radius.
"Cough… cough…"
In the crater, Tang Hao spat out a few of his teeth along with a lot of blood.
He was already suffering from various internal injuries from his fight with Qian Xunji back then. But now, the two absurdly powerful attacks from Rayne had aggravated his injuries. On top of that, he still has to face the backlash of using exploding rings.
At this moment, sound of footsteps made Tang Hao turn his head in fear.
Rayne slowly walked up to Tang Hao while muttering.
"At my current level, it's quite hard to use the enhanced red. But Black Flash is reliable as always. I don't need to worry about soul power consumption."
Rayne saw the look of terror on Tang Hao's face, and a small grin appeared on his face.
"That's a very nice and appropriate expression you have there. Weak should fear the strong."
Tang Hao had a look of anger and humiliation.
Since when had he, Clear Sky Douluo, ever been called weak by someone.
Rayne looked at the seriously injured Tang Hao and sighed.
"To be honest, at first, I intended to open a space rift and send you directly to the Angel worship Hall, right in front of the Angel God statue. Qian Daoliu is always there, and if you suddenly appear there and blaspheme the Angel God Statue, that old guy will genuinely try to kill you regardless of his promise to Tang Chen."
Ignoring the mention of Tang Chen, Tang Hao looked pale as he heard what Rayne had just said.
"But... What if a trash from high above decides to save you? Since you targeted me and my mother, I want you dead. I will not take chances with you. And just so you know, there is no one who can save you from me."