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"Cough!"
Amid the smoke and rubble of the shattered mountain peak, Yu Hongchen coughed and slowly crawled out from the pile of debris. Her clothes were mostly torn, but none of her fair skin was exposed.
In her martial soul-possessed state, her skin was covered in yellow-green bumps—dense, creepy, and unsettling to behold.
It was clear that Yu Hongchen's situation was much like that of the former Bibi Dong—she rarely let her martial soul fully possess her because, frankly—
It was too ugly.
No woman would want to look like a demon or a ghoul after their martial soul possessed them.
"The force of that attack has already surpassed anything from the mortal realm!" Yu Hongchen panted heavily, her heart trembling with shock as she looked up at Tang San, who stood in the air, wielding a massive black hammer. A cold sweat broke out on her forehead. "That last strike shook my entire skeleton and displaced my internal organs. If it weren't for the fact that all my soul bones are over fifty thousand years old, I'd be severely injured—maybe even dead."
"But even so, I can't hold on much longer. The destructive energy contained in that hammer is still rampaging inside me, damaging my flesh, soul power, and even my spiritual power."
"He has two martial souls—one resembling Blue Silver Grass and the other a hammer, which must be the Haotian Hammer. He primarily uses the Blue Silver Grass, and the Haotian Hammer doesn't have any spirit rings attached. Four black and three red... Could he be one of those spirit masters who has undergone a divine examination, as His Majesty mentioned?"
Now, Yu Hongchen was convinced that Tang San's extraordinary power came from a divine examination, and the energy corroding her body was the power of a god.
That would explain why she couldn't withstand even one of his attacks.
Even though she had reached level ninety-nine, how could she possibly resist the power of a god?
Only a god can fight a god!
The only person capable of dealing with this monster was the Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire...
Tang San walked through the air, stepping lightly as he approached Yu Hongchen. He slowly raised the Haotian Hammer and coldly asked, "Any last words?"
No matter what, Yu Hongchen had reached level ninety-nine, the pinnacle that a soul master could achieve. Beyond that was the realm of gods.
Allowing her to speak her final words was a necessary courtesy.
"Heh."
Yu Hongchen sneered twice, just about to mock him and stall for time... After all, she was a peerless expert; her opponent wouldn't kill her immediately. At worst, she would be captured. So she thought...
However, Tang San didn't play by the rules. He swung the hammer down on her head, causing blood to spurt from her seven orifices as she fell straight backward.
She had wanted to delay, but Tang San's question had been just as much a ploy to lower her guard.
With her body ravaged by destructive energy, her blood and soul power in turmoil, and her spirit unstable, how could she possibly withstand Tang San's sudden strike?
"As a soul master, one should be shown respect. But you, a hero to your people, are an enemy to mine. What does it matter if you've reached the pinnacle? You're no more noble than the countless civilians your Sun Moon Army has slaughtered." Tang San retracted the Haotian Hammer and looked down at Yu Hongchen, whose skull had caved in and whose life was quickly fading. With a wave of his hand, he stored her still-warm corpse in the Silver Rope Treasure Bag and headed toward Haixiao City.
There had been quite a commotion over there...
...
"How's it going? Is Xu Fu dealt with?" Tang San asked Xiao Wu when he arrived outside Haixiao City.
"It's done, but there was a bit of a problem..." Xiao Wu replied with a proud smile before explaining how Xu Fu had ended up with eyes on his chest and a mouth at his navel. "San Ge, what do you think? I believe it's a drawback of physical energy transformation. At least for most soul masters, unless they've reached level one hundred, transforming their flesh into energy isn't a good idea. Whether it's a soul skill or a soul bone technique, any mistake during the energy transformation could have serious consequences."
Tang San had similar thoughts on the matter.
However, both soul ring and soul bone skills are generally stable and don't usually lead to situations like Xu Fu's. It's likely that after using his ninth soul skill, Xu Fu decided to take a desperate gamble, burning everything he had. His soul became completely fused with his energy-based body.
Under the stimulation of Guang Ling's arrow, which contained the fusion of eight elements, Xu Fu's soul skill failed. His energy-based body instinctively began to revert to its flesh form. However, due to the loss of his energy head, part of his memory was lost. When he returned to human form, the missing part of his brain relocated to his intestines, where it fused with the folds of his digestive organs.
Speaking of which, could this be Xingtian? And does this mean his head has literally turned to crap?
These thoughts made Tang San curious about the headless Xu Fu's condition. He planned to dissect this "Xingtian" with Xiao Wu after the current events were settled to understand how such a creature could still function.
"Energy transformation does indeed require caution," Tang San replied, "but now is not the time to study this. Where is Marshal Ge Long?"
"They're in the city, capturing prisoners and looting the Sun Moon Empire's troops," Xiao Wu answered, also looking toward Haixiao City. "I've already sent Yu Feng and the others to call them back."
"My spiritual sense detects a massive ship over 500 meters long approaching from the ocean. It should arrive in about four days," Tang San informed Xiao Wu and the others. "Yu Hongchen and the Titled Douluo she brought were likely sent ahead to clear the way for a very important figure."
"An important figure?" Xiao Wu's spiritual sense was strong, but she could only barely perceive the ship's presence, unable to discern who was on it.
"It's likely the so-called Sun Moon Emperor," Tang San said, his expression slightly tense. "In terms of soul power, he's probably only at the Soul Douluo level, but he possesses some kind of treasure that even my primordial spirit can't fully probe. It might be an artifact beyond ordinary divine tools, significantly boosting his power."
The Eternal and Creation God Seat, the throne of the Creator God, could unleash unimaginable power. Tang San wasn't sure of its full potential, but he knew it could easily obliterate weaker gods or third-level deities.
That Sun Moon Emperor is a formidable enemy!
"An ultra-divine artifact!" Gu Yuena, now realizing the gravity of the situation, had the term flash through her mind, her eyes gleaming with intense interest. "Could we possibly seize it?"
"There's a chance."
Electrolux had once confirmed that the Eternal and Creation God Seat had only one true owner—the Creator God. Everyone else merely had the right to use it, not control it.
Because of this, Tang San had some ideas about that throne.
However, Austin Griffin utterly despised the throne's aura and even wanted to destroy the Eternal and Creation God Seat. After all, it was because of its existence that he was condemned to endless cycles of rebirth...
(End of chapter)