Titan, pierced through the body by the lightning swiftness, felt his consciousness suddenly dim.
The next moment, before his consciousness could completely dissipate, his massive body, in its Martial Soul True Body state, vanished into dust with an explosion.
On another part of the battlefield.
Tang Xiao, who was resisting the old butler with all his might, was distracted for a moment by the explosion and couldn't help but turn his head to look.
"Useless. To think a mere Soul Douluo would be defeated by a brat who still has milk on his upper lip."
But Titan's death also gave Tang Xiao the urge to retreat.
"Damn it, I didn't expect this old fellow's spirit skills to be so troublesome, especially those nine stars. They can attack and defend, leaving me no opening."
"Titan is dead, I shouldn't stay here any longer. I'll retreat for now. Next time, I'll bring my second brother, and we'll take action together. I don't believe we can't kill him."
Tang Xiao thought this to himself, but he didn't know that his good brother was currently severely injured and could not exert much of his strength.
Clear Sky Nine Absolute Skills, Collapse Skill!
The Clear Sky Hammer swung in Tang Xiao's hand towards the old man in front of him. However, the trajectory of the Clear Sky Hammer changed midway, breaking free from Tang Xiao's grasp and smashing directly towards Lin Rong's location.
The old butler, seeing this, naturally moved to block the Clear Sky Hammer heading for the young master.
Attack where the enemy must save!
Tang Xiao was certain that the old man in front of him would do this, which was why he made the move he did.
Therefore, while the old butler was blocking the Clear Sky Hammer aimed at Lin Rong, he immediately turned and fled the scene, using his Soul Power to retrieve the Clear Sky Hammer remotely.
Lin Rong watched Tang Xiao's actions. Although he knew it was the correct decision, he couldn't help but feel contempt:
"The dignified Sect Master of the Clear Sky Sect, instead of fighting to the death, he surrendered so quickly."
"Hmph, no wonder when faced with the coercion of Spirit Hall back then, the Clear Sky Sect didn't choose to resist, but instead migrated their sect and sealed their mountain gates immediately. It turns out they are all cowards who follow the same lineage."
"I really don't know how Tang Chen could have descendants like you!"
A silver-white light flashed, and Lin Rong appeared beside the old butler, speaking quickly in a low voice:
"Grandpa Yu, leave him here, but remember, if Tang Xiao uses Exploding Ring to fight desperately, remember to dodge in time and don't confront him head-on."
"This old servant understands."
As soon as the old butler finished answering, he disappeared from his original spot, replaced by a leaf.
A hundred meters ahead of Tang Xiao's escape route, a spatial fluctuation occurred, and the old butler appeared there.
"Space Spirit Skill!"
Tang Xiao's mood plummeted to the bottom when he saw the old man suddenly appear in front of him.
"Why didn't I see him use it just now? No, it wasn't him, it was that brat's spirit skill!"
In the previous exchange, the old man in front of him had only not lit up his ninth spirit ring; he had used all the other eight.
But among those spirit skills, there was no spatial transfer skill.
Moreover, the ninth spirit ring on the old man did not light up during the spatial transfer just now, indicating that this spatial transfer skill did not originate from the old man.
"If I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have canceled my Clear Sky True Body. Now my seventh spirit skill is in cooldown and can only be used again after seven days."
Tang Xiao was worried, hesitating whether to use Exploding Ring.
"In this situation, with the opponent having a Space Spirit Skill, if I don't heavily injure them with Exploding Ring, I won't be able to escape at all."
"However, I only have one inherited Spirit Bone from the sect, and it's the only one I have. My cultivation of Exploding Ring is not high either."
"If I rashly use Exploding Ring, the probability of suffering backlash is extremely high. With only one Spirit Bone, if my body endures the backlash, at best I'll be severely injured and on the verge of death, and at worst, I'll explode on the spot."
During his hesitation, the old butler controlled the nine stars to form a cage, trapping Tang Xiao within.
At the same time, the ninth spirit ring on the old butler, which had been dim for a long time, finally lit up.
In the starry sky formed by the Star Body, countless stars twinkled, outlining a phoenix in the sky.
The phoenix was entirely the color of blue stars, with nine feathers at its tail, shining brightly in the starry sky.
This Nine-Feathered Star Phoenix was one of the two great spirit skills from the Ten Thousand Year Nine-Rank Ginseng King's Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring: Starfall: Heavenly Phoenix Azure Origin Break!
This spirit skill was a single-target output skill with extremely high power and a lock-on effect, meaning it was guaranteed to hit once used.
However, the Soul Power consumption of Starfall: Heavenly Phoenix Azure Origin Break was extremely high, requiring nearly 20% of Soul Power for a single strike.
Even with the Star Body, which halved the Soul Power consumption of spirit skills, it still required nearly 10% of Soul Power to use it once.
Considering that the old butler, Yu Yuan, was currently at level ninety-six Soul Power, one could imagine how astonishing the consumption of this spirit skill was.
It was precisely for this reason that the old butler had not used his ninth spirit skill throughout the previous battle.
Because he still had to reserve Soul Power in case any accidents happened on the young master's side, so he would have enough Soul Power to save the young master.
Now that Titan had turned to dust.
The old butler no longer had any concerns and intended to use this extremely powerful ninth spirit skill, putting all his effort into one decisive blow to resolve Tang Xiao, who was without his Martial Soul True Body.
The appearance of the Nine-Feathered Star Phoenix filled Tang Xiao with a sense of fatal crisis.
A single-target output skill from a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, released under the Martial Soul True Body, directly doubled its power.
"Damn it, I can't worry about that anymore."
Tang Xiao had no time to think further, and instantly decided to unleash the Exploding Ring.
Holding the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand, the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth spirit rings on his body shattered simultaneously.
Immediately, the power contained within the spirit rings surged into Tang Xiao's body.
"Pfft!"
A mouthful of blood sprayed from Tang Xiao's mouth. He endured the pain within his body and channeled all this power into the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand, unleashing its divine skill, the Great Sumeru Hammer.
With a gentle swing of the Clear Sky Hammer, the cage formed by nine stars instantly shattered and collided with the Nine-Feathered Star Phoenix.
Instantly, countless residual forces spread out, and wherever they passed, towering trees turned to dust and vanished in the fierce wind.
And one second before these two forces collided.
Lin Rong used Spatial Swap to teleport himself and the old butler to a sufficiently safe location.
"As expected of the number one divine skill in the world today, this Exploding Ring's power is truly as renowned as they say."
"The moment the Exploding Ring was released, it actually broke through the twenty percent all-attribute suppression of the Vine Dragon Domain on myself."
"But it seems like this Tang Xiao fellow is also using the Exploding Ring for the first time. He's gone too far in this desperate struggle."
As Lin Rong perceived it, Tang Xiao's life force was like a candle in the wind, about to extinguish at any moment.
After a long while, the dust and smoke dissipated.
A massive crater far exceeding the one Lin Rong created when fighting Titan appeared on the ground.
In the crater lay a figure that was no longer human. From its appearance, it was impossible to tell who it was.
One had to admit that the vitality of a Titled Douluo was indeed extremely tenacious; even in this state, Tang Xiao was still clinging to life.
At the same time, even though Tang Xiao had become like this, Lin Rong did not rashly descend, fearing that Tang Xiao might still possess the ability for a final strike.
Azure lightning gathered in Lin Rong's hand. Just as he was about to send Tang Xiao on his way, he sensed Tang Xiao's life force extinguish.
This meant that the dignified Sect Master of the Clear Sky Sect, a Titled Douluo of level ninety-six, had fallen just like that due to the backlash of the Exploding Ring.
Lin Rong looked down at the scene below, feeling quite speechless. He thought:
"Simultaneously detonating six spirit rings, do you think you're Tang San from the original story? With six top-tier spirit bones, including the Eight Spider Lances, you can use the Exploding Ring without any fear."
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