Within theTian Dou Empire, a towering mountain peak.
This was the Hao Tian Sect's old nest!
Although the Hao Tian Sect had closed its doors, that didn't mean the Douluo Continent no longer knew their whereabouts.
In fact!
The entire Douluo Continent knew the Hao Tian Sect was on this mountain—they had just turtle-shelled themselves up using the treacherous terrain.
At this moment...
Ten kilometers away from the mountain peak, the Breaking Clan, Speed Clan, and Defense Clan were already in battle formation.
They were only waiting for the late night hours to launch their final assault on the Hao Tian Sect.
Against the Hao Tian Sect, this kind of bridge-burning scum, they didn't need to talk about any jianghu (martial) morality.
Surprise attack was the most suitable method to deal with them, and could also reduce casualties on their own side.
"Grandfather!"
"This Hao Tian Sect is something else."
"Turtle-shelled on such a strategically advantageous mountain."
This was Yang Fan's first time coming to the Hao Tian Sect; his assessment was that it was easy to defend but hard to attack.
Without at least three times the Hao Tian Sect's strength, wanting to attack up would really not be an easy matter.
"Hmph—"
"That's now!"
"Before, this mountain was just where the sect master and elders held meetings. Where we're standing now was the Hao Tian Sect's inner gate, and where our army is standing ten kilometers away was the Hao Tian Sect's outer gate."
Yang Wudi spoke of these things again without any nostalgia—only endless resentment.
When the Breaking Clan was swept out by the Hao Tian Sect, he swore that if he ever returned here, there would only be one possibility.
Settling accounts!
"No wonder."
Yang Fan hadn't seen the Hao Tian Sect's former glory, but from his grandfather Yang Wudi's description today, it wasn't hard to hear what the former number one sect on the Douluo Continent had looked like.
"Grandfather."
"If we just fight like this, it definitely won't work."
The terrain was too unfriendly to them.
Although the Breaking Clan had developed well in recent years, the improvement in clan members' strength wasn't as obvious as imagined.
Overall, their reputation exceeded their strength!
In this situation, foolishly charging upward—even with the element of surprise—they might not necessarily gain the advantage.
"You're thinking...?"
The grandfather and grandson looked at each other and chuckled.
What were Titled Douluos for?
They were for standing up at desperate moments to turn the tide.
"Good!"
"I'll go inform Old Rhino and the others. Let's grandfather and grandson first take a big dump on the Hao Tian Sect's head."
Deep night arrived!
Three in the morning was often when people slept most soundly. Even soul masters who frequently cultivated day and night were in their worst state at this time.
It was at this moment that the three clans began to move.
"Listen up!"
"None of you make a sound for me. After going up the mountain, even if you have to fart, hold it in your pants."
Niu Gao, as the vanguard commander of this operation, was currently holding command authority over the three clans.
"Move out!"
At this time, Yang Fan and Yang Wudi had already silently killed their way to the mountainside.
All visible and hidden sentries were silently eliminated by the grandfather-grandson duo.
"Going further ahead is the steel cable suspension bridge. We can get across fine, but the army behind us—as soon as they get on the bridge, they'll definitely make noise and be discovered."
The surprise attack seemed to have come to an abrupt halt!
He had already thought of this point before the operation.
For them, bloodlessly charging to the mountainside seemed to already be the best result.
"What's going on?"
"Already at the steel cable suspension bridge?"
The three patriarchs had all come to this mountain peak for meetings when they were at the Hao Tian Sect.
They were very familiar with this mountain peak's terrain and geography.
"How about our Speed Clan goes first, then buys time for you?"
The steel cable suspension bridge wasn't just about treacherous terrain—more importantly, this section was the Hao Tian Sect's alarm.
As long as any soul master stood on it, the sound of the specially made steel cables colliding could spread to every corner of the Hao Tian Sect in the silent night.
There were only two possibilities for silently crossing the steel cable suspension bridge.
Either you were a flying-type soul master, or you were a powerful Titled Douluo.
"Forget it! You Speed Clan people—how long could you last in the Hao Tian Sect's hands?"
The Speed Clan could indeed fly, but their strength wasn't up to par!
Even someone like Bai He, an eight-ring Spirit Douluo, couldn't even handle a single Soul Saint from the Hao Tian Sect.
"Then what do you say we should do?"
"Charge through directly!"
They had waited over ten years for this day—could they really be stumped by a steel cable suspension bridge?
"I have a way!"
At this moment, Yang Fan stepped out from the crowd.
"Little Fan."
"You aren't planning to carry all of us across one by one, are you?"
Although they didn't have many people this time, the three clans added up to several hundred people.
If he carried them across one by one, he'd probably be done with this work by dawn.
"Of course not."
Yang Fan smiled as he stood before the steel cable suspension bridge. The next second, he directly tore open a black hole in the air before him.
Everyone was shocked!
Seeing this situation, they all retreated backward...
"Little Fan... this is?"
Not a single person present could name this black hole, and they were all extremely surprised.
"This is spatial power!"
Yang Fan said with a smile.
"Spatial power?"
"Old Mountain Goat, what is that thing?"
"You ask me?"
"Then who do I ask?"
"You don't even know about spatial power—is this Super Douluo fake?"
"As long as my grandson Yang Fan is real, that's what matters!"
"..."
The appearance of the spatial gate instantly gave everyone a lesson.
Everyone present had not only never seen this, but had never even heard of it in their lives.
"This is a spatial gate; it can send all of you to the other side of the steel cable suspension bridge."
Yang Fan previously had no understanding of spatial power, but since mastering it, he discovered there were really many things he could do.
It let him know this was the ability true experts should wield!
"This black hole can send all of us to the other side."
Obvious surprise and doubt appeared on everyone's faces.
Really?
They had never heard of anyone on the Douluo Continent having this kind of ability.
"Could we not get out after going in?"
"Can it really send us to the other side?"
"How does this send us across?"
"..."
Everyone was panicking.
In comparison, they felt it would be safer to just be thrown across.
"All of you stop farting around here!"
"What time do you think it is—do you think we're buying vegetables?"
Niu Gao quietly rebuked the clansmen muttering beside him, and was the first to stand before the spatial gate, asking Yang Fan to send him to the other side.
"Go!"
Yang Fan pushed Niu Gao into the spatial gate.
At this moment…
Another spatial gate quietly appeared on the other side of the steel cable suspension bridge, and Niu Gao staggered out from inside.
"Over... over?"
"Good heavens!"
"This kid Yang Fan actually has such a marvelous ability."
Niu Gao was also afraid!
But as the first vanguard of this operation, he had to be the first to stand up and boost morale.
"He got across!"
"He really got across."
With Niu Gao's successful precedent, the others not only were no longer afraid, but even showed eager expressions.
In less than five minutes, all clansmen of the three clans had silently and smoothly reached the other side.
"This kid Yang Fan really has his ways."
"This is the first time I've seen this kind of spatial ability on the Douluo Continent."
"Yeah!"
"That old fellow Tang Chen was also a Level 99 Limit Douluo, but he didn't have this ability."
"Alright, stop talking!"
"Don't forget what we came here to do."
Everyone put away their earlier relaxed expressions, all crouching on the ground in battle formation.
"Grandfather and I will go in first and raise hell for three minutes. You wait here for my signal."
According to the plan!
He and his grandfather Yang Wudi would use their Titled Douluo strength to go in first and cause chaos. When they had raised enough hell, then Niu Gao would lead people in to deliver the coup de grâce.
"Good!"
"I'll wait here for your good news."
With that!
Yang Fan and Yang Wudi flew toward the Hao Tian Sect's interior using their Titled Douluo strength.
One Super Douluo, one Limit Douluo...
Inside the Hao Tian Sect, they were simply like roaming dragons!
In less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, they had already torn through the Hao Tian Sect's tight defenses.
"Who?"
A deep and resonant voice suddenly appeared in the sky above the Hao Tian Sect.
The voice exploded like thunder in the silent night!
Ever since the incident of Tang San stealing secret techniques, the Hao Tian Sect's clansmen had already become extremely vigilant. One roar directly woke everyone up.
"Little Fan."
"It's Grandfather's fault!"
"Directly discovered by this dog Tang Xiao."
Yang Wudi was extremely ashamed.
If not for his small mistake, the Hao Tian Sect would probably have already fallen in large numbers by now.
"Grandfather."
"What are you talking about?"
"No matter what we do, we couldn't silently kill everyone. This result is already quite good for us."
At this moment!
Yang Fan sent up a signal arrow into the sky above the Hao Tian Sect.
In an instant...
A gorgeous, colorful firework appeared in the sky.
"Yang Wudi?!"
The five elders of the Hao Tian Sect arrived at full speed, and recognized that eighteen-foot-long spear at a glance.
"Yang Wudi!"
"After your Breaking Clan's rapid rise in recent years, don't you know your own weight, actually daring to provoke our Hao Tian Sect?"
Although the Hao Tian Sect had closed its doors, they had actually been paying attention to the Douluo Continent's situation developments, with the hope of one day standing on the Douluo Continent again.
But because of their closed-door policy, they didn't have thorough understanding of many things happening on the Douluo Continent.
"Dare?"
"What don't I dare?"
"When your Hao Tian Sect swept us out back then, you should have thought that one day I would come back to kill you."
Yang Wudi suspended himself in midair.
This scene of towering above the entire Hao Tian Sect—he had thought of it more than once.
Today... it had finally come true!
"Sect... Sect Master."
"Our Hao Tian Sect's visible and hidden sentries are all... all dead."
Like a bolt from the blue!
The faces of Sect Master Tang Xiao and the five elders instantly became so gloomy they seemed about to drip water.
The Hao Tian Sect's various visible and hidden sentries added up to at least seventy or eighty people, and they had been silently killed just like that.
"Third Elder."
"Quickly take people to check the mountain pass."
Tang Xiao immediately issued orders.
If their guess was correct, the Breaking Clan's people were already about to attack up now.
"Yang Wudi, you bastard."
"Our Hao Tian Sect treated you not badly back then, yet you actually use this kind of dirty trick on us."
The seventh elder, who had just been coldly mocking Yang Wudi, instantly changed his face upon hearing that seventy or eighty clansmen had died.
"Hahaha—"
Yang Wudi laughed wildly toward the sky.
His unrestrained emotions nearly squeezed tears out of his eyes.
"Treated me not badly?"
"Treated me not badly means coveting my Breaking Clan's alchemy techniques, and sweeping our four attribute sects out the door at the most dangerous time?"
He, Yang Wudi, had seen shameless people, but had never seen such shameless ones.
"If not for our Hao Tian Sect, your Breaking Clan back then wouldn't even have been a third-rate sect."
"I'll also tell you—the Breaking Clan's decades of alchemy have long since paid off any debts to you."
"Now it should be time for us to settle the total account!"
When words fail, half a sentence is too much!
There was no room for reconciliation left in this matter.
Both sides knew that a life-and-death battle was inevitable next.
"This old man will teach you how to be a proper person."
The Hao Tian Sect's second elder's soul power surged, holding the Hao Tian Hammer as he directly sought out Yang Wudi.
Yang Wudi laughed coldly!
This was exactly what he wanted to see.
Yang Wudi's nine rings appeared!
This moment instantly surprised Tang Xiao and the other four elders.
The Hao Tian Sect had indeed been paying attention to the Douluo Continent's situation developments and changes, but there were also many things they didn't know about.
"Nine rings!"
No one had expected that Yang Wudi, who hadn't even been a Spirit Douluo when he left the Hao Tian Sect, had now become a Titled Douluo.
It wasn't that their intelligence work was inadequate!
It was that they simply hadn't treated the four attribute sects as human beings.
"Second Elder."
"I'm still waiting for you to teach me how to be a proper person."
The Hao Tian Sect's second elder was only Level 94, while Yang Wudi at this moment was already a Level 96 super powerhouse.
The first collision between the two already showed who was superior.
"The Douluo Continent's number one tool martial soul?"
"Nothing special!"
Yang Wudi wasn't boasting.
If the Breaking Clan became the Douluo Continent's number one sect in a few years of development, they could also shamelessly say the Breaking Soul Spear could become the number one tool spirit.
"I'll go help the Second Elder."
The Hao Tian Sect's fifth elder charged out from the other side.
Battle of life and death!
Who the hell still talks to you about martial ethics and righteousness?
History is written by the victors.
"I'll capture this little bastard first."
The seventh elder very clearly understood the current situation.
Pick the soft persimmons first!
If they controlled Yang Fan first, then this old fellow Yang Wudi would definitely be distracted during battle and unable to unleash his full strength.
"Be careful!"
"This kid isn't as simple as you think."
In the Hao Tian Sect's intelligence collected about the Douluo Continent in recent years, one name appeared more than once.
Yang Fan!
The last news they received about Yang Fan was that this kid had already advanced to Soul Douluo and possessed strength rivaling Titled Douluo.
"It doesn't matter!"
The seventh elder was the weakest among the Hao Tian Sect's powerhouses, but also the most blindly confident one.
A little kid…
Even if he had advanced to Titled Douluo, what big waves could he make?
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