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After Yu Yuanzhen stormed off, filled with humiliation and anger, Yu Luomian, who had just been pulled from the ground, had no choice but to bite the bullet and take the fall.
But he couldn't even pretend anymore.
The dignified second-in-command had been utterly humiliated by a junior, the sect's sacred artifact had been stolen, and the mountain gate had nearly been razed to the ground.
Yu Luomian's old face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he coldly issued an order to leave:
"Sect Master Ning, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan has encountered a sudden crisis today and is currently overwhelmed with affairs. We cannot keep you any longer! Please return!"
Ning Fengzhi and the others exchanged glances, all of them knowing full well that today's "disruption" had indeed gone too far.
Not only have we trampled on their dignity, but we've also taken away the fortune they've guarded for thousands of years.
If we continue to stay without giving them face and push these old dragons, who value honor more than life itself, to their wits' end, then we've really gone too far.
"Second Master Yu, please wait.
I have troubled you greatly today.
I will come to apologize another day. Farewell."
Ning Fengzhi knew when to stop.
After exchanging a few simple pleasantries, he immediately had Gu Rong use his spatial powers to take Xuan Hao and the younger generation into the air and fly quickly towards the gate of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
However, just as the group flew to the mountainside, they ran into Liu Erlong, who was rushing towards the main peak.
At this moment, Liu Erlong's face was pale, his chest was heaving violently, and his forehead was covered in cold sweat.
He looked extremely weak.
It turned out that she had been so ashamed and indignant by Xuan Hao's outrageous and shameless words in the cubicle that she had run away and disappeared without a trace, and had not participated in the farce in the hall at all.
As a result, Xuan Hao later caused such a commotion in the back mountain, with the successive eruptions of the Dragon God's might and the Golden Dragon's roar, which directly caused a terrifying suppression of the superior bloodline of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.
This suppression was a direct attack on the soul, ignoring distance and physical defense.
Liu Erlong felt her body go limp, her soul power almost instantly freezing, making it difficult even to activate her martial soul. She could only collapse helplessly on the spot.
In fact, the reason why Yu Yuanzhen arrived late, after Xuan Hao had completely absorbed the martial soul, was also because of this.
The moment Xuan Hao released the Dragon God's might, even Yu Yuanzhen, who was at level ninety-five, was so shocked by the unparalleled might originating from the ancient times that his martial spirit trembled and he was unable to move.
Only after Xuan Hao absorbed the dragon soul and the oppressive aura dissipated did he finally regain his strength and rush over in a fit of rage.
Yu Yuanzhen, being a Title Douluo, recovered quickly.
But Liu Erlong didn't have that ability; it wasn't until now that she had finally managed to recover.
She had clearly seen the terrifying commotion that had nearly destroyed the entire Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan, even though she wasn't there in person.
Upon encountering Xuan Hao and his group, she immediately stepped forward, her face filled with shock, and asked what had happened.
Xuan Hao waved his hand casually and gave her a brief explanation of how he "accidentally" obtained a seventh soul ring and then "accidentally" sparred with Yu Yuanzhen.
After hearing this perfunctory explanation, the group prepared to continue their journey.
However, Dugu Bo, who was following behind, seemed to suddenly recall something terrifying.
He stared intently at Xuan Hao and couldn't help but ask:
"Kid, I was just thinking... with your strange spatial teleportation ability, when you were falling from the sky, that old codger Yu Yuanzhen rushed towards you to try and block you, you actually... had the ability to teleport away directly, right?"
Upon hearing this, the air in mid-air instantly fell silent.
Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and even Liu Erlong all had their expressions suddenly change, and a chilling sensation instantly ran down their spines and straight to the top of their heads!
Faced with the horrified stares of the crowd, Xuan Hao did not deny it, but smiled frankly:
"Old Poison Master has good taste."
"If my goal today is truly to wipe the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan off the map... then how will Yu Yuanzhen stop me?"
Xuan Hao shrugged without any attempt to hide his feelings.
"All I had to do was teleport away from him the moment I was about to hit him. He missed and didn't have time to turn around and chase me. He could only watch helplessly as I crashed to the ground."
Xuan Hao stroked his chin.
"The kinetic energy of a hundred-meter-tall beast falling from tens of thousands of meters in the air, plus the explosive detonation of my compressed blood energy bomb on the ground... In the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, there should be... very few disciples below the Soul Saint level who could survive."
After all, the terrifying high pressure from the explosion of that blood energy, combined with the destructive shockwave from the meteorite's fall, far exceeded the upper limit of most ten-thousand-year soul skills' frontal attacks.
That was a completely indiscriminate area-wide clearing operation!
Hearing this seemingly casual yet incredibly bloody analysis, Gu Rong gasped, his lips twitching wildly:
"Does that mean... if anyone provokes you in the future, you can just drive this hundred-meter Martial Soul True Body to an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, accelerate, and then crash into their sect's lair?!"
"Who the hell can defend against that?!"
"Senior Bone, what you're saying is..."
Xuan Hao blinked innocently and asked sincerely, "Do I look like the kind of person who would open his Martial Soul True Body and smash people's houses without a second thought, like a heartless madman?"
"..."
A deathly silence hung in the air.
Don't you even know what kind of person you are?!
Seeing the way everyone was looking at him as if he were some dangerous terrorist, Xuan Hao innocently waved his hand, diverting the trouble to the side.
"Hey everyone, don't look at me like that. It makes me sound like some kind of world-destroying demon king."
Xuan Hao pointed to Dugu Bo, who was watching the show with his arms crossed, and seriously shifted the blame:
"My 'Meteor Slam' looks intimidating, but when it comes to large-scale damage and clearing efficiency, it is far inferior to the old poison master's 'screen-wide poison gas bomb' that has no bottom line."
"Think about it," Xuan Hao analyzed seriously, "If that old poison master sneaks into the lair of some sect, activates his Martial Soul True Body, and unleashes his innate Azure Phosphorus Serpent Venom as a powerful move… In that situation,
let alone Soul Saints, how many Soul Douluo-level experts could survive being caught off guard?"
Upon hearing this sudden "praise," Dugu Bo's eye twitched, and he glared at Xuan Hao with annoyance.
"You little bastard, stop trying to flatter me and distract me!"
Dugu Bo snorted coldly, wearily exposing his trick of changing the subject:
"It is true that my Jade Phosphorus Serpent Venom is powerful, but it takes time for the venom to spread and take effect in the air!
If someone discovers the signs in advance, as long as they react in time and are fast enough, they can completely escape the range of the poisonous fog."
"But where's your thing?!"
Dugu Bo became more and more agitated as he spoke, pointing at Xuan Hao and roaring with his beard bristling and eyes wide open:
"Your hundred-meter-tall golden dragon crashed down from ten thousand meters in the sky with a sonic boom, plus your monstrous blood energy bomb!
With a 'boom,' the area within a radius of several thousand meters was instantly reduced to a pile of ruins without a trace!"
"They didn't even give me a second to react!
Tell me, how are they supposed to run?! Run with their heads?!"
Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, Liu Erlong, and the others standing nearby nodded in agreement.
While one can try to resist or escape from toxic fog, there is absolutely no way to dodge this kind of pure supermassive physical kinetic energy attack except by enduring it head-on.
A complex sense of frustration flashed in Dugu Boyou's green eyes as he continued sourly, "Besides, you're tough as nails, so you won't die even if you take the recoil. You even have that weird teleportation skill!
You can just ram into someone's lair and then teleport away."
"If I were to actually go deep into the heart of those top sects and unleash my ultimate move, the energy expenditure would be enormous.
If I were to be entangled by their top experts, it would be uncertain whether I could even escape alive!"
"To put it bluntly, my so-called poison skills are only good enough to be used when I'm desperate, to go to someone's house and play the 'mutual destruction' card."
"But you little monster, you're just relying on your thick skin and speed to smash wherever you want, and then you can get away unscathed!"
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