The Hao Tian Hammer being known as the number one tool martial soul on the Douluo Continent was not without reason.
Coordinated with the Hao Tian Sect's exclusive secret technique Ring Detonation, it instantly sent Yang Fan flying a hundred meters away.
Of course!
Under the terrifying power of the hundred-thousand-year soul skill Annihilation Thunder Flame Spear, Tang Hao didn't gain any advantage either.
Yang Fan got serious!
The first five soul rings on his body suddenly flashed at this moment.
Penetrate, Break, Flash, Explode, Slash!
Under the blessing of the first four amplification skills, he delivered a slash toward Tang Hao on the snow mountain from a hundred meters away.
Fire-red soul power condensed into a giant spear dozens of meters long.
The unstoppable momentum displayed the attack characteristics of the Soul Breaking Spear.
Tang Hao's response was very domineering!
He smashed the giant Hao Tian Hammer into the ground, then used a strange force-generating method to hammer strike after strike onto the giant Soul Breaking Spear condensed from soul power.
During this process, Tang Hao's body was also rapidly flying backward, always maintaining a certain distance from the giant Soul Breaking Spear.
Hao Tian Nine Absolutes!
What Tang Hao was using now was another exclusive secret technique of the Hao Tian Sect.
This was the Hao Tian Sect's true ultimate technique!
It was a powerful ability that could truly be applied in actual combat. Even within the Hao Tian Sect, only the most outstanding direct disciples were qualified to learn it.
Compared to it, the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique could only be described as chicken ribs.
Boom—
Nine different exclusive force-generating techniques made the giant hammer in Tang Hao's hands dance with tremendous force.
After the final hammer strike fell…
The giant Soul Breaking Spear condensed in mid-air also shattered with a thunderous sound.
Although Yang Fan's attack was once again neutralized, Tang Hao's face at this moment showed unprecedented gravity.
He had originally believed that Yang Fan's strength couldn't harm him in the slightest, much less keep him on the snow mountain of the Frozen Forest.
But now…
This belief was no longer as strong as before.
Although Yang Fan was the same age as his son, his performance just now was already that of a super expert.
Who would live and who would die was now hard to say!
At this moment…
The originally snow-white sky suddenly appeared with a spectacle like burning clouds, and a thundercloud quietly appeared in the high sky above their heads.
Rolling thunder, crackling lightning!
Looking carefully...
The soul power rapidly surging on Yang Fan's right leg burst forth in an instant. Under his soul control, a bolt of lightning fell from the dark clouds with the momentum of thunder.
Crack—
A lightning bolt thick as a water vat crashed down.
Even someone as powerful as Tang Hao had to activate his Martial Soul True Body to resist this bolt of lightning at this moment.
Instantly…
The Hao Tian Hammer in Tang Hao's hands expanded to about ten meters in the state of Martial Soul True Body. The hammer handle required Tang Hao's thick arms to barely embrace it.
Thunder Hammer Strike!
Tang Hao's entire body was numbed by electricity.
His hair stood on end, his mouth corners twitched…
He said with a grave expression: "Hundred-thousand-year soul bone skill?!"
As someone who possessed six soul bones in total, Tang Hao was very clear about the power of soul bone skills.
For Yang Fan to display a skill no weaker than a Titled Douluo at his current level, there was only one possibility.
The lightning just now was a hundred-thousand-year soul bone skill.
Tang Hao guessed correctly!
What Yang Fan displayed was precisely the hundred-thousand-year right leg soul bone skill provided by the Sky Azure Bull Python—Sky Azure Flame Divine Thunder.
This was also his first time displaying this powerful soul bone skill.
"Tang Hao, it's over."
In his eyes, Tang Hao was now a dead man.
However…
There wasn't any emotion rising in his eyes.
Back when the Breaking Clan had to relocate like stray dogs, he had indeed wanted to take a knife and cut down both the Hao Tian Sect and Spirit Hall.
So many years had passed…
The Breaking Clan was no longer that broken small sect being suppressed everywhere, and he was no longer that kid waiting for his martial soul awakening while forging his body on the hill behind Yunluo City.
The improvement in strength didn't mean he had let go of this hatred, but rather he was no longer as impetuous as a lackey like before.
"Heh—"
"You think this can kill me?"
Although Tang Hao's expression was calm, in reality, his old injuries had already been stirred up at this moment.
He himself was clear!
If this continued, once his old injuries flared up, he might really end up falling in the Frozen Forest.
"Isn't it?"
There had always been an invisible law on the Douluo Continent: whoever activated their martial soul first was definitely at a disadvantage.
If this were the Tang Hao from the original story—after losing his arm, being reborn, and recovering from his old illness, at level ninety-seven—he really wouldn't dare say he could take this guy out in one combo with his own strength.
But…
This wasn't that!
Yang Fan suddenly pointed his Soul Breaking Spear forward, and a red light emanated from his body.
What lit up was precisely the seventh soul ring!
Yang Fan was clearly the one occupying the absolute upper hand now, but he didn't become careless because of this.
His two years of survival experience in the soul beast forest told him: even when encountering hundred-year soul beasts, he had to be prepared to fight with his life on the line.
"This... you... Ah Yin!"
"Why... why do you have Ah Yin's scent on you?"
"Speak!"
"Do you know Ah Yin's whereabouts?"
Instantly…
The atmosphere on the snow mountain took a sharp turn.
Yang Fan didn't understand why Tang Hao would suddenly say he smelled the Blue Silver Empress's scent on him, to the point where he even specifically sniffed his own clothes.
"It's the Blue Silver Soul Bone Pill!"
Yao Lao's voice suddenly rang out, immediately providing the answer to the question.
Back when refining the Blue Silver Soul Bone Pill, because of the spiritual energy of the hundred-thousand-year soul beast, a small pill lightning was inadvertently attracted.
From this, one could see the quality of the Blue Silver Soul Bone Pill!
The effect of the Blue Silver Soul Bone Pill was to accelerate the recovery of Dou Qi, soul power, and injuries, while also increasing his cultivation speed.
A Level 89 Soul Douluo not yet fifteen years old had proven this point.
Yao Lao had also said back then that the effect of the Blue Silver Soul Bone Pill would run through his soul master career, and this effect exploded after he possessed Martial Soul True Body. Therefore, when activating Martial Soul True Body, there would be the scent of the Blue Silver Empress on his body.
As for why he couldn't smell it himself, it was because he had long since grown accustomed to it.
"Yes!"
"I dug it out from the cave and refined it into a pill."
Yang Fan was a kind-hearted person!
Before his death, he decided to let this old man know the whereabouts of the Blue Silver Empress, allowing him to peacefully walk through his miserable life.
"What...?"
"What did you say?"
Refining pills!
These two words continuously echoed in Tang Hao's mind.
After so many years, he had actually also believed that Ah Yin might have already been completely harmed, but he had always been afraid to think about this terrible fact.
Until he sent Tang San to the Hao Tian Sect and then went alone to the soul beast forest where Ah Yin had lived.
When he saw that the Blue Silver King had become the Blue Silver Empress, he was completely devastated.
"Bastard!"
"I'm going to kill you."
Upon learning the truth, Tang Hao's tears flowed down.
The remaining six rings on his body all exploded together. Hugging the giant Hao Tian Hammer, he smashed it toward Yang Fan.
The massive hammer head cracked the air, sending out bursts of breaking sounds. The distorted air swept up snowflakes, and the ice surface beneath Tang Hao's feet began to show fist-wide cracks with crackling sounds, spreading in all directions like a spider web.
(T/N: Dang wtf Whitebeard is that you?)
"Be careful!"
"He wants to die together with you."
Yang Fan didn't need Yao Lao's reminder to see that Tang Hao didn't want to live anymore.
At this moment…
He displayed the essence of the Soul Breaking Spear soul master.
Advancing instead of retreating!
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
On the snow-dancing mountaintop, an afterimage rapidly moved toward Tang Hao's direction.
Under the effect of the Slowing Domain, he avoided all damage that could be caused to him, arriving before Tang Hao in the blink of an eye.
An inch longer, an inch stronger; an inch shorter, an inch more dangerous!
The distance of an arm's length made the several-meter-long Hao Tian Hammer in Tang Hao's hands instantly lose its full power.
At this moment…
Yang Fan withdrew all the soul power from his body in a way Tang Hao didn't expect. What surged within Yang Fan's body instead was Dou Qi that Tang Hao had never seen before.
Fire Palm!
Hellfire and the Killing God Domain were originally from the same source.
The combination of the two made Tang Hao feel a scorching feeling a hundred or even a thousand times stronger than that of Hell Road.
Even though Tang Hao dodged in time, half of his face was still scorched by the abnormal flame.
Yang Fan didn't give Tang Hao any chance to catch his breath.
Dou Qi surged!
Seizing the opportunity while Tang Hao was confused, he landed dozens of punches on his chest.
Every punch hit flesh!
Each punch carried the hidden force effect of Octane Blast.
Yang Fan, after his strength soared, was no longer the same kid carrying a Heavy Xuan Ruler as before.
This punch, when it landed on Tang Hao, caused much more damage than the one he had previously dealt to Tang San.
In an instant... the eight layers of hidden force agitated Tang Hao's chaotic old injuries within his body.
His meridians burst!
A mouthful of black blood spewed onto the pristine white snow, forming a stark contrast.
Tang Hao knelt on the ground, the mist continuously exhaling from his mouth gradually disappeared, and finally, his head plunged into the snow.
"Not dead?"
"Are you still stubborn now?"
Clearly!
Tang Hao was now unable to answer his question.
Yang Fan sat on the snow, took a breath, and then began the work of bone and flesh separation using his sharp Soul Breaking Spear.
And it's true!
The cold of the Frozen Forest was not just for show.
He took just a moment, and Tang Hao's corpse had already turned icy cold.
Despite this, it could not withstand the sharpness of the Soul Breaking Spear in his hand, and in no time, he removed all the soul bones from Tang Hao's body.
Not too many, not too few... a total of six pieces!
The best were undoubtedly the right arm bone and left leg bone, which had been passed down through the Hao Tian Sect for many years, while the remaining four soul bones were all around thirty thousand years old.
I'm rich!
I'm rich!
This was the first time he had obtained so many soul bones at once.
Although the quality of these soul bones would not allow him to absorb them, if he let his grandfather absorb the Hao Tian Sect's inherited soul bones... just thinking about it made him happy!
The grudge of the Hao Tian Sect sweeping the Breaking Clan out the door back then could also be considered a temporary appeasement for the clan members.
The only downside was not finding Tang San.
Taking this opportunity to kill that brat, he would only need to consider dealing with the Hao Tian Sect and the Spirit Hall.
"Why did Tang Hao come to the Frozen Forest?"
Yang Fan really couldn't figure it out.
Could it be that this dead guy thought the Blue Silver Emperor would come to such a place where even peeing would freeze?
Never mind!
What he had to do now was to take the soul bones and leave, and then search for Bone Spirit Fruit while cultivating... life in the Frozen Forest was undoubtedly long, monotonous, and boring.
Yang Fan originally thought that training in the Great Star Dou Forest was boring enough, until he came to the Frozen Forest.
Before, in the Great Star Dou Forest, he and Yao Lao could still enthusiastically watch animals mate.
When engrossed, the master and disciple could watch for an hour or so without saying a word.
(T/N: ?)
But now... the freezing environment caused the animals' libido to drop to freezing point.
"Master."
"Does the Bone Spirit Fruit really fruit in cold regions?"
Yang Fan was not a person who liked to give up easily, but nearly two months in the Frozen Forest had already made him numb from the wind.
The snow was too damn heavy!
Even when squatting down to poop, he could be piled into a snowman by the swirling snowflakes.
"There should be no mistake."
Although Yao Lao was a top Alchemist, he rarely went to find medicinal ingredients himself after he became famous.
On the Dou Qi Continent, others would kneel and beg him!
"I guess..."
"It's probably not cold enough in the Frozen Forest."
Yao Lao couldn't be sure either, because this was entirely based on his experience.
On the Dou Qi Continent, there was an unwritten rule in alchemy: under normal circumstances, Alchemists would absolutely not inquire about the source of others' medicinal ingredients.
"Not cold enough...?"
Although this was Yao Lao's guess, it pointed a clear path for Yang Fan.
If one were to ask where the coldest place on the Douluo Continent was?
Answer: The Extreme North!
But that place was no joke.
Let alone ordinary soul masters, even a Titled Douluo might not be able to crawl back out alive after entering.
The extreme cold temperature was not a problem for him, who possessed an abnormal flame, but there were many powerful giant soul beasts in the Extreme North.
Among them, the most representative were the Three Kings of the Extreme North.
These three guys were different from the fierce beasts that were devouring the Heavenly Dream Ice Worm in the Great Star Dou Forest.
They were active!
"Let's go!"
"Master, let's head north all the way to the Extreme North."
Young and vigorous!
Could a mere Extreme North make him afraid?
"Didn't you say that if we go further north, powerful fierce beasts would appear?"
"But we have you, Master."
Fierce beasts were indeed powerful, but in front of Yao Lao, who had already reached the demigod level, they were clearly not enough to pose a threat.
"Stinky brat!"
"You haven't even encountered danger yet and you're already thinking of letting your teacher help you solve it. How can you become a true strong expert like that?"
"If you want to go... you can!"
"But this time, your Master will not help you."
The corners of Yao Lao's mouth curled up, revealing a 'mischievous' smile.
"Hmm..."
"Then let's first return to the outer town of the Frozen Forest to prepare."
Prepare for a rainy day!
Preparing some trump cards before going in was clearly not a bad thing for him.
For him, the things he wanted to prepare were very pure.
Pills!
At this time, only pills could become his most trusted trump card besides Yao Lao.
After so many years of accumulation... his storage soul tool already contained a variety of medicinal ingredient reserves.
Even temporarily refining a few necessary pills was not a difficult task for the master and disciple.
"Master."
"Can I try sixth-tier pills now?"
Yao Lao smiled!
He was very satisfied with Yang Fan's enthusiasm for alchemy.
"You can try it now."
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