With a hard-control move landing, Tang Yuehua tapped her foot lightly and shifted more than ten meters. A string of ultimate techniques erupted.
"Spirit Bone Skill: Vast Sea Divine Thunder!"
With a soft cry, spirit power surged around Tang Yuehua as she activated one of the two spirit bone skills of the hundred-thousand-year Purple-striped Thunder Eel right leg bone: Vast Sea Divine Thunder.
Like a bolt from a clear sky, a purple divine thunder as thick as a bucket fell from above, carrying a terrifying aura of destruction, striking straight down on the immobilized Clear Sky Avatar.
Boom!
With the violent roar, purple light flooded everywhere. The black Clear Sky Avatar "bathed" in the violet lightning sprouted fine cracks across its surface, like a giant porcelain doll about to explode.
"Spirit Bone Skill: Raging Sea Demon Pincer!"
Tang Yuehua did not have many other methods, but she had many hundred-thousand-year spirit bone skills. The instant Vast Sea Divine Thunder fell, she again activated the assault-type spirit bone skill of the hundred-thousand-year Raging Sea Demon Crab left arm bone.
Dark radiance bloomed upon her left arm. As surging spirit power roiled, a massive dark crab pincer suddenly appeared behind Tang Yuehua. The great pincer opened wide, then shot out at lightning speed.
The dark giant pincer that seemed able to shear space arrived in a flash and clamped straight onto the waist of Tang Bo's Clear Sky Avatar.
Crack!
Under the force of that terrifying power, the Clear Sky Avatar, already laced with fine cracks, was cut cleanly in half by the dark giant pincer.
Next, the huge Clear Sky Avatar, snipped into two, collapsed inch by inch, turning into countless fragments of spirit power and scattering. Revealed in place was Tang Bo, who had just shaken off the mental control, but because his Martial Soul Avatar was broken, suffered backlash, spat blood, and was already badly injured.
He was a Titled Douluo after all. Though his Martial Soul Avatar was shattered and he took backlash, Tang Bo did not faint outright.
Three hundred-thousand-year spirit bone skills broke Tang Bo's Martial Soul Avatar. With the outcome decided, Tang Yuehua did not attack again. Her slender hand rested before her abdomen, and her beautiful eyes watched Tang Bo with a smile.
Gulp.
Watching his own peerlessly graceful aunt in the arena, Tang San swallowed with some difficulty.
Although he himself was not strong, Tang San could tell that the three spirit bone skills his aunt unleashed in this fight were in no way weaker in might than the hundred-thousand-year spirit bone skill Crystal Radiance Dragon Strike she used against the Seventh Elder earlier. Most likely they were also hundred-thousand-year spirit bone skills.
A hundred-thousand-year spirit bone comes with two hundred-thousand-year spirit bone skills. Tang San, who possessed the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone, knew this.
But Tang San could see that his aunt's Crystal Radiance Dragon Strike, Dragon Soul Intimidation, Vast Sea Divine Thunder, and Raging Sea Demon Pincer did not come from two hundred-thousand-year spirit bones, but from four different spirit bones with no direct connection among them.
If those latter three were also hundred-thousand-year spirit bone skills, then didn't that mean his aunt possessed four hundred-thousand-year spirit bones?
Perhaps even more, just not used yet?
Good grief~, aren't hundred-thousand-year spirit bones universally recognized as treasures in the spirit master world? Why do they feel like they're about to become commonplace?
Suddenly, Tang San thought of a key point.
When his aunt activated Crystal Radiance Dragon Strike, Dragon Soul Intimidation, and Raging Sea Demon Pincer, the golden dragon head shrimp phantom, the blue dragon phantom, and the dark pincer shadow that appeared all seemed related to sea spirit beasts.
And when she activated the spirit bone skill Vast Sea Divine Thunder, although no sea spirit beast phantom or partial phantom appeared, from the name alone one could tell that this spirit bone was most likely dropped by a sea spirit beast as well.
That's it. There are many spirit masters on the continent. Over countless years, the Star Dou Great Forest has been visited by spirit master powerhouses who knows how many times, so hundred-thousand-year spirit beasts in the forest are exceedingly rare.
But the boundless ocean is different. The sea spirit master group is fewer than the land spirit master group, and the sea is vast. The number of hundred-thousand-year sea spirit beasts must far exceed those on land. As long as you have enough strength, how could you fail to find hundred-thousand-year sea spirit beasts and obtain hundred-thousand-year spirit rings and spirit bones?
Perhaps I can go to the sea in the future to hunt sea spirit beasts and attach hundred-thousand-year spirit rings?
Tang San could not help thinking to himself.
As for the sea being dangerous and hundred-thousand-year sea spirit beasts being stronger than hundred-thousand-year land spirit beasts?
Not a problem. Tang San had full confidence in his Haotian dad.
Tang Hao: When the Haotian appears, who can contend? All nine rings detonate together. I alone am sovereign!
"Ahem~ Niece Yuehua, you win."
Looking at Tang Yuehua like the rising sun, the pale-faced Tang Bo could not help sounding desolate.
As a Titled Douluo who had cultivated bitterly for more than eighty years, to be defeated by a super "waste" who rose in a single bound, though the one who defeated him was his niece within five mourning grades of kinship, Tang Bo still found it hard to accept for a moment.
He was very sure that when Tang Yuehua last returned to the sect, she was still just a level-9 little nobody.
Otherwise, if Tang Yuehua had already broken through her martial soul's limitation back then, as the sect's number two, how could he not have received any news?
One must know that Tang Yuehua was notorious in the Clear Sky Sect as a cultivation waste. If she could remove the label of trash, who would want to keep wearing it?
Already over eighty, Tang Bo could be said to be an old fox. He was not stupid.
He knew that Tang Yuehua breaking her martial soul's limitation was most likely due to Chu Chengzhou.
And her spirit power level soaring in a short time from level 9 to an eight-ring Spirit Douluo was also due to Chu Chengzhou.
With so many hundred-thousand-year spirit bones, there would naturally be corresponding hundred-thousand-year spirit rings.
Hundred-thousand-year spirit rings and spirit bones contain vast energy. If all the spirit rings Tang Yuehua attached were hundred-thousand-year, then it would not be impossible for her to rocket from level 9 to the realm of an eight-ring Spirit Douluo in a short time.
After all, besides this method, Tang Bo truly could not think of any other means that could bring about such earth-shaking change in Tang Yuehua.
As for how low-level spirit masters attach hundred-thousand-year spirit rings:
One must know that all hundred-thousand-year spirit beasts possess the power of sacrifice. As long as a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast is willing to sacrifice itself, even a level-10 spirit scholar can, in theory, safely obtain a hundred-thousand-year first spirit ring with no side effects.
How Chu Chengzhou accomplished this:
Tang Bo did not know. But compared to that, Chu Chengzhou becoming a Titled Douluo under the age of twenty with a four black, five red spirit ring configuration was even more unbelievable.
An unprecedented freak, then. Capable of what others cannot. Not surprising.
"Second Elder, you let me win."
Tang Yuehua inclined her head slightly, then walked back to Chu Chengzhou's side.
"How about it, little brother, your big sister didn't embarrass herself, did she?"
Holding Chu Chengzhou's arm, Tang Yuehua sent a voice transmission.
"Of course. My Yuehua is peerless. She beats down all who refuse to accept it!"
Chu Chengzhou gently squeezed his big sister's slender jade hand and offered unreserved praise.
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