Chapter 61: Chronic Ailment!

"Kid, you joined the Spirit Hall, didn't you?"

After speaking, an irrepressible, towering fury broke free from Tang Hao's eyes...

"Yes," Xu Sheng replied coldly.

He was well aware of the feud between Tang Hao and the Spirit Hall, but so what?

Just based on a single sentence? Was he supposed to just walk away from the Spirit Hall?

"Kid, I'm warning you, the Spirit Hall shares an irreconcilable blood feud with me and little San. If you withdraw from the Spirit Hall on your own, I can spare your life... Otherwise, don't blame me for casting aside old ties!"

As Tang Hao uttered these words, a genuine killing intent toward Xu Sheng began to rise!

He would never forget what the Spirit Hall had done in this lifetime!

They had cruelly and ruthlessly forced Ah Yin to her death! That was Tang San's mother!

That hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, which others spoke of with terror, was exchanged for him by Ah Yin using her very last breath!!

If Ah Yin could be brought back to life, he would willingly give up everything he currently possessed!!

After gazing at Tang Hao in silence for a dozen seconds, Xu Sheng replied with a face full of frost, "What if I refuse?"

Tang Hao had his own reasons for seeking revenge against the Spirit Hall!

And he, too, had his own path to walk!

Right now, he would not be swayed by anyone's instigation!

In Tang Hao's hand appeared a massive Clear Sky Hammer, roughly two meters long and radiating a bloody red glow...

Nine terrifying spirit rings continuously flickered beneath his feet...

"Kid, do you know what you're saying? If you persist in this way, are you prepared to embrace death?"

A violent wind whipped through the air, causing Tang Hao's cloak to billow wildly...

It carried the tense calm before a tempestuous storm...

Xu Sheng's expression turned cold, knowing that a battle today was likely unavoidable...

With a movement of his mind, the surrounding terrain began to sprout rapidly, and in an instant, countless dense and terrifying Nine-Heart Blood Begonias suddenly appeared...

Beneath Xu Sheng's feet, nine pitch-black, ten-thousand-year spirit rings emerged...

Tang Hao's cold eyes flashed. "So be it!"

The next moment, gripping the Clear Sky Hammer, Tang Hao's figure reached the space directly in front of Xu Sheng in the blink of an eye...

Xu Sheng's third spirit ring lit up, and a thin protective barrier condensed around him...

Tang Hao looked at the barrier, let out a cold "Hmph," and swung the Clear Sky Hammer downward in a brutal overhead smash...

"Bang!" Faced with a Title Douro, a Spirit Emperor's steel-like barrier shattered like paper under Tang Hao's attack, completely incapable of putting up the slightest resistance!

Anticipating this outcome, Xu Sheng remained fearless. "As expected of the Clear Sky Hammer, possessing the supreme offensive power among weapon spirits on the continent!"

Walking toward Xu Sheng step by step with the Clear Sky Hammer in hand, Tang Hao spoke with intense fury, "Kid! This is the last chance I'm giving you!"

On his next strike, he would hold nothing back!

Even if it meant killing Xu Sheng!

Xu Sheng did not answer him. He took a step back, and his sixth spirit ring lit up...

"Sixth Spirit Skill, Blood-Ray Illusion!"

Blood-Ray Illusion: Forces anyone who beholds the blooming Blood Begonia into a temporary illusion!

Before Xu Sheng, the phantom of a massive Nine-Heart Blood Begonia flower bud gradually materialized, and then its tightly closed petals began to slowly unfold...

Caught off guard, Tang Hao watched as a flash of white light suddenly crossed his eyes...

In that brief second, Xu Sheng's fifth spirit ring flared once more. "Blood-Poison Begonia!"

Several green Nine-Heart Blood Begonias burst forth from beneath the skin of the illusion-trapped Tang Hao's arm...

The skin they touched rapidly turned black and swollen, spreading outward at a frantic pace...

However, correspondingly, the intense pain triggered by the Blood-Poison Begonia instantly snapped Tang Hao out of the illusion...

His cold gaze merely swept casually over the black poison wildly spreading across his right arm...

Without a single trace of panic!

Xu Sheng narrowed his eyes. "Can't that bit of poison alone circulate through Tang Hao's body quickly enough?"

His fourth spirit ring suddenly lit up...

Wild growth!

The few green Blood Begonias on Tang Hao's arm began to grow frantically, multiplying in moments to a degree sufficient to engulf Tang Hao's entire body!

Tang Hao's gaze narrowed slightly. His entire body suddenly shuddered, and a despair-inducing killing intent leaked frantically from the inside out...

The green Blood Begonias brushed by this killing intent withered and died one after another, unable to withstand the overwhelming force...

Within mere seconds, all the massive clusters of green Blood Begonias growing on Tang Hao's body withered and died, falling in droves to the ground...

Meanwhile, the poison that had previously been injected into his body by the green Blood Begonias actually began to drip out from his blood vessels and through his wounds...

Tang Hao had sheerly relied on his terrifying physical constitution to force out the poison of Xu Sheng's fifth spirit skill, the Blood-Poison Begonia!!

With his expression unchanged, Tang Hao directed his cold gaze at Xu Sheng. "Is this... your strength?"

If his strength amounted to no more than this, he would undoubtedly die by his hands today!

The corners of Xu Sheng's mouth curled up slightly. "Uncle Hao, your old injuries must have yet to fully heal, right?"

Though Tang Hao appeared uninjured after taking his combo of spirit skills, the old wounds deep within his body had certainly been stirred up!

Such old injuries, harbored within the body for over a decade, were by no means easily suppressed!

At this moment, a hint of surprise could finally be heard in Tang Hao's voice. "Oh? You actually knew?"

The fact that he harbored chronic injuries inside his body was something he had never even mentioned to little San...

This kid...

Could he have heard about it from the current female Pope, the lover of Qianxun Ji, Bibi Dong?

"Uncle Hao need not guess. To face three Title Douros alone and emerge as a mortal enemy of course means it was impossible to escape unscathed!"

"Kid... you certainly know a great deal... Cough, cough... Pfft."

Before Tang Hao could finish his frigid remark, his chest began to spasm, and blood-stained streaks spilled from the corners of his mouth...

The agonizing pain of his body tearing apart radiated continuously from his limbs...

Even with a body as formidable as his, he could not help biting his dry lips against the torment...

"Uncle Hao, do you still wish to fight?" Xu Sheng gazed coldly at Tang Hao, without a trace of pity in his eyes...

He would not strike down a Tang Hao whose old wounds were acting up at this moment...

Tang Hao slightly raised his bloodshot pupils and let out a cold laugh. "Kid, I roughly understand your weight within the Spirit Hall now. This time I'll let you go, but next time... cough, cough."

He had originally intended to risk the backlash of his chronic injuries to slay Xu Sheng, only for Xu Sheng's attack to trigger them prematurely...

Afflicted by the resurgence of his old injuries, his true combat prowess could not even exceed sixty percent!

At this thought, Tang Hao's chest heaved again, and he violently spat out a mouthful of fresh blood...

Observing coldly from the sidelines, Xu Sheng slowly turned around, took a step forward, and walked further and further away...

"If Uncle Hao can manage it, that is..."

Watching Xu Sheng depart, Tang Hao, battered by the repercussions of his old injuries, was forced to squat down in weakness as the Clear Sky Hammer vanished from his grip...

He reached out and tightly clutched his throbbing chest...

Right now, he could perhaps only fight Tang Hao to a standstill...

But the next time they met, relying on Tang Hao alone, there would be no second chance...