Chapter 90 – Tang Hao at the End of the Road

"Ninth Spirit Ability: Earthshaking Mountain Quake!"

Realizing that if he didn't escape soon, he'd end up dead, Tang Hao let out an unwilling roar. At last, he activated his ninth spirit ability, raising his Clear Sky Hammer True Form high into the air.

As the ninth blood-red spirit ring circling his body lit up in an instant, Tang Hao slammed the massive hammer into the ground.

BOOM!

With an earth-shattering crash, a violent energy shockwave erupted from the impact, sweeping out in all directions.

At the same time, energy pillars erupted from the earth like Blue Silver Grass gone wild, blasting skyward in an unstoppable surge.

In the blink of an eye, the surrounding Blue Silver Spirit Jade Trees were shattered by the force of the explosion.

Even the scattered leaves, white blossoms, and shattered fragments of the Spirit Jade Trees were blown apart by the successive energy pillars.

Seizing the moment, Tang Hao launched himself skyward and turned to flee. Mid-flight, he cast a bitter glance back at Ye Yu.

If only Ye Yu hadn't been so fast, he would've used the blast from Earthshaking Mountain Quake to destroy the Blue Silver encirclement and mount a killing blow.

But seeing Tang Hao attempting to flee only made Ye Yu laugh.

Running?

Did you ask me if you could?

By now, it was clear: as a high-end plant-type control Spirit Master specializing in extreme vitality and battlefield manipulation, Ye Yu was a natural counter to reckless brute-force attackers like Tang Hao.

There was no way he'd let him escape.

Whether it was Tang Hao's Spirit Bones…

His storage-type soul tool that might contain the Blue Silver King map…

Or simply the fact that he was the husband of the Blue Silver Empress, Ah Yin…

To Ye Yu, Tang Hao was a walking treasure vault.

Seeing him flee, Ye Yu instantly activated his spirit core's energy field, the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone's flight ability, and his self-created spirit abilities Electromagnetic Titan Form and Thunderburst Step for electromagnetic levitation and propulsion.

Crackling with blinding arcs of lightning, Ye Yu turned into a bolt of thunder and shot into the sky, hot on Tang Hao's trail.

As he retracted the massive Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree Forest he'd summoned, the towering grove—once spreading over ten thousand meters—burst into a flurry of silver-blue motes of light and vanished.

Once airborne, Ye Yu summoned his Martial Soul again, projecting the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree before him. With his second spirit ability Starlight Absorption reducing the cost, he quickly activated his self-created spirit technique—

Blue Silver Wood Dragon!

Immediately, the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree began to grow wildly, its branches multiplying like a living net. They twisted and merged midair, forming massive serpentine shapes.

In seconds, shimmering crystalline-blue dragons, over five meters thick and glowing with star-dappled violet hues, coiled through the air—roaring as they lunged toward Tang Hao.

"Damn it!"

Tang Hao's pupils contracted, filled with disbelief.

Ye Yu was actually chasing him?!

He turned, planning to attack while Ye Yu was still forming his plants. If he could close in fast and hammer him with the Clear Sky Hammer True Form, it might all end here.

But Ye Yu had expected that.

He never let Tang Hao close the distance.

With his immense range as a control-type, Ye Yu had zero reason to let a brute like Tang Hao fight in melee range.

Whenever Tang Hao lunged to attack, Ye Yu immediately pulled away—kiting him with wave after wave of Wood Dragons.

Tang Hao, gritting his teeth in frustration, was forced to keep swinging his hammer, smashing each incoming dragon.

But the deeper problem was—Tang Hao's spirit power was nearly exhausted from the prior battle.

Meanwhile, Ye Yu still had over 80% of his spirit power remaining.

With a fully condensed spirit core, Ye Yu found that the field it produced acted like an extension of his own body—constantly drawing in ambient spirit energy and refining it back into usable spirit power.

Combined with his internal energy method—his spirit power regeneration far surpassed any ordinary Spirit Master.

The result?

Tang Hao simply couldn't win a battle of attrition.

Ye Yu kept his distance, harassing Tang Hao from hundreds of meters away with wave after wave of Blue Silver Wood Dragons.

By now, Tang Hao's attacks could barely smash through them without using spirit abilities. But to do that—he had to burn even more of his dwindling reserves.

Like a caged beast, Tang Hao roared in frustration, occasionally turning back to charge Ye Yu in desperation.

But every time, Ye Yu would simply evade with ease.

Tang Hao couldn't keep up. He had no choice but to turn and flee again, chased relentlessly from behind by Ye Yu.

Blue Silver Wood Dragons lashed at him like storms from across the sky.

Ye Yu followed a simple principle:

When the enemy advances, I retreat.

When the enemy halts, I harass.

When the enemy tires, I strike.

When the enemy retreats, I pursue.

Finally, Tang Hao's spirit power hit rock bottom.

He could run no further.

Stopping abruptly, he turned around, bloodshot eyes burning with madness. Lifting his Clear Sky Hammer True Form high, his nine spirit rings flared brilliantly—then dimmed.

"Die, boy!"

Cornered with nowhere left to run, Tang Hao could only go all-in.

Panting heavily, he activated his final, desperate trump card—

Great Sumeru Hammer: Ring Detonation.

One by one, all nine of his spirit rings exploded in succession.

Spirit power surged wildly from his body, pouring into the Clear Sky Hammer True Form. The weapon swelled to monstrous size, its head growing over a hundred meters long.

With a roar, Tang Hao hurled it with all his strength.

The jet-black hammer streaked across the sky like a meteor, howling as it hurtled toward Ye Yu.

But Ye Yu wasn't Qian Xunji.

He saw it coming.

With flawless timing, Ye Yu once again triggered his spirit core's energy field, the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone's flight technique, and his electromagnetic flight combo.

In a single flash, he vanished into lightning and shot over a kilometer away.

The Sumeru Hammer missed.

BOOM!!!

The colossal hammer slammed into the mountains below, flattening an entire section of forest in a cataclysmic impact.

A massive crater opened in the earth. Cracks spiderwebbed outward. Dust and debris mushroomed into the air.

It was over.

Tang Hao stared in despair.

His final attack had missed.

And with no spirit power left to stabilize his flight, he fell helplessly from the sky—

Broken, defeated.

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