Chapter 323: Jerry in Close-Quarters Combat, Tang San Powerless and Captured

Jerry looked at Tang San, who was already closing in on him, and couldn't help but laugh; so you want close-quarters combat, then I'll play along with you.

The Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, is it? Jerry had already studied them; the Clear Sky Hammer has nine unique methods of exerting force, each with its own characteristics.

Compared to the somewhat lackluster Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes are the true powerful abilities of the Clear Sky Sect that are actually applied in real combat.

Even among the direct descendants of the Clear Sky Sect, not everyone can be taught the Nine Absolutes; only after receiving the joint approval of the Sect Master and the Elders can one be taught.

The position of Sect Master of the Clear Sky Sect has always been vacant, and later it was always the Elders who controlled the Clear Sky Sect; logically, Tang San should have had no opportunity to learn the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, yet now Tang San is using them.

The Clear Sky Sect is a sect after all, with its own strict sect system; under normal circumstances, sect disciples would not dare to violate it, so through regular channels, without the consent of the Sect Master, Tang San would have no opportunity to learn the Clear Sky Sect's ultimate arts; even if one's strength is great, one must follow the rules.

It seems Tang San has returned to his old profession, stealing the ultimate arts of the Clear Sky Sect.

Although the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes are rumored to be very powerful, they have many flaws; a full-agility Spirit Master of the same level could easily dodge them.

It is just that there are few people in this world who take the extreme route; most Spirit Masters, when choosing Spirit Rings, will make choices from multiple aspects.

The reason the Clear Sky Sect is powerful is that it follows the route of full strength amplification; there are no flashy spirit skills, just using raw power to overcome ten thousand techniques.

The Four Single-Attribute Clans are in a similar situation, it is just that the Four Single-Attribute Clans did not fully understand the essence of a single attribute.

For the same attribute, there are not only amplification spirit skills but also other spirit skills; for example, the Speed Clan, if they all added amplification spirit skills, then their speed would surely increase several times over again, but in order to improve their own attack methods while amplifying speed, they choose other spirit skills of the same attribute.

To want to choose only amplification spirit skills, there is a condition that many clans find difficult to reach, which is Self-created Soul Skills, using Self-created Soul Skills to make up for the other deficiencies of having only amplification spirit skills.

However, this problem has been solved in recent years; the Spirit Hall announced Self-created Soul Skills for various attributes, allowing many Spirit Masters to safely follow the route of single-attribute extreme amplification.

If a sect selection were held now, many newly risen clans could directly eliminate the Clear Sky Sect.

But these things are meaningless; now everyone can see that no matter how good an outside sect is, it cannot compare to a medium-sized clan in Wuhun City, and compared to a sect, a clan saves a lot of trouble.

Another reason is that the Spirit Hall is still there; establishing a new sect has no great significance for them, as it would still be at the mercy of the Spirit Hall.

Look at the present: of the Three Great Sects, two have been exterminated, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has now defected to Wuhun City, becoming the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan; although it has become a clan, its strength is many times stronger than before.

Not to mention other aspects, just the fact that Ning Rongrong is a disciple of Chrysanthemum Douluo and Jerry's junior sister means no one dares to provoke the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan.

Therefore, the era is different; those who cannot accept the changes of the era will eventually be eliminated by the era.

Among the spirit skills announced by the Spirit Hall, there are of course some spirit skills for force-exertion techniques; at the beginning, Jerry synthesized all the spirit skills collected by the Spirit Hall, deduced some, and optimized many previous spirit skills.

The ultimate arts of the Clear Sky Sect had long been collected by the Spirit Hall, but these ultimate arts were created specifically for the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul and were not suitable for other martial souls, so they had always been left to gather dust inside the Spirit Hall.

It was only after Jerry finished reading all the books in the Spirit Hall that he discovered this long-forgotten secret manual.

The Spirit Hall has a long history and countless books, and the previous administrators were truly incompetent; they didn't even know how to do basic classification and organization, putting everything together, so if anyone wanted to read them, they had to go in and search for themselves.

It is only because Jerry has divine sense; an ordinary person would probably never finish reading the books in the Spirit Hall in a lifetime.

Based on the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, Jerry had long ago deduced force-exertion techniques suitable for other martial souls, and even for hammer-type martial souls, Jerry had optimized them a lot; now seeing Tang San using the original Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, Jerry couldn't help but laugh.

The cultivation of various martial souls in the Spirit Hall has long been public; does this Tang San, who hides every day, not know to look at the hammer-type martial soul cultivation manual published by the Spirit Hall?

Inside, besides some Self-created Soul Skills, there are also force-exertion techniques deduced from the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes; with public information available, he doesn't even know to study it—what is he doing hiding in Wuhun City every day?

Thinking of this, Jerry waved his hand, the Flame Sword disappeared, and appearing in Jerry's hand again was a hammer, exactly the same as the Clear Sky Hammer in Tang San's hand.

Seeing a Clear Sky Hammer appear in Jerry's hand, Tang San was visibly stunned; is this a weapon or a martial soul?

In the moment Tang San was stunned, Jerry also used a set of force-exertion techniques.

The two engaged in battle instantly; the more Tang San fought, the more alarmed he became. He could see that the hammer technique Jerry used felt very familiar, very much like the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, but there were many differences—the force exertion was smoother, and the attacks were more coherent.

Because of the weight of the Clear Sky Hammer, every attack has some wind-up and recovery, but Jerry's set of hammer techniques perfectly utilized these wind-ups and recoveries, making what were originally redundant things useful; the entire set of hammer techniques was as smooth as flowing water and incredibly slick.

Therefore, the more Tang San fought, the more alarmed he became, and every one of his attacks could be neutralized by Jerry's hammer, a bit like the "four ounces deflect a thousand pounds" in Tai Chi, which made Tang San feel he had strength but nowhere to use it.

This is a hammer weapon, after all; from the previous contact, Tang San also felt the weight of the Clear Sky Hammer in Jerry's hand, and compared to his own martial soul, it was only heavier, not lighter, but how could Jerry make it feel so light and airy?

This is actually a cultivation realm for heavy weapons: lifting the heavy as if it were light. After reaching this realm, no matter how heavy the weapon is, it will feel very light and nimble when used.

Jerry was using this technique, which is why Tang San felt Jerry's hammer technique was very strange; when attacking, the power was great, but when defending, it was light and fast, and sometimes he could even dissipate the force, making his own attacks ineffective.

The two fought for hundreds of rounds, and Tang San felt very aggrieved; he hadn't landed a single attack on Jerry, and Jerry had been smiling the whole time, feeling as if he were just playing with him, which made Tang San very angry but helpless.

Continuing close-quarters combat would not benefit him at all; Tang San no longer thought Jerry was bad at close-quarters combat. Before, when he didn't engage in close-quarters combat, it was because others were not qualified to engage in close-quarters combat with Jerry; only after truly engaging in close-quarters combat with Jerry could one feel that sense of powerlessness.

Tang San also saw that Jerry had been playing the whole time and hadn't used his full strength at all. Thinking of this, Tang San retreated a step and instantly opened up the distance.

One could see the spirit rings on Tang San's body beginning to explode one after another, and the energy after the explosions all merged into the Clear Sky Hammer.

Jerry in the distance saw this scene and did not stop it; Tang San was preparing his ultimate move—Spirit Ring Explosion, he was preparing to use the Great Sumeru Hammer. Logically, exploding one spirit ring would be enough to use it, but this Tang San was preparing to explode them all to give himself a full-power strike.

The sequelae of the Great Sumeru Hammer are quite significant; after exploding a spirit ring, the body will be weak for a long time. Tang San exploding them all—how long will he be weak? Using this move, it seems Tang San is holding a determination to win.

If the enemy doesn't die after this move, they will be seriously injured, and he himself will fall into weakness; it is simply a spirit skill that harms both the enemy and himself.

Since Tang San wants to use this move, then let him use it.

Tang San actually didn't want to use this move; although this move has great power, the sequelae are also very large, but now Tang San truly has no other way.

Using Hidden Weapons, in front of Jerry, the Hidden Weapons would be reflected back immediately; Tang San now also felt that facing a god-level powerhouse, his own attack methods were too few.

Not to mention arrays; let alone that he couldn't form an array with a single thought like Jerry, his array level was also not as good as Jerry's.

Thinking to the end, there was only the Great Sumeru Hammer. The reason he dared to use this move was because Tang San had pills he had refined himself; after using this move, he would immediately take the pill, and he would be able to recover his soul power very quickly.

Moreover, Tang San felt that he had used so many ultimate moves before, and even in Wuhun City, they should be able to feel the great battle here, which could be considered indirectly notifying his companions. Therefore, what Tang San was thinking now was to use the Great Sumeru Hammer and then, while Jerry hadn't reacted, immediately swallow the pill and escape.

Although he didn't know how Jerry had caught up to him before, at that time Jerry hadn't faced his attacks; now that he was using the Great Sumeru Hammer, even if Jerry didn't die, he would be seriously injured, right? At this time, if he escaped, Jerry probably wouldn't be able to catch up.

Tang San thought this way, but the result was not what Tang San expected.

The power of the Great Sumeru Hammer with all spirit rings exploded had already far exceeded the endurance of ordinary god-level powerhouses; if dealing with other god-level powerhouses, this move might directly kill the opponent.

At that time, facing Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San hadn't even used this move, but now he was using it against Jerry; in Tang San's eyes, Jerry was much harder to deal with than Zhu Zhuqing.

Facing Zhu Zhuqing, it was just his own momentary carelessness, and he hadn't used some of his ultimate moves before he was seriously injured; having learned the lesson from last time, Tang San used his ultimate move directly this time.

It's a pity that the person opposite is Jerry; no matter how great the power of the Great Sumeru Hammer is, it is still composed of energy. If it were in the past, Jerry would have thought of some ways to resist, but for the current Jerry, as long as it is an attack composed of energy and does not exceed Jerry's absorption range, it has no power at all to Jerry.

Watching the Great Sumeru Hammer attack, Jerry withdrew the hammer in his hand, faced the attack directly, and prepared to start showing off.

The Great Sumeru Hammer, as Tang San wished, smashed directly onto Jerry's body. Tang San originally thought Jerry would at least resist, but Jerry put away his weapon and completely gave up resistance, which Tang San couldn't understand, but the Great Sumeru Hammer had already smashed onto Jerry, so nothing else mattered.

The moment the Great Sumeru Hammer smashed into Jerry, Tang San took the pill; the original plan was to escape immediately, but now that Jerry had taken the full-power strike of the Great Sumeru Hammer head-on, Tang San still wanted to see the result.

If Jerry was defeated by this strike, Tang San wouldn't need to escape himself.

However, the scene that followed directly overturned Tang San's worldview, and unconsciously, Tang San's teeth began to chatter.

When the Great Sumeru Hammer struck Jerry, it did not send Jerry flying away as imagined, leaving him dead or severely injured; instead, upon hitting Jerry, it was as if it had been stuck to Jerry by something, and at the same time, there was a suction force rapidly absorbing the energy within the Great Sumeru Hammer.

In a brief moment, the massive Hammer, which had been composed of energy, was absorbed clean by Jerry.

As for Jerry himself, he was completely fine, and he did not know if it was Tang San's illusion, but he felt that Jerry even seemed to be enjoying it.

The soul power in Tang San's body had recovered quite a bit after taking the medicinal pill, and he wanted to flee, but his legs seemed to stop obeying him, unable to move at all, leaving him only able to stand in place and watch Jerry show off.

Jerry had long since seen through Tang San's little movements and his desire to escape, so Jerry directly used the Space Rule to freeze the space around Tang San; if he wanted to run, Tang San's comprehension of the Space Rule would have to be higher than Jerry's, but that was clearly impossible, as Tang San probably did not even know what a Rule was.

In Tang San's despairing eyes, Jerry flew in front of him.

"How about it, out of tricks, right? Still want to run away."

Jerry said with a playful laugh; this was the happiest he had been in all these years, finally catching the Child of Luck of this world.

The Child of Luck of the world was only relative to this world; Jerry's current strength surpassed this world, and to put it clearly, the world itself was no match for Jerry, let alone a Child of Luck.

"Jerry!"

Tang San shouted through gritted teeth, his eyes staring fiercely at Jerry.

"Tang San, although you have reached the God level in your Cultivation, you lack the strength corresponding to a God-level powerhouse; no matter how high your cultivation base is, it is merely strong on the outside but weak on the inside, nothing more than a hollow shell. Did the gods of the God Realm not tell you the method of Cultivation after the God level? It seems they only treated you all as chess pieces."

After Jerry finished speaking, without waiting for Tang San to speak, he waved his hand and directly sealed Tang San.

Tang San was very desperate at this moment; he suddenly could not sense his martial soul and soul power, as if his body were empty, with nothing left at all.

What kind of method was this? Was this still a method of this world?

Jerry had just said that the gods of the God Realm did not teach them the method of Cultivation after the God level, and it was indeed as Jerry had said.

However, the method Jerry had just used completely exceeded Tang San's cognition; this was simply not a method for ordinary people. Could it be that Jerry knew the method of Cultivation after the God level, and the method just now was a technique from after the God level?

At this moment, Tang San cursed the gods of the God Realm in his heart; Jerry knew the method of Cultivation after the God level, yet the god who passed the God Position to him had said nothing at all—it was truly damnable.

However, looking at Jerry's appearance, he was only capturing him and did not intend to kill him; why was this? This left Tang San somewhat unable to fathom the reason.

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