Chapter 178: One Against a Thousand

But at this very moment, Tai Tan no longer had the heart to pay attention to his own condition; he looked at Zhou Heng, his eyes filled only with deep fear and horror.

"Which Title Douluo Excellency has descended here to play such a joke on me?"

Tai Tan's dantian ached, his left forearm and wrist were twisted at a grotesque angle, and most of the skin on his entire arm was torn and shattered due to the rampaging soul power; his forehead was covered in sweat, and gone was the arrogant posture he had held when facing Lou Gao just moments ago.

Although he did not remember any Title Douluo on the Douluo Continent who looked like Zhou Heng, after his soul skill was instantly broken and caused a backlash against him, Tai Tan had already concluded in his heart that Zhou Heng was some Title Douluo who had changed his face, and he no longer held even a shred of disrespect.

"Title Douluo? My soul power is still a bit lacking, but beating an ape like you is still no problem."

Zhou Heng tapped his toe lightly, and a piece of broken stone was casually kicked out by him, smashing into Tai Tan's lower abdomen; the needle-like soul power caused the sharp pain in Tai Tan's dantian to double instantly, and he couldn't help but curl up on the ground, clutching his abdomen.

Before meeting Tai Tan at the beginning, Zhou Heng had wondered just how strong this level 86 Spirit Douluo was.

But after truly seeing him, Zhou Heng instead felt a bit of contempt for Tai Tan.

Clumsy, stupid, and crude; although he was a Spirit Master who followed the path of extreme strength attributes, it was only natural that strength would be his greatest asset.

But apart from strength, Tai Tan really had nothing else.

His mental power was fragile, his control over soul power was inferior, and his level of control over his own physical body was not even high; from head to toe, only his brute strength was worth looking at.

Zhou Heng could understand this in a low-level Spirit Master, but Tai Tan was already a high-level Spirit Douluo, and yet his quality was still so poor; that was something Zhou Heng could not quite understand.

Seeing their patriarch injured, the members of the Strength Clan who had been standing behind Tai Tan immediately turned red-eyed; after a middle-aged man quickly dragged Tai Tan away, a group of Strength Clan members came charging up while howling, as if they had completely failed to see the gap in strength between the two sides.

Zhou Heng suspected that this bunch of people had likely only heard the first half of his previous sentence—the part where he said he wasn't a Title Douluo—and hadn't continued listening; otherwise, how could they be so stupid?

This bunch of people from the Strength Clan were not as stupid as Zhou Heng thought, but they were probably not far off.

Because of that move Zhou Heng had just made, not a single one of the Strength Clan members nearby had understood it.

The Strength Clan generally didn't have good brains, and coupled with their constant use of brute force, their brains could even be said to have somewhat degenerated; they basically solved everything using muscle.

Tai Tan could know that this move of Zhou Heng's was exquisite because Tai Tan had taken the hit, but in the eyes of the group of people nearby who hadn't been hit, it was caused by Zhou Heng ambushing Tai Tan.

They only knew how to train dead muscle and didn't even understand how exaggerated this technique was, let alone what mental power was.

They only felt that there were many of them, and as long as they all went up together, even a Title Douluo wouldn't be able to finish them off before their soul power was exhausted.

A large group of Strength Clan members with their martial souls manifested rushed over like a large group of gorillas, each releasing their soul skills and swarming toward Zhou Heng.

Because their martial souls were the same and all the Soul Rings they absorbed came from Spirit Beasts like the Thousand-Jun Ant, this bunch of Strength Clan members even had the same soul skills; everyone used the same three-axe routine to strengthen themselves before swinging their fists to fight, acting exactly like a bunch of real Vajra Apes.

Zhou Heng couldn't be bothered to show off his techniques, because this bunch of people simply didn't deserve it; since they believed in strength, Zhou Heng would simply respond with pure strength.

With his soul power controlled by his mental power, it gathered on the surface of his body to form a golden armor; Zhou Heng didn't even release his martial soul, but just swung his fists and charged into the crowd.

Facing the incoming fists and soul skills, Zhou Heng didn't even bother to dodge, letting these attacks strike the soul power armor on his body, after which they were neutralized by his Indestructible Diamond Body, and then he used his fists to heavily teach these gorillas a lesson in the physical sense.

Several of the fastest Soul Saint-level Vajra Ape Spirit Masters flew out like cannonballs, knocking away a large group of Strength Clan members behind them and the Spirit Masters standing on Tai Tan's side.

And in the face of pure strength, this group of guys with nothing but muscle in their brains finally realized that something was wrong, but there was no room for mitigation anymore.

Zhou Heng was like Mike Tyson bursting into a kindergarten; although his body was much smaller than those Strength Clan Spirit Masters with their martial souls manifested, every punch could easily send several Spirit Masters flying.

Some Spirit Masters were thrown away by Zhou Heng at will, knocking down a pile of things like bowling pins; some Spirit Masters took Zhou Heng's rising dragon fist, their heads colliding directly with the metal ceiling of the Blacksmith Association, their features twisted, skulls sunken, teeth shattered, and some even bit off their own tongues, each of them losing consciousness as they hit the ground spitting blood.

Seeing this situation, some Strength Clan members subconsciously wanted to run away, but they were chased down by Zhou Heng; with soul power condensed in his hand and a forward push, this bunch preparing to flee immediately rolled into a ball on the ground, and the group subconsciously tried to struggle, but it had no effect other than causing some discomfort to the other clansmen.

Zhou Heng watched with his own eyes as one idiot, after being pushed down, reacted instinctively and gathered soul power in his elbow to strike downward, forcefully smashing the head of a clansman beneath him into pieces.

After brains appeared, other Strength Clan members in the pile who hadn't reacted also began to push and attack each other.

Originally, this group preparing to flee would have been fine, but they had forcefully caused the casualties in this battle through their own outstanding performance.

One must know that those who had been sent flying by Zhou Heng earlier or hit into the ceiling with the Rising Dragon Fist had only been injured and had not died.

Zhou Heng was a bit speechless; did this bunch have problems with their brains because they trained their muscles too much?

Absorbing the Soul Rings of Thousand-Jun Ants was meant to absorb the strength of the Thousand-Jun Ant; how did this bunch manage to make it seem like they had averaged their IQ with the Thousand-Jun Ant through the method of absorbing Soul Rings?

He had originally thought that seeing this scene, Tai Tan, as the patriarch of the Strength Clan, would have at least some rationality.

As a result, when Zhou Heng turned his gaze back to Tai Tan, this Strength Clan patriarch, who had originally had fear and shrinking in his eyes, charged toward him as if he had gone berserk.

"Seventh Soul Skill, Spirit Avatar!"

Tai Tan's figure swelled rapidly, transforming into a Vajra Ape about six meters tall; the top of his head was already close to the ceiling of the auction house, and his long-haired arms almost hung to the ground.

Although the meridians in his arms were damaged and his skin was broken, under the state of Spirit Avatar, Tai Tan's original injuries were forcibly suppressed, and his cooled-down Soul Ring soul skills also returned to normal.

"First Soul Skill: Rock Defense, Second Soul Skill: Explosive Giant Strength, Third Soul Skill: Demon Ape Golden Body, Sixth Soul Skill: Thousand-Jun Strength!"

With the addition of each soul skill, Tai Tan's body became even more massive, to the point that he had to lower and bend his body to move within the auction house.

Under the addition of a total of five strengthening-type skills, including the Spirit Avatar, the aura on Tai Tan's body was no longer at the level of a Spirit Douluo, but had truly reached the level of a Title Douluo.