Chapter 466: Chapter 465: The Mighty Mammoth
Each of the Mammoth Demon Clan member\'s wrists bore a massive bracelet, which looked a bit like a wrist guard. With a flash of light from each bracelet, a heavy hammer appeared in its grasp.
What is a heavy hammer? With a head diameter of one meter, a handle four meters long, and thick as a human thigh - the total length adding up to five meters, and there were two of them. These were the absolute definition of heavy hammers.
Even with Tang San\'s experience, his expression involuntarily twitched when he saw the pair of heavy hammers. This guy was fierce!
"Begin!" The referee declared the start of the match in a simple and direct manner.
The Mammoth Demon Clan\'s eyes lit up, and the ingratiating look on its face instantly vanished without a trace, as it took big steps and charged towards Tang San.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom..." With every step it took, the entire arena seemed to tremble. Even more terrifying was the rapidly escalating formidable aura; its skin turned to a dark golden color in an instant, and its eyes blazed with light. The originally dark-looking hammers turned into a radiant gold instantaneously, as if they were encased in a shell of cast gold.
Tang San also moved, but instead of advancing towards his opponent, he turned and ran towards the side. His lithe body was incredibly fast, trying to extend the distance between them.
However, despite the Mammoth Demon Clan\'s massive figure, it was not slow at all. When it began to run, it was like a large army in itself. It slightly adjusted its trajectory but still continued to charge in Tang San\'s direction. The distance between them rapidly closed.
"A human, is it actually a human?" a noble in the VIP viewing stand asked the noble beside him.
"Yes! It indeed looks like a human, but it\'s yet unclear which vassal tribe he belongs to. Humans are actually allowed to compete, is that a mistake? Go check how he got registered."
"What? The token of the Sword Saint Great Demon Emperor? Now, this is interesting. To gain the recognition of His Excellency the Sword Saint, it seems this human is not ordinary after all! He should be skilled with a sword, but no weapon is seen on him!"
Tang San kept running swiftly around the outskirts of the ring; though the Mammoth Demon Clan was fast, so was he. As the opponent attempted to close the distance, he\'d immediately turn and run, forcing the mammoth to change direction to give chase once again.
When he began zigzagging, the stands erupted in a chorus of boos.
The Mammoth Demon Clan member was also somewhat helpless, as Tang San was very quick, and indeed the arena was sizable. Catching up to such a speed-oriented contestant wasn\'t easy.
"Roar!" A deep roar erupted from the Mammoth Demon Clan member, and immediately after, the heavy hammers in its hands began to whirl ominously.
When all the spectators assumed it would throw one of the hammers at Tang San, the whirling hammers were instead smashed into each other.
"Clang—" The deafening sound instantly spread across the entire Ancestral Court Square. Those with weaker cultivation bases in the audience, under the massive onslaught of sound, felt dizzy and disoriented. This testified to the terror of the sound wave.
And for Tang San within the arena, the sensation was even more acute.
The immense sound wave, carrying a powerful shockwave, practically swept across his half of the field instantly. There was no escape.
Tang San felt his brain plunge into a void at that moment, a buzz ringing in his ears. He couldn\'t help but stagger, and his fast-moving body suddenly became unsteady.
He still wasn\'t a God, and even if he had regained his God Rank status, there was no way he could have foreseen the kind of ability his opponent would deploy! This terrifying soundwave attack had indeed put him at a disadvantage; the Mysterious Heaven Method coursed rapidly through his body, and even the divine consciousness at his spiritual power core was involuntarily stirred by the shock.
Even so, it took him a full second to recover most of his senses. And during this brief period, the Mammoth Demon Clan had already charged to within less than twenty meters of him.
The member of the Mammoth Demon Clan with an enormously sturdy body suddenly leaped high into the air. At the peak of its jump, the shadow it cast even enveloped Tang San. A pair of heavy hammers, like dark clouds overhead, smashed down towards Tang San.
The bombardment from these heavy hammers was no less powerful than the Big Xumi Hammer Tang San had unleashed when he triggered his divine consciousness. Such explosive power was truly worthy of a top-tier First level Bloodline warrior.
Now Tang San understood; this guy was saying the most cowardly things while doing the most ruthless of actions!
The opponent\'s aura had firmly locked onto him, and at this moment, the possibility of simply running away was out of the question.
But it was then, with a flicker of purple-gold light in his eyes, Tang San unleashed a spiritual impact from the Purple Demon Eyes—a Psyche Assault!
Struck by the instantaneous spiritual impact, the Mammoth Demon Clan member felt as if his Sea of Spirit had been brutally struck, causing a momentary blank in his brain. But the Golden Mammoth, known for having the strongest defense, had its defensive power not solely in its physique; on the mental level as well, it possessed formidable defensive capabilities.
Almost instantly, the Mammoth Demon Clan member recovered from the daze, and the heavy hammers continued to smash down at Tang San. The only change was that the spiritual power that had been locked onto Tang San\'s body was dispersed by the Purple Demon Eyes.
Tang San was not panicked in the slightest, tapping lightly with the tip of his foot on the ground, his body lightly soaring upwards. White incandescent light burst forth from his body—the Lion Tiger Golden Gang. Instead of retreating, he advanced, and even before the hammers could fall, he was already rising to meet the Mammoth Demon Clan member. Squeezing through the gap between the pair of hammers, the Lion Tiger Golden Gang forcibly created a path for him, allowing him to avoid the direct blow of the heavy hammers and get up close and personal with the Mammoth Demon Clan member.
Just as the Mammoth Demon Clan member acted timidly before the match, did that mean Tang San didn\'t possess the ability to confront his opponent head-on? He was showing weakness to deceive the enemy.
When an opponent launches their strongest attack, it\'s often the time when they reveal their vulnerabilities.
Having passed through the twin hammers, Tang San naturally was now right in front of the Mammoth Demon Clan member. His target was naturally the most vulnerable part, the opponent\'s throat.
But at that moment, the Golden Mammoth suddenly puffed out its chest, its strong pectoral muscles bulging outwards, blocking Tang San\'s upward path with its chest. Which meant that Tang San\'s attack would only hit its chest and not be able to reach over to attack its neck or face.
This way of fighting was indeed rare for Tang San, but in the critical moment, he couldn\'t hesitate. His right hand struck out instantly, slapping directly onto the chest of the Golden Mammoth.
With a "pfft" sound, Tang San took advantage of the momentum to bounce back, and as the Golden Mammoth\'s heavy hammers hit the ground and rebounded, he immediately launched into a defensive stance. In the instant he rebounded from his opponent\'s oblique angle, Tang San leaped high to avoid the returning swing of the twin hammers.
If one were to look from the spectator stands, they would see Tang San nimbly avoiding the hammers, colliding briefly with the Mammoth Demon Clan member, then rebounding away. The formidable body of the Mammoth Demon Clan member who had previously leaped up also landed, and the two were once again separated.
"Is this just tickling me? Hahaha!"
"This weak human doesn\'t even have a weapon, what use is his attack?"
A cacophony of voices filled the spectator stands. But at this moment, neither of the combatants saw it that way.