Douluo Dalu - Volume 12 - A Hammer Called Clear Sky

by Tang Jia San Shao

  Dai Mubai glared at him, saying:

  “Little Ao, do you need a spanking? I haven’t seen you for a few days and you seem to have become very uppity!”

  While speaking, at the same time his gaze fell on Zhu Zhuqing out of the corner of his eyes.

  Zhu Zhuqing was still cold, it seemed that Dai Mubai’s returning or not returning was completely unrelated to her. This couldn’t help but give a great break to Dai Mubai’s good mood.

  “I hugged little San because of Little San’s help to me. After obtaining a spirit ring, I can feel how much my spirit power has increased. My spirit power is now already at the forty third rank. From fortieth to forty third rank, while it would appear only two ranks when including the assistance of the spirit ring, you all know that the later the increase, the more tremendous the spirit power requirements for each rank. This is already more than I had imagined. Even more crucial, right now I can clearly feel how the power has increased in all four limbs, moreover the energy channels within my body are wider and more flexible than before. This is all the result of that ‘Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum’.”

  Listening to Dai Mubai speak, everyone nodded one after the other.

  Besides Xiao Wu who hadn’t received any immortal treasure herb benefits from the Yearning Heartbroken Red, the others had all received enormous assistance from the precious herbs Tang San gave them.

  Dai Mubai grinned, saying:

  “Everyone must also work hard, right now your levels are already no longer low, we can’t fail to live up to the essence of heaven and earth little San provided us. In this time before the Advanced Spirit Master Academy Grand Competition begins, you must do your utmost to reach the fortieth rank. Then we will have an even firmer grasp on a good result. We have only one goal: champions. Other positions are basically insignificant to us Shrek Seven Devils. We must let the whole Continent’s Spirit Master academies know that we are monsters, monsters from the monster academy.”

  Dai Mubai pumped up everyone on this side, while on the other side, Zhao Wuji gave Flender’s trio a rundown of everything that had happened since they left.

  Listening to Zhao Wuji, Grandmaster immediately stood up,

  “I must find little San for a chat. His cultivation can’t be influenced by his past.”

  Liu Erlong was just about to say something, but was stopped by a look from Flender. She only watched Grandmaster leave the room with quick steps, heading for the student dormitories.

  “Boss Fu, you say Xiao Gang isn’t slow witted, so why is he still like before? I feel like meeting him again is even more painful than when I didn’t see him.”

  Liu Erlong said somewhat bitterly.

  Since Tang San had been kidnapped by the Poison Douluo and the three had been unable to rescue him, almost getting killed by the Poison Douluo and returning to the Academy, Grandmaster had returned to usual, neither close nor distant to Liu Erlong.

  Whenever Liu Erlong would painstakingly get close to him, he would always find some reason to dodge.

  Basically without the chance to get close to him, Liu Erlong was getting depressed.

  Flender said with a wry smile:

  “Do you still not understand Xiao Gang’s character? As long as his heart doesn’t split open, he will always be like this. I think it would be better to work on Tang San a bit, right now in Xiao Gang’s heart, the most important is perhaps he. If he spoke to Xiao Gang it would be more effective than anything you or I said.”

  Liu Erlong’s eyes brightened,

  “I’ll try it. Only, I’m afraid it’ll still be difficult. I understand Xiao Gang, unless he comes around to it on his own, it’ll be difficult for what others say to have any effect.”

  At the student dorms, without entering the room, Grandmaster heard the voices of the Shrek Seven Devils chatting. Opening the door, he first knocked before entering.

  On seeing Grandmaster, the old traumatic experiences made everyone hastily stand up, the impression that demonic training had left on them was really too profound. Besides respecting Grandmaster, they were still somewhat fearful.

  Of course, it was also unavoidable that they would admire him. Despite Grandmaster lacking strength, his tactical directions to them were really incomparable.

  Part 2 (TL by Bagelson)

  Following Grandmaster’s cultivation, everyone had made twice the progress for half the effort.

  “Little San, come with me a moment.”

  Grandmaster waved his hand, indicating everyone sit while he called out Tang San alone.

  Tang San hastily got up, following Grandmaster outside. Grandmaster brought him straight to his own residence in the dorms, shutting the door tight, gesturing for Tang San to sit in the sofa.

  Grandmaster’s room was clearly incomparable to those of the students. Liu Erlong had given the room she previously used as dean directly to him.

  Not only was the room enormous, moreover the decorations were brimming with nostalgic sentiments and bright and bright glass, giving it a kind of extremely comfortable feeling.

  “Teacher, what do you want to know?”

  Tang San sat on the sofa, the expression in his eyes absent minded.

  Even though no one else had bothered him over these few days, the question of his past still troubled his heart, to the extent that he didn’t even cultivate as focused as before.

  He also didn’t dare force himself. If by any chance he accidentally made a mistake, the gains wouldn’t make up for the losses.

  Grandmaster nodded,

  “I already know, or should I say, I already knew long ago.”

  “What?”

  Tang San sharply looked up, looking at his Teacher with shock.

  Grandmaster walked over to sit in front of Tang San,

  “You needn’t be astonished, listen to what I have to say. Do you still remember at Nuoding Academy? After you had just come to Nuoding Academy, I took you on as a disciple. That was because I saw the natural aptitude of your twin spirits. But at that time I also didn’t notice that your other spirit was the Clear Sky Hammer. Until one day, when your father personally came to find me. And gave me this.”

  While speaking, light flashed in Grandmaster’s hand, and an order tile appeared from his spirit tool. On the order tile was carved six vivid and lifelike designs, and although the colors weren’t eye catching, Tang San knew from Grandmaster’s previous explanations that this was the highest insignia of Spirit Hall.

  Only Spirit Hall elders or higher could possess it, second only to the Supreme Pontiff’s authority.

  Grandmaster said:

  “At that time I recognized your father’s identity. He is brilliant and famous all over the Continent. He’s also my idol, the youngest Title Douluo, Tang Hao. Your father’s Title is simply: Clear Sky.”

  “Clear Sky? Clear Sky Douluo.”

  Others might deceive him, but Tang San knew that Grandmaster never would.

  At this very moment he could at least be certain his father wasn’t an ordinary person, moreover he was still a peak existence in the Spirit Master world.

  Grandmaster continued:

  “I don’t know your father well, he only asked me to look after you carefully. On this order tile are altogether six emblems. Originally I told you that they each represent the six people who have made special contributions to Spirit Hall, or the identity of the six elders of Spirit Hall. You know, this order tile also has six, and the six emblems are actually divided into two parts, the first part are the three Title Douluo affiliated with Spirit Hall. The other part represents three Title Douluo of the three upper sects of the seven great schools. But these three Title Douluo are also conferred the status of honorary elders by Spirit Hall.”

  Tang San gazed at that order tile with rapt attention, the six designs on the order tile were separately sword, hammer, crown, an incomplete human shape, a dragon and a chrysanthemum.

  “This order tile also has a symbolic name, it’s called the Heaven Dou Six Emperors
Tile. The sword among them represents the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School’s Sword Douluo Chen Xin, but his part on this order tile is actually considered belonging to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, controlled by the school master Ning Fengzhi you met a few days ago. The Dragon. It represents the clan I was born from, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, controlled by my father. And the hammer, represents the Clear Sky Clan’s Clear Sky Hammer. And the person who controls it, is your father, and not the present Clear Sky School master Tang Tian[ (唐天) “Tang Heaven”, the Tian is the same as “Sky” in Clear Sky.].”

  “Clear Sky School is a two Douluo sect, Tang Tian and Tang Hao are brothers, who once made the whole Spirit Master world tremble. Tang Tian is your father’s eldest brother, compared to your father he’s more than fifteen years older. At sixty, he smoothly broke through the ninetieth rank, entering the Title Douluo realm. And when your father reached Title Douluo was still thirteen years ago. He was no more than forty four. Therefore I can say, he is the world’s youngest Title Douluo, and also my idol.”

  Tang San’s heart twitched,

  “Thirteen years ago, isn’t that when I was born?”

  Grandmaster looked distracted a moment,

  “Yes, it should be the year you were born, your father surmounted the pinnacle of the Spirit Master world. Moreover, it is rumored that he relied on his just having entered the ninetieth rank strength to consecutively defeat Spirit Hall’s two Title Douluo, precisely those who are represented by the chrysanthemum and human shape on this tile. They are respectively Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo. You should know that they had both been famous for many years already, and their strength had already broken through the ninety fifth rank. But they were still unable to withstand the might of your father’s Clear Sky hammer. Even though I couldn’t see the fight with my own eyes, just imagining it makes my blood boil.”

  “Why would dad fight two Title Douluo in succession?”

  Tang San couldn’t help asking.

  Grandmaster shook his head,

  “This I don’t know, not many do. This is apparently a secret between Clear Sky School and Spirit Hall. After that fight your father disappeared, and the Clear Sky School restrained their voice, hiding their identity as the present age’s number one Spirit Master school. Even though they still retain their title as the number one school, some emerging Spirit Masters aren’t well acquainted with the Clear Sky School.”

  “When your father reappeared once again, it was also six years later in front of me. I’m not too clear on the internal matters of the Clear Sky School, I’ve only vaguely heard that the relationship between your father and your eldest uncle isn’t particularly harmonious. But before his great battle with two Title Douluo he had already left the Clear Sky School.”

  Tang San looked stupidly at Grandmaster, for a moment unable to speak a word, he seemed completely at a loss, his eyes already turning somewhat red.

  From his father visiting Grandmaster, and from him giving Grandmaster such an important Heaven Dou Six Emperors Tile, he could see how much his father valued him. How he loved him.

  His departure was perhaps for lack of a better choice, perhaps he had a lot of matters to deal with.

  ‘But, dad, why didn’t you come back to see me?’

  Grandmaster said:

  “Little San, don’t think too much. In some sense, perhaps your father never left your side.”

  Tang San stared blankly,

  “Why?”

  Grandmaster’s face suddenly revealed an eccentric smile,

  “Do you still remember what happened just when you entered Shrek Academy?”

  Tang San puzzled shook his head.

  Grandmaster said:

  “I also actually heard this from Flender. At that time, because Zhao Wuji’s hands were itching he personally examined you children, and you used hidden weapons to greet him, and he himself suffered injuries, right.”

  Tang San nodded.

  Grandmaster smiling said:

  “But you didn’t discover, that afterwards Zhao Wuji had changed somewhat?”

  Tang San thought hard, but because of the matter with his father his mind was in disorder, and for the moment he couldn’t remember the circumstances of that time.

  Grandmaster said:

  “Don’t tell me you forgot that the next day Zhao Wuji had a bloody nose? Flender said that the evening Zhao Wuji suffered from your hidden weapons, a black clothed man suddenly appeared, drawing Zhao Wuji out of the Academy. Afterwards, he gave Zhao Wuji a beating empty handed. When Flender caught up he didn’t dare interfere. Because, that person didn’t even release his spirit to beat up Zhao Wuji. You should know that Zhao Wuji possesses seventy six ranks of spirit power, being able to knock him down without using spirit power, what kind of terrifying strength would that require? And that person, was your father.”

  “You mean, dad came to see me?”

  Tang San stood up sharply, so moved his body trembled slightly.

  Grandmaster said with a nod:

  “Yes, but this was more than a year ago. He came to see you. But he didn’t meet you. If I surmise correctly, not meeting you was because he didn’t want to influence your cultivation, or another reason is perhaps because he was afraid that after meeting you he wouldn’t want to leave. I believe he certainly has some matters he must deal with, and as a result he isn’t willing to meet you.”

  Dad came to see him, and even beat up teacher Zhao Wuji who injured him?

  Tang San’s heart suddenly became scorching hot. When he had seen Tai Long’s father Tai Nuo come to challenge him for the sake of his son, he didn’t know how envious he had been. And now he found out that his father had done the same for him more than a year ago. That kind of proud and warm feeling made all the complaints he had stored up over the years quietly fade away.

  Grandmaster said:

  “Therefore I would say, that your father might be at your side at any time. When he believes the time is right, he will naturally appear before you. Your family name is Tang, and you are directly blood related to the Clear Sky School, let me tell you this so you clearly understand, whether it’s for you yourself, or for your father, since you have chosen to walk the path of a Spirit Master, you cannot stop to rest. Perhaps, your father will also equally need your help, but if you’re dispirited because of your past, and it influences your cultivation, how can you still help him in the future? Perhaps he won’t blame you, but he will certainly be disappointed. You are the son of Clear Sky Douluo, you have inherited the blood of your father, you must use action and strength to prove to your father that you have the qualifications to help him. Perhaps your father is waiting for your strength to reach a certain level before he appears in front of you, who can say?”

  From his birth until now, Tang San had been together with Grandmaster for longer than he’d been with his father. It could be said that Grandmaster and Xiao Wu were the people closest to him apart from his father.

  Part 3 (TL by Bagelson)

  The past few days’ bewilderment, contradictions, and complicated feelings, were suddenly dispelled by these words from Grandmaster.

  Everything became completely clear before his eyes.

  Even if he himself could understand everything clearly right now, so what?

  With his present strength there was basically nothing he could do. What he could do right now was work hard at cultivation like Grandmaster said.

  Using action to prove himself to his father.

  ‘Dad, have you always been watching over me in secret? Then fine, you wait and see, I definitely won’t let you down.’

  Seeing Tang San’s expression change, Grandmaster couldn’t help secretly nodding. He knew Tang San was smart, as soon as he woke up a bit he would understand. This was also Grandmaster’s goal in calling him over.

  “Grandmaster, I still have two questions.”

  The light reappeared in Tang San’s eyes, and he again recovered his usual quiet and contented e
ase.

  Grandmaster said:

  “Speak.”

  Tang San said:

  “The first question is, do you know who my mother was? Since I was born, I never met my mother, and father never spoke of her. I vaguely feel that father losing himself in shoddy alcohol for six years is very possibly related to my mother.”

  Grandmaster nodded and said:

  “You’re right. Since you never saw your mother, it’s very possible she was related to your father’s depression. However, your mother’s identity is even more mysterious. Let alone me, in the Spirit Master world there’s no one who knows who she was. She apparently didn’t belong to any of the great Spirit Master clans, this can be seen from your Blue Silver Grass. Blue Silver Grass is the standard for waste spirits. In some sense, twin spirits is also a kind of spirit variation. Being able to allow two spirits to coexist will cause a certain harm to the Spirit Master’s body, just like Ma Hongjun’s previous evil fire would cause him complications. But strangely, the two spirits within you have never shown this kind of circumstances. Unusually harmonious together. Moreover, your Blue Silver Grass doesn’t seem to have a difficult cultivation process. Your spirit power promotes very quickly. If saying your innate full spirit power was caused by your Clear Sky Hammer, why would Blue Silver Grass cultivate so quickly? Even though you have twin spirits, it still shouldn’t be the reason for this.”

  Tang San didn’t have anything to say to Grandmaster’s questions. Even if he didn’t know why his two spirits could coexist so tactfully, his spirit power was cultivated with the Mysterious Heaven Skill method, seemingly unrelated to his spirits.

  However Tang Sect inside knowledge couldn’t be revealed to outsiders.

  “Teacher, my second question is, why won’t my father and you let me cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer? According to what you said, the Clear Sky Hammer should be a top quality tool spirit, clearly it should have even better prospects than cultivating Blue Silver Grass. My father also became famous with it. Don’t tell me it’s in order to hide that I come from Clear Sky School?”

  Hearing this question from Tang San, Grandmaster couldn’t help but show a smiling expression,