After compressing the Clear Sky Hammer to a smaller size, Tang Sui gripped it with both hands this time. She didn't break her bones again, but she felt as if she were holding a lead weight, so heavy it made her uncomfortable.
She gritted her teeth and simultaneously circulated her soul power and demonic energy. The Clear Sky Hammer immediately became much lighter, and her movements were no longer so difficult and heavy.
After a period of adaptation, Tang Sui tried releasing one hand. Her demonic energy and soul power continued to flow. In Tang Hao's frozen gaze, she now held the Clear Sky Hammer steadily with one hand.
"Not bad."
Watching Tang Sui's movements with the Clear Sky Hammer transition from slow to fluid, a hint of surprise flashed across Tang Hao's face. He asked somewhat confusedly, "Sui Sui, what happened just now?"
Tang Hao was referring to what happened after she summoned the Clear Sky Hammer, before she could even swing it, she had collapsed at the first step of picking it up.
Tang Sui's eyes flickered slightly. She lowered her head shyly and said in a soft voice, "Just now... I wasn't ready..."
That's what she said, but Tang Sui knew it wasn't the truth.
It was because of "restraint."
She still hadn't gained the recognition of the rules, and in many aspects, restraints still existed. Only by relying on external forces could she break free.
For example, circulating soul power alone was not enough to lift the Clear Sky Hammer; she also needed to exert her own demonic energy simultaneously.
Tang Hao sighed and began to have Tang Sui perform some simple hammer-swinging movements, testing her strength and physical limits.
One hammer strike after another, and after an incense stick's worth of time, Tang Sui felt her soul power and demonic energy beginning to slacken, and the hand gripping the hammer handle started to tremble.
Tang Hao watched Tang Sui, who was showing signs of exhaustion, with a cold expression and said sternly, "Continue, don't stop!"
If one always stopped just before reaching their limit, they would never be able to break through it.
To break down and then build up.
Tang Sui also understood this principle. She gritted her teeth, continued to circulate her soul power and demonic energy, and swung the Clear Sky Hammer repeatedly, performing weight-bearing training.
On the first day, Tang Sui, holding the Clear Sky Hammer, endured for a long time, swinging it intermittently for most of the day. If she felt exhausted, she would stop to meditate and recover her soul power and demonic energy. Once she recovered about seventy to eighty percent, she would resume training.
It wasn't until nightfall that Tang Hao allowed Tang Sui to stop swinging the hammer and rest.
The next day, Tang Sui, with her tired eyes, felt as if her hands were no longer her own. However, the medicinal herbs for the fusion of her fourth soul ring had taken effect.
Throughout the day, her muscles had suffered numerous overloads and strains, and then they repaired themselves. Though slow, it was effective.
As a result, on the second day, Tang Sui only felt muscle soreness and an lingering fatigue.
Just swinging the hammer took seven days to adapt to.
On the fifth day, Tang Sui broke through her physical limits once, and her blood volume and mental strength increased.
On the seventh day, Tang Sui could already swing the Clear Sky Hammer skillfully, progressing from the duration of an incense stick to an hour, and finally settling at two hours.
But for Tang Sui, that was enough.
Tang Hao secretly nodded. In the afternoon, he had Tang Sui watch him perform the chaotic wind hammer technique twice.
Her memory was not photographic; it could only be described as good.
Tang Sui remembered about seventy to eighty percent of the first performance. She memorized the second performance completely, and to be safe, she even had the system make a physical recording of Tang Hao's movements while performing the chaotic wind hammer technique. The following half a month was spent with Tang Hao correcting her movements and strength, and her repeatedly studying the recorded video.
It was like lifting the Clear Sky Hammer. In the original timeline, Tang San, at this cultivation level, could already swing the Clear Sky Hammer with ease and even perform the chaotic wind hammer technique.
Oscar, after reaching level sixty-something and becoming a Soul Emperor, used his mirror sausage to replicate the Clear Sky Hammer, a twin martial soul. Although he couldn't lift or raise it then either, the Clear Sky Hammer at that time already weighed a thousand jin.
The difference between the two made Tang Sui's mood somewhat heavy.
Because as her soul power advanced, even without any soul rings attached to the Clear Sky Hammer, its own weight would increase as her strength grew.
At that time, how would she adapt to the weight of the Clear Sky Hammer?
Perhaps her father's decision to teach her how to use the Clear Sky Hammer now was the right one...
With this realization, Tang Sui's attitude changed, and she became more proactive and cooperative with the training tasks assigned by Tang Hao.
More than four months later, Tang Sui, whose soul power cultivation had broken through another three levels, stood in the rain, rapidly and steadily swinging the outline of the chaotic wind hammer technique.
Raindrops falling from the sky struck the dark hammer body like musical notes. With her swings, crisp hums exploded in the air.
Powerful airflow, centered on Tang Sui's swinging motion, brought forth continuous gusts of wind, which gradually became forceful as they converged from a dispersed state.
"Boom—!"
With the thirty-fifth hammer strike, Tang Sui, who was suspended in mid-air amidst the violent wind currents, moved against the wind. The force generated by the hammer body was like a dragon's swift and graceful movement, creating thunderous roars in the drizzling rain, like a roaring giant dragon, its high-pitched dragon cry in the rainy night.
"Bang—!"
The dragon form dissipated, and the hammer wind gradually subsided. Defeated by the thirty-sixth hammer strike, Tang Sui, exhausted, landed from the air. The massive black hammer body of the Clear Sky Hammer rested on the ground. Her pale cherry lips parted, and she gasped for breath.
Sweat and rain mixed indiscriminately. The interwoven water droplets made her look as if she had just been fished out of water. Her wet black hair clung stickily to the sides of her cheeks. Her blue eyes shone brightly but revealed a hint of unwillingness.
Because she knew that the current thirty-sixth hammer strike was her current limit.