After savoring the experience and carefully recalling the sensations he felt while performing the technique, Tang Xiao summarized several key insights.
Originally, after adding eight soul rings, his Clear Sky Hammer weighed around 12,000 jin. After evolving into a super-level martial soul, its weight more than doubled, directly reaching 30,000 jin—an increase of roughly 2.5 times.
It must be known that, according to the memories of the original body, when Tang Xiao last met Tang Chen, Tang Chen's hammer weighed only 18,000 jin, while Tang Zhen's weighed 16,000 jin. That 2,000 jin difference was most likely the result of differences in soul ring quality and age.
If nothing had changed, once Tang Xiao and Tang Hao absorbed their ninth soul ring, their hammer weights should have remained within that same range—roughly 16,000–18,000 jin.
Yet Tang Xiao's evolved super-level Clear Sky Hammer already weighed 30,000 jin with only eight soul rings.
This meant that if he were to absorb an optimally aged ninth soul ring—perhaps 80,000 to 90,000 years old—his hammer would weigh at least 45,000 jin.
In other words, his hammer would always be 2.5 times heavier than a normal Clear Sky Hammer.
When Tang Xiao performed the Great Sumeru Hammer technique, he clearly felt his hammer's weight increase by four times—reaching a terrifying 120,000 jin.
The secret behind the Great Sumeru Hammer's overwhelming power lay precisely in this fourfold increase in hammer weight.
For Tang Hao, whose hammer currently weighed 12,000 jin, a fourfold amplification would result in 48,000 jin.
Now imagine a 24,000-kilogram iron pillar falling from a height of thousands of kilometers from the sky.
For a level 80+ Soul Douluo, further augmented by soul power, swinging speed, and technique, the destructive force would only increase—not decrease.
If Tang Hao alone was already this terrifying, then what about Tang Xiao?
His impact power would be 2.5 times greater than Tang Hao's.
With his current strength alone, Tang Xiao could already plummet a level 93 Titled Douluo with a single hammer swing.
"The age of that red soul ring that manifested when I performed the Great Sumeru Hammer technique must be the reason behind this fourfold weight increase," Tang Xiao mused silently.
"And that soul ring's age seems to be the sum of all my soul rings—roughly 160,000 years in total."
"160,000 years gives four times amplification…
That means one time for every 40,000 years."
"If I were to obtain an 80,000-year soul ring as my ninth ring, the amplification would rise to six times…
And if it were 100,000 years or more…"
"This technique truly borders on the divine."
This technique was utterly broken for Clear Sky Hammer users who mastered it.
After all, for Clear Sky Hammer users, absorbing soul rings was already a double boon.
When a soul ring was absorbed, not only did they gain a powerful soul skill, but the hammer's base weight automatically increased as well.
For example, if Tang Hao absorbed his ninth ring, his hammer would naturally rise to around 18,000 jin—this increase was guaranteed.
But if the user also knew the Great Sumeru Hammer technique, then upon absorbing the ninth ring, the initial fourfold amplification would leap to six times or more, since the total accumulated soul ring age increased.
A triple boon. And an interlinked one at that.
This was not 1 + 1 = 2.
No wonder Tang Hao was such an absolute BUG in the novel—
hammering Titled Douluos like chickens.
Tang Xiao had not forgotten that recent incident where Tang Hao, at merely level 84, broke a Titled Douluo's leg and escaped unscathed.
Now everything made sense.
It was all because of this technique.
At present, Tang Hao could already contend with level 91 and 92 Titled Douluos using the Great Sumeru Hammer.
Once he absorbed his ninth ring, his combat power would skyrocket.
No wonder that in the novel, after absorbing his ninth ring, Tang Hao was able to fight three level 95 Super Douluos simultaneously... and blasting them away after using Ring Detonation.
"But since my hammer is 2.5 times heavier than a normal Clear Sky Hammer…"
"Then my strength will always be **2.5 times greater than Tang Hao's."
Tang Xiao couldn't help but laugh out loud at the thought.
The implications were terrifying.
If Tang Xiao were to absorb a 100,000-year soul ring, just like Tang Hao did in the novel, he would instantly gain the power to smash the Spirit Hall Pope into pulp, granting him a free ticket to the underworld.
How could he not feel exhilarated?
More importantly—
That day was not far away.
Within two weeks, Tang Xiao was confident he would reach level 90.
And now, with this bug-level divine technique in his hands, he didn't need to wait ten years to absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
He could attempt to hunt a hundred-thousand-year soul beast himself.
If condensing all soul rings into one wasn't enough, then detonating them would surely grant him sufficient strength to kill one, right?
"Hm… I'll bring Tang Hao along if necessary," Tang Xiao grinned.
"He can act as my bodyguard."
Although Tang Hao's arrival had disrupted many of his plans—especially regarding how to obtain Ah Yin's soul bone—it had also brought one immense benefit.
Learning this divine technique earlier had triggered a chain reaction of advantages.
Once his strength reached a higher level, he could command the Clear Sky Sect with ease.
Not only that, he could begin executing bold preliminary actions—actions that required strength as capital.
"If all else fails…"
"I can simply flip the entire table."
A dangerous glint flashed through Tang Xiao's eyes, his thoughts hidden deep beneath the surface.
Soon, his focus returned to what truly mattered.
"Now that I fully understand the soul ring unification principle of the Great Sumeru Hammer technique…"
"I should begin studying the Ring Detonation secret technique."
"This is my highest priority."
Tang Xiao knew his priorities clearly.
Ring Detonation was his hope to restructure his soul ring configuration.
If he could remove even one yellow soul ring and replace it with a red one, he would be satisfied.
With the Great Sumeru Hammer already mastered, this alone would grant him an immense boost—likely another twofold increase or more.
With that thought in mind, Tang Xiao summoned his martial soul once more.
Gritting his teeth, he directly detonated his first yellow soul ring, activating the Ring Detonation technique—
(A/N: This chapter mainly focused on calculations. To write it, I spent more than four hours sitting in the same place, rereading multiple Douluo Dalu chapters and carefully working through numerous calculations to derive the most probable and lore-consistent numbers based on established facts. I sincerely hope everyone will appreciate the effort that went into this chapter.
For readers who may not fully understand all the numbers or the detailed mechanics of the Great Sumeru Hammer Technique, you only need to remember one key point:
Because Tang Xiao's hammer weight has increased to 2.5 times that of a normal Clear Sky Hammer due to evolution, his physical strength and offensive power will always be 2.5 times greater than that of a Clear sky Soul Master at the same level with an almost identical soul ring configuration.
In other words, if Tang Hao and Tang Xiao have the same soul power level and similar soul ring setups, Tang Xiao will still be 2.5 times stronger, purely as a result of his martial soul evolution.
Whatever feat Tang Hao can accomplish, Tang Xiao can achieve the same thing with 2.5 times the ease.
And if Tang Xiao's soul ring configuration becomes better than Tang Hao's, then this 2.5-times advantage will increase even further, reaching an even higher level.
That is the summary you need to know.
I hope this explanation helps, and I hope you find it useful.)