"Boom!!"

"Bang!!"

The old man was straightforward, gripping a sharp knife, rushing forward headfirst, completely ignoring the illusionary ice wall. With a loud crash, he shattered the ice wall into a spray of ice shards, charging straight at Chen Xuantian, aiming to crush him to death!

What could Chen Xuantian do? Of course, he retaliated unceremoniously.

"Ghost Spring Technique! Life Revival and Void Returning Hand!!"

"Cui Cui!" "Mian Mian!"

Two shiny black tendrils coiled into spirals, whistling as they shot out from his sleeves, crashing head-on with the old man!

"BANG!!"

"BING!!"

"What!!"

The old man was shocked!!

The knife! Broken!

Thrusting the knife into the seemingly soft and smooth tendril Mian Mian~, it didn’t pierce through! Instead, it was broken due to power!?

What a joke!? A Divinity Transformation knife, breaking!?

"Wuwu!?"

Yet, the old man had no time to worry about his knife, because another tendril already "Cui Cui~" wrapped around his head like a python, trying to twist him into minced meat!

This is absurd!!

"Baa–!!!"

"Boom!!"

A demon wind of mud swirled! Demon Qi surged skyward!

The old man revealed his true form, indeed a six-zhang tall sheep, with huge horns and a horse tail, fur as white as snow, smooth and shiny like wax, Daoist energy protecting him, spiritual breath like the wind. Clearly a Divinity Transformation Great Demon, an Immortal’s mount, he suddenly stood upright, shattering the Chidao’s paving stones, the pine and cypress trees on the mountain trembled slightly, wildly breaking free. Yet, the two tendrils couldn’t hold it for a moment.

But Chen Xuantian just stood aside watching.

Well, after all, each tendril has its own thoughts, feelings, and names. With the Ghost Spring Technique so powerful, the previous Divinity Transformation store clerk was defeated in one move, naturally, he didn’t need to intervene against a sheep. Instead, he took this chance to test the Life Revival and Void Returning Hand’s performance parameters, to see what kind of Divine Skills they actually were and what their power limit might be.

Given Chen Xuantian’s vast experience, watching for a while, he indeed made discoveries.

From previous tests, it’s known that the Netherworld Spring Tao Skill isn’t tolerated by the Tai Chi Heavenly Dao. If he doesn’t maintain spells to construct it, it disintegrates instantly. But by keeping continuous spellcasting, guiding the Returning to Life and Returning to Void Hand to keep connections open, the tendrils formed from his palm continually expand, grow without limits, multiply infinitely, and fuse endlessly, shaping Taiji Qi into the form of the Netherworld Spring.

As the more Netherworld Springs are transformed, the stronger the tendrils become, the stronger the tendrils, the more Netherworld Springs are created, exponentially enhancing in power, the Returning to Void Hand can then unleash limitless combat power. Hence, even though the Old Demon of Netherworld Spring swallows Earth Veins underground in Qingcheng, entrenched for a millennium, becoming almost unmanageable.

But when Grandmaster Pao Pao used Time Reversal to reverse the Netherworld Spring, the old demon’s combat power naturally decreased in an exponential manner, eventually getting easily slain by a sword ball, like using a butcher’s knife on a salted fish, as the saying goes.

So during the previous fight with the store clerk, Chen Xuantian first unleashed the Netherworld Spring to set the stage, then used the Returning to Void Hand for an instant kill. In this battle, he reversed the sequence, first using the Returning to Void Hand, then refining the Netherworld Spring with tendrils to see what kind of rhythm it would create.

Hmm, it’s actually okay.

At first, the Netherworld Spring was insufficient, and the two tendrils indeed barely held, almost escaping this old sheep’s primal form.

But it happened that this old sheep faced its doom, not fleeing when the chance arose, instead trying to charge headfirst to crush Chen Xuantian. So it got tangled back by the tendrils. Through repeated colliding and striving, the old sheep’s Daoist energy was absorbed and refined by the Returning to Void Hand, transformed into the Netherworld Spring.

Hence, the old sheep’s white fur was tainted by the Netherworld Spring, like coated with oil tar turning black, while the tendrils grew robust, expanding from the thickness of a python into the shape of a flood dragon, instantly tying up the old sheep like a python entwining a snake.

Once the old sheep sensed danger, unable to rely on Magic, lacking strength, insufficient Qi, growing fearful but already too late, it could only "Baabaa!" scream wretchedly while "Crunching-cracking!" a series of spine-breaking crackling explosive sounds, twisted by the Returning to Void Hand into a counterclockwise spiral, strangled and torn apart just like a Sacha-Ma, accompanied by a torrent of blood and flesh, gulped down, smeared dry, fused, transformed, and revived, adding strength anew.

"Baabaa!"

The third tendril was born.

"Mian Mian~"

"Meimei~"

Meimei and Mian Mian exchanged a glance, hugging together with a "smoo~" wrapped in a bundle.

"Cui Cui!"

Cui Cui also wanted to twist over and join.

Meimei and Mian Mian gave it a glance. "Baabaa!" "Mian Mian!" encircled Cui Cui with a "Crunch-crack!" of vigorous beating...

"Oh, stop messing around, stop messing around..."

Chen Xuantian helplessly retracted the three tendrils.

Hmm, this move is strong, tendrils can fight on their own, even intercepting and absorbing the impact from a fully energized Divinity Transformation Demon Monster, and any Daoist Skill, Immortal Law, Gang Fist indeed can’t break through it at all. But there’s still weakness.

For instance, when releasing the Returning to Void Hand, no matter how powerful Chen Xuantian’s Divine Sense might be, he must constantly observe and retract the Ghost Spring Technique to maintain spellcasting, as full-process guidance prevents focusing on anything else, remaining still equates to being a sitting duck, holding a huge weakness. Perhaps during direct confrontation tendrils can be used for defense, but if others are surrounding or attack secretly, there’s still a risk of overturn.

So the Returning to Void Hand indeed has much room for optimization, I have to think about how to blend Cui Cui, Mian Mian, Meimei into the combat Taoist Skill rhythm, at the very least keep up with the Mystic Sect Instant Body move, like lightning, tunneling swiftly for high-intensity fast assaults. Honestly, it needs more practice...