Of course, fearing light isn’t the biggest problem; at worst, you can carry an umbrella when you go out. The real issue is how to refine the Nether Spring.

Yes, the Life Revival and Void Returning Hand taught by Lingxu can transform the Wetware Dao Body and Nether Spring into each other. So theoretically, Chen Xuantian could entirely continue down this path of proving the Dao through tribulations, refining anyone he sees, transforming the Nether Spring at the slightest disagreement, growing billions of tentacles and transforming into the Dao Body of the hellish Great Dao~

Cough cough, but that’s not possible.

Because with a quick calculation, Chen Xuantian realized that the efficiency of extracting Nether Spring with the Life Revival and Void Returning Hand is actually quite low. On average, only one Divinity Transformation can refine one tentacle, and even dozens of Core Formation level Gang Fist Mountain Bandits combined can only match one. If he retraces the old path of the Nether Spring and returns to the Void, it might really require refining a million beings and consuming a thousand years of time. How is that any different from Lingxu’s Split Soul?

Of course, you could say that the Blood God’s son’s great method requires Divinity Transformation and Enlightenment, consuming billions of lives. The Beichen Sword Scripture requires casting swords, also involving worldwide slaughter, refining Taiji. When the Three Venerables achieved the Dao, which one didn’t ravage the world, which one didn’t massacre the living, which one didn’t leave the beings in ruins?

But Chen Xuantian now knows that what happened in the past is in the past, and from now on, if anyone tries to achieve the Dao in such a way, that group of Water Clan will not allow it.

After all, wasn’t the last Nether Spring beaten back to its original form and nailed in the coffin right before Chen Xuantian’s eyes?

Not to mention that Bubble Ancestor still holds many grievances against him, even Tie Dan wanting to use Taiji Heaven to cast a sword got a pointer as a wake-up call.

It shows that anyone and any Dao, if they wish to sacrifice the world and offer the beings as a tribute for their own path, there will surely be heroic spirits descending from the heavens, even if it takes many reincarnations, reversing fate, they will come to exterminate you.

These are the rules set by Bubble Ancestor.

Hey, the Great Dao of time and space travel is really amazing, allowing you to do as you please, what can you do about it?

So Chen Xuantian is also quite speechless. What’s the use of learning the Nether Spring Path then? Isn’t there still no way out?

But it’s not a big deal, learning was others’ call anyway, when the ship comes to the bridge, it will naturally straighten, they must have a plan, we’ll talk about it then.

"Ew ew ew——""Awo awo awo——""Gah gah gah——""Puff puff puff——"

Suddenly, the Divine Weapons started having fits, twitching in place and shaking as if in a seizure, spewing essence blood wildly, their flesh and blood collapsing and overflowing from the golden armor, melting like an ice cream under the sun.

Hmm, the Nether Spring is about ready, nothing else to say, just do it.

"Returning to Void"

"Jianjian!" "Daodao!" "Qiangqiang!" "Chuchu!"

So new tentacles burst into existence.

The Security Tentacle Squad hugged together, seemingly embracing brothers from different parents.

Mian Mian and Meimei watched coldly from the side, while Cui Cui eagerly "Cui Cui!" rushed over to join.

And then got "smacked and slammed!" for a round of beating.

Really speechless how a bunch of tentacles can still form factions...

"Life Revival."

Then the scattered water gathered back like the tide pulling in, reviving and returning to void, refining into human form. After a series of frame drops and screen flickers, within the dark cabin emerged a skinny youth with unkempt hair, tangled to the point of fighting each other.

Alright, after this tribulation, the company is settled, now he can finally continue researching the war’s rewards, a can in the South Heavenly Gate’s guard ship... 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Hmm, a can.

In fact, at the moment the Dao transformed Nether Spring, Chen Xuantian immediately sensed a strong summons, as if something on that ship was calling to him, akin to a part of his body, and a large part at that.

That’s why he dared to risk being killed by a high beam, trying to peek out in response to that call, who knew both sides would resonate so intensely, it was so intense that it directly dragged the whole ship down, leaving Chen Xuantian a bit bewildered.

But after some exploration and research, he did gain some insight.

In simple terms, this is a truncated icosahedron composed of eight regular hexagons and six squares, a topological structure with fourteen faces and twenty-four vertices forming an Archimedean solid. The diagonal diameter is about eighteen inches, weighing about two hundred and forty pounds, with the can’s shell being a semi-transparent deep black crystal, and inside one can see black liquid vortices slowly spinning.

Right, what’s inside that can is obviously not oil or ink but Nether Spring, and not the diluted type, it’s highly concentrated, viscous as wax Nether Spring, evidently a substance that the company created with technological methods, imbued with enormous energy.

And once Chen Xuantian established a connection with the Nether Spring inside the can, at the moment Divine Sense communicated, the entire ship crashed offline, forcibly taken over by him, revealing the can’s function was also quite clear, it should be an engine, reactor or power supply device. Not only does the entire ship’s power, shields, and weapon systems rely on this can for energy, but even those humanoid weapons, combat wetware, drones, all derive their energy from this can.

Although for now, Chen Xuantian can’t tell what material the crystal can is made of or how to pry it open, he toyed with it using his tentacles, after some sensation, he did gain some insights.

There’s no need to open it, as even without direct contact, this thing can transmit energy wirelessly, ignoring spatial limitations, providing energy across the air. Not only can it charge his Nether Spring Tao body, but it can also directly activate various technological electronic equipment.

And from his own experimentation, from any face of this cubic structure, energy can be freely transmitted, and compared to the storage in the can, the loss is negligible. The only limitation is that each time an energy link is established, the peak energy that can be extracted is restricted to a rated limit, maybe due to company management or differences in equipment between the guard ship level and Titan level system platform, there was energy level control.