141: Talisman against Spirit Summoning Technique

The mysterious flower on the brocade handkerchief suddenly bloomed, and Smoke of Willow transformed into a hundred floral shadows, breaking through the thunder vortex's strangulation before reconverging into form.

Lin Feng sneered, and blinding electric light suddenly erupted from the thunder vortex; it was the killing move of the Seven Luminaries Thunder Ring, "Thunder Luminary Burst."

Just as the electric light was about to strike Smoke of Willow, she suddenly threw out a Talisman with her left hand and pointed two fingers of her right hand toward her brow, drawing her brow blood into the Talisman.

"With blood as the guide, ten thousand beasts obey my command!" As the Talisman burned, a three-headed demon bat broke through the air.

This demon bat was pitch black, each head possessing blood-red eyes, and as its wings vibrated, it emitted sound waves that disrupted spiritual energy.

The demon bat shrieked and lunged at the thunder net, and wherever the sound waves passed, the thunder light was extinguished.

"This is... the Spirit-Devouring Demon Bat of the Hehuan Sect!" Su Sizhu exclaimed, "She actually used her life essence blood to summon a Talisman Treasure!"

Su Sizhu's heart was greatly shaken; she clearly knew that life essence blood was the basis of a Cultivator's Foundation, and every drop lost required years of bitter cultivation to recover, let alone using brow blood—this was simply self-destructing her dao foundation!

Just as Su Sizhu and Luo Linger prepared to intervene, Lin Feng suddenly raised his hand to stop them: "Senior Sisters, wait."

He looked at Smoke of Willow with a firm gaze, "This is a personal grievance between her and me; it should be resolved by me personally."

Luo Linger said anxiously: "But she has even used her life essence blood!"

A flash of determination crossed Lin Feng's eyes: "Precisely because of that, I want to see the results of my training over these past few years even more."

He secretly transmitted his voice to the two: "If I am truly unable to defeat her, it will not be too late to ask Senior Sisters to intervene."

Su Sizhu and Luo Linger exchanged a look and finally nodded, stepping back.

They understood that this was Lin Feng verifying his Dao Heart, and also making a clean break with the past.

The demon bat's three heads shrieked in unison, carving a strange triangular formation in the air.

Smoke of Willow stood in mid-air, a sneer on her lips.

"It's been a few years, and you have indeed improved quite a bit." She lightly stroked the bone flute with her fingertips, "Do you know the origin of this Spirit-Devouring Demon Bat?"

She chuckled, "This is a Talisman Treasure refined by three Elders of the Hehuan Sect over a hundred years. Even a Core Formation Cultivator would have to retreat three times if they encountered it!"

After speaking, she waved her right hand, and the demon bat's three heads simultaneously emitted sound waves of different frequencies.

The black mist sprayed from the middle head carried the property of corroding spiritual energy, and wherever it passed, the thunder and lightning scattered.

The sound waves from the left head were like a tangible impact, shattering the vortex formed by the thunder vortex's strangulation.

Finally, with a "boom," the thunder vortex completely collapsed, and the escaping thunder light was instead swallowed by the demon bat's right head.

Lin Feng retreated seven steps, the thunder light flickering unsteadily around his body.

This Spirit-Devouring Demon Bat was indeed a secret treasure of the Hehuan Sect; the coordination of its three heads was seamless.

Seeing Lin Feng retreating repeatedly, a look of triumph appeared on Smoke of Willow's face, but her complexion also became increasingly pale; clearly, the loss of essence blood was immense.

Yet she could not care about the loss of her own essence blood and forced a sneer: "The three heads are mutually generated and cycle endlessly. Let's see how long you can hold on?"

Just as Smoke of Willow directed the demon bat to press the attack, Lin Feng finally made up his mind.

"Three heads mutually generated? There's no other way." Lin Feng suddenly withdrew his hand seals and formed an ancient hand seal with both hands.

As he chanted obscure incantations, Lin Feng's entire body emitted a dazzling golden light.

Within the golden light, Lin Feng's body began to undergo astonishing changes.

His eyes gleamed with flowing golden light, and fine starlight appeared at the edges of his pupils, as if the entire starry sky was contained within his eyes.

The surface of his skin revealed a luster like jade, and faintly visible, iridescent spiritual patterns moved beneath his skin.

The most magical thing was that his long hair moved without wind, the tips dyed with a faint golden radiance.

His entire body was shrouded in a thin layer of seven-colored halo, and when the thunder light flowed within it, it actually transformed into a magnificent snake-scale shape, with tiny electric sparks dancing at the edges.

"This... this is..." Smoke of Willow's pupils contracted violently, and she retreated three steps before stabilizing her figure: "How can a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator trigger the Dao Rhyme of Heaven and Earth? Could it be..."

She suddenly thought of a legend recorded in the Hehuan Sect's secret texts, and her voice could not stop trembling, "Impossible! A Celestial Manifestation can only be condensed at the Nascent Soul Stage at the earliest..."

Watching the battle, Su Sizhu covered her mouth with her right hand, suppressing her shock as she transmitted to Luo Linger: "This is impossible; only a Nascent Soul Cultivator can condense a Manifestation. Yet this is clearly a sign of Dao Rhyme manifestation!"

Luo Linger trembled slightly, her face full of disbelief: "If it's not a Manifestation, then what is this?"

In the center of the battlefield, Lin Feng stepped through the air, and with every step he took, a gorgeous lotus flower of thunder light blossomed in the air.

When he floated and stopped directly above the demon bat, a four-colored long sword, crystalline throughout and entwined with snake patterns, had already condensed in his palm.

Smoke of Willow suppressed the horror in her heart and desperately urged the demon bat to launch an attack.

But when the Spirit-Devouring black mist sprayed from the demon bat's middle head touched the halo, it dissipated naturally like morning dew meeting the sun.

The law-breaking sound waves shaken out from the left head collided with Lin Feng's body, only to be transformed into a clear chime, then dissipated without a sound.

What made her most desperate was that when the demon bat's right head tried to swallow the thunder light, it actually took the initiative to wrap around it, instead coiling the demon bat's right head in a cocoon of light.

"Three heads mutually generated, cycling endlessly? Is that it?" Lin Feng's lips curled slightly, golden radiance flowing in his eyes, "Now, it's time to let you witness the true Spirit Summoning Technique."

He swung the four-colored long sword casually, and the space where the sword tip passed rippled.

The demon bat's three heads resisted desperately, but the black mist dissipated upon contact, and the sound waves dissolved upon being heard.

The long sword then pierced through the core of the demon bat, and before the demon bat dissipated, it transformed into a sky full of light rain, illuminating the entire floating island like a fairyland.

Smoke of Willow stumbled to her knees, the brocade handkerchief scattered to the side, and she looked up at the holy radiance flowing around Lin Feng, her hoarse voice filled with unbelievable trembling:

"This is absolutely not an ordinary Spirit Summoning Technique..." She stared fixedly at those light patterns, "The Hehuan Sect's secret texts record that the Spirit Summoning Technique can at most allow a Cultivator to obtain thirty percent of a Spirit Beast's strength. But this of yours... this is clearly a perfect Spirit Summoning!"

She suddenly remembered something, her pupils contracting violently: "Could it be... you obtained the Legacy of the ancient Spirit Beast Sect? Legend has it that only the direct descendants of the Spirit Beast Sect can perform the 'Heaven and Man as One' perfect Spirit Summoning! But the Spirit Beast Sect disappeared more than two thousand years ago!"

At this moment, Su Sizhu looked at the Dao Rhyme halo around Lin Feng's body, her heart churning with stormy waves.

"This is actually a Spirit Summoning Technique? But Grandfather clearly said that the Qingxia Sect's Spirit Summoning Technique only simulates the characteristics of a Spirit Beast and has absolutely no ability to trigger the Dao Rhyme of Heaven and Earth!"

What made it even more unbelievable to her was that this technique was an untransmitted secret of the Qingxia Sect; where did Junior Brother Lin learn it from?

Its power was far beyond the ordinary, a world of difference from Grandfather's description!

And that "ancient Spirit Beast Sect" mentioned by the Hehuan Sect female Cultivator... with layers of mysteries intertwined, she secretly made up her mind: After going back, she must ask Grandfather to clear it all up!

Smoke of Willow suddenly smiled miserably, as if she had figured something out: "I understand now... It must be that you obtained the true Legacy of the Spirit Beast Sect in some ancient Secret Realm. No wonder you have had such a transformation in just a few years..."

She looked at the gradually dissipating demon bat light rain, her eyes full of despair: "How laughable that I thought I had victory in my grasp... It turns out that from the very beginning, I was destined not to be your opponent."