Kami and Mr. Popo had a more thorough grasp of how to use ki.
Mr. Popo, in particular, had been at Kami's Lookout far longer than the current Kami.
He had helped guide the current Kami in using ki at the very beginning.
Just as Mr. Popo had guided Tien Shinhan and Goku over three months ago.
As a result, both could suppress their ki extremely well while attacking.
Although Kami was stirring the ki within his body to boost his movement speed and attack power, almost no excess ki leaked out.
Through Ki Sensing, Tien Shinhan could pick up only a faint, blurry afterimage of Kami's movements.
But ever since mastering Ki Sensing, he had deliberately avoided relying on it too much.
So even in this situation, Tien Shinhan did not panic in the slightest.
If sensing ki was difficult, he still had his eyes to observe directly.
Besides, their speed was practically slow motion in Tien Shinhan's eyes.
Mr. Popo had taken ki suppression even further. If Tien Shinhan relied on Ki Sensing alone, he could not detect his position at all.
But although both suppressed their ki very well, they ultimately could not escape Tien Shinhan's direct visual observation.
Even with two eyes closed, Tien Shinhan could still clearly see them approaching from either side.
Let alone now, when all three of Tien Shinhan's eyes were open.
"Off you go!"
Facing the two who had already rushed to his sides, Tien Shinhan moved later but struck first, thrusting his palms out to either side.
His arms formed a horizontal line, his palms naturally pushing out to the left and right.
It did not look particularly powerful or fast.
Yet that plain, unremarkable push to either side sent Kami and Mr. Popo flying simultaneously.
As swiftly as they had rushed in from either side, Tien Shinhan pushed them straight back the way they had come!
What?! Even suppressing our ki couldn't throw him off at all?
After flying backward several dozen meters, Kami barely steadied himself, inwardly astonished.
Suppressing their ki to launch a surprise attack on Tien Shinhan was the strategy he and Mr. Popo had just discussed.
Tien Shinhan's ki was currently extremely powerful, and his battle power was astonishing.
But Kami had thought that, young as he was, he should still have some shortcomings in his training and combat experience.
And that shortcoming should have been the habit of overreliance that most martial artists tended to develop when first mastering Ki Sensing.
Even if Tien Shinhan's performance in martial arts could be called perfect, he should still have had that small flaw.
Yet judging by the actual result, Tien Shinhan had truly achieved flawless perfection, leaving no openings.
He did not even have the tiny flaw of relying too heavily on Ki Sensing.
Not only does he possess tremendous battle power, but he can also avoid common flaws on his own.
His strength is no longer merely a matter of powerful ki. It lies even more in his heart, which strives for perfection!
Although Tien Shinhan had sent him flying with a single palm strike, Kami no longer cared about losing face.
Alongside his astonishment, gratification and fervor kept growing within him.
A martial artist sufficiently strong in both battle power and heart was absolutely the perfect successor to the position of Kami.
And unlike him, who had needed to separate out his evil side before he could serve as Kami, Tien Shinhan had no such flaw at all!
"You're so strong, Tien Shinhan! You really have gotten much stronger over these past few days."
"I said I'd take the chance to catch up with you, but it looks like you've widened the gap instead!"
Like Kami, Goku and Krillin were both astonished and delighted, brimming with excitement.
Even though Tien Shinhan had grabbed them by the legs and flung them away, a minor setback like that was nowhere near enough to make them concede and give up.
Even if they had no chance of winning this spar, they at least had to give it everything they had.
Seeing that their earlier close-range surprise attack had been ineffective against Tien Shinhan, Goku and Krillin exchanged a glance.
The next moment, they made the same decision.
They gathered all the ki within their bodies.
"Ka-me-ha-me-ha!"
The two disciples of the same school simultaneously gathered their full power into Kamehamehas, preparing to settle the match with Tien Shinhan.
After all, the shock wave unleashed by a Kamehameha could produce greater attack power than their existing battle power through more concentrated ki.
Their ki was weaker than Tien Shinhan's to begin with, and close combat had proven ineffective. This was the only move they could use now.
Of course, Goku and Krillin had also prepared themselves.
If Tien Shinhan could not withstand their combined Kamehamehas, they would immediately redirect the attacks to keep him from being seriously injured.
Seeing this from the other side, Kami and Mr. Popo understood at once.
They were also very curious about just how far Tien Shinhan's current strength could go.
In close combat, even all five of them together were no match for him.
But what if he faced Ki Waves whose attack power had been increased through intense compression?
"Godly Finger!"
Kami immediately gathered a highly compressed Ki Wave at his fingertip and unleashed his divine version of the Special Beam Cannon at Tien Shinhan.
"Mr. Popo's Beam!"
Beside him, Mr. Popo immediately raised a thumb toward Tien Shinhan as well.
Only now, the tip of his thumb pointed at Tien Shinhan.
An equally compressed beam of ki shot rapidly from Mr. Popo's thumb toward Tien Shinhan.
Of course, Kami and Mr. Popo shared Goku and Krillin's thinking. If Tien Shinhan could not withstand their attacks, they would immediately redirect them.
"Huh? Why is everyone firing Ki Waves at Brother Tien?"
Chiaotzu, whose psychic powers Tien Shinhan had easily broken free of earlier, was momentarily at a loss as he watched the other four.
But he remembered what Tien Shinhan had told him before the fight began.
"Once the spar starts, Chiaotzu, don't hold back against me at all. Give it everything you've got and coordinate with the other four as they attack me."
"If I catch you holding back because you're worried about me, that'll mean you don't trust my strength enough!"
"Don't worry. Go all out!"
Remembering those particular instructions, Chiaotzu no longer hesitated and attacked with all his strength, just like the others.
"Dodon Ray!"
With Chiaotzu joining in, five Ki Waves came at Tien Shinhan from different directions at once.
Each blast substantially increased its user's battle power.
Goku's Kamehameha in particular took his battle power of over 2,000 and produced an attack whose strength broke straight past 3,000.
Combined with Krillin's Kamehameha, the attack strength of the two converging Kamehamehas soared to nearly 4,000!
If Tien Shinhan stood still without defending himself at all, that destructive power would already have been enough to break through his defenses and injure him.
Yet facing this barrage of Ki Waves only made Tien Shinhan more excited.
"That should do it. This level of attack power should be enough to test my new special move."
Neo Four Witches Technique!
The next moment, Tien Shinhan's body changed.
The original Four Witches Technique grew another pair of arms from Tien Shinhan's back, giving him four arms in total.
But Tien Shinhan's improved Neo Four Witches Technique was different. Not only was it faster to activate, but it also grew six additional arms.
Together with Tien Shinhan's original two arms, that made eight arms in total, or four pairs!
After Tien Shinhan transformed to have eight arms, he could handle the incoming barrage of Ki Waves with ease.
His arms punched out in different directions.
Boom!
His powerful punches whipped up fierce howls through the air, blasting apart the Kamehamehas, Godly Finger, Mr. Popo's Beam, and Dodon Ray, each with a single blow!
All eight arms struck together, as though he were utterly indestructible, and the five fighters' Ki Waves were instantly destroyed before his fists!
Overbearing!
Overwhelming!
Invincible!
At that moment, Goku, Krillin, Kami, Mr. Popo, and even Chiaotzu off to the side all felt that the eight-armed Tien Shinhan stood tall and imposing, like an invincible war god!
"Wow... With masculinity like that, I'm starting to understand why my other self was attracted to him so quickly."
Blue-haired Launch's eyes sparkled. Although she had already felt some affection for Tien Shinhan, she had never understood why her blonde self insisted on clinging to him.
But after witnessing the scene before her, she understood.
Neither her blue-haired self nor her blonde self could resist the charm he displayed while fighting seriously.
She was already wet-at the corners of her eyes!
Tears slid down in excitement, and Launch felt fortunate that her blonde self had persistently followed Tien Shinhan all the way here.
Otherwise, she would never have witnessed this invincible war god's rise!