Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 265: Chapter 179 Trouble

The battle between Li Yuanba and the female cultivator ended first, with the female completely overpowered by the Gale Golden Light Sword.

The sword light produced by the Gale Golden Light Sword caused disturbances in the female cultivator’s spirit each time it struck, preventing her from using any other techniques to defend herself and forcing her into a passive state of resistance.

After the sword light hit the female cultivator’s spiritual artifact shield five times, the spirit imprint inside the shield was completely erased.

The female cultivator spat out a mouthful of fresh blood and, stricken with fear, dared not move, as the Gale Golden Light Sword hovered in front of her brow, ready to kill her with one strike if she made a move.

Li Shiming waved his hand and the Soul-binding Rope flew out, tightly binding the female cultivator.

On another front, five Foundation Establishment Cultivators attempted to attack Li Shiming, but they found the scenery around them changing and Li Shiming’s Flying Boat was nowhere to be seen.

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The Nine Palace Sword Formation in Li Shiming’s hands was not so simple; Illusion Array, Thunder Array, and Trapping Formation were instantly laid out.

The massive calculations required were all processed by the IBMz15.

It should be noted that these were nine Spiritual Weapon Flying Swords, which required constant adjustment while relatively static in the air to maintain the integrity of the formation.

Although it was Li Shiming’s first time using the Nine Palace Sword Formation, with the help of IBMz15, he had already analyzed and prepared many tactics countless times.

Clearly, the five Foundation Establishment Cultivators did not take Li Shiming and Li Yuanba seriously at first as they were five in number, with the strongest among them being a Mid-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

By the time Li Shiming had set up the Nine Palace Sword Formation, they had never encountered an Array Master who could set up a formation like this and were unclear what they were up against.

Li Shiming was also summarizing his experience. He felt that the time it took to deploy the Nine Palace Sword Formation was still too long. If the five Foundation Establishment Cultivators had chosen to leave immediately, the formation might not have been fully established, allowing them to truly escape.

“Young Master, we attack the same spot, this temporarily arranged formation cannot withstand our combined assault!” a Mid-stage Cultivator calmly said.

The young cultivator nodded, his face not overly worried, instead filled with even more intent to kill.

He could sense that the power of the Illusion Array and Trapping Formation was quite good, yet the power of the thunder was very ordinary. Despite multiple hits on their defense spiritual artifacts, they had produced no effect at all.

The power of these thunders was probably just at the late-stage Qi Refining level.

Five spiritual artifacts attacked a single spot, the combined Spiritual Power of the five Foundation Establishment Cultivators carried a destructive force.

Li Shiming drew complex Magic Runes in front of him; this was the core attack spell of the ‘Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Technique,’ the ‘Thunder Strike Skill.’

Golden Thunder Spiritual Power from his body flowed into the ‘Thunder Strike Skill’ rune, generating a golden thunder at his fingertips.

From the casting of the ‘Thunder Strike Skill’ to the emergence of the golden thunder, it took three breaths’ time due to his lack of proficiency with the technique.

The main reason was still the lack of sufficient cultivation time, and the total amount of spiritual power in his body did not permit him to practice this powerful spell excessively.

Luckily, with the Nine Palace Sword Formation, even though the five Foundation Establishment Cultivators concentrated their attacks on one spot, it was still far from breaking the formation.

A high-level Array Master coupled with nine special spiritual artifacts was not easily broken through.

The golden thunder shot out, entering the thunder of the Shock Thunder Array, vanishing like a drop of water entering the ocean, untraceable.

However, this golden thunder was different from the thunder generated by the Shock Thunder Array. It was an attack from the top-tier thunder cultivation technique ‘Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Technique,’ and the unleashed Golden Thunder Spiritual Power was of Peak Early-stage Foundation Establishment quality.

This strike was definitely beyond the strongest strike of an Early-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator, yet his opponents could not detect its release.

Under the direction of the Mid-stage Cultivator, the Early-stage Cultivators continually bombarded one point, and the entire space of thunder seemed to slightly tremble, indicating that their attacks were effective.

Just as they rejoiced, a golden lightning bolt, along with countless other lightning bolts, struck on a defense spiritual artifact of an Early-stage Cultivator.

The Early-stage Cultivator, accustomed to these thunder attacks, thought it would be just like before, easily blocked by his defense spiritual artifact.

He did not even focus his main attention on the defense spiritual artifact, still giving his all to support his companions’ attack.

The moment the golden lightning touched the Early-stage Cultivator’s defense spiritual artifact, the terror of the golden lightning truly revealed itself.

With a “bang”, the defense spiritual artifact was blown away, and the golden lightning seemed to bounce off the defense spiritual artifact and then leap back onto the Early-stage Cultivator’s body.

The Early-stage Cultivator didn’t even have time to scream before the terrifying golden thunder power permeated his body, demonstrating its powerful destructive force for the first time against an Early-stage Cultivator.

When the nearby Foundation Establishment Cultivators noticed and prepared to intervene, the life force of the Early-stage Cultivator had already been extinguished.

“Uncle Liu, protect me!” the young cultivator, seeing the fall of the Early-stage Cultivator, realized he could not hesitate any longer; he had to use his trump card.

Called Uncle Liu, the Mid-stage Cultivator retracted his attacking spiritual artifact and controlled two defense spiritual artifacts to tightly protect the young cultivator.

The other two Early-stage Cultivators also used their defense spiritual artifacts to protect the outer perimeter, forming the first line of defense.

The young cultivator took out a rune treasure, sat cross-legged on the Flying Boat, and began to mobilize the spiritual power in his body to activate the rune treasure.

Li Shiming had not expected such a scenario; he had thought of enjoying a good fight, but his opponents started using their powerful moves right away, leaving him no chance to battle.