Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 566: Chapter 329 Battle_2

The Mo Yu Spirit Umbrella, albeit having lost much of its spiritual essence, became his irreplaceable defensive treasure; he could not regard any other defensive treasures with the same esteem.

Most importantly, he was less concerned with defense, favoring offense instead, evident from his refinement of three Flying Swords as magical treasures.

When two Late-stage Golden Core Cultivators found themselves without an escape, they had not yet panicked before a Flying Sword each was already soaring towards them.

They quickly mobilized their attacking treasures to counter, for with their resources, having additional defensive treasures was out of the question; their only option was to meet attack with attack.

Moreover, they felt they could no longer afford to let Li Shiming launch his Thunder Skill attacks; another strike would force them to resist with their bodies, which they doubted could withstand a Third-grade Thunder Technique.

“Eh!” exclaimed a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator about to use a secret technique to approach the Meteor Ink Boat, surprised by a sudden development.

His Flying Sword had come into contact with Shiming’s Heart Sword. According to his judgment, his Late-stage Golden Core realm should not only match but at least block the Heart Sword without issue.

Although Shiming was a prodigy, his advancement to the Golden Core Realm was too recent. Even as a Sword Cultivator, it was impossible for him to suppress a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator’s treasure with just a single Flying Sword during his early Golden Core peak.

Yet the Heart Sword behaved strangely; as it crossed with the Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator’s Flying Sword, it bizarrely cut into the interior of the other treasure, causing damage.

The Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator couldn’t comprehend how the Heart Sword, despite bearing Thunder Sword Intent, could cause such an effect with just early Golden Core peak Spiritual Power and a not-so-strong Thunder Sword Intent.

The clash of Flying Swords was a common form of combat among Golden Core Cultivators.

With the battle experience of a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator, it was impossible for his Flying Sword to be damaged upon just making contact, considering his centuries of cultivation weren’t lived in vain.

Yet, at that moment, the Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator felt as if his centuries of cultivation had indeed been in vain.

The damage to his Flying Sword, compounded with the prior destruction of his defensive treasure, was too much, and he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood. His Flying Sword was his life-bound magical treasure, and its damage caused greater backlash than his defensive treasure.

He couldn’t help but look towards his comrade, only to find him also spitting out blood.

The same happened to him; Li Shiming’s White Feather Sword had severely damaged his comrade’s Flying Sword in a blink.

Li Shiming was quite satisfied with the outcome of the combat, his face carrying a smug smile.

In the direct confrontation of magical treasures, his Flying Sword easily damaging his opponent’s treasures wasn’t his inherent skill but rather the assistance from his life-bound treasure, IBMz15.

The unparalleled calculating power of the IBMz15, in controlling the Flying Sword, computed the best attack trajectories in real-time and analyzed the spiritual circuits of the opponent’s treasures.

Remember, Li Shiming was an Artifact Refiner. Especially, after reaching the Golden Core Stage, though he hadn’t crafted any magical treasures by hand, his accumulated knowledge in that field was sufficient.

Instantly, the IBMz15 utilized the Artifact Refiner’s knowledge comprehensively to analyze the opponent’s treasures.

Obviously, the precision with which the IBMz15 controlled the Flying Sword ensured the severe damage to the enemy’s treasures.

During Golden Core cultivator battles, it’s usually not about precise manipulation but about overpowering the enemy with stronger Spiritual Power and more potent magical treasures.

Precise operations are not absent, but they don’t significantly benefit, rather, they increase the difficulty of controlling the treasure, possibly leading to mistakes and vulnerabilities the enemy could exploit.

But Li Shiming was different; the IBMz15 was controlling the Flying Sword, and all he needed to do was give a command, leaving the rest to his life-bound treasure.

The IBMz15 would employ all the knowledge it had, applying every Flying Sword technique Li Shiming knew, to execute the given command.

If one were to draw an analogy for Shiming’s combat style compared to that of ordinary Golden Core Cultivators, while others wield a sledgehammer to strike, Shiming uses a scalpel to dissect the target.

It’s not that the sledgehammer approach is ineffective, but the scalpel’s attack uses the least Spiritual Power to achieve a greater effect.

Just like before, with only a Golden Core Early Stage Li Shiming managed to destroy the magical weapons of two Late-stage Golden Core Cultivators in a two against one situation with just an encounter using two flying swords.

If Li Shiming had also used the hammer attack technique, he would have needed to be at a higher cultivation realm than the two Late-stage Golden Core Cultivators to achieve the same effect.

The two Late-stage Golden Core Cultivators felt despair, something they had never experienced in their hundreds of years of cultivating.

Their attack weapons also lost their combat effectiveness, and though they still had some talismans, using them would hardly break the defense of the Meteor Ink Boat; trapped with no escape, they could only struggle in vain.

They no longer hesitated, the two moved closer together, several talismans appearing in their hands.

Now, they depended on the talismans in their hands, holding out as long as they could.

Li Shiming waved his hand, and the two flying sword treasures returned to the side of the Meteor Ink Boat, not taking advantage of the previous momentum to attack.

He had many techniques, and within the Shushan Sect, there wasn’t a cultivator to test the power.

Today, these two Late-stage Golden Core Cultivators, without any magical weapons in hand, were the perfect test subjects.

He smiled slightly, sweeping his hand in front of him, the “Heavenly Sound Annihilation Dao Zither” appeared before him.

A subtle change occurred in his aura, which was him activating the “Heavenly Sound Secret Manual.”

He did not play the music from the “Heavenly Sound Secret Manual,” instead, he played the most familiar “Buddha’s Light Emerges.”

Upon hearing the sound of the zither, the two Late-stage Golden Core Cultivators were taken aback; they could not understand why Li Shiming would play the zither in the midst of battle.

Soon they understood the reason: the magnificent music directly entered their spirits, rapidly eroding their will to fight, instantly giving rise to the thought of surrender in their minds.

Immediately, they realized something was wrong, jointly channeling their power to resist the invasion of the zither music.

“How many techniques does he have, even dabbling in the Sound Wave Technique!” this was what they thought.

And as the music continued, they realized Li Shiming was not just dabbling in the Sound Wave Technique, but rather, he had the inheritance of it.

However, much to their relief, although the effect of the zither music was astounding, Li Shiming’s cultivation realm was indeed too low; he couldn’t suppress them with the music alone.

Li Shiming also realized this, using the “Heavenly Sound Annihilation Dao Zither” to produce a sound wave attack, might be very effective against groups of weaker cultivators, but it was not effective against cultivators of a higher realm.

He frowned, this battle from Thunder Technique to flying swords, then adding sound wave attacks, had him trying all his usual combat methods.

Now that he had tested his combat methods, it was time to end this battle; he did not want to drag it out any longer.

With that thought, he opened his mouth, issuing a sharp sound.

This sound, catching the already defenseless two Late-stage Golden Core Cultivators off guard, affected their spirits, causing a brief chaos in their Spiritual Power Patterns.

“Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear,” this was an attack Li Shiming had created himself, not quite a Sound Wave Technique, but rather a spirit attack Secret Technique.

Just at the moment when the two Late-stage Golden Core Cultivators’ spirits were unguarded, the music of “Buddha’s Light Emerges” invaded their bodies, turning the originally magnificent Righteous Path into a cutting blade, severing the vitality within their bodies.

“Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear” lasted a fraction of a moment longer; by the time the two Late-stage Golden Core Cultivators recovered from the influence, they found the music had already wreaked havoc inside them, even cutting their Golden Cores into pieces.

In unwillingness, they looked toward the Flying Boat that Li Shiming was aboard; in this battle, they had not even seen Li Shiming’s face.