Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 622: Chapter 357: Consecutive Beheadings_2

Li Shiming’s Third-Grade Sword Foundation Magical Treasure unleashed a sweeping strike, equaling the strength of a Late-Stage Golden Core Body Refining Practitioner, nearing the perfection of Body Refinement, and combined with the top tier Third Grade Sword Base Long Sword among Third-Grade Treasures, its power did not require much skill to bisect a Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator on the spot.

Bisecting is the least likely method to cause instant death, but the strong vitality of the Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator bisected by the Third-Grade Sword Foundation Magical Treasure was of little use.

The Thunder Sword Intent of Li Shiming, along with the Earth Evil Power driving the Third-Grade Sword Foundation Magical Treasure, upon entering the body of his opponent, immediately destroyed all signs of life within.

“Quickly form the formation!” Senior Brother Zhao shouted a reminder.

But his warning was still a step too late, for Li Shiming had already gotten close to the group of Golden Core cultivators from the Earth Evil Sect.

For a Golden Core Body Refining Practitioner, this distance was entirely within the range of a short burst sprint, where Body Refining Practitioners combine their naturally explosive proximity speed with the flying capabilities of an ordinary cultivator.

With a burst sprint, Li Shiming once again closed in on a Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator.

This time the Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator activated his defensive treasure in time, a Copper Mirror Treasure, but under Li Shiming’s strike, the Copper Mirror Treasure was sent flying by the Third Grade Sword Base, and after tossing the treasure aside, the Third Grade Sword Base drew a graceful arc, cutting down this Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator.

Confident in his own attacks, right after killing the second Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator, he lunged toward another target.

His style of combat was unlike that of any other cultivator in the Cultivation World.

The precise calculations and analysis of the IBMz15, combined with its incredible computing power and with each CPU equivalent to having another brain like that of Li Shiming’s, allowed him to think in a multi-threaded mode and accurately judge the details of the battlefield situation.

Li Shiming’s ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Divine Sight’ appeared to hold little value in combat, but they were also making a special contribution.

These two Divine Skills kept providing deeper battlefield auxiliary information for the IBMz15, ensuring that every strike he made was more deadly.

Since the fight began, his attacks had been highly targeted, and the reactions of the targeted Golden Core cultivators were within the range of outcomes analyzed by the IBMz15.

As he launched his attack on the third Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator, the rest of the Golden Core cultivators, having recovered from their shock, once again launched attacks on him; following the directions of Senior Brother Zhao, they began to form a formation.

Golden Core cultivators from the same sect, especially those from major sects, would practice simple formations suitable for their own sect.

Although the formations were simple, when performed together by multiple Golden Core cultivators, they could exhibit power several times greater than the sum of the participants.

Li Shiming felt the pressure grow; then, he opened his mouth and let out a piercing scream.

It was his spirit attack secret technique ‘Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear.’ Unleashed at close range, it caused all the Golden Core cultivators, including Senior Brother Zhao, to stagger at the same time.

The effectiveness of ‘Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ varied with the individual. With Li Shiming’s spirit power, the ‘Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ he put forth, caused most of the Golden Core cultivators present to experience a moment of mental confusion.

However, Senior Brother Zhao recovered quickly after barely a tremble — the lapse wasn’t even long enough for Li Shiming to rush up and launch an attack.

Yet that brief moment was fatal for some of the Golden Core cultivators.

In the space of that moment, Li Shiming, with the Third-Grade Sword Foundation Magical Treasure in hand, consecutively swept through the bodies of the three nearest Golden Core Middle-Stage cultivators.

When the Earth Evil Sect’s Golden Core cultivators recovered from the effects of ‘Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear,’ they realized that five of their peers had already fallen on the battlefield.

These were five Golden Core Middle-Stage cultivators, who, even in a great sect, were considered central to their battle force, participating as the core of the fighting force in conflicts.

Yet in the combat against Li Shiming, barely a few moments had passed, and five Golden Core Middle-Stage cultivators had been slain.

“Everyone, regroup with me and form a tight formation!” Senior Brother Zhao’s complexion changed. If they continued to suffer losses like this, even a great sect like the Earth Evil Sect would feel the pain.

Cultivating a Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator requires at least a hundred years, and such cultivators appear only once among a thousand disciples.

Considering the difficulty of being accepted into a major sect, those who succeed are the talents with exceptional gifts. The odds of one in a thousand demonstrate just how rare it is for a Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator to emerge.

Even with such proportions, the six major sects of the Beishu Continent still possess the majority of the continent’s resources, enabling them to cultivate such talents with a focus on intensive resource allocation.

In smaller sects, this proportion can be even harder to predict, and for some of these sects, having a Golden Core cultivator emerge is more a matter of luck.

If Senior Brother Zhao weren’t here, any number of losses wouldn’t relate to him, but since the Nascent Soul Ancestor dispatched him, too many losses among the Golden Core cultivators here might affect the ancestor’s perception of him.

The Nascent Soul Ancestor’s perception could relate to his resources for forming the Nascent Soul, compelling him to grow anxious.

Li Shiming ceased his attack because the Golden Core cultivators of the Earth Evil Sect were already extremely close, now drawing even nearer, centering around Senior Brother Zhao to form a formation like a turtle shell.

Even with his considerable strength, he couldn’t breach a turtle shell formation centered by a Golden Core cultivator of Great Elder level.

To change this, he deliberately stopped attacking, using his Divine Thought to collect the corpses and spatial items of five Golden Core cultivators that had fallen to the ground.

He had hoped to provoke the enemy with this highly aggravating tactic, spurring them to attack first, thereby creating an opportunity for himself.

Yet to his surprise, despite there being nine remaining Golden Core cultivators, including a Great Elder level Senior Brother Zhao, they just watched Li Shiming collect the spoils of war, making no move to attack.

Honestly, it wasn’t just Chu Xun and the other Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivators who were shocked—so was Senior Brother Zhao.

Even Senior Brother Zhao couldn’t kill Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivators as easily as Li Shiming did, as if slaughtering chickens.

Furthermore, and most crucially, during the battle, Li Shiming revealed his immense body refinement strength as a cultivator at the late stage of the Golden Core.

Body Refining Cultivators are a special breed among cultivators, not because they aren’t strong, but because their training consumes an overwhelming amount of resources.

The resources needed to cultivate a Body Refining Cultivator would suffice to support the growth of many ordinary cultivators. Moreover, the growth potential of Body Refining Cultivators is hard to assess, and unless possessing a unique physique, major sects wouldn’t heavily invest in their cultivation.

“Suppress!” A murderous intent flashed in Senior Brother Zhao’s eyes as he barked the command. Li Shiming had not only stealthily learned the core cultivation technique ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ of the Earth Evil Sect but was also extremely formidable as a Body Refining Golden Core. Such an enemy couldn’t be let go.

As he roared, a Mountain Peak Treasure flew out from his hands.

The Mountain Peak Treasure transformed into a mountain peak in mid-air, exerting indescribable binding forces and a combination of gravity and Spiritual Power constraints on Li Shiming, significantly limiting even his formidable body refinement abilities and making his attempts to move extremely slow.

This was only because his body refinement cultivation was so formidable—if an ordinary Golden Core cultivator were beneath such a Mountain Peak Treasure, they wouldn’t even manage to twitch.

Li Shiming sensed the Earth Evil Power contained within the Mountain Peak Treasure, and he understood just how terrifying a Mountain Peak Treasure imbued with Earth Evil Power could be.

“I can’t hide any longer!” he sighed helplessly to himself.

Before such a wide-ranging targeted attack from the treasure, short bursts of speed had little effect; the moment the Mountain Peak Treasure was deployed, an entire area was locked down.

The forces of binding, gravity, and Spiritual Power constraints were not only acting upon Li Shiming but also affected a wide area around him, all within the treasure’s restraining scope.

That also explained why using Mountain Peak Type Magical Treasures consumed massive amounts of spiritual power—they necessitated the manipulation of such treasures to provide an unavoidable attacking effect, naturally demanding a vast supply of spiritual power.

Under an attack from a Mountain Peak Type Magical Treasure, normal evasion was ineffective; one could only rely on their own defensive treasures, a stronger attacking treasure to counteract, or simply wait to be suppressed by the Mountain Peak Type Magical Treasure.