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Chapter 901: Chapter 497: Falling Thunder

Li Shiming left the mountain gate of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect without informing any cultivator.

He took along Venerable Huijing, whose strength had rapidly improved over the years, mainly due to the consumption of a large number of fourth-grade Spirit Pills to aid in cultivation.

Venerable Huijing probably hadn’t consumed as many fourth-grade Spirit Pills in his previous centuries-long cultivation journey as he had in the past four years.

He was almost cultivating to the limit of his capabilities by consuming fourth-grade Spirit Pills, which allowed his strength to fully recover to his pre-injury condition and even become somewhat stronger.

However, Li Shiming did not have much confidence in Venerable Huijing’s combat power; he was very aware that Venerable Huijing’s battle strength was still no match for the Nascent Soul cultivator of the Dongqi Continent.

Given another thirty to forty years, Venerable Huijing would have the strength to compete with the ordinary early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator of the Dongqi Continent, yet still fall short of catching up with the strength of main sect Nascent Soul cultivators.

Bringing Venerable Huijing was intended to give him a chance to escape when in the most dangerous situations.

Li Shiming transformed into a flash of lightning, flying towards the outside of the mountain gate; his movements did not escape the attention of those observing with intent.

Just a short time after he left the mountain gate, three Great Elders followed through the gate likewise.

Li Shiming has ’Divine Eye Skill’, within three thousand miles, as long as there are no obstacles blocking the view, he can see everything within this distance.

He saw the three Great Elders pursuing him from behind, maintaining a distance of six hundred miles between him and the three Great Elders.

And this distance was continually increasing; he hadn’t spent these years idly.

Training in the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ at the Golden Core Great Elder level, combined with the foundational work of the earlier ’Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Technique,’ has brought his ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ to close to Great Elder level, just one step away from that level.

The fastest cultivation speed had the greatest assistance from the Fourth Grade Sky Strike Thunder Hammer.

There probably isn’t a second Golden Core cultivator who can involve a Nascent Soul cultivator to continuously drive a fourth-grade thunder item to create a thunder environment for the Golden Core cultivator, aiding the Golden Core cultivator in cultivating thunder techniques.

Even for a dear son, that’s not possible; what Nascent Soul cultivator would waste their many years solely to boost the cultivation speed of a Golden Core cultivator?

It must be known that driving the Fourth Grade Sky Strike Thunder Hammer consumes one’s own spiritual power, and for cultivation cooperation, the power of the Fourth Grade Sky Strike Thunder Hammer must be carefully controlled, maintaining it at Li Shiming’s optimal cultivation effect.

This was more generous than treating him as a cherished son, almost as though treating him as a cherished father.

While Li Shiming was in the thousand-mile range of the sect, he did not use Divine Foot Skill. However, even relying on the Thunder Escape Secret Technique of the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ for traveling, his speed was still somewhat faster than the three Great Elders behind him.

The Thunder Cultivator is renowned for speed and attack power; otherwise, how could it be rightly esteemed as one of the strongest professions alongside the Sword Cultivator?

Li Shiming wasn’t interested in confronting the three Great Elders; he clearly understood that if he were to kill these three Great Elders, the next pursuers would be Nascent Soul cultivators.

His only relief was that the cultivators of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect underestimated his battle strength, only sending three Great Elders to deal with him.

What he didn’t know was that deploying three Great Elders against him wasn’t due to his battle strength, but rather considering the presence of the Illusion Spirit Jiao.

Among the three Great Elders, one was to deal with him, while the other two were for the Illusion Spirit Jiao.

This wasn’t underestimating Li Shiming; it was conventional for the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s cultivators not to regard a single entity of battle strength but rather as a dual strength.

Each of the three Great Elders possessed their own Spiritual Pet, and the strength of the Spiritual Pet was in no way inferior to their own, even exceeding their masters in battle strength with the empowerment of Secret Techniques.

It means three Great Elders equated to six Great Elders in battle strength, making it seem quite easy to deal with Li Shiming in their consideration.

Ultimately, Li Shiming was still of Loose Cultivator origins; even with the Great Elder level, he could not compare to the Great Elders of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

Li Shiming cared little for this, sensing a departure from another space feeling upon leaving the thousand-mile range of the sect; he used ’Limitless Worlds Apart’ to head for the distance.

Employing the ’Limitless Worlds Apart,’ he traveled a full two-hour distance, having long left the three Great Elders far behind, well beyond three thousand miles’ range, finally settling on an unclaimed peak.

He first released the drone satellites, production of recent years, representing a new generation of upgraded versions.

With extensive reading of the array formation knowledge of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, his own magic item IBMz15 achieved a breakthrough enhancement in the aspect of formation, expertly improving the drone satellite formations for remarkable advancements in energy utilization, concealment, flying speed, and other areas.

Previously, restricted by the thousand-mile sect range, it was impossible to launch the drones, which now could finally be released.

Dozens of drones took to the skies, flying in all directions.

One drone satellite positioned itself ten thousand meters high, hovering above him, allowing him to observe through his own magic item IBMz15 and perceive the situation of tens of thousands of miles around.

Li Shiming took out a Third Grade Array Flag, setting up a formation to conceal the mountain peak.

This formation doesn’t serve a substantial purpose when the semi-finished ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ completes its final step; upon triggering the Heavenly Tribulation, the formation can no longer conceal the mountain peak.