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Chapter 902: Chapter 497: Falling Thunder (Part 2)

Everything was ready, he took out a semi-finished ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’, completing the final step. As he looked at the ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ in his hand, even though he already had one, he was still captivated by the ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ in his hand.

On the small flying sword treasure, using 10-nanometer lines, thirty-six thousand Six Trigram Arrays had been inscribed, each Six Trigram Array made up of six runes with different effects.

This was the manifestation of his strongest Artifact Refining ability. At the moment of its birth, due to its excessive power, it was not accepted among Third Grade treasures and was rejected by the Heaven and Earth Rules.

Above the mountain peak, thunderclouds gathered.

As if he didn’t notice at all, he took out another semi-finished ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’, completing the final step.

At this moment, the Heavenly Thunder for the first ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ in the sky had already descended, and Li Shiming, holding the first ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’, faced the Heavenly Thunder.

The Heavenly Thunder struck the ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’, turning into a terrifying bright white ball of light that enveloped the sword body and, through the sword body, transmitted the Heavenly Thunder towards his body.

Li Shiming did this deliberately; otherwise, he could completely let go of the ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’, and with its spirituality, it would automatically fly into the sky to confront the Heavenly Thunder without endangering its owner.

He did this for the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ and his own Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent; both the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent and the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ required the influence of external forces.

Especially the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’, which was just a hair’s breadth away from reaching the Great Elder Level; however, without decades or even hundreds of years of slow grinding and constant effort, it was impossible to break through the final thread.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t other methods; intense lightning stimuli might also prematurely complete the final thread for the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’.

But when he was cultivating, it was Venerable Huijing using the Fourth Grade Sky Strike Thunder Hammer to apply lightning, and finding stronger lightning stimuli than that of a Nascent Soul Cultivator combined with Fourth Grade Thunder Items in the outside world is extremely difficult.

Even if found, lightning stimuli that are too strong could cost him his life.

However, seizing the opportunity of using ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ to endure the Artifact Tribulation is the best opportunity.

The sword body of ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ would endure most of the Heavenly Thunder’s power, only a small portion of it would be transmitted into Li Shiming’s body.

With the powerful defensive power cultivated from the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ and the ’Taiqing Xuan Turtle Technique’, Li Shiming could definitely withstand this small portion of Heavenly Thunder’s power.

Even if he couldn’t withstand it, he would use the Divine Foot Skill to leave immediately. Moreover, with the Top-Grade Third-Grade Healing Spirit Pill he refined, as long as he doesn’t fall on the spot, he would recover quickly.

It is these conditions that gave him the confidence to confront the Heavenly Thunder and developed the idea of using Heavenly Thunder for cultivation.

The durability of ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ had long been proven, and a Third Grade Artifact Tribulation’s Heavenly Thunder cannot destroy it.

Some of the Heavenly Thunder entered Li Shiming’s body, and the Sword Intent first endured the Heavenly Thunder. The electric light on his five Golden Cores flashed, and the Heavenly Thunder clashed with the lightning from the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’.

During the confrontation, the Heavenly Thunder and the lightning from the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ also influenced each other, with a trace of Heavenly Thunder integrating into the lightning.

This was only the first Heavenly Thunder; Li Shiming switched to the second ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ in his hand.

The thunderclouds forming in the sky had not yet dissipated and gathered again, and another Heavenly Thunder descended.

The process of being struck by Heavenly Thunder did not affect Li Shiming completing the final step of the third semi-finished ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’.

He timed it perfectly, and just after a breath of time from the descent of one Heavenly Thunder, the second Heavenly Thunder descended.

The lightning cultivated from the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ was absorbing and integrating traces of Heavenly Thunder into the five Golden Cores, and his Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent was also continually growing.

The Heavenly Thunder is the best mentor, guiding the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent.

The Life Treasure IBMz15 was also recording the information about the Heavenly Thunder, which quickly fed back to Li Shiming, increasing his understanding of the Heavenly Thunder, influencing both the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ and the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent.

The third Heavenly Thunder, the fourth Heavenly Thunder, one after another, the Heavenly Thunder continued to descend, transforming the mountain peak into the peak of thunder and lightning.

This commotion also alarmed cultivators within a ten-thousand-mile radius.

Li Shiming chose this place for the Artifact Tribulation of the ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ for a reason.

In his sect, he obtained a detailed map, which was more precise than a Loose Cultivator’s map and recorded the distribution of almost all known cultivators’ forces.

The area he selected was a place close to the Mortal World, where the strongest force was just a small force led by a Golden Core cultivator.

Continuous Thunder Tribulations attracted eleven Golden Core cultivators, the strongest of whom was only at the Golden Core Middle Stage.

One can’t blame them for their weak cultivation; truly strong ones wouldn’t stay close to the Mortal World but would go fight for better resources.

They flew urgently and quickly, but they didn’t fight each other, as without knowing the opportunity, they would want to see it before considering contention.

”Finally, luck has turned, what kind of treasure is this that it draws such Heavenly Thunder!” A Golden Core cultivator’s eyes turned red, thinking this while flying.

He hadn’t heard of a treasure produced under continuous Heavenly Thunder; if he had the knowledge of a large sect, he would surely turn and flee immediately.

Because if a treasure truly appeared under continuous Heavenly Thunder strikes, such a treasure wouldn’t be something a Golden Core cultivator could covet; even Nascent Soul cultivators couldn’t get close.

Li Shiming saw the approaching eleven Golden Core cultivators through drone satellites but did not pay attention to them, instead maintaining his actions.

He felt the lightning in his body was nearing the brink of transformation, just a little more, and the lightning of his ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ would undergo a qualitative change.

When the thirty-fourth Heavenly Thunder descended, the lightning on the five Golden Cores in his body finally changed.

The originally white lightning transformed to gold, and the golden lightning gushed from the five Golden Cores, spreading throughout his body.

His body manifested lightning runes, making his body more compatible with lightning.

”Finally broke through!” he laughed, just as predicted by his Life Treasure IBMz15, using continuous Artifact Tribulations to break through his ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ to the Great Elder Level.

Despite this small transformation, it was a huge gain for him, the lightning runes in his body signifying his future direction.

Now he had Five Elements Attributes with the lightning runes in his body, which would grant him more Talent Abilities when advancing to the Nascent Soul.

He still did not stop completing the final step of the semi-finished ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’, continuously attracting Heavenly Thunder to descend.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Thunder through the ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ that flowed into his body affected him less and less.

The ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ reaching the Great Elder Level meant his lightning ability surpassed the Golden Core Stage.

And the Heavenly Thunder at the Golden Core Stage was no longer able to affect him, with minimal benefit to the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’.

Li Shiming was still enduring the Heavenly Thunder for the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent; as his body could fully withstand part of the Heavenly Thunder’s power, the enhancement speed has notably increased.

It seems there is no cultivator in the Cultivation World who would face Heavenly Thunder as calmly as he does.

With his most comprehensive Great Elder Realm of Golden Core, Body Refinement, and Spirit, even part of the Third Grade Heavenly Thunder’s power was becoming unmanageable.

Once the Thunder Cultivator also reached the Great Elder Level, part of the Third Grade Heavenly Thunder’s power turned to fine rain, only nourishing him without any damage.

While Li Shiming was fully honing the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent, a phantom longsword enveloped in electric light emerged over him, symbolizing his transformed Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent.

Every time a Heavenly Thunder descended, a part of it merged into the electric phantom longsword.

This was what outsiders saw; in his perception, it was a mysterious substance similar to a rule rune in the Heavenly Thunder, merging with the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent.