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Chapter 946: Chapter 519: Encounter (Part 2)

”Slash,” Li Shiming cried out, but what he first launched wasn’t ”Flowing Light Star Meteor,” it was the Thunder Fall Skill.

Five bolts of lightning burst forth from the void, striking directly at Chen Zhou’s Nascent Soul Dharma Form.

The Nascent Soul Dharma Form has both benefits and drawbacks; the benefit is that all power increases significantly, but the drawback is that the body enlarges, making it a bigger target for attacks.

Moreover, if the Nascent Soul Dharma Form lacks rune patterns for defensive spells inside, the effectiveness of its defensive spellcasting won’t be enhanced.

Chen Zhou’s defense did not rely on defensive spells but rather on a fourth-grade high-stage shield artifact.

His habit in battle was to unleash the shield artifact, but his strongest asset was the fourth-grade flying sword he was preparing to activate in front of him.

Among all attacks, Thunder Skill is the fastest, even faster than Sword Cultivators’ attacks.

The simultaneous strike of five Thunder Fall Skills left Chen Zhou no time to dodge; he had to abandon the attack and fully activate his shield artifact for defense.

When the lightning contacted the shield artifact, his expression suddenly changed as he sensed the Heavenly Thunder’s power within the lightning.

Had it been just one Thunder Fall Skill, he might not have cared, but with five Thunder Fall Skills descending at once, his shield artifact struggled to withstand them.

Luckily, he had refined the shield artifact for over four hundred years, pushing its defensive power nearly to the artifact’s limit, preventing immediate collapse under the five lightning attacks.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to counterattack, five ”Flowing Light Star Meteor” flying sword artifacts shot forward.

Except for lacking a Lifebound Flying Sword artifact, Li Shiming could be counted as a true Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator.

Among Sword Cultivators, the speed of sword attacks is second only to Thunder Skill attacks, with each Nascent Soul Dharma Form using two different brains to respectively control the Thunder Skill and flying swords.

Thus, the Thunder Skill and flying sword attacks were simultaneously launched, but due to the Thunder Skill’s fastest attack speed, it struck Chen Zhou first.

”Flowing Light Star Meteor” among Nascent Soul stage artifacts truly isn’t considered a particularly powerful artifact.

After all, it’s made of third-grade material, though post-Artifact Tribulation, the power of ”Flowing Light Star Meteor” was greatly enhanced, reaching fourth-grade level, yet still ordinary within the fourth-grade level.

Under normal circumstances, when ”Flowing Light Star Meteor” hits Chen Zhou’s shield artifact, even at the brink of collapse, its own power still wouldn’t break through the shield artifact’s defense in one hit.

But ”Flowing Light Star Meteor” wasn’t just one, it was five, and more terrifying was the Sword Intent contained within ”Flowing Light Star Meteor.”

Compared to the thunder power cultivated from ”Yuqing Thunder Scripture,” the power of the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent far exceeds Li Shiming’s current ”Yuqing Thunder Scripture” power.

The Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent absorbed the immense thunder power from Li Shiming’s Nascent Soul Tribulation, bringing its power to the peak of Nascent Soul stage Sword Intent.

With a ”boom,” Chen Zhou’s shield artifact shattered into pieces.

This doesn’t mean the shield artifact was truly shattered; the shield artifact was activated as an energy shield protecting the massive Nascent Soul Dharma Form.

This strike turned the energy shield formed by the shield artifact into fragments, naturally, the shield artifact also suffered significant damage.

Chen Zhou only felt a sharp pain in his head, delaying his movements for a split second.

It was precisely this split second that became his most fatal mistake.

Five ”Flowing Light Star Meteor” flying swords containing Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent, after breaking through the shield artifact’s defense, struck Chen Zhou’s Nascent Soul Dharma Form.

Five streaks of Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent transformed into five bolts of electricity, wreaking havoc once inside the Nascent Soul Dharma Form.

”Ah!” Chen Zhou’s Nascent Soul Dharma Form emitted a deafening scream of agony.

Inside the Nascent Soul Dharma Form, aside from spiritual power energy, resides his Spirit and soul; the intrusion of the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent destroys everything in its path, including his Spirit and soul.

Chen Zhou’s Nascent Soul Dharma Form was forced to dissipate, his Nascent Soul attempting to escape, but the Fire Thunder Nascent Soul Dharma Image used ”Distant Horizon” to appear beside his Nascent Soul, sweeping the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation over the Nascent Soul.

Chen Zhou’s Nascent Soul was fast, had it not encountered Li Shiming who mastered the Divine Foot Skill, he might’ve continued chasing within the ”Heaven and Earth Net Restriction” for a while.

But Li Shiming’s Fire Thunder Nascent Soul Dharma Image, using ”Distant Horizon,” was faster than Chen Zhou’s Nascent Soul by that crucial margin.

That margin was enough to be fatal, as the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation swept over the Nascent Soul, the Nascent Soul, unlike the Nascent Soul Dharma Form, was extremely fragile; this sword split the Nascent Soul in two, while the contained Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent completely erased the Nascent Soul’s spirit.

The battle between Li Shiming and Chen Zhou, from summoning their Nascent Soul Dharma Forms to the end, took less than a single breath’s time.

Yet in that less than a single breath, the decision on life and death was made.

Throughout, Chen Zhou didn’t launch even a single effective attack, entirely suppressed by Li Shiming.

Li Shiming’s efforts in overcoming the tenfold Heavenly Tribulation didn’t go to waste; his displayed combat strength completely overwhelmed Chen Zhou.

Although it seemed like a very easy battle, the risks involved were still extremely high.

After the battle ended, the spiritual power remaining in Li Shiming’s five Nascent Souls was less than one-fifth, making it difficult for him to maintain the Nascent Soul Dharma Form.

One Thunder Fall Skill, plus one flying sword attack, due to being issued simultaneously by five Nascent Soul Dharma Forms, consumed a tremendous amount.

If Chen Zhou had held off this round of attacks, the direction of the battle might’ve been entirely different.

Li Shiming collected his Nascent Soul Dharma Form, feeling the little spiritual power remaining in his body, couldn’t help but let out a bitter laugh; less than one breath’s time of combat, was his total explosive consumption.

He looked at Chen Zhou’s dragon-type spiritual pet; he didn’t need to attack the dragon-type spiritual pet anymore.

The contract method of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect for spiritual pets ensures that as soon as the master dies, the spiritual pet inevitably dies.

This greatly limits the potential for spiritual pet revolt; even for survival, the spiritual pet will strive to protect its master.

However, the battle time was too short this time, too short for the dragon-type spiritual pet to participate; the battle was over before it could intervene.

Originally, if the dragon-type spiritual pet hadn’t expended its spatial energy prior to the battle, it might have had the chance to join in time; but just before the battle, it exhausted its spatial energy.

The dragon-type spiritual pet’s Nascent Soul Dharma Form disappeared, its body convulsing, yet unable to halt the fading life force.

Li Shiming released the Illusion Spirit Jiao, which immediately fixated on the dragon-type spiritual pet’s body, the body with little life left of the dragon-type spiritual pet.

The Illusion Spirit Jiao suddenly opened its mouth, lunging at the dragon-type spiritual pet.

No, this wasn’t a bite, but a swallow, as the Illusion Spirit Jiao opened wide, gulping down the dragon-type spiritual pet that’s barely smaller than itself, mouthful by mouthful.

Though the dragon-type spiritual pet’s body was large, consider that a snake, the Illusion Spirit Jiao’s original form, could easily swallow prey larger than itself; even more so if it’s of similar size.

Li Shiming sensed emotions from the Illusion Spirit Jiao, exceedingly excited emotions.

Chen Zhou wanted his dragon-type spiritual pet to devour the Illusion Spirit Jiao, yet the Illusion Spirit Jiao equally desired to swallow the dragon-type spiritual pet.

Previously, the Illusion Spirit Jiao had encountered spirit beasts with far inferior bloodlines compared to the dragon-type’s, feeling the impulse to devour; now, the dragon-type spiritual pet’s possession of Dragon Clan lineage put the Illusion Spirit Jiao in high excitement.

It was well aware of how beneficial devouring such bloodlines would be for itself.

Li Shiming also gathered Chen Zhou’s Mustard Seed Ring and artifacts, collecting the corpse into a storage bag, all into the private space.

Since Chen Zhou dared to ambush him in the Ten Thousand Beasts Cave Heaven, it indicated battles in the Ten Thousand Beasts Cave Heaven wouldn’t be discovered; otherwise, cultivators would have intervened long ago.

He had already decided that he never met Chen Zhou before; anyway, he was newly promoted to the Nascent Soul stage, even if he claims to have killed Chen Zhou, it likely won’t be believed by cultivators.

As for where Chen Zhou went, other cultivators would have to find out within the Ten Thousand Beasts Cave Heaven.