Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1194: Chapter 643: Encounter (Part 2)

Li Shiming’s youth cannot simply be observed from his appearance, but rather from his youthful aura, which cannot be simulated by any Spirit Pill.

Huang Xi’s mood improved even more; he was already certain that Li Shiming was just a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner with little combat experience, well protected by the Central State Commerce.

Although this kind of Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner may possess powerful treasures, in a four-against-one situation, and with prior preparations, it wouldn’t be difficult for them to deal with a fledgling cultivator given their rich combat experience.

Huang Xi didn’t believe that a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner who hasn’t even reached a hundred years old could have much combat experience.

To cultivate to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage within a hundred years would likely mean that most of those years were spent on cultivation. Even with abundant resource supply, the time for cultivation was extremely tight, leaving little room for combat experience.

Li Shiming stood quietly in midair, an abundance of data refreshing in his eyes.

His innate magic treasure, the IBMz15, was analyzing the data of the four Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners, including their distance from him, the flow routes of the Spiritual Power Patterns within them, the attributes of their magical treasures, and more.

When they entered a distance of twelve thousand meters, these four Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners also entered Li Shiming’s attack range.

Li Shiming noticed that the four Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners did not initiate an attack when they reached a twelve-thousand-meter distance, indicating their attack range was somewhat shorter than his.

He did not rush to attack but continued to wait.

Huang Xi and the three Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners intentionally slowed their speed, they too were waiting, as their combat experience told them that Li Shiming’s first strike would be his strongest.

Once they blocked Li Shiming’s first strike, the counterattack would be theirs.

The closer they got, the stronger the attacks, so they slowed down their pace, just waiting for Li Shiming to initiate his attack.

When the four Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners came within ten thousand meters, Li Shiming no longer waited. A slight smile appeared on his face, and he waved his hand forward.

Huang Xi felt an inexplicable wave of Gold Element Energy appear in the surrounding space.

”The attack is coming!” he did not forget to warn his companions.

As soon as he issued the warning, countless grains of gold sand appeared out of nowhere, filling the twelve-thousand-meter radius centered around Li Shiming entirely with gold sand.

This was the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill, with each grain of gold sand containing a special Wind Element power, known as the ’Sanmei Divine Wind.’

The flying sand is not the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’; it is merely the carrier for the ’Sanmei Divine Wind.’

This carrier, being made of the Gold Element, possesses sharpness, and with the enhancement of the ’Sanmei Divine Wind,’ each grain of gold sand transforms into a flying sword with both Wind and Gold attributes.

Each grain of gold sand might not seem very powerful on its own, but when their numbers add up, their combined strength is extraordinary.

Most terrifyingly, the flying sand created by the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill causes cultivators caught within to lose their sense of direction, even shredding any Divine Sense extended out of the body into pieces.

Huang Xi encountered this fearsome predicament; when he was trapped within the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill, the numerous grains of gold sand disrupted his outward Divine Sense.

Aside from using their eyes, cultivators rely even more heavily on their Divine Sense, a much more accurate method than simply using their eyes.

When the outward Divine Sense is destroyed, cultivators are virtually blinded.

”This is...” Even though Huang Xi was knowledgeable, he couldn’t immediately recognize the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill.

Primarily because the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill from the ’Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion’ is seldom witnessed in person by cultivators, and the information available about it is equally scarce.

It was Li Shiming’s first time using the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill in combat, and he unleashed its full potential right away.

After fully employing the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill, he took a single step, employing the ’Divine Foot Skill,’ appearing next to one of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners.

Within the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill’s range, as its originator, Li Shiming could sense everything happening within the boundaries of the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill.

Every grain of ’Sanmei Divine Sand’ acted like his sensory organ, and his Divine Sense remained unaffected by his own ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill, allowing him to fully control the battlefield.

Thus, he could utilize his prepared Divine Foot Skill to appear beside one of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners.

This Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner was extremely flustered. Although the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill wasn’t fully mastered by Li Shiming yet, it still posed a considerable challenge for a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner who was unaccustomed to it.

The principal difficulty lay in their lack of experience against the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill, leading them to instinctively use their Divine Sense to control their defensive treasures.

When their Divine Sense left the body, it was disrupted by the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill, and although the ’Sanmei Divine Sand’ hadn’t yet broken through the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner’s defense, its most terrifying power was yet to be unleashed, greatly impacting the Divine Sense’s external projection.

Experienced individuals who understood the characteristics of the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill could use handheld defensive treasures to minimize damage to their Divine Sense and strengthen control over their defensive treasures.

The Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner kept trying to project his Divine Sense to control the defensive treasure, but the continual degradation of his Divine Sense forced him to amplify its output, quickly depleting his Spirit.

In this state, the defensive treasure of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner wasn’t even performing at half its potential.

Li Shiming appeared so suddenly, and his attack, prepared well in advance, was launched as soon as he emerged.

His attack stemmed from his right hand’s Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation. The ’Void Breaking Sword Intent’ enveloped the entire Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation, making the augmentation of the ’Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent’ unnecessary.

When he attacked with the sword, something surprising happened.

The Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation sliced through the defensive treasure as easily as cutting tofu, then continued to slice through the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner’s protective spell shield, penetrating his flesh without any resistance.

Even as it entered the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner’s flesh, it encountered no resistance, cutting his body into two halves in one stroke.

The Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner attempted to have his Nascent Soul escape, but the ’Void Breaking Sword Intent’ left within his body obliterated his Nascent Soul.

The primary reason Li Shiming was able to slay the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner with such ease was the drop of blood from the Body Refining Great Power that he had consumed, which had enhanced his physical body to the utmost.

His wielding of the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation should, under normal circumstances, rely on the power of the ’Void Breaking Sword Intent’ to break through the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner’s defenses.

However, his own strength was so formidable that the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation could easily pierce through both the defensive treasure and spell shield on its own, and even slicing into the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner’s physical body didn’t substantially drain the ’Void Breaking Sword Intent’s power.

This maximized the retention of the ’Void Breaking Sword Intent’s power within the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner’s body, delivering a devastating strike to his Nascent Soul.

Li Shiming felt somewhat unaccustomed; he found his opponent too weak, hardly resembling a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner.

He indeed had eliminated many Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners before, but it was always with remote attacks, utilizing special means, not through his own combat prowess.

But he never imagined the battle scenario would be like this when truly facing a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner.

This time, he didn’t resort to any external abilities. The ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ skill, ’Void Breaking Sword Intent,’ and Divine Foot Skill were all divine skills and abilities he had mastered, and their combined assault easily dispatched a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner.