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Chapter 1201: Chapter 647: Artifact Tribulation

Li Shiming watched from the side as Li Yuanba controlled the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword to transcend the Artifact Tribulation. Initially, he paid no attention, casually observing, but when the final Heavenly Thunder began to converge, he couldn’t help but tense up.

He regretted being too complacent and not empowering Li Yuanba with the ’Anti-lightning Secret Method’ from the Yuqing Thunder Scripture.

In his judgment, with Li Yuanba’s strength, overcoming an Artifact Tribulation of the same realm wouldn’t be a problem.

But who could have thought the final Heavenly Thunder would suddenly multiply in power, seemingly intent on annihilating Li Yuanba.

A divine light flickered in Li Yuanba’s eyes, and with the activation of ’God-eye sight,’ he observed every surge of energy within the thundercloud clearly.

He mobilized Li Shiming’s lifebound artifact IBMz15 for assistance; since IBMz15 was nearby, the aid he received was rapid.

Finally, the last Heavenly Thunder descended, turning the entire heaven and earth white.

In Li Yuanba’s eyes, through the ’God-eye sight,’ he saw the energy composition of the Heavenly Thunder, formed from the gathered electricity in the enormous thundercloud.

”Break!” he lightly shouted with a wave of his hand.

The Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword shot forward at an indescribable speed; this time, it wasn’t brute force but finesse that broke through.

The speed of the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword far surpassed the falling speed of the Heavenly Thunder; four billion speed runes at this level never appeared in a speed-oriented treasure in the Cultivation World.

Compared to the movement of the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, the time seemed to stand still during the descent of the Heavenly Thunder.

It was thanks to Li Yuanba having the IBMz15’s support that he could smoothly control the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword at such speed.

The Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, unleashed with the stored power of the ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique,’ activated its maximum speed.

The sword passed through the lowest part of the Heavenly Thunder, precisely where it was weakest, and then continuously pierced through upwards, following the path of weakness in the Heavenly Thunder.

Each time it pierced through, it was at the weakest point of the electrical energy connection in the Heavenly Thunder.

The massive Heavenly Thunder gathered earth-shattering might, but such heavenly might was merely a test from heaven, not a dead-end, always leaving a glimmer of hope.

The instability within the structure of the Heavenly Thunder was this glimmer of hope, yet exploiting it was extremely challenging, meeting several criteria at least.

Firstly, identifying the weakest point in the electric energy constituting the Heavenly Thunder, a feat few cultivators could achieve.

Secondly, disrupting the weak connection between the electric energies of the Heavenly Thunder to sever their link.

Li Yuanba’s ’Break the Void Sword Intent’ had this capability; wherever the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword traversed, the void was sliced open, forming faint spatial fissures sufficient to disrupt the weak spots of electric energy.

Lastly, achieving extreme speed, knowing that lightning itself is incredibly fast, surpassing its speed by several times was even more difficult.

Li Yuanba met all these conditions, representing the glimmer of hope heaven had left.

The Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword leaped within the Heavenly Thunder, from the bottom to the top, connecting with the thundercloud.

At this moment, as the Heavenly Thunder struck Li Yuanba, when it was about to detonate, the originally enormous thunder shattered, with less than one-tenth of its power truly reaching him.

Li Yuanba seemed slightly disheveled, even one-tenth of the Heavenly Thunder’s power made his hair stand on end and left some scorching marks on his body and face.

Yet, he smiled, having shattered such a powerful Heavenly Thunder, revealing to him what it meant to be a sword cultivator, what it meant to break myriad techniques with a single sword.

Understanding the concept of breaking myriad techniques with a sword is different from truly experiencing it through a single sword strike.

He felt his ’Break the Void Sword Intent’ had significantly advanced, an advantage obtained from fully breaking the terrifying Heavenly Thunder.

As a Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator, each encounter with a potent existence threatening his life offered insights from the Sword Intent feedback, thereby enhancing the might of his Sword Intent.

The Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword hovered in the air, with faint heavenly earth energy circulating inside.

The sword flickered with strange light; its surface, with fifty million miniature formations, four billion speed runes, and fifty million solid runes, merged into the sword’s body under the influence of the strange light.

A peculiar and intricate imprint appeared on the surface of the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword.

The Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword is Li Yuanba’s lifebound flying sword, and he can perceive any changes within it.

He discovered this peculiar, intricate imprint was evolved from a speed rule, a reward from heaven for the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, an affirmation.

He further found a consciousness within the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, an emerging sword spirit.

He looked at the Xingyi Sword, uncertain how to assess its quality now.

Theoretically, the Xingyi Sword should be a top-grade Fourth-Grade Weapon Tribulation Flying Sword at this moment, but as Li Shiming himself had refined many top-grade Fourth-Grade Weapon Tribulation Treasures, such a case as the Xingyi Sword had never occurred.

The Xingyi Sword bore the speed rule imprint, and searching through the refining texts of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect and Hundred Refinement Sect, he found no such records.

He sensed now the Xingyi Sword had surpassed the level of top-grade Fourth-Grade Weapon Tribulation treasure, reaching another realm altogether.