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Chapter 1217: Chapter 655: Artifact Tribulation

Li Shiming stood above a deserted island. The reason he chose a deserted island, rather than simply finding any spot on the sea, is because there are still dangers in the ocean, and they are very difficult to detect in time.

In the engine room space, the last rune line on the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ was connected, transforming the entire ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ from dead silence to being brimming with spirit.

Without the slightest hesitation, he took the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ out of the engine room space, and the Nascent Soul also returned to his body from the engine room space.

He took a long breath, and his aura surged.

Above his head, the Wood Thunder Nascent Soul emerged, then its figure grew larger, consolidating into the Nascent Soul Dharma Form.

In the hand of the Nascent Soul Dharma Form was the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’.

At this moment, the world was thrown into chaos due to the emergence of the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, which absolutely surpassed the Heaven and Earth Rules.

In just a moment, dark clouds gathered above his head, and the terrifying aura of the Heavenly Tribulation enveloped the entire area.

Li Shiming did not pay too much attention, though he was fully prepared, the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Artifact Tribulation could not affect him much due to his solid foundation.

As the thunderclouds gathered, he suddenly looked in a certain direction.

He saw three bolts of lightning rapidly approaching, indicating that cultivators were using the Thunder Escape method to travel, heading straight for him.

Given the disturbance in the surrounding Heaven and Earth caused by him, it was inevitable that some cultivators would be attracted over.

But when Li Shiming saw the other party using the Thunder Escape, he understood that today’s matter would be troublesome.

Because from the three Thunder Escapes, he saw traces of the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’. These were three cultivators who practiced the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’, and all were Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioners.

”How unlucky!” Li Shiming couldn’t help but murmur to himself.

At other times, he could easily handle three Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators from the Yuqing Sect.

But now he was about to face Heavenly Thunder, and these three Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators from the Yuqing Sect were an extreme hassle.

At this time, he absolutely could not let Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng appear. Because once Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng was summoned, it would immediately be deemed by the Heavenly Tribulation that a Great Cultivator was involved in passing the tribulation.

The consequence would be raising the power of the Artifact Tribulation from the Nascent Soul Middle Stage directly to the Great Cultivator level, and even with Li Shiming’s strength, he couldn’t withstand a Great Cultivator level’s Heavenly Tribulation.

The three Nascent Soul Middle Stage Thunder Cultivators of the Yuqing Sect, Gan Tuo, Li Gang, Kang Miao, felt an extreme familiarity upon sensing the distant aura.

Although they never encountered the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ undergoing Artifact Tribulation, the aura of the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ was too familiar.

Their respective life-bound magical treasures were the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammers’, and if it were other treasures, they might have been indistinguishable, but the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ was unmistakable.

Perceiving the aura of the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ from afar, and seeing the sky filled with thunderclouds, they speculated which fellow sect member of the Yuqing Sect was undergoing tribulation.

Initially, they were kindly intending to come over and provide protection, but as they got closer and perceived matters more clearly, they discovered this was an Artifact Tribulation.

”Which fellow’s Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer is undergoing Artifact Tribulation!” Gan Tuo’s words were filled with deep envy.

How could they not be envious? Their ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammers’ were just at the fourth-grade high-stage level, and even that was already quite good.

They had almost exhausted all they had to elevate their life-bound magical treasures to the fourth-grade high-stage level.

Now they discovered their sect mate had elevated the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ to the Artifact Tribulation Treasure level, surpassing even top-level fourth-grade magical treasures.

”If this fellow perishes in the Artifact Tribulation, could we perhaps extract the materials to upgrade the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ to an Artifact Tribulation Treasure from its remnants?” Li Gang asked softly.

His question made the eyes of the other two Nascent Soul Middle Stage Thunder Cultivators light up. Even if they couldn’t extract materials to ascend to the Artifact Tribulation Treasure level from the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, a sect mate with such wealth surely had plenty of good items on him.

Although the rules of the Yuqing Sect forbade infighting, if their fellow perished under Heavenly Thunder, it should have nothing to do with them.

With this thought in mind, the three Nascent Soul Middle Stage Thunder Cultivators sped up even more.

Li Shiming felt the thunderclouds in the sky and the three rapidly approaching Nascent Soul Middle Stage Thunder Cultivators and in a moment’s thought, connected with the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ in the engine room space.

Upon connecting with the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, his Wood Thunder Nascent Soul was in a state where it could draw upon the vast thunder energy from the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ at any time.

The Nascent Soul Dharma Form of the Wood Thunder Nascent Soul displayed a Secret Technique enhancing thunder resistance. As it was cast with the aid of the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, its power instantly elevated to a level infinitely close to that of a Great Cultivator.

The reason it is said not to be at the Great Cultivator level is that achieving the Great Cultivator level requires not only a certain energy level but also rules infused in the spell.

And due to Li Shiming’s realm, his understanding of Thunder Rules could not reach the Great Cultivator level. Even with the augmentation of the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, his Thunder Skill could at most be infinitely close to a Great Cultivator level, incapable of becoming a Great Cultivator level Thunder Skill.

However, even so, the effect of the anti-lightning Secret Method he had cast on himself could completely offset more than half of the thunder attacks at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.