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Chapter 1894: Chapter 993: Facing the Enemy (Part 2)

“Li Yuanba already taught you the ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’. Once this news spreads, it’ll be enough for the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion to hunt you down!” Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar laughed as he saw the origins of the flying sword Li Shiming displayed.

Realizing Li Shiming wasn’t easy to deal with, he attempted to pressure Li Shiming through words.

Li Shiming wasn’t frightened by the ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’ revelation; his main cultivation was the ‘Heavenly Human Technique’. Even if the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion investigated, they wouldn’t find traces of the ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’ on him.

His ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’ Gold Element Spiritual Power was converted through ‘Chaotic Spiritual Power’, bearing little relation to the genuine ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’.

He merely borrowed the attack secret techniques of the ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’, which was something sword cultivators across the Cultivation World did in various ways.

What troubled Li Shiming the most now was Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar’s Buddha Lotus.

With the existence of the Buddha Lotus, he dared not summon the seventy-two Holy Spirits.

If Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar used the Buddha Lotus to escape, the seventy-two Holy Spirits might not be able to retain him.

Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar once again triggered the Buddha Lotus’s space movement, approaching Li Shiming with an attack, which Li Shiming successfully dodged.

Both sides’ space movement reaction speeds were incredibly fast, leaving Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar incapable of dealing with Li Shiming, and similarly, Li Shiming’s attacks couldn’t harm Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar.

The battle between the two continued, but if neither side used any strong means, the battle would just drag on like this.

Feeling that a tenth of his energy had been consumed, Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar knew he couldn’t continue this way, for he was merely an avatar with limited energy.

If this energy consumption continued, there’d be no need for Li Shiming to defeat him; the lack of energy alone would render him unable to fight.

Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar wanted a one-shot kill, but facing this cultivator, Li Shiming, who mastered Half-step Great Power Level space rules, a one-shot kill was no easy feat.

Thus, Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar opted for a large-scale all-out attack, the best way to deal with space movement.

But the problem was that executing an all-out attack with great rules consumed extreme amounts of energy, offering him only one opportunity.

He had mobilized energy accumulated over a century in his grotto heaven for this outing, and after cross-continent flight and continuous battles, the remaining energy could only deliver a potentially fatal blow to Li Shiming.

This was because he estimated that breaking through Li Shiming’s armor, formed by one hundred and eight ‘Eternal Water Bear Worm’, required such vast energy consumption.

In fact, his calculations were mistaken; he had no idea how strong the defense of the ‘Eternal Water Bear Worm’ was, let alone that the Earth Evil Formation created by one hundred and eight ‘Eternal Water Bear Worm’ could distribute damage across all ‘Eternal Water Bear Worm’.

Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar suddenly grew larger, transforming into a hundred-meter-tall Buddha.

The Buddha’s massive hand pressed down on Li Shiming, growing even larger as it descended, as if veiling the sky and covering the entire ‘Beidou Formation Map’ area.

Li Shiming, wanting to evade, had to first open a gap in the formation set by the ‘Beidou Formation Map’ to escape this area.

He used the ‘Beidou Formation Map’ to trap the bodhisattva’s avatar, and he didn’t want to leave a passage for himself to enter and exit freely, in case Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar had the means to detect it.

Without leaving a formation passage, he was also trapped inside the ‘Beidou Formation Map’.

In fact, just half a breath’s time was enough for him to manipulate the ‘Beidou Formation Map’ to let him leave freely.

But the attack from Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar didn’t allow Li Shiming even half a breath’s time; the massive palm’s appearance seemed to slow time, yet in reality, it took just an instant to seal off an area.

As the massive palm descended, Li Shiming indeed couldn’t dodge.

Only then did he truly understand the horror of great power; Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar’s strength was not as weak as he imagined.

But he wasn’t weak either; the previous battle with Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar was merely to test his combat power.

Recently, his combat power had improved too quickly, needing a battle to test his own strength.

As the massive palm suppressed that area, Li Shiming’s body was also subdued by it.

Yet all the damage was absorbed by the one hundred and eight ‘Eternal Water Bear Worm’, leaving his corporeal body unharmed.

“Suppress, suppress, suppress!” Feeling Li Shiming unscathed under the massive hand and appearing extremely composed, Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar couldn’t help but intensify energy infusion, shouting loudly.

The pressure on the massive hand suddenly increased, as if space itself was collapsing.

Still, the damage caused by the massive hand was distributed by the one hundred and eight ‘Eternal Water Bear Worm’, and even if some ‘Eternal Water Bear Worm’ were injured by the pressure, they would quickly heal.

Initially, Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar only intended to severely injure Li Shiming, sparing his life.

Hence, Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar held back in his attack, which resulted in him causing no harm to Li Shiming whatsoever, forcing him to increase energy output again and again, aiming to subdue Li Shiming permanently.

The benefits Li Shiming brought were overwhelming, solely cultivating Half-step Fifth Grade spiritual insects could bring immeasurable benefits to the Da Leiyin Temple.

The benefits of capturing Li Shiming alive were immense; at first, Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar contemplated capturing him alive, but upon realizing he couldn’t handle Li Shiming, he was compelled to escalate his attack’s power ceaselessly.

The continuous attacks caused the ‘Eternal Water Bear Worm’ to sustain injuries constantly, but without a single strike killing all one hundred and eight ‘Eternal Water Bear Worm’, breaking through the armor they formed was impossible.

Li Shiming felt extremely stifled at this moment; it was like being the Monkey King trapped under the Five Elements Mountain by Tathagata, unable to resist the big hand pressing on him.

Yet, Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar was equally frustrated; although this large-scale attack secret technique was indeed immensely powerful, it also consumed a lot of energy.

If launched by the original body, energy consumption wouldn’t be a worry; however, for the avatar, every additional second of suppression consumed a huge amount of energy.

The Buddha, into which Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar transformed, shrank back to normal size like a deflated balloon.

The hand that suppressed Li Shiming also vanished.

Li Shiming sensed Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar’s weakened state; if the avatar’s energy was a hundred before, it was now only ten.

This was IBMz15’s accurate judgment, and IBMz15 wouldn’t err in this aspect.

By this time, Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar was already contemplating escape, and with the Buddha Lotus, despite only having a tenth of energy left, it was enough to leave.

Before leaving, he still needed to break the grand formation set by the ‘Beidou Formation Map’. He wasn’t worried about this aspect, as his combat power needed only a few more strikes to break through it.

As for capturing Li Shiming, he wasn’t considering it anymore.

Until a method to counter the one hundred and eight ‘Eternal Water Bear Worm’ armor on Li Shiming could be found, he would no longer make any moves against Li Shiming.

Just when Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar was thinking about leaving, Li Shiming wasn’t having it.

His figure flickered, appearing in front of Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar, holding a Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation.

Though calling it a Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation was inaccurate, as after his physical body reached Half-step Great Power Level, the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation also ascended to Half-step Fifth Grade.

The Half-step Fifth Grade Sword Foundation slashed towards Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar, while the ‘Traceless Illusion Sword’ emerged from another side, shooting towards Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar.

Huinan Bodhisattva’s avatar had no choice but to pause, activating the Buddha Lotus to defend against these two attacks.

He didn’t want to use other defensive means, as that would increase internal energy consumption; using the Buddha Lotus consumed the least energy.

He activated the Buddha Lotus’s space movement, attempting to escape in another direction past the ‘Beidou Formation Map’, but Li Shiming’s space movement appeared alongside him.