Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 2010: Chapter 1051: Bow Cultivator (Part 2)

One ’Chaos Sword Intent’ after another sliced through the sky, each making Great Power Xie Gan’s eyebrows twitch uncontrollably.

The more he watched Li Shiming undergo the tribulation, the more it shocked him.

Seeing the powerful heavenly thunder strike Li Shiming, yet causing him little harm, such defensive power left Great Power Xie Gan uncertain whether his usual attacks could severely wound Li Shiming.

Luckily, Li Shiming is currently facing the heavenly tribulation, and the power of the heavenly thunder increases with each strike. As long as he seizes the opportunity, Li Shiming can definitely be obliterated.

Finally, the ninth heavenly thunder arrived, and it was also the most powerful of them all.

The might of the heavenly thunder forced Li Shiming to respond with all his strength, emitting intense golden light from the fifth-grade sword base in his hand.

If Great Power Xie Gan had observed carefully, he would have noticed that Li Shiming hadn’t used Cave Heaven Energy from the beginning until now.

The problem is that Great Power Xie Gan didn’t understand Li Shiming. He’d only seen Li Shiming display the close combat Sword Cultivator abilities.

He thought Li Shiming was a close combat Sword Cultivator, a rare type among sword cultivators—extremely powerful yet flawed.

Great Power Xie Gan’s ranged attacks are precisely what restrain close combat sword cultivators. By using the ninth heavenly thunder, he could end Li Shiming in one strike.

With a ’boom’, the heavenly thunder formed in the thunderclouds came crashing down towards Li Shiming.

At the same time, Great Power Xie Gan also made his move, drawing the Spirit Bow and infusing it with a massive amount of energy.

He did not underestimate Li Shiming at all. After witnessing Li Shiming’s displayed strength, how could he dare think less of him?

He could seek opportunities outside and survive countless battles because he was no ordinary person.

An arrow formed from Cave Heaven Energy appeared on the Spirit Bow, and the power it contained was not only the destructive Golden Element Rule Power but also the pure Rule Power of strength.

He did not release it immediately but continued for a while.

He was employing the Power Storage Secret Method, waiting for the peak of the ninth heavenly thunder’s strength explosion, to find the perfect moment to attack.

As the heavenly thunder struck, Li Shiming wielded the fifth-grade sword base, his form more than doubling, making his height nearly five meters.

It wasn’t his full strength in one strike, yet it was four to five parts of his strongest strike.

As the heavenly thunder was about to contact him, Great Power Xie Gan was about to release the bowstring.

The moment Li Shiming fought against the heavenly thunder was the best time for Great Power Xie Gan to kill Li Shiming.

No great power could fend off the ninth heavenly thunder while also contending with an attack from another great power.

Just as Great Power Xie Gan released his grip, a sword shadow mysteriously appeared in front of him, slashing towards him.

This was the ’Dustless Sword’; the ’Dustless Sword’ had a very special ability, which is space ability.

It is extremely rare for a fifth-grade flying sword to possess space ability. This space ability makes the flying sword’s attacks more elusive, but it also means many secret techniques that enhance the flying sword’s power cannot be used.

However, at this moment, Li Shiming wasn’t trying to kill Great Power Xie Gan with one sword; instead, he aimed to disrupt Great Power Xie Gan’s attack.

The sudden appearance of the ’Dustless Sword’ caught Great Power Xie Gan off guard.

He didn’t expect that Li Shiming, while fully confronting the heavenly thunder, still had the capacity to launch a ranged flying sword.

Most critically, Li Shiming wasn’t just a close combat sword cultivator; he also had a fifth-grade flying sword.

Great Power Xie Gan adjusted the direction of the arrow towards the ’Dustless Sword’ and released the arrow disaster.

The arrow disaster, carrying the full power of his single arrow, collided with the ’Dustless Sword’.

The ’Chaos Sword Intent’ contained within the ’Dustless Sword’ fought against the power within the arrow disaster for almost a breath, but due to Li Shiming’s lack of continuous control, the ’Dustless Sword’ was knocked away.

Great Power Xie Gan was about to adjust his Spirit Bow again to attack Li Shiming.

But the ’Dustless Sword’ disappeared after spinning in space twice, reappearing to slash at Great Power Xie Gan again.

Great Power Xie Gan, left with no choice, had to continue handling it.

The ’Dustless Sword’ flickered like a phantom, using space movement repeatedly. Its task wasn’t to kill but to stall him.

Meanwhile, as Li Shiming finished the last heavenly thunder, he placed the fifth-grade sword base within himself without waiting for the reward from heaven and earth.

The fifth-grade sword base transformed into energy and merged with his physical body.

With a wave of his hand, the ’Dustless Sword’ returned to hover above his head.

Seeing Li Shiming had completed the tribulation, Great Power Xie Gan lost the best opportunity to strike and began adjusting himself, preparing for a battle with Li Shiming.

Li Shiming smiled faintly, his gaze toward Great Power Xie Gan filled with ridicule.

The reason he hadn’t given his all with the ’Dustless Sword’ to kill Great Power Xie Gan was that he feared Great Power Xie Gan would flee.

It’s well known how strong great powers are at escaping, especially when faced with danger, they can retreat into their own Grotto Heavens.

Entering another great power’s Grotto Heaven is extremely perilous.

In their own Grotto Heaven, great powers have god-like control, which is extremely advantageous for combat.

Additionally, the carrier of a great power’s Grotto Heaven often has some means of escape, and Li Shiming certainly didn’t want Great Power Xie Gan to leave.

In Li Shiming’s eyes, Great Power Xie Gan was no more than a Corpse Refining material, and he had even named the ’Flying Night Demon’ he would refine.

It would be called ’Bow Servant’, enriching his battle methods with a ’Flying Night Demon’ capable of ranged attacks using Spirit Bow.

If Great Power Xie Gan knew his intentions, he wouldn’t hesitate for a moment and would immediately use life-saving methods to escape far away.

After smiling, two shadows appeared above Li Shiming’s head.

One was the ’Beidou Formation Map’, and the other was the ’Nine Heavens Star Constellation Array Diagram’. The two formation treasures were activated, immediately setting up a massive formation in the void, enclosing both him and Great Power Xie Gan within it.

Great Power Xie Gan recognized the ’Beidou Formation Map’ and ’Nine Heavens Star Constellation Array Diagram’ but couldn’t fathom why such treasures would end up in the hands of one person.

The ’Beidou Formation Map’ belonged to the Beidou Sect, while the ’Nine Heavens Star Constellation Array Diagram’ belonged to the Xing Xiu Sect. Both sects are superpowers skilled in formations.

The owners of these two formations were great powers themselves, making it impossible for them to be concentrated in one person’s possession.

These thoughts flashed momentarily in his mind, but a heartbeat later, he was left with no thoughts.

For he understood the effects of the formation Li Shiming had set up, losing contact with his own Grotto Heaven.

Ordinarily, he could easily use spatial connections to enter his own Grotto Heaven.

But the formations created by the ’Beidou Formation Map’ and the ’Nine Heavens Star Constellation Array Diagram’ had confined space, and even though he could sense the existence of the Grotto Heaven, he couldn’t access it through space.

Furthermore, with space confined, his space movement couldn’t be used, and his life-saving items were rendered ineffective.

Only then did Great Power Xie Gan realize Li Shiming’s plan was to trap him.

He was unwilling to be captured and barely hesitated before a gray banner flew out from his body.

Once the banner appeared, it began to wave on its own.

Subsequently, Great Power Xie Gan’s body duplicated: one became two, two became four, four became eight, until sixteen figures appeared in the air.

In Li Shiming’s perception and through the formation’s scan, he discovered that among Great Power Xie Gan’s sixteen figures, it was impossible to determine the true body.

Or rather, under perception and the formation’s scan, all sixteen figures seemed genuine.

All sixteen figures drew their Spirit Bows simultaneously, with no time for power storage; there wasn’t enough time for Great Power Xie Gan to store power.

Sixteen arrows shot out, targeting Li Shiming.

At such a close range, the sixteen arrows arrived almost instantly after being released.

Unfortunately, the sixteen arrows only pierced his afterimage, as he evaded them using space movement when they flew over.

Though the formation had confined space, since he set it up and coupled with his understanding of the Space Rules, he could still freely use space movement within this formation.