Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1515: 804: The Situation

From the moment the ‘Thunder Cloud Skill’ begins with the thundercloud until the lightning descends, the duration is actually quite short. Yet, the horrifying thunderous presence inside the thundercloud causes cultivators to sense time dragging on endlessly, making it feel incredibly drawn out while they remain frozen in place, incapable of the slightest motion.

A resounding “Boom” echoes as the initial lightning bolt crashes down, soon joined by scores of subsequent strikes that transform the base’s location into a raging ocean of electrical fury.

The two Great Cultivators of the White Emperor Sect ignited their ultimate form, integrating with the Sect Formation through the Nascent Soul Dharma Form posture. Close to a hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators poured their spiritual power into various formation nodes, bolstering the array’s most robust defensive mode.

Regrettably, this barrier couldn’t hold up for even a single breath.

The onslaught from the ‘Thunder Cloud Skill’ proves far too relentless—a mere breath’s worth of assault matches the ferocity of ten Thunder Cultivators at their maximum output firing off lightning barrages.

In the face of such overwhelming force, forget about merely scraping by with a major sect’s formation defenses; even the arrays wielded by superpowers would struggle to endure without mighty cultivators to back them up against this dreadful onslaught.

Truth be told, Li Shiming’s spellcasting might defies classification as that of an ordinary cultivator.

Beyond his ownership of five Nascent Souls, even without deploying them, he can draw on just a fraction of his one hundred ninety-one brains, with each one capable of unleashing a spell.

This multi-target simultaneous casting originally faced constraints, chiefly from insufficient energy reserves, but since reaching Great Cultivator status—particularly through practicing the ‘Heavenly Human Technique’ cultivation method—he possesses ample reserves to fuel this level of expenditure.

When targeting stationary foes like these, the potency of his multi-target spells achieves its utmost effectiveness.

Within one breath’s span, right after the opening volley of lightning descends, the whole base formation shatters entirely.

Stripped of the formation’s shield, the full White Emperor Sect base lies utterly vulnerable to the barrage from ten ‘Thunder Cloud Skills.’

The pair of Great Cultivators grasped the sheer terror of Li Shiming’s battle prowess the very instant the defensive array came under assault.

Their will to fight evaporated, and as the formation crumbled, they yearned to escape to distant safety.

However, the ‘Thunder Cloud Skill’ was already in full bloom, locking onto every living being as a potential victim for its lightning strikes—with cultivators as the prime marks, and the Great Cultivators’ auras drawing the bolts straight to them first.

The swiftest assault in existence—excluding the ‘Speed Rule Imprint’—remains the velocity of lightning itself.

The two Great Cultivators morphed into beams of fleeing spell light in a desperate bid to get away, but the ensuing lightning bolts slammed into them, yanking them from their escape technique.

This hit left them in critical condition, stripping away every layer of their defenses.

Life-preserving Jade Talismans materialized in their grasp; despite their reluctance, this dire moment forced them to activate their final resort.

Yet, the second they drew out the Jade Talismans and readied to trigger them, a blade of sword light materialized from the emptiness. Given how near the two Great Cultivators stood to each other, the sword light sliced out from beside one, pierced through both their forms, and then faded into nothingness.

The two Great Cultivators froze in stunned stillness, letting the relentless lightning pummel them without resistance.

Those far-off cultivators caught in the ‘Thunder Cloud Skill’s’ lightning fury couldn’t possibly execute a ‘Traceless Illusion Sword’ strike, and even the ‘Chaos Sword Intent,’ held back deliberately by him, went undetected by any cultivator.

The clash concluded almost before it ignited, though Li Shiming held back until the ten ‘Thunder Cloud Skills’ expended their full wrath, ensuring the foes understood the dire price of challenging the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

As the final lightning vanished, the base stood devoid of any vital signs; amid the eerie, silent wreckage, only the two Great Cultivators’ corpses remained whole—spared on purpose—while everything else had been scorched and torn apart by the electrical storm.

The nearly one hundred Nascent Soul cultivators of the White Emperor Sect vanished without even leaving remains behind.

Li Shiming’s form flickered, materializing next to the two Great Cultivators’ corpses, where he gathered them up before vanishing from the devastated site.

Not until thirty minutes after Li Shiming’s departure did bold onlooker cultivators venture close enough to probe the aftermath.

The White Emperor Sect’s base setup had been brazenly showy, not just claiming this mountain gate by force but boldly proclaiming the surrounding territory as their exclusive domain to all local cultivators.

This claim gained acceptance from the indigenous forces of the Dongqi Continent and the three major sects.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect alone rejected it, though everyone knew the three major sects were relentlessly compressing the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s room to maneuver—if they couldn’t weather this storm, annihilation loomed as a real threat.

Today, witnesses beheld the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s counterstrike, executed with unimaginable might.

The toll included the obliteration of the White Emperor Sect’s prime base on the Dongqi Continent, claiming two Great Cultivators and almost a hundred mid-stage Nascent Soul experts.

Among the watching cultivators lurked informants from the three major sects, and news of the event raced back to their leadership without delay.

At the Yuqing Sect’s base, Great Cultivator Lv Han pored over the fresh intelligence report.

The Yuqing Sect’s stakes on the Dongqi Continent were modest; recent setbacks had hit both Yuqing Sect and White Emperor Sect hard, with White Emperor Sect suffering notably. Having both crossed the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, the two superpowers had forged a tentative alliance of cooperation.