Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1545 - 819: Devastating Blow

Even though Li Shiming harbored certain doubts, he aimed to keep as much distance as he could from the jade compass. Upon reaching the rank of Great Cultivator, his spiritual sense had surged dramatically, extending his striking distance beyond that of fellow Great Cultivators.

After positioning himself at what he considered a secure range, he unleashed his assault on the pair of Peak Great Cultivators.

He activated twenty minds, all of them concurrently forming the spell runes for the 'Thunder Fall Skill'. In almost perfect unison, the twenty instances of 'Thunder Fall Skill' erupted from the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer'.

Right then, he held nothing back, concentrating entirely on swiftly dispatching the two Peak Great Cultivators.

His true power wasn't rooted in any thunder artifact such as the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl', nor in the 'Chaos Sword Intent', and certainly not in the formidable 'Heavenly Human Technique'.

Rather, what set him apart was his ownership of one hundred and ninety-one minds alongside five Nascent Souls, granting him vast reserves of spiritual power and the capacity to unleash multiple spells all at once.

This talent for simultaneous spellcasting turned him into a solitary force of destruction. With sufficient spiritual power at his disposal, he could match the output of one hundred and ninety-one Great Cultivators.

As a result, provided he could pierce through protective barriers, he had the means to drown foes in a relentless storm of spells and claim victory.

Naturally, it was the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl', the 'Chaos Sword Intent', and the 'Heavenly Human Technique' that enabled him to demolish formidable adversaries more readily even as he bombarded them with spells in tandem.

The duo of Peak Great Cultivators remained baffled as to why Li Shiming hadn't fallen under the sway of the Half-step Great Power. Whenever that Half-step Great Power intervened, no Nascent Soul Cultivator ever slipped free from their clutches.

Yet in that instant, ten streaks of lightning hurtled toward each of them, striking both Peak Great Cultivators with ten 'Thunder Fall Skills' at the same time.

The 'Thunder Fall Skills' moved with blinding speed. Master Wang He might not have been sufficiently alarmed to freeze in place, and he still could have tried Thunder Escape to evade, but since he believed Li Shiming was under the Half-step Great Power's control, and then got stunned by the sheer volume of Li Shiming's spiritual power, the window to use Thunder Escape had vanished by the time the lightning threat registered.

This assault from Li Shiming carried no restraint whatsoever. He poured the complete might of the 'Thunder Fall Skill' into it, holding back only on upgrading the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' to spirit treasure status.

As he executed the 'Thunder Fall Skill', he channeled the utmost thunder spiritual power into the twenty spell runes of the 'Thunder Fall Skill', while also drawing on the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' within the 'Machine Room Space' to amplify all twenty 'Thunder Fall Skills'.

Consequently, be it Master Wang He or the Yan Gao Great Cultivator, both now confronted the equivalent of ten Thunder Cultivators unleashing strikes more potent than their own, all hitting at once.

You could scour the whole Cultivation World and assemble every Peak Thunder Cultivator, yet they wouldn't total even twenty in number.

Master Wang He detected the grave peril, expanding his life-bound magic treasure, the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer', to shield himself, and bolstering his defenses further with the Anti-lightning Secret Method.

This represented the absolute limit of his efforts. In an unrestricted environment, he would have triggered the life-preserving jade talisman bestowed by a Great Power already.

The thunder skill prowess of Li Shiming surpassed anything Master Wang He had envisioned. Had Li Shiming struck with such ferocity from the start, he would have fallen instantly, never surviving to this stage.

Though the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' served primarily as an offensive magic treasure, it had been refined over years through the 'Yuqing Thunder Scripture'. As a life-bound item in particular, it could merge into the Nascent Soul in energetic form, endowing it with remarkable resistance to thunder assaults.

The 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' might offer scant protection against other forms of attack, yet against thunder-based ones, its defensive capabilities shone brilliantly, able to endure strikes exceeding its own strength.

However, Master Wang He realized that ten 'Thunder Fall Skills', particularly those boosted by the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl', overwhelmed the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer's' protective threshold by a wide margin.

At this point, he was certain the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' resided with Li Shiming, although he couldn't fathom the technique Li Shiming employed to mask its aura, rendering it invisible even to Great Powers.

Nevertheless, now that Li Shiming had unleashed his full potential and the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl's' aura emerged, Master Wang He wished he had never sensed it at all.

While on the defensive, he couldn't risk activating Thunder Escape in the slightest. Employing it would shatter his guard, and should a single one of those ten 'Thunder Fall Skills' land, the damage would prove unbearable.

All he could do was pray that Li Shiming's onslaught might be repelled, or that it would drive him nearer to the jade compass, allowing him to call upon the Yuqing Sect's Half-step Great Power for aid—perhaps even entry into their Grotto Heaven.

To be sure, the odds of success were slim, yet if he entered the jade compass's influence, the Half-step Great Power might intervene to help repel the barrage.

"Crack," came a sharp, clear snapping noise, paired with a searing agony exploding in Master Wang He's mind—he recognized that his life-bound magic treasure, the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer', had suffered harm.

The 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' managed to intercept six 'Thunder Fall Skills' before crumbling under the strain. This held true even after the thousands of years of cultivation Master Wang He had poured into refining the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer'.

Now, the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' stood not just fractured, but stripped entirely of the millennia-long nurturing it had received.