Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1546 - 819: Seriously Wounded (Part 2)

Yet he lacked the moment to dwell on such matters. Following his injury, the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' shifted into a thread of energy that flowed into his frame.

To ensure his safety, he required enduring four 'Thunder Fall Skills', though his sole defenses remained the encircling Thunder Shield and the Thunder Resistance Secret Method.

A single lightning strike shattered the Thunder Shield; the bolt's energy proved overwhelmingly intense.

Subsequently, the leftover lightning bolts slammed into Master Wang He, blackening his body to a crisp as he was hurled away and crashed hard onto the earth.

Opportunity to seek aid from the half-step Great Power had escaped him, leaving him gravely wounded and senseless now.

His survival without instant death stemmed from cultivating the 'Yuqing Thunder Scripture', granting his form robust tolerance to lightning through years of Thunder Skill practice, bolstered further by the Thunder Resistance Secret Method to evade immediate demise.

Meanwhile, Yan Gao Great Cultivator also detected the dread of ten 'Thunder Fall Skills'. On this occasion, Li Shiming unleashed tenfold the previous count of Thunder Fall Skills, rendering them vastly more potent.

Not that he repeated Master Wang He's error by assuming the half-step Great Power would handle Li Shiming, thus delaying his evasion of the assault.

Even possessing the skill to dodge, his Earth element couldn't match the swiftness of the lightning onslaught.

Still, Yan Gao Great Cultivator's Earth element excelled in safeguarding. By reflex, he summoned a sturdy earthen barrier ahead as peril loomed, without a second's hesitation.

Next, he dropped his Innate Treasure Mountain Peak Treasure into position to shield, all while surging Earth Element Spiritual Power through his veins to craft armor from soil and stone.

In mere instants, he showcased the utmost defensive prowess of an Earth-element Peak Great Cultivator.

The 'Thunder Fall Skill' lightning crashed against the earthen wall, draining just a fraction of its force, with the bulk pressing onward to assail the Mountain Peak Treasure.

One, two, three, up to the eighth lightning bolt, at last taxing the Mountain Peak Treasure to its brink.

Yan Gao Great Cultivator swiftly recalled his Innate Treasure Mountain Peak Treasure, knowing a further strike would inflict grave harm.

He trusted his personal barriers could repel the final two lightning bolts.

The lightning battered the outer rock shell of his Earth armor, cracking it open and then crumbling it into scattered fragments.

Through this onslaught, the lightning's full might dissipated entirely.

The concluding bolt hammered the soil layer, which soaked up the electric surge, hardening from pliable to rigid, before exploding apart like the stone shell.

Yet with nothing guarding beyond the soil layer, the residual charge jolted Yan Gao Great Cultivator's flesh, seizing his form in brief paralysis.

Yan Gao Great Cultivator exhaled deeply in relief; at last, he had fended it off.

But then another lightning bolt hurtled toward him, at which point he grasped that his prior struggles countered only a single volley from Li Shiming's barrage.

Li Shiming hadn't idled without striking. Maybe aiming to preserve Yan Gao Great Cultivator's life, he held back from full force, merely appending one extra lightning bolt.

Otherwise, unleashing twenty more 'Thunder Fall Skills' would suffice to slay Yan Gao Great Cultivator and the scarcely breathing Master Wang He many times.

This final bolt found Yan Gao Great Cultivator exposed, scorching him pitch black and leaving him to share Master Wang He's fate.

Li Shiming's Divine Sense scanned the pair of Peak Great Cultivators, drawing the critically harmed figures nearer, then weaving multiple spells via the 'Heavenly Human Technique' upon them.

These spells fused into their forms, as intricate runes swiftly etched over both.

This marked merely the outer web of runes, crafted to bind the corporeal frame. A deeper layer sealed the Nascent Soul, imposed directly on the Great Cultivators' Nascent Souls and thus unseen.

Since both Yan Gao Great Cultivator and Master Wang He relied on the soul crystal ring, the binding could only enforce seals on their bodies and Nascent Souls, barring access to Spiritual Objects or Spiritual Power from the soul crystal ring.

Thanks to the supreme prowess of the 'Heavenly Human Technique', dissected by IBMz15, neither Great Cultivator held any prospect of shattering the seal.

Only now did Li Shiming ease at last. The half-step Great Power's inaction thus far confirmed his prior theory.

Though it appeared he exerted maximum effort earlier, in truth, several minds fixated on the jade compass, ready to flee at the slightest stir from the half-step Great Power or any spatial ripples caught by 'Divine Eye'.

He never anticipated crippling both Peak Great Cultivators sans interference from the half-step Great Power.

Next, Li Shiming invoked the 'Innate Wood' Divine Skill on each Peak Great Cultivator, guaranteeing their wounds wouldn't claim them outright.

Naturally, one dose of 'Innate Wood' Divine Power Energy couldn't mend their damages completely, serving only to steady the dire states and halt worsening.

He cast the duo aside and shifted focus to the jade compass.

By then, Yan Gao Great Cultivator and Master Wang He had roused. Sealed in body and Nascent Soul, speech eluded them, leaving glances as their sole exchange.

Helplessness and shock gleamed in the eyes of both Great Cultivators; they had beheld Li Shiming's horrifying might firsthand.

That outrageous Secret Technique enabling twenty simultaneous 'Thunder Fall Skills' ranked surely among the realm's mightiest arts.

They mistook Li Shiming's 191 brains for some arcane Secret Technique, offering a vague rationale.

Li Shiming's prowess derived from his Innate Treasure IBMz15, which lacked battle functions and offered mere support, rendering it far inferior to offensive Innate Treasures wielded by other cultivators.

Such non-combat Innate Treasures suited auxiliary specialists; without Li Shiming's five Nascent Souls permitting five Innate Treasures, it would have lingered as an unfixable flaw.

Yet the Innate Treasure IBMz15 bolstered his fighting edge differently.

Every brain commanded separate spellcasting; provided Spiritual Power endured, the brains could unleash spells.

Even so, what baffled the two Great Cultivators most was the half-step Great Power's inability to capture Li Shiming, marking the utmost shock.

While Li Shiming eyed the jade compass and pondered tactics, his Innate Treasure IBMz15 scoured its archives for answers to the dilemma.

"Formation!" Near as one, Li Shiming and IBMz15 settled on the identical course.

Li Shiming trusted his gut for the choice, while IBMz15 drew from exhaustive data review.

Regarding formations, those manipulating space fit best against the Grotto Heaven tied to the jade compass.

In this realm, IBMz15 led in spatial formation studies.

Drawing from the horde of spatial array formation tomes seized from Great Venerable Hongfa, IBMz15 had forged the 'Space Acceptance Array' decades prior.

IBMz15's current probes into spatial formations delved far deeper.

Li Shiming settled into cross-legged pose, granting IBMz15 time to probe the environs and truths, crafting a spatial formation plan to tame this Grotto Heaven.

He held ninety percent certainty the half-step Great Power remained trapped in the Grotto Heaven. Still, he shunned nearing it before binding the Grotto Heaven.

IBMz15 dissected and innovated a fix; his role lay in feeding 'Divine Eye' observations, tracking ambient energy shifts.

At the same time, he directed awareness to the bound Nascent Soul, not his core one; his five Nascent Souls formed a 'Five Elements Qi Absorption Array', so the binding struck at random on one.