Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1667 - 880: Righteous Path

"We can’t escape. Send out the signal for reinforcements. Each of us should request support from our sects. Let’s unite and buy time to preserve our lives!" Spotting Li Shiming collecting the spoils, Great Cultivator Shen Ze turned to the other two Righteous Path Great Cultivators and sent a voice transmission.

All of them had seen the earlier demise of Great Cultivator Zongjing.

Great Cultivator Zongjing’s White Bone, the signature White Bone Technique from the Bone Sect, zipped faster than a Peak Great Cultivator could fly on his sword, but Li Shiming had effortlessly chased it down and destroyed it.

Injured as they were, the three Righteous Path Great Cultivators stood almost no chance of outrunning Li Shiming with mere flight speed.

Instead of getting picked off one after another by Li Shiming with ease, it made far more sense to band together, hold off his onslaught, and await rescue.

Demon Cultivators couldn’t rely on one another, but these Righteous Path cultivators trusted each other fully, so they quickly clustered after agreeing on the plan.

Rather than scattering in flight, the three Righteous Path Great Cultivators huddled close, catching Li Shiming off guard.

This unexpected move made him hold back from striking right away, opting instead to watch the trio while IBMz15 crunched the data to plot his next step.

Great Cultivator Shen Ze unleashed his treasured realm, unleashing a surge of water that wrapped around the three Great Cultivators in a protective barrier.

Great Cultivator Liao Yi pulled out a chessboard marred by a missing corner, leaving it looking battered and incomplete.

From his ordeals in the Divine Palace, this life treasure of his had taken heavy damage; though life treasures heal by drawing on the body’s energy, too little time had passed for proper recovery.

To bolster the defenses of this flawed treasure, he produced two boxes containing black and white chess pieces.

Light erupted from the chessboard, projecting a glowing chessboard phantom into the air, onto which the two boxes of black and white chess pieces then dropped.

Once the chess pieces settled on the illusory chessboard, a sturdy palace sprang up around the three Righteous Path Great Cultivators, shielding them inside.

The remaining Great Cultivator, Ji Chuan, summoned his Nascent Soul clutching a tiny crimson flying sword; purple mists swirled about the Nascent Soul, one force binding it down while another blaze scorched the scarlet blade.

With their defenses fully set, the three Righteous Path Great Cultivators braced for Li Shiming’s incoming assault.

"What a waste!" Li Shiming shook his head while eyeing the black and white chess pieces arrayed on the chessboard.

Every single black and white chess piece consisted of premium Fourth Grade black and white jade, refined not in recent millennia but nurtured within some ultimate formation for at least thousands of years, as far as he could tell.

Through the super formation’s energy, these black and white chess pieces had evolved into supreme-grade formation cores—ones adaptable to any setup and foundational to countless arrays.

Li Shiming himself lacked array materials of this caliber; even his hundred and eight Buddha Beads hadn’t undergone such prolonged nurturing.

For any Array Master, this difference drastically affected the potency of deployed formations.

In Li Shiming’s possession, those black and white chess pieces could form an array capable of resisting a Peak Great Cultivator temporarily.

Paired with a potent spirit vein, he might even craft one mimicking part of a superpower’s grand formation.

Li Shiming held little regard for Great Cultivator Liao Yi’s array skills.

IBMz15’s scans captured everything, particularly as Great Cultivator Liao Yi set up his array mid-battle, laying the whole process bare before Li Shiming’s eyes—techniques that might fool an average array dabbler.

But displaying it to Li Shiming was akin to gifting him the formation blueprint outright.

IBMz15 dissected the array completely, exposing every hidden detail.

Sheltered by the treasure mirror’s watery veil and the array-spawned palace, Great Cultivator Ji Chuan’s flying sword lay primed for a lethal counterstrike.

However, Li Shiming’s ’Divine Sight’ pierced Great Cultivator Liao Yi’s formation effortlessly, slicing through the water curtain shield as well to reveal Great Cultivator Ji Chuan’s flying sword.

The flying sword gripped by Great Cultivator Ji Chuan existed in an odd state, evoking the tension of a nocked arrow itching to fly.

Li Shiming felt certain that any opening he showed during an attack would trigger Great Cultivator Ji Chuan’s flying sword assault.

A cold smirk crossed Li Shiming’s face as he fired up forty brains; no more stalling for him.

From the three Righteous Path Great Cultivators’ desperate defensive posture, reinforcements were clearly on the way.

All forty brains unleashed ’Thunder Cloud Skill’ in unison—a wide-area lightning spell that took longer to cast but excelled in raw power and coverage among Thunder Skills.

Great Cultivator Shen Ze poured his spiritual power into the treasure mirror nonstop, bolstering the water curtain shield further.

Spotting thunder clouds brewing overhead, he instantly pegged it as the Thunder Cultivator’s ’Thunder Cloud Skill’.

Thunder Cultivators favored straightforward attacks: ’Thunder Fall Skill’ for singles, ’Thunder Cloud Skill’ for crowds. Though other thunder techniques existed, most Thunder Cultivators stuck to these reliable pair.