Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1676 - 884: Beast Attack (Part 2)

As the tidal wave drew near the striking range of the Great Cultivators, venturing closer would slam into the energy barrier of the grand formation, sparking a exhausting war of endurance.

Thus, the moment it entered attack range, the Great Cultivators needed to slaughter as many 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' as possible to thin out their overwhelming numbers.

"Sword light splits, ten thousand swords attack!" Li Shiming whispered softly.

The 'Glazed Flying Cloud Sword' hovering above his head unleashed a brilliant glow, which strangely solidified into countless flying swords of sword light.

Of course, it's merely dubbed ten thousand swords—in truth, just three hundred sword lights.

Truth be told, he hadn't refined the 'Glazed Flying Cloud Sword' for long enough, since sword light division hinges on the flying sword's refinement depth.

Splitting into three hundred sword lights came from the mighty sword light division secret art within the 'Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique'.

The lead sword light of the three hundred bore the 'Chaos Sword Intent'.

With a flick of his hand, the three hundred sword lights hurtled toward the 'Xuan You Wujin Beast' horde.

These three hundred sword lights didn't clash independently but darted back and forth, weaving into a vast sword light net.

The sword light net crashed into the tidal wave, tearing a gigantic gap where not just the 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' but the seawater itself got vaporized by the horrifying sword light.

In the swath cleared by the sword light net, gray mist billowed upward—the corrosive haze born from slain 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts'.

Li Shiming's sword light net showed no sign of hindrance from the corrosive mist; after purging a chunk of 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts', it shifted course and slashed sideways through the tidal wave.

At once, vast swarms of 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' perished, birthing even thicker gray corrosive mist.

He deemed the feat nothing special, for with his might, felling Third Grade Spiritual Beasts felt like swatting flies with a massive cannon.

But moments later, he spotted the issue: other Great Cultivators' assaults also fragmented their artifacts' power—the first split delivered solid impact, yet the second drastically sapped the strike's force.

Hardly any Great Cultivators could keep artifact power splits going into a third barrage, and even the second held far less punch.

Seeing Li Shiming's three hundred sword lights rip through the 'Xuan You Wujin Beast' horde, the havoc wrecked dwarfed any lone Great Cultivator's output—even topping the total damage from every Great Cultivator combined.

This shifted the other Great Cultivators' stares toward him entirely.

Li Shiming caught on right away and grasped the cause of this standout display.

It wasn't his sword lights boasting exceptional might to shrug off the corrosive mist; instead, the 'Chaos Sword Intent' infused in them neutralized the corrosion, letting the sword lights linger far longer amid the haze.

Besides the corrosive mist, 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' ranked as plain Third Grade Spiritual Beasts, which sword lights could harvest nonstop with barely any drain.

"My performance was a bit too much!" Li Shiming dialed it back a notch, intentionally letting the sword lights dissolve.

He drew spiritual energy from the formation and spawned fresh three hundred sword lights from the 'Glazed Flying Cloud Sword'.

This go-around, he played it safe—the three hundred sword lights looped through the 'Xuan You Wujin Beast' horde five times before fading out.

The Great Cultivators figured Li Shiming's sword lights simply endured the corrosive mist longer, not evaded it completely.

Li Shiming curbed his assault strength, since few Great Cultivators there mastered area spells; even those who did couldn't fire off many amid the 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts'' furious charge, letting the beasts quickly swarm the grand formation shield.

The instant 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' battered the grand formation shield, the herd-facing side flickered dim.

Soon enough, that flank of the formation blackened over completely.

Via the 'Divine Eye', Li Shiming beheld the 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' gnashing at the formation shield, their bites savagely potent, making the barrier quake as its energy drained wildly under the relentless onslaught.

Especially upon spotting the rarer Fourth Grade 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' mixed in—these proved even more rabid.

Fourth Grade 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' soaked up Great Cultivator hits for ages.

Li Shiming also spied how corrosive mist from dead Third Grade 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' fueled the Fourth Grade variants.

He watched a battered Fourth Grade 'Xuan You Wujin Beast' mend rapidly inside the corrosive mist.

While Fourth Grade 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' counted as few, that was only versus Third Grade ones; IBMz15's breakdown revealed one Fourth Grade per every ten thousand Third Grade 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts'.

The prior 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' wave looked all Third Grade because they were deployed as cannon fodder vanguard.

Once past the cultivators' strike zone, Fourth Grade 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' piled into the grand formation shield assault.

All Great Cultivators hammered away, now and then blasting clear patches on the blackened formation shield, though 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' refilled them in a flash.

Yet Li Shiming's blows invariably gouged extended voids along the formation shield.

For all the Great Cultivators' frenzy, results stayed woefully inadequate; at this pace, the formation shield faced imminent collapse.

Right then, Li Shiming felt energy roiling under Zhenyi Island, rapidly coalescing into a rune—the same on the other thirty-five islands, their thirty-six runes fusing into an elaborate pattern.

This rune morphed into a fireball, streaking at the 'Xuan You Wujin Beast' horde.

Mid-flight, the blaze unfurled into a firewall, rearing a hundred meters tall and a thousand meters across, laden with colossal Fire Spiritual Power.

Flames smashing into the tidal wave boomed like a cataclysm, purging a full kilometer stretch of 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts'.

Li Shiming reeled in shock; nonstop blasts like that would make hiring Great Cultivators pointless.

Yet such strikes clearly taxed the formation heavily, halting after one wave clearance as the grand formation held back further moves.

Li Shiming and the Great Cultivators poured on maximum power; post-formation strike, 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' hugging the formation shield thinned out sharply, giving the barrier a breather to restore energy and hold steady briefly.

During his barrages, he stole glances at the island interior, where formation-feeding cultivators paled from the huge prior outpouring, now swallowing Spirit Pills.

Countless local cultivators passed out Spirit Pills, desperate for those allies to bounce back fast.

He scanned the main island too, Grandmaster Wu Ding's position, but picked up no other Half-step Great Power aura nearby.

Distractions aside, his strikes flowed without pause.

No cultivator watching his fray could nitpick; he peaked what a Sword Cultivator Great Cultivator could deliver.

Actually, his battle might topped Grandmaster Wu Ding's original gauge, flaunting elite Sword Cultivator Great Cultivator caliber.

"Damn, how could there be a Late Stage Fourth Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’!" Li Shiming abruptly detected a tear in the formation shield, 'Xuan You Wujin Beasts' flooding through, sensing a Late Stage Fourth Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’ radiating from the rift.