Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1689 - 891: Battle in the Cave-Heaven

Accompanied by a few fellow great cultivators, Cultivator Dai Biao stepped into the Grotto Heaven. Beholding the infernal landscape within the Grotto Heaven, his mind suddenly sharpened.

The notion of a humble great cultivator like himself daring to confront a half-step great power sent tremors racing through his entire frame without control.

Only at this moment did realization strike him: absent the bewitchment secret technique laced into Jiao Xian’s earlier words, he would have dismissed them outright.

But now that they had arrived inside, he and the other great cultivators had no recourse except to eliminate the half-step great power.

Invading the Grotto Heaven of a half-step great power forges an irreconcilable mortal grudge, a fact whispered among countless superpowers.

Inside their own Grotto Heaven, half-step great powers must ceaselessly refine the realm’s laws and fine-tune the Cave Heaven Energy—a perilously taxing endeavor, comparable to an ant wrestling an elephant.

Even the smallest error could wreak permanent devastation upon the half-step great power.

Hence, no half-step great power’s Grotto Heaven ever permits entry to any cultivator, no matter their bond of closeness.

Cultivator Dai Biao laid eyes on the half-step great power, whose ashen face and wildly erratic aura revealed his desperately weakened state.

Observing the half-step great power’s debilitated condition, the great cultivators traded glances, their eyes sparkling with fervent excitement.

Jiao Xian’s promised bounty flashed in their minds: the first to fell the half-step great power would claim her reward, a boon grand enough to rewrite their destinies.

Make no mistake; they stood merely one stride from peak great cultivator rank, yet that chasm demanded rare treasures so scarce they faced decades more of delay.

Purple Cloud Sect boasts legions of great cultivators lined up for advancement resources, but those for reaching peak great cultivator remain woefully finite.

This was their golden shot—slaying the enfeebled half-step great power would shave centuries off their agonizing wait.

"Slay!" A great cultivator struck first, blurring toward the half-step great power. Nearing his flying sword’s lethal reach, he bellowed and cleaved downward.

Flames sheathed the flying sword as it plunged at the half-step great power, who seemed too gravely wounded to even budge.

Joy ignited the great cultivator’s features; this ferocious slash channeled nearly all his spiritual power pattern, supercharged by secret technique—his supreme assault.

He was convinced the strike’s ferocity could ravage any foe.

But seeing the flying sword ricochet harmlessly off the half-step great power’s body left him stunned, refusing the outcome for a breathless instant.

Though prowess nearing a peak great cultivator falls short of a true peak one’s might, he trusted this secret technique-fueled all-out blow rivaled any peak great cultivator attack.

Never had he foreseen his strike failing to breach the half-step great power’s guard.

He witnessed clearly: no energy shield cloaked the half-step great power; pure flesh alone withstood the impact.

The other great cultivators reeled in shock too, then promptly unleashed their flying swords, hacking at the half-step great power.

Blade after blade hammered the half-step great power’s form, yet every flying sword sprang back repelled.

A faint scowl marred the half-step great power’s face; he teetered at a vital juncture stabilizing the Grotto Heaven Energy, and this disruption fueled his towering rage.

"Courting death!" He finally snapped, endurance shattered.

His words unleashed the Grotto Heaven’s colossal might, slamming down on the great cultivators. Dodge they tried, but the Grotto Heaven pinned them fast, motionless.

A grim truth dawned: within his Grotto Heaven, a half-step great power wields total mastery like a realm’s overlord, ensnaring every cultivator inside its grip.

Then they tasted the half-step great power’s true horror in his domain—a world’s dominion funneled into one soul, crowning him this realm’s unchallenged god.

Helpless, they watched the crushing force descend, bodies erupting in a deafening blast, nascent souls snuffed out inescapably.

From the band of great cultivators who breached together, solely Cultivator Dai Biao endured, having hung back without striking alongside them.

Likely, the half-step great power saw no point expending effort on Cultivator Dai Biao.

Cultivator Dai Biao's entire frame shuddered without cease; the sensation of defying the whole world led to his rejection by the Grotto Heaven's laws, limiting him to harnessing just the power inside his own body.

However, pitting his body's energy alone against the vast Grotto Heaven filled him with such despair that he nearly blacked out.

Just then, a familiar presence emerged behind him—it was Jiao Xian's arrival—that steadied his racing thoughts.

"Why haven’t you attacked?" Jiao Xian demanded of Cultivator Dai Biao, her tone resembling a fiend from the abyss.

Jiao Xian harbored no desire to spare Cultivator Dai Biao's life; if the earlier great cultivators hadn't perished, his survival wouldn't have posed a problem.

Yet since he had essentially maneuvered those prior great cultivators toward their doom, permitting Cultivator Dai Biao to return alive to the sect—even securing the Inheritance Cave Heaven—would spark inevitable inquiries from the sect.

The most straightforward fix for this issue lay in ensuring Cultivator Dai Biao perished too, then asserting they had been ambushed by a half-step great power from the Yuzhu Islands. After all, as the only survivor, his account would become undisputed truth.