Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1699 - 896: Extermination

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Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect, backed by super forces like Yuqing Sect, rally small and medium sects against the overextended Ten Thousand Beast Sect, launching guerrilla attacks on its territories. Ten Thousand Beast Sect's Great Cultivators convene amid mounting losses, with Grandmaster Hu opting to lure enemies into the open using hidden late-stage Golden Corpses. Meanwhile, Li Yuanba targets four Yuqing Sect Great Cultivators at their Central State Continent branch, infiltrating the protective formation via a calculated vulnerability with IBMz15's aid, racing toward the core before detection.

Li Yuanba's activation of 'Distance of a Step' this time carried no guarantees at all.

The action stemmed from IBMz15's breakdown of the grand formation, along with the database's compilation of Yuqing Sect’s Array Formation Books, pinpointing the likely position of the grand formation’s core.

This calculation for the formation core's spot offered just a seventy percent chance of success.

Evidently, luck smiled on him; 'Distance of a Step' landed him right at the formation core.

"Who is it?" A cultivator watching over the formation core caught his unexpected arrival and questioned with faint surprise.

This cultivator served as an Array Master supervising the grand formation, placed by the sect to protect the core amid ongoing issues.

He suspected no foe had broken in, simply presuming a sect brother had come.

Li Yuanba ignored the Array Master entirely; Xingyi Sword gleamed as it severed the man's head, then he rushed to the formation core and unleashed a spell upon it.

He dominated the formation core before the grand formation managed to blare any warning.

Seeing him slip into Yuqing Sect’s grand formation with such ease and claim mastery, across the entire Cultivation World, likely only Li Shiming and Li Yuanba could accomplish this via array expertise.

As long-term enemies of Yuqing Sect, Li Yuanba had seized plenty of jade scrolls from their cultivators, including those detailing the sect’s formations.

Every sect’s formations reveal characteristic traces and patterns, especially aided by Array Formation Books. Formations might vary, yet certain traditions pass down unchanged.

Shattering a formation comes easily, briefly capturing its core proves straightforward; the true test is infiltrating undetected and reaching the core before it stirs.

Li Yuanba linked his Divine Sense to the formation core, harnessing the grand formation’s power to execute various changes.

The grand formation regularly unleashed scans, inspecting every corner within its domain.

Through this, he precisely located every cultivator in Yuqing Sect without alerting a soul.

Scan results from the formation streamed in, straight to Li Yuanba.

Even with Yuqing Sect’s core strength diminished, the forces still present there astonished him.

Over a hundred Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators remained, and to his shock, six Thunder Cultivators occupied this branch.

One of these Thunder Cultivators wielded power nearing that of a Peak Great Cultivator.

"Truly a superpower, this foundation is terrifying!" Li Yuanba had figured he'd eliminated numerous Yuqing Sect Great Cultivators, anticipating thinner ranks. But he never expected six Thunder Cultivators crammed into this lone branch.

Though the volume of Thunder Cultivators in Yuqing Sect stunned him, his strategy stayed unaltered.

The branch occupied a compact zone, its chief spiritual vein restricted to one mountain. Every one of the six Thunder Cultivators occupied caves on that mountain.

A frosty grin twisted Li Yuanba's lips; his silhouette flickered as 'Distance of a Step' whisked him overhead that mountain.

He summoned 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' from within himself, which ballooned into a massive summit, blanketing the mountain underneath.

At once, he deployed a fully geared Late-stage Golden Corpse, commanding it to slaughter every living thing!

Abrupt, horrifying gravity—boosted by Yuqing Sect’s grand formation—smashed down, channeling the pull from 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' and 'Gravity Gold Brick' against the Thunder Cultivators’ cave defensive arrays.

Cave dwelling defenses mainly functioned as sentinels, repelling attacks from equals thanks to the formation’s backing.

Yet right then, the grand formation refused to bolster those cave arrays and even blocked their energy feed.

Cave-internal Spiritual Power Patterns briefly fueled the defenses, but absent ongoing supply, the ferocious gravity crushed all six arrays in fewer than two breaths.

The six Thunder Cultivators grasped the assault too late; the blitz left them unprepared, spurring reflexive counters mere instants before their cave shields gave way.

Charging out from their caves, the six Thunder Cultivators instantly endured crushing gravity that bogged down their motions.

"It’s a gravity field, activate Thunder Escape!" the most powerful Thunder Cultivator bellowed in alarm.

Thunder Escape morphs the body into lightning, slashing the gravity field’s grip to nearly nothing.

The Thunder Cultivators ignited Thunder Escape at uneven rates, their leader beating the rest by a single breath.

In usual conditions, a fleeting thought suffices for Thunder Escape, but trapped in that gravity field, their actions dragged noticeably.

Two anguished cries echoed out, as a pair of Thunder Cultivators in the midst of activating Thunder Escape suffered simultaneous strikes.

One got hit by the Xingyi Sword, which wielded ’Chaos Sword Intent’; even though prepared, this Thunder Cultivator barely managed to fend off that incredible swiftness.

This was especially the case because the Thunder Cultivator had deactivated their defensive spells upon shifting into Thunder Escape mode.