Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1704 - 898: Great Battle (Part 2)

No escape was left for the four Peak Great Cultivators; if they didn't abandon the battlefield at once, they needed to devise a method to halt Li Yuanba’s assaults.

Thankfully, all four Peak Great Cultivators possessed immense wealth, so naturally they owned more than just one Defense Treasure, although the reserve Defense Treasures fell short of Fourth Grade Top Quality.

These replacement Defense Treasures endured a maximum of two or three hits from Li Yuanba’s Xingyi Sword. On this occasion, it wasn't the destruction of their internal Spirit imprints, but the treasures themselves getting sliced apart directly.

Though Xingyi Sword had been restricted to Fourth Grade Top Quality level, its true caliber reached Spirit Treasure grade. Despite the suppression, it remained the mightiest within Fourth Grade Top Quality.

Facing Fourth Grade Top-level Magical Treasures of equal rank, bolstered by a Peak Great Cultivator's Spiritual Power Pattern, they could persist until the internal Spirit imprints shattered. Yet against a fourth-grade high-stage Magical Treasure, Xingyi Sword's might overwhelmed what such a treasure could endure.

"Attack with everything!" Master Cui transmitted via voice to the other three Peak Great Cultivators.

His feather fan released its ultimate blow, "Flames Skyward," unleashing a raging sea of flames toward Li Yuanba, completely sealing the area ahead of him.

Great Cultivator Yu flicked his hand, sending an Array Plate soaring forth. It materialized instantly behind Li Yuanba, morphing into a Formation that utterly blocked his path of retreat.

The remaining two Peak Great Cultivators also deployed their mightiest Secret Techniques. A pair of massive area-attack Secret Techniques, long in preparation, materialized on Li Yuanba’s flanks.

Suddenly, assaults sealed off Li Yuanba’s front, rear, left, and right, rendering his superior speed useless.

This tactic had been premeditated by the four Peak Great Cultivators. They endured constant suppression and pummeling from Li Yuanba solely to reach this critical juncture.

Each had quietly readied their supreme techniques; such Secret Techniques demanded preparation time.

Yet upon activation, they delivered the most devastating strike possible from a Peak Great Cultivator.

Only Great Cultivator Yu employed a Formation among them, but necessity dictated it—solely his Formation could manifest abruptly behind Li Yuanba.

Its only goal was to trap Li Yuanba. Should the strikes from the other three sides connect, slaying him outright might elude them, but inflicting severe wounds posed no issue.

Li Yuanba confronted a dire crisis. Truthfully, he had held back his full arsenal throughout, just to savor the battle more deeply.

For any Sword Cultivator, combat offered the premier path to advancing power.

Confronting four supremely potent Peak Great Cultivators presented a scarce opportunity against such mighty foes.

Deploying Ten Thousand Sword Peak would spoil the thrill of the clash.

Amid this apparently hopeless plight, a faint smile curved his lips as he stepped back into the Formation.

A Formation spawned from an Array Plate essentially handed him the Array Plate as a present.

Despite Great Cultivator Yu having refined this Array Plate with master-recognition and numerous enhancements for battle suitability, it remained merely an Array Plate.

Li Yuanba simply scanned it with "Divine Eye," and the connected IBMz15 instantly supplied the details for cracking the Array Plate.

Upon entering the Formation, a thread of Divine Sense ruthlessly severed Great Cultivator Yu’s master-recognition imprint.

A sharp pain pierced Great Cultivator Yu's mind; this stemmed from the forced removal of his master-recognition imprint.

Still, he swiftly quelled this slight backlash, only to meet reproachful stares from the other three Peak Great Cultivators.

Clearly, those three attributed the collapse of their prime chance to slay Li Yuanba to his mishap.

Right as he prepared to justify himself, Xingyi Sword materialized abruptly before one of the Peak Great Cultivators.

Li Yuanba unleashed this blow at maximum strength. He infused Xingyi Sword with his Sword Intent Rule, and given his present realm, such infusion would diminish the "Sword Intent Rule Imprint" upon his Nascent Soul.

He held zero concern over it. Drawing from Li Shiming’s "Sword Intent Rule Imprint" as template, his own had been advancing swiftly.

Provided his realm ascended sufficiently, his Sword Intent Rules would naturally elevate to align with it.

Should he absorb the Sword Intent Rules from the "Sword Intent Rule Imprint" at this instant, they would regenerate naturally after a brief period of rest.

That Peak Great Cultivator’s fourth-grade high-stage Defense Treasure, battered by two earlier hits from Xingyi Sword, now faced the blade’s slash.

Thanks to IBMz15’s help, Li Yuanba held a precise understanding of the entire battlefield scenario.

He targeted this specific Peak Great Cultivator because his fourth-grade high-stage Defense Treasure teetered on the edge of breaking apart.

A single strike from Xingyi Sword smashed the fourth-grade high-stage Defense Treasure—this spare one—into countless shards.

Barely pausing, Xingyi Sword pressed onward toward the exposed Peak Great Cultivator.

Desperate to grab his Jade Talisman, the Peak Great Cultivator had slipped up; before he could retrieve it, his body and Nascent Soul froze completely.

Chaos Sword Intent assaulted both his flesh and Nascent Soul at once, wiping out the Peak Great Cultivator’s vital force in merely one breath.

Truth be told, against a Sword Cultivator like Li Yuanba with his devastating attack strength, the sole shot at using a Jade Talisman lay in clutching it in the hand for instant activation—otherwise, hopes were slim.

Deep shock gripped Master Cui and Great Cultivator Yu as memories flooded back of Great Cultivator Lin’s body being sliced apart and his Nascent Soul seized right before them in the prior clash.

Though four of them ganged up on Li Yuanba now, one from their side dropped first.

Xingyi Sword flew back to Li Yuanba, who empowered it anew with Chaos Sword Intent and Spiritual Power Pattern.

The previous blow had ambushed the foe utterly unprepared; as the four Peak Great Cultivators swung from triumph to despair, their defenses down, he seized the moment with Xingyi Sword’s blazing speed for a swift execution.

His superior mental state made this feasible—in the face of deadly peril, he not only escaped but struck back simultaneously.

Master Cui and Great Cultivator Yu gripped Jade Talismans tightly, signaling their lack of faith in winning the fight ahead.

They moved discreetly, evading notice from the last Peak Great Cultivator, whose eyes fixed on Xingyi Sword in disbelief that one flying sword felled his ally, denying even the Nascent Soul any flight.

Upon reaching Nascent Soul Stage, Cultivators basically gained two lives.

For even with the body gone, a Nascent Soul could flee at incredible speeds, seize a new vessel, and restore its cultivation.

Yet Xingyi Sword obliterated the Nascent Soul too, leaving the surviving Peak Great Cultivator profoundly rattled.

"Slash!" Li Yuanba’s command echoed once more.

Xingyi Sword blurred into motion, hacking down upon the Defense Treasure.

Clearly, the Sword Intent infused this time proved mightier, ravaging the targeted Defense Treasure with greater ferocity.

Master Cui and Great Cultivator Yu shared a look; their own Defense Treasures neared depletion, stripping away any means to battle Li Yuanba further.

Without delay for Xingyi Sword’s follow-up assault, they triggered the Jade Talismans clutched in their palms together.

Transforming into twin beams of light, they bolted away, vanishing swiftly beyond view.

Eyes widening at his allies’ retreat, the lone Peak Great Cultivator reached for his Jade Talisman on reflex—too late, as Xingyi Sword plunged down.

Master Cui and Great Cultivator Yu skipped warning him because, absent a Great Cultivator to hold Li Yuanba back, they doubted outrunning his Sword Escape.

Jade Talismans forged by mighty experts housed Escape Skills rivaling those experts; though energy-limited, their velocity crushed that of Peak Great Cultivators.

Still, Li Yuanba’s Xingyi Sword flight speed terrified them into this choice.

Great Cultivator Yu especially excelled at fleeing ahead of the pack, honed by repeated escapes.