Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1714 - 903: State of Mind (2)

A profound sense of peace washed over him, triggering a remarkable shift in his mental state. It felt as though he had attained the pinnacle of a Great Cultivator’s Spirit, and inexplicably, a subtle enhancement occurred.

Though this improvement in Spirit was incredibly minute, IBMz15, diligently monitoring his condition, would detect even the slightest alteration.

He understood that this state of mind was advantageous, permitting him to consciously open his heart.

Regrettably, this feeling of liberation and ease persisted for mere days before a contingent of Great Cultivators materialized to intercept him.

"From the Mirror Moon Sect’s Holding Law Hall, Mister Li, you had best surrender!" A commanding voice emanated from one of the six Great Cultivators, who stood at the forefront of the group, flanked by two Peak Great Cultivators.

The six Great Cultivators hovered in the void, their auras distinctly different from those of ordinary cultivators.

Li Shiming’s brow twitched minutely as he detected a potent killing intent radiating from the sextet.

In the Cultivation World, it was exceedingly rare to perceive such palpable killing intent from another cultivator.

Typically, unless one was practicing a specialized Secret Technique for cultivating killing intent, cultivators would restrain themselves from being overwhelmed by it.

Consider Li Shiming and his clone, Li Yuanba. They were fundamentally one entity. Consequently, in theory, any cultivators felled by Li Shiming or Li Yuanba ought to be counted as slain by them.

Given the sheer number of cultivators Li Yuanba had annihilated, Li Shiming should, by all rights, be saturated with killing intent.

Yet, upon reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, the majority of cultivation techniques offer the capacity to adjust a cultivator’s mental state, enabling them to expunge lingering killing intent and prevent it from impeding their cultivation.

Conversely, the six Great Cultivators opposite him deliberately harbored killing intent within their beings, instilling a natural sense of dread in ordinary cultivators when confronted.

"Mirror Moon Sect, you hold me in far too low a regard!" Li Shiming declared, shaking his head.

His aura erupted, and the formidable presence of a Thunder Cultivator shot skyward, suffusing the void with faint electrical discharges.

The leading Peak Great Cultivator’s expression shifted subtly. His immediate action was to dispatch intelligence regarding Li Shiming’s advancement to Peak Great Cultivator status via his Divine Sense.

Given Li Shiming’s attainment of the Peak Great Cultivator realm, their strategy for dealing with him necessitated an immediate revision.

Nevertheless, this detachment from the Holding Law Hall harbored no intention of withdrawal; their objective was at least to engage Li Shiming, to gauge his true combat capabilities, even if outright capture was uncertain.

"Attack!" The lead Peak Great Cultivator gestured, and his accompanying Great Cultivators surged forward, encircling Li Shiming.

Each Great Cultivator produced a treasure mirror, poised to unleash their full power once they were within optimal range.

Li Shiming refrained from immediate action. He summoned the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ from within, activated forty of his computational brains, and with the assistance of the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ housed in his equipment space, unleashed forty simultaneous ’Thunder Fall Skills.’

Ever since his ascension to the Peak Great Cultivator realm, his Spirit had markedly improved, granting him the ability to simultaneously employ an increased number of computational brains.

The utilization of forty brains represented his conventional operational state; the energy expenditure was minimal, rendering it suitable for routine combat scenarios.

His form vanished as he activated ’Heavenly Distance,’ reappearing in a strategically advantageous position amidst the six Great Cultivators.

This chosen spot ensured an equal distance from each of them, placing all within the reach of his offensive capabilities.

Forty ’Thunder Fall Skills’ materialized in the void, transforming into forty thunderous dragons that roared and charged towards the six Great Cultivators.

The six Great Cultivators possessed extensive combat experience, having contended with numerous formidable cultivators and relying on the synergy of their team. They even had documented instances of defeating Peak Great Cultivators who were ostensibly stronger than themselves.

Within the various factions of the Cloud Island Sea, the Holding Law Hall occupied a unique position; it served as the department responsible for confronting powerful external threats or internal dissenters, and every cultivator within its ranks was a combat prodigy, specializing in Secret Techniques honed for battle.

In the broader Cultivation World, martial prowess did not automatically equate to genius in cultivation. Certain Secret Techniques, specifically designed for combat, could markedly enhance a cultivator’s fighting strength, though practicing these techniques often came with drawbacks that could subtly hinder overall cultivation progress.

The six Great Cultivators had indeed cultivated Secret Techniques tailored for combat. Upon detecting Li Shiming’s deployment of Space Movement followed by his lightning assault, they collectively shattered a bead.

Then, a volley of lightning engulfed them. As a Peak Great Cultivator himself, Li Shiming employed the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ to amplify the might of his Thunder Skill, with the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ providing a further forceful boost of one rank.

This surge of power rendered the ’Thunder Fall Skill’ he unleashed so devastating that even fellow Peak Great Cultivators found it exceedingly difficult to withstand even a single bolt of lightning.

Moreover, unleashing forty potent ’Thunder Fall Skills’ simultaneously signaled his intention to hold nothing back from the outset, aiming for complete annihilation.

The speed of the lightning was breathtaking, and once the deafening thunderous roars subsided, a profound silence descended upon the battlefield.

Li Shiming refrained from further assaults, his attention captivated by the mysterious beads the six Great Cultivators had deployed.

As the last of the lightning dissipated, only two Peak Great Cultivators managed to survive. The remaining four Great Cultivators, whose power was nearing its peak, succumbed to the relentless onslaught of the lightning, perishing.

Faced with such an overwhelming display of lightning power, both the physical form and the Nascent Soul appeared remarkably vulnerable.

The two surviving Peak Great Cultivators were far from unscathed; their fourth-grade top-quality treasure mirrors lay shattered, and their robes bore extensive scorch marks.

Though they remained standing in the void, their bodies had endured tremendous damage.

They attempted to utter words, but Li Shiming instantaneously materialized beside them, placing his hands upon them, and a terrifying torrent of lightning surged into their bodies.

"It appears the effect of those beads has expired!" Li Shiming observed, noting the life force of the two Peak Great Cultivators rapidly diminishing, and remarked with a shake of his head.

He promptly summoned the deceased bodies of the six Great Cultivators and proceeded to confiscute their spatial items.

Ultimately, it was within the soul crystal ring of the leading Peak Great Cultivator that he discovered the highly sought-after beads they had utilized earlier.

Li Shiming’s Divine Sense probed the beads; they were a type of one-time-use treasure, imbued with unfamiliar runic magic, yet he could discern their general function.

They seemed to be single-use artifacts designed specifically to counter lightning attacks, enhancing a cultivator’s resistance to lightning, though the heightened resistance was fleeting.

Furthermore, these beads were crafted from fourth-grade top-quality materials; even those with immense power would struggle to produce a significant quantity of such disposable treasures.

"Such precise countermeasures against me, yet alas, my cultivation is not solely focused on the Dao of Thunder!" Li Shiming mused aloud, idly turning the bead in his hand.

Even with the assistance of these beads, had a multitude of Great Cultivators attacked simultaneously, he remained confident that only by casting his Thunder Skills could he effectively vanquish them.

Much like the four Great Cultivators eliminated in the initial barrage, they too had employed these lightning-resistance-boosting beads. However, it was evident that these disposable items possessed their limitations.

It was unequivocally clear that Li Shiming’s assault had surpassed the beads’ capacity, leading directly to the demise of four Great Cultivators.

Even though the other two Peak Great Cultivators avoided immediate death from the lightning in the first round, the residual effects left them temporarily incapacitated, unable to fight.

In truth, Li Shiming had not exerted his full might. If he were to activate a hundred 'brains' simultaneously – which represented his current extreme limit for casting Thunder Skills – under the torrent of a hundred ’Thunder Fall Skills,’ not even the corpses of the Peak Great Cultivators would remain intact.

He meticulously searched the soul crystal ring; the Peak Great Cultivators from the Holding Law Hall possessed no Spiritual Objects, a fact confirmed by his examination of the spatial items carried by the remaining Great Cultivators.

The sole item of significant value was a fourth-grade top-quality Flying Boat; other Spiritual Objects held no genuine interest for him. The Great Cultivator Spirit Pills, which were exceedingly precious to other Great Cultivators, appeared to him as mere common currency, akin to Spirit Stones.