Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1367: Chapter 730: Annihilation

When Great Cultivator Duan Zhang was giving up his physical form, he activated a life-saving Jade Talisman, which was a Thunder Escape Talisman prepared by the Yuqing Sect’s Great Ability for Great Cultivators.

The Thunder Escape contained within it differs somewhat from the Thunder Escape that ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivators employ, storing Thunder Rules.

If taking the Thunder Rules contained in Great Cultivator Duan Zhang’s Thunder Escape as a standard, then the Thunder Rules contained within this Great Ability life-saving Jade Talisman is ten times that.

This was also his greatest life-saving method; after his Nascent Soul left his body, it transformed into an indescribable lightning and fled into the distance.

Li Shiming naturally detected the movements of Great Cultivator Duan Zhang’s Nascent Soul. His Divine Sense swept over Great Cultivator Duan Zhang’s body and collected it, after which his figure vanished from the spot.

On one side was the Great Ability life-saving Jade Talisman, on the other side was a ’One-Step Arrival’ controlled by multiple brains. If a true Great Ability had been here to use the Thunder Escape, given that the Great Ability took the lead, Li Shiming’s chances of catching up wouldn’t be large.

However, how much of the Great Ability’s Thunder Rules can truly be stored within the life-saving Jade Talisman — never mind that the Thunder Rules mastered by the Great Cultivator are more than ten-fold, but the Thunder Rules mastered by Great Cultivators are only a mere surface of true Thunder Rules.

Li Shiming can achieve eight thousand miles in one ’One-Step Arrival’. He can continuously use ’One-Step Arrival’ without pause, as long as the energy within his body is sufficient, allowing him unlimited eight thousand mile Space Movement.

In three breaths, he caught up with the Nascent Soul of Great Cultivator Duan Zhang.

The Thunder Escape activated by the Great Ability life-saving Jade Talisman is considered one of the Cultivation World’s top life-saving methods.

Yet in front of Li Shiming, it only bought three breaths’ time, and those three breaths included the time he took to retrieve Great Cultivator Duan Zhang’s body.

Great Cultivator Duan Zhang’s Nascent Soul barely sensed a streak of lightning descend, suddenly finding himself trapped within an ’Electric Light Prison’.

Li Shiming used Duan Zhang’s own methods against him; previously, Great Cultivator Duan Zhang caught Li Yuanba with the ’Electric Light Prison’, and within his Spirit, a mind was prepared with an ’Electric Light Prison’.

After catching up to Great Cultivator Duan Zhang’s Nascent Soul, he directly cast an ’Electric Light Prison’ without any prior time required.

The ’Electric Light Prison’ works better on a Nascent Soul than on a Cultivator’s physical body because when trapping a same-level cultivator’s body, they could rush through the ’Electric Light Prison’ by force if their body was strong enough.

However, trapping a Nascent Soul is different, as its defensive power is exceedingly weak, and is hardly different for the Nascent Soul of any Great Cultivator.

The Nascent Soul is fundamentally incapable of breaking through a same-level ’Electric Light Prison’; it would be suicidal.

Though Li Shiming is merely a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner, he has practiced the ’Heavenly Human Technique’, and with the Thunder Cultivator’s supreme treasure ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, the power of his Thunder Skill reaches the Middle Late Stage of Great Cultivator level, enough to trap Great Cultivator Duan Zhang’s Nascent Soul.

"Such skill; employing Great Cultivator Thunder Skill at Nascent Soul Middle Stage realm — dying by your hand is no disgrace to me!" Great Cultivator Duan Zhang ceased all actions, only wishing to speak a few last words.

"The ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ is indeed very strong!" Li Shiming said lightly.

He didn’t offer much explanation, simply attributing the power of his Thunder Skill to the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’.

"I know the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ fell into your hands; I just didn’t anticipate you’d still dare to show your face, is Li Yuanba really so important to you?" Great Cultivator Duan Zhang voiced his question.

He reasoned that Li Shiming could use Great Cultivator level Thunder Skill because of the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’.

The ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, though not a spiritual treasure, holds importance to Thunder Cultivators equal to any spiritual treasure.

It was the beloved possession of a Yuqing Sect Great Ability, confident that the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ wouldn’t be lost.

For that Great Ability spent thousands of years refining the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’. Such an extent of refinement means that even a same-level Great Ability couldn’t wipe away the Yuqing Sect Great Ability’s aura from the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ swiftly.

So long as the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ remains within the Cultivation World’s scope, even within any Grotto Heaven, the Yuqing Sect Great Ability could locate it.

But things didn’t turn out as wished; perhaps that Great Ability didn’t foresee that Li Shiming’s machine room space is independently formed, unrelated to this world.

Li Shiming can place the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ within the machine room space and thus harness its power.

Only when he utilizes the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ does it leak its aura.

Even if he leaks some aura of the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, it’s not the original aura, so that Great Ability cannot perceive it; only Yuqing Sect Thunder Cultivators near him can sense the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’s aura.

"You needn’t know this — who sent you to capture Li Yuanba?" Li Shiming asked sternly.

"The White Emperor Sect offered a great price; even if I fail today, another Great Cultivator would act; once the White Emperor Sect targets a Cultivator, they can’t possibly escape!" Great Cultivator Duan Zhang had no reason to hide anything for the White Emperor Sect.

He resented the White Emperor Sect, attributing his downfall to their task.

"Great Cultivator Duan Zhang, do you have any last words?" Li Shiming’s hand emitted electric light as he asked one final question.