Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1542: Chapter 817: The Great Battle (Part 2)

Two Great Thunder Cultivators continuously unleashed lightning attacks at each other in the sky, while they themselves kept using Thunder Escape to dodge. Their figures were already invisible, with only two flashes of lightning flickering incessantly, and constant lightning crossing the sky.

"Come on!" Li Shiming laughed loudly, his whole body feeling joyous.

He felt the joy of fully unleashing the Thunder Skill; previous enemies were simply too weak. Even the Great Cultivator Ren Mu from Central State Commerce did not give him such an enjoyable fighting experience.

Great Cultivator Ren Mu was too rational, and because the feud with Central State Commerce did not reach the point of needing a death battle, upon discovering Li Shiming’s overwhelming strength, he conceded voluntarily.

Master Wang He was different; Li Shiming must be captured, as it was an order from a great power.

Therefore, he had to fight with full force, without holding back whatsoever.

Both Thunder Cultivators wielded Thunder Skills casually; one had been immersed at the level of a Great Thunder Cultivator for nearly a thousand years, mastering Thunder Skill almost to the extreme that a Nascent Soul Cultivator could reach.

The other, Li Shiming, benefited from his life-bound artifact IBMz15, enabling unparalleled battlefield analysis and judgment across the Cultivation World.

In the application of Thunder Skills, as the battle with Master Wang He progressed, the experience gathered by IBMz15 grew, making Li Shiming’s Thunder Cultivation combat techniques increasingly closer to those of Master Wang He.

Though Master Wang He initially held the upper hand, he slowly felt the pressure from Li Shiming’s counterattacks, unable to suppress Li Shiming easily, merely within a hundred breath spans.

He was astonished as he watched a Great Thunder Cultivator transform from clumsy Thunder Skill application to highly skillful use of Thunder Skills—a process that would take ordinary Thunder Cultivators decades or even centuries—yet Li Shiming achieved it in a hundred breaths.

Master Wang He felt that defeating Li Shiming was becoming increasingly unlikely, especially since Li Shiming’s lightning did not even bear the aura of the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’.

That is to say, since the start of the battle, Li Shiming had not used ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, relying solely on his Thunder Spirit Power to fight him.

Once Li Shiming’s Thunder Cultivation combat skills matched his level, aided by the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, he would not be a match for Li Shiming.

"Mr. Li, why not show your full strength?" Master Wang He said gravely.

Although the Yuqing Sect received information that a Thunder Cultivator sensed the aura of ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ from Li Shiming, Master Wang He himself had yet to perceive the presence of ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, leaving him unsure if the pearl was with Li Shiming.

This was critically important; if ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ was not with Li Shiming, then he could not kill him, needing to spare his life to ascertain the pearl’s whereabouts.

Furthermore, he wished to force Li Shiming to reveal how he concealed the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’.

Even the Yuqing Sect’s great powers were unable to sense the presence of ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, let alone summon it back directly.

What sort of method could hide from the perception of great powers, knowing that there was a mark left in the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ by the great powers?

"Mr. Wang, for me to use my full strength, you need to put in more effort!" Li Shiming replied with a smile.

He felt incredibly good, having finally encountered a worthy opponent, learning many things from Master Wang He.

These combat experiences were beyond verbal description; they were the near millennial understanding of Thunder Skill usage by Master Wang He, an indescribable combat philosophy.

Previously, Li Shiming’s use of Thunder Skill was crude: if one bolt of lightning couldn’t affect the enemy, then ten bolts, if ten weren’t enough then twenty or thirty, until the simultaneous release of lightning overwhelmed the enemy.

This rough application of Thunder Skill was due to his short tenure as a Thunder Cultivator. Even with IBMz15 analyzing and predicting battlefield situations reasonably, without adequate peak Thunder Cultivator battle experiences for reference, IBMz15’s predictions lacked foundational data support.

Now, through combat with Master Wang He, IBMz15 had gained insights into how peak Thunder Cultivators engaged in combat, enhancing future battle planning to better align with top Great Cultivator combat approaches.

The battle continued, and Li Shiming had now caught up with Master Wang He’s combat rhythm, with both sides exchanging blows evenly.

The Thunder Spirit Power converted by Li Shiming’s ’Heavenly Human Technique’ matched the power of Master Wang He’s peak Great Cultivator Spiritual Power cultivated from the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’, making it a balanced battle as seen by any Great Cultivator.

But Li Shiming found it odd that Master Wang He, despite wielding Thunder Skills, never unleashed attacks fully loaded with Thunder Rules.

The true strength of Peak Great Cultivators lies not in the amount of spiritual power but in their understanding of rules, reaching very high levels at least in their main cultivation rules.

Due to the limited capacity of Rule Power within the Peak Great Cultivators, the fully-loaded Rule Power attacks could only be performed a few times, but their strength was the greatest, capable of determining victory in battles between equals.

Yet Master Wang He showed no intention of unleashing such power, appearing more as if he were stalling.

"Could he be waiting for Yan Gao Great Cultivator to resolve his battle?" Li Shiming wondered to himself.

He did not need to observe the battle between Yan Gao Great Cultivator and the five late-stage Golden Corpses; IBMz15 constantly transmitted the ongoing battle to his brain.

He knew the battle between Yan Gao Great Cultivator and the five late-stage Golden Corpses could last a day without reaching a conclusion.

As he once again used Thunder Escape to dodge Master Wang He’s lightning and counterattack with lightning, Master Wang He, upon using Thunder Escape, did not perform it within the previous battle range but appeared in the other battlefield.

Master Wang He seemed to have been brewing something, and upon appearing in the other battlefield, he immediately launched a ’Thunder Flash Show’.

From the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, dozens of lightning bolts shot out towards the five late-stage Golden Corpses.

The five late-stage Golden Corpses were affected by the gravitational field and the ’Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ divine power field, unable to exhibit their speed advantage, caught off guard by the surprise attack.

The dozens of lightning bolts from the ’Thunder Flash Show’ struck all five late-stage Golden Corpses.

The clothes of the five late-stage Golden Corpses were destroyed by the lightning, revealing their true form as late-stage Golden Corpses, resembling the face and body of normal cultivators.

"Truly a monster!" Yan Gao Great Cultivator and Master Wang He had long cooperated seamlessly; with Master Wang He’s assistance, he also fully unleashed ’Meteorite Descent’, meteors falling from the sky and transforming into huge fireballs as they descended.

The damage from ’Thunder Flash Show’ on the late-stage Golden Corpses was minimal, mainly due to the paralysis effect of the lightning, causing a brief pause in the five late-stage Golden Corpses.

This allowed the burning meteors from ’Meteorite Descent’ to accurately strike the target, with the huge fireballs hitting the late-stage Golden Corpses.

The late-stage Golden Corpses were knocked from the sky, crashing heavily to the ground below.

Li Shiming, upon seeing Master Wang He leave his battlefield, immediately followed.

But upon reaching a certain location, his body hair stood on end, and a great sense of dread arose within him.

"Danger, extreme danger!" his mind frantically alarmed.

If this were a place unbound by spatial constraints, he would have already used the Divine Foot Skill to escape, but in this area, he was unable to perform it.

As he lunged towards the void of the other battlefield, a finger appeared, pointing down at him.