Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1544: Chapter 818: Life and Death_2

What he was most worried about was that the helper he had invited would underestimate Li Shiming, allowing Li Shiming to use the ’Innate Wood’ divine skill to heal himself.

"I sealed his Nascent Soul!" At this moment, a voice reached Master Wang He’s ears, causing his concern to vanish instantly.

Li Shiming’s formidable body failed to withstand the attack of that finger. He activated the ’Innate Wood’ divine skill, letting a large amount of ’Innate Wood’ divine power energy flow from the ’Innate Wood’ Divine Power Pattern within him, healing his physical injuries.

In fact, his Nascent Soul was indeed sealed, but the attacker obviously didn’t know he had five Nascent Souls, only one of which was sealed.

So he could still activate the ’Innate Wood’ divine skill from one of his Nascent Souls, and no matter how severe his injuries, the sufficient ’Innate Wood’ divine power energy could quickly restore him.

As his body flew out, he and his life-bound magical item IBMz15 were analyzing the enemy just now.

He had read many ancient texts, some of which described the powerful in great detail.

He didn’t believe that a Great Power would cross the sea to the Dongqi Continent just to deal with him.

Moreover, the owner of that finger seemed to be under some sort of restriction, unable to appear in the outside world and possibly had trouble moving in the outside world.

Since Master Wang He intentionally lured him close to that place, it was as if he was being led into the attack range of that finger.

If that finger could attack at will, there would be no need for such a hassle; he could just come directly and point at him to end it.

Furthermore, and most importantly, the owner of that finger didn’t intend to kill him, because if he wanted to, increasing the power on the finger a bit would have completely obliterated him.

He wouldn’t mistake that feeling; the finger could have easily taken his life.

In front of that finger, he was like a helpless child.

A half-step Mahayana cultivator, he speculated on the opponent’s identity, a type of powerful cultivator almost unseen in the Cultivation World.

They are unseen in the Cultivation World because the half-step Mahayana cultivator has embarked on a point of no return, opening their own Cave Heaven, and need to stabilize it before their life span runs out, or they will fade along with their Cave Heaven.

Every moment for a Half-step Great Power is precious. Being in a Cave Heaven, which is incomplete, outside cultivators can’t enter, as even a slight interference could ruin a lifetime’s effort for a Half-step Great Power.

Li Shiming didn’t know much about the Half-step Great Power, and what he did know was from books.

Those are the parts open to Great Cultivators, while the hidden parts are probably known only to the top levels of various superpowers.

Once he flew a certain distance backward, he no longer felt the fatal threat, making him more convinced of his judgement.

The distance between him and that finger at that moment should have been the attack range of a Half-step Great Power, and now that he was out of the attack range, he wouldn’t be in danger anymore.

But he still retreated further and used IBMz15 to establish a suspicious attack range.

"It’s that jade disk, the Cave Heaven of the Half-step Great Power is fixed on the jade disk!" Through a simple calculation, he quickly found the most likely target carrying the Cave Heaven.

Li Shiming was quite knowledgeable about Cave Heavens, especially movable ones.

He had two Cave Heavens within him: a Half-step Cave Heaven and a Heavenly Person Cave Heaven, existing as small energy entities in his body. These small energy entities are the form of a Cave Heaven revealed to the outside world, and regardless of how large the internal space is, only a small material point connecting the Cave Heaven with the outside world shows externally.

The small energy body revealed in the Cultivation World by a Cave Heaven resembles an anchor of a ship. However, this ship (Cave Heaven) exists on another layer of space and cannot be exposed externally. The anchor serves to connect the Cave Heaven with the great world of the Cultivation World.

This discovery put Li Shiming at ease.

He once again looked at the two Peak Great Cultivators, no longer with the initial intent to test, but now his eyes bore a killing intent.

If his luck had been slightly worse, he would already be a corpse.

"Impede my longevity, my cultivation; block my path to Dao, and I shall fight relentlessly to the end!" he thought to himself.

"Come back!" he ordered to the five late-stage Golden Corpses.

The five late-stage Golden Corpses immediately retreated. Even if they took a few more hits from the two Peak Great Cultivators, it didn’t stop them from retreating to Li Shiming’s side.

"Mr. Li, there’s no need to resist anymore; these five Golden Corpses cannot protect you!" Wang He Great Cultivator stated blandly.

He already felt a sure victory; a Great Cultivator unable to use his Nascent Soul was like a toothless tiger, easy to manipulate.

"Half-step Great Power, is this the Half-step Great Power of Yuqing Sect or White Emperor Sect? Could it be that a Half-step Great Power can only hide away, not daring to show themselves?" Li Shiming looked at the two Peak Great Cultivators and asked mockingly.

"How dare you?" Wang He Great Cultivator shouted as if someone had slapped him.

"So it’s Yuqing Sect’s Half-step Great Power!" Li Shiming said with a faint smile, confirming some guesses from Wang He Great Cultivator’s reaction.

First, the one who attacked him indeed was a Half-step Great Power; second, this Half-step Great Power was from Yuqing Sect; and finally, the Half-step Great Power couldn’t attack him from afar.

Speaking like this was equivalent to insulting a Half-step Great Power. With the power at the disposal of a Half-step Great Power, if he really had the capability, he would have acted against him.

"When you are sent to Yuqing Sect, I will make sure you are well taken care of!" Wang He Great Cultivator said resentfully.

No one had ever humiliated a Half-step Great Power like this before, and Wang He Great Cultivator felt it personally; if everything went normally, he might try to advance to Half-step Great Power in a few hundred years.

"You’re not going back!" Li Shiming said in a deep voice.

The terrifying aura on his body soared. Although one Nascent Soul was sealed, it just meant he lost one-fifth of his spiritual power reserves, with little impact on his actual combat power.

"How can you still utilize spiritual power?" This time both Wang He Great Cultivator and Yan Gao Great Cultivator were taken aback, looking at Li Shiming incredulously.

Since the Half-step Great Power said so, Li Shiming’s Nascent Soul must have been sealed.

But how could a Great Cultivator with a sealed Nascent Soul still access the spiritual power within his Nascent Soul?

Familiar with the power of Half-step Great Power, they, as Peak Great Cultivators, knew more deeply than other Great Cultivators. Most information only becomes available at the Peak Great Cultivator levels of sects.

Half-step Great Powers indeed cannot leave their Cave Heavens, but this does not mean they can’t attack.

Half-step Great Powers have self-preservation capabilities, and apart from Great Powers, no cultivator can withstand this ability.

Because attacks from Half-step Great Powers are launched from their Cave Heavens, it’s a true attack.

A true attack is a special form of attack; due to the unique nature of the Cave Heaven, using it to attack enemies in the real world allows the rule power within the Cave Heaven to offset most of the energy defenses in the real world.

No matter how incomplete the rules inside the Cave Heaven are, one Cave Heaven’s rules can easily offset the rules and energy used in defenses by an external Great Cultivator.

This why when Li Shiming used ’Heavenly Human Technique’ to set ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ defense shield for himself, it was ignored; even the passive defensive spell of a top-level fourth-grade robe had no effect.

And a true attack is even more terrifying as it is a kind of assault method directly acting on material using the medium of the Cave Heaven’s power.

If it’s not controlled, all material smaller than the medium of the Cave Heaven could be destroyed by the true attack.

That one finger, seemingly just a finger, was in fact connected to a Half-step Great Power’s Cave Heaven, launching an attack with Cave Heaven Power.

At that time, Li Shiming was using his physical body to resist one Cave Heaven medium’s material; had the Half-step Great Power not restrained the power, it could have turned him to ashes.