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Chapter 1546: Chapter 819: Seriously Wounded (Part 2)

But he no longer had time to think about these things. After being injured, the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ transformed into a strand of energy and entered his body.

He needed to withstand four ’Thunder Fall Skills’ to be safe, but his defensive means were only the Thunder Shield around him and the Thunder Resistance Secret Method.

The Thunder Shield was breached after being hit by a single bolt of lightning; the energy level of the lightning was too high.

Next, Master Wang He was struck by the remaining bolts of lightning, his entire body became charred black as he was flung out and fell heavily to the ground.

He had no chance to ask the half-step Great Power for help, and was currently in a state of severe injury and unconsciousness.

The reason he didn’t immediately perish was that he practiced the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’, which meant his body had a strong resistance to lightning from long-term Thunder Skill cultivation, and combined with the Thunder Resistance Secret Method, he avoided death on the spot.

On the other side, Yan Gao Great Cultivator also sensed the terror of ten ’Thunder Fall Skills’. This time, the number of Thunder Fall Skills Li Shiming cast was ten times more, and far more powerful than before.

Not to say he made the same mistake as Master Wang He, thinking the half-step Great Power would deal with Li Shiming, so he didn’t evade Li Shiming’s attack in time.

Even if he had the ability to dodge, his Earth element wouldn’t allow him to avoid the speed of the lightning attack.

However, Yan Gao Great Cultivator’s Earth element was more adept at defense. Instinctively, he erected an earthen wall in front of him, which he deployed without even thinking as danger approached.

He then let his Innate Treasure Mountain Peak Treasure fall in front to block, while continuously channeling Earth Element Spiritual Power within his body to form armor made of dirt and rock.

It could be said he demonstrated the defensive limit ability of an Earth-element Peak Great Cultivator in the shortest amount of time.

The lightning of ’Thunder Fall Skill’ struck the earthen wall, consuming only a small portion of the lightning’s energy, and the rest continued to attack the Mountain Peak Treasure.

One, two, three, until the eighth bolt of lightning, finally pushed the Mountain Peak Treasure to its limit.

Yan Gao Great Cultivator proactively withdrew his Innate Treasure Mountain Peak Treasure, as one more attack would severely damage it.

He was confident he could withstand the remaining two bolts of lightning with his own defense.

The lightning struck the first rock layer of his Earth armor, breaking it at one point, and subsequently shattering it into small rock pieces all over.

In this process, all of the lightning’s power was discharged.

The last bolt struck the dirt layer, which absorbed the lightning energy, turning from soft to hard, and finally, it shattered like the rock layer.

But since there was no defense behind the dirt layer, the leftover electric charge struck Yan Gao Great Cultivator’s body, causing his body to momentarily paralyze.

Yan Gao Great Cultivator took a long breath of relief; he finally blocked it.

But he saw another lightning bolt shooting over, only then realizing that all his efforts before were merely against one round of Li Shiming’s attacks.

Li Shiming wasn’t standing still without attacking. Perhaps intending to spare Yan Gao Great Cultivator’s life, Li Shiming didn’t go all out, just adding one more lightning bolt.

Otherwise, releasing another twenty ’Thunder Fall Skills’ would be enough to kill Yan Gao Great Cultivator and the barely-alive Master Wang He several times over.

This bolt left Yan Gao Great Cultivator defenseless, making him charred black and joining Master Wang He as a companion.

Li Shiming’s Divine Sense swept over the two Peak Great Cultivators, pulling the severely injured cultivators close, casting several spells with the ’Heavenly Human Technique’ onto them.

The spells merged into their bodies, with profound runes immediately spread across both of them.

This was just the visible layer of rune networks, designed to seal the physical body. Another layer was to seal the Nascent Soul, placed on the Great Cultivators’ Nascent Souls, thus invisible.

Both Yan Gao Great Cultivator and Master Wang He used the soul crystal ring, hence it could only forcibly seal their bodies and Nascent Souls, preventing them from retrieving Spiritual Objects or channeling Spiritual Power from the soul crystal ring.

With the extraordinary level of ’Heavenly Human Technique’, analyzed by IBMz15, the two Great Cultivators had no chance of breaking free from its seal.

Only then could Li Shiming finally relax. The fact that the half-step Great Power hadn’t acted yet supported his earlier hypothesis.

Although it seemed like he was going all out before, he actually had multiple brains focusing on the jade compass, prepared to retreat immediately upon any movement from the half-step Great Power, or any spatial fluctuation observed by ’Divine Eye’.

He hadn’t expected to severely injure the two Peak Great Cultivators without the half-step Great Power intervening.

Li Shiming then cast a ’Innate Wood’ Divine Skill onto each of the Peak Great Cultivators, ensuring they wouldn’t just die from their injuries.

Of course, a single ’Innate Wood’ Divine Power Energy cannot fully heal their injuries, merely stabilizing their severe injuries and preventing further deterioration.

He threw the two Great Cultivators aside and turned his attention to the jade compass.

Yan Gao Great Cultivator and Master Wang He had awakened by this time. With their bodies and Nascent Souls sealed, they couldn’t speak, so they could only communicate with eye contact.

The eyes of both Great Cultivators showed helplessness and astonishment; they had truly witnessed Li Shiming’s terrifying power.

The unreasonable Secret Technique that allowed casting twenty ’Thunder Fall Skills’ at once was definitely one of the most powerful Secret Techniques in the world.

They saw Li Shiming’s 191 brains as some kind of Secret Technique, an explanation of sorts.

Li Shiming’s ability came from his Innate Treasure IBMz15, which had no combat capabilities, only auxiliary functions, making it inherently much weaker than cultivators with offensive Innate Treasures.

Non-combat Innate Treasures typically belonged to cultivators specializing in auxiliary professions; had it not been for Li Shiming’s five Nascent Souls allowing him five Innate Treasures, it would have been a regret he couldn’t amend.

But the Innate Treasure IBMz15 enhanced his combat strength in another manner.

Each brain possessed independent spellcasting abilities; as long as Spiritual Power sufficed, the brains could cast spells.

Of course, what puzzled the two Great Cultivators more was the failure of the half-step Great Power to subdue Li Shiming, which was the biggest surprise.

Li Shiming was observing the jade compass, contemplating strategies, while his Innate Treasure IBMz15 searched its database for solutions to the current situation.

"Formation!" Almost simultaneously, Li Shiming and IBMz15 chose the same path.

Li Shiming chose based on intuition, whereas IBMz15 based its selection on the analysis of vast data.

Speaking of formations, the most suitable against the Grotto Heaven on the jade compass would be spatial formations.

In this world, IBMz15’s research on spatial formation was definitely at the forefront.

Benefitting from the numerous spatial array formation books acquired from the Great Venerable Hongfa, IBMz15 had developed a ’Space Acceptance Array’ based on them, an achievement from several decades ago.

Today’s research into spatial formations by IBMz15 was much more in-depth.

Li Shiming sat cross-legged, needing some time for IBMz15 to analyze the surrounding environment and reality, to devise a spatial formation setup for resolving this Grotto Heaven.

He was 90% sure that the half-step Great Power couldn’t leave the Grotto Heaven. Nevertheless, he wouldn’t approach it until the Grotto Heaven was restrained.

IBMz15 analyzed and researched a solution; what he needed to provide was observation by ’Divine Eye’, to monitor various energy changes in the environment.

Meanwhile, he focused his mind on the sealed Nascent Soul, which wasn’t the primary Nascent Soul; his five Nascent Souls were aligned in a ’Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’, so the sealing force randomly chose one to seal.