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Chapter 1676: Chapter 884: Beast Attack (Part 2)

The tidal wave approached the attack range of the Great Cultivators, and any further meant reaching the energy shield of the grand formation, leading to a battle of attrition.

Therefore, as it approached the attack range, the Great Cultivators had to kill as many ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ as possible to reduce their numbers.

"Sword light splits, ten thousand swords attack!" Li Shiming murmured softly.

The ’Glazed Flying Cloud Sword’ above his head emitted a dazzling light, these lights bizarrely transformed into solid forms, forming countless sword light flying swords.

Of course, this is merely called ten thousand swords, in reality, only three hundred sword lights.

In truth, the ’Glazed Flying Cloud Sword’ was not refined by him long enough, as the division of sword light is related to the degree of refinement of the flying sword.

The ability to split into three hundred sword lights was related to the strong power of the sword light division secret technique of the ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’.

The first sword light among the three hundred was imbued with the ’Chaos Sword Intent’.

With a wave of his hand, three hundred sword lights shot towards the ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’ herd.

The three hundred sword lights weren’t fighting separately but kept shuttling back and forth forming a large net of sword light.

The net of sword light hit the tidal wave, creating a massive hole in it, where not only the ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ but even the seawater were annihilated by the terrifying sword light.

In the area swept by the net of sword light, a gray mist rose, which was the corrosive mist formed after the ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ were slain.

The sword light net of Li Shiming seemed unaffected by the corrosive mist, after clearing an area of ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’, it changed direction and swept horizontally across the tidal wave.

Immediately, a large number of ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ were slain, and more gray corrosive mist formed.

He didn’t think the results were particularly strong, as with his strength, slaying Third Grade Spiritual Beasts was like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

But soon he realized something was wrong, the attacks of other Great Cultivators, too, divided their artifact’s might, the first division of an artifact’s might had a considerable effect, but after the second division the attack energy would greatly weaken.

Few Great Cultivators could maintain artifact might division to the third attack, with even the second division having much lesser power.

Watching Li Shiming’s three hundred sword lights move through the ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’ herd, the damage caused far exceeded any other Great Cultivator, even surpassing the combined damage currently being inflicted by all the Great Cultivators.

At this, the gaze of the other Great Cultivators towards him completely changed.

Li Shiming immediately realized this point and understood why this phenomenon was occurring.

It wasn’t that his sword lights were particularly powerful, able to resist the corrosive mist, but rather the ’Chaos Sword Intent’ imbued in the sword lights had the ability to destroy the corrosion, allowing the sword lights to persist longer within the mist.

Apart from the corrosive mist, the ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’ was just an ordinary Third Grade Spiritual Beast, and the sword light could continuously kill them with minimal consumption.

"My performance was a bit too much!" Li Shiming restrained slightly, consciously letting the sword lights fade away.

He extracted some spiritual energy from within the formation and divided another three hundred sword lights from the ’Glazed Flying Cloud Sword’.

This time, he was careful, with the three hundred sword lights shuttling through the ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’ herd five times before disappearing.

The Great Cultivators felt that Li Shiming’s sword lights could only last longer within the corrosive mist, but were not unaffected by it.

Li Shiming reduced his attack power, as not many Great Cultivators present were skilled in area spells, and even if they were, with the charging speed of the ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’, a Great Cultivator couldn’t execute many area spells, so the ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ soon rushed to the grand formation shield.

When the ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ rushed onto the grand formation shield, the side facing the herd instantly dimmed.

And shortly after, this side of the formation turned completely black.

Using the ’Divine Eye’, Li Shiming could see the ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ gnawing at the formation shield, their jaws incredibly fierce, causing the formation shield to constantly tremble from the rapid depletion of its energy due to the ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ attacks.

Especially when he discovered the relatively fewer Fourth Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ among them, these were even more ferocious.

The Fourth Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ could withstand the attacks of the Great Cultivators for a long time.

Li Shiming also noticed the corrosive mist generated by the deaths of Third Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ served as nourishment for the Fourth Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’.

He saw an injured Fourth Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’ quickly heal within the corrosive mist.

Though the number of Fourth Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ was small, it was only small compared to the Third Grade ones. According to the distribution analysis by IBMz15, for every ten thousand Third Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’, there was one Fourth Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’.

The previous herd of ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ appeared to consist entirely of Third Grade ones because they was used as a vanguard.

After passing the attack range of the cultivators, the Fourth Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ joined in the attack on the grand formation shield.

All the Great Cultivators were attacking, occasionally clearing some spots on the darkened formation shield, but these were quickly filled by the ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’.

However, Li Shiming’s attacks could always carve a long vacancy on the formation shield.

Despite the Great Cultivators’ efforts, the effect was still far from satisfactory. If things continued, the formation shield likely wouldn’t last long before being breached.

At this time, Li Shiming felt the energy beneath Zhenyi Island rapidly gathering, soon forming a rune, and the same happened on the other thirty-five islands, the thirty-six runes combining into a complex rune.

This rune transformed into a mass of flames, flying towards the ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’ herd.

The flame turned into a fire wall during flight, towering a hundred meters high and stretching a thousand meters wide, carrying a tremendous amount of Fire Spiritual Power.

The collision of flames and tidal waves created an explosion-like effect, clearing the kilometer area of ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’.

Li Shiming was shocked, if such an attack continued, there wouldn’t be any need to hire these Great Cultivators.

But clearly, such attacks still exerted significant pressure on the formation, ceasing after clearing a wave of ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ as the grand formation didn’t respond with another attack.

Li Shiming and the Great Cultivators attacked with all their might, given the recent attack by the formation, the number of ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ near the formation shield greatly decreased, allowing the grand formation shield to regain energy and stabilize for a bit.

Amid his attacks, he glanced at the situation within the island, many of the cultivators providing spiritual energy for the formation looked pale from the previous massive energy expenditure, taking Spirit Pills.

Numerous local cultivators distributed Spirit Pills, hoping those cultivators would recover swiftly.

He also looked at the main island, where Grandmaster Wu Ding was, but sensed no presence of a Half-step Great Power besides him.

Though distracted, his attacks never ceased.

Any cultivator witnessing his battle couldn’t criticize him at all, he was achieving the maximum a Sword Cultivator Great Cultivator could achieve.

In fact, his combat prowess exceeded Grandmaster Wu Ding’s initial assessment, showing the strength of a super Sword Cultivator Great Cultivator.

"Damn, how could there be a Late Stage Fourth Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’!" Li Shiming suddenly sensed a breach in the formation shield, followed by ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ rushing inside, and he felt the presence of a Late Stage Fourth Grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’ from the breach.