Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1714: Chapter 903: State of Mind (2)

This feeling of being completely relaxed brought about a strange change in his state of mind, making him feel that he had reached the peak of a Great Cultivator’s Spirit, and inexplicably, there was a slight enhancement.

Although this enhancement of Spirit was extremely subtle, IBMz15 was monitoring his condition, and any slight change would be noticed.

He knew that this state of mind was beneficial, allowing him to intentionally open up his heart.

Unfortunately, this sense of freedom and ease did not last for many days before a team composed of Great Cultivators intercepted him.

"Mirror Moon Sect’s Holding Law Hall, Mr. Li, you’d better surrender!" Among the six Great Cultivators, there were two Peak Great Cultivators, one of whom, leading the team, said in a deep voice.

The six Great Cultivators stood in the void, their aura completely different from ordinary Great Cultivators.

Li Shiming furrowed his brows slightly, sensing a strong killing intent from these six Great Cultivators.

In truth, in the Cultivation World, being able to feel substantive killing intent from a cultivator was very rare.

Generally speaking, unless cultivating a Secret Technique specially for nurturing killing intent, cultivators would not let themselves be filled with killing intent.

Take Li Shiming and his clone Li Yuanba, for example; they were originally one entity. Theoretically, whether it was the cultivators Li Shiming killed or those Li Yuanba killed, they belonged to the cultivators they had slain.

Based on the number of cultivators Li Yuanba slaughtered, Li Shiming should also be filled with killing intent.

But upon reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, the majority of cultivation techniques can adjust a cultivator’s mindset, allowing them to get rid of the killing intent clinging to them, ensuring it does not affect their cultivation.

However, the six Great Cultivators on the opposite side purposely contained killing intent within their bodies, causing ordinary cultivators to naturally feel intimidated when confronting them.

"Mirror Moon Sect, you underestimate me too much!" Li Shiming shook his head and said.

His aura burst forth, and the terrifying aura of a Thunder Cultivator soared into the sky, with faint flashes of lightning in the void.

The leading Peak Great Cultivator’s expression changed slightly. His first action was to use Divine Sense to send back the intelligence of Li Shiming’s advancement to Peak Great Cultivator.

Since Li Shiming was already a Peak Great Cultivator, the strategy to deal with him needed to change.

However, this team from Holding Law Hall did not intend to retreat; they at least wanted to fight Li Shiming to understand his actual combat prowess, even if capturing him wasn’t guaranteed.

"Attack!" The leading Peak Great Cultivator waved his hand, and the Great Cultivators beside him surrounded and attacked Li Shiming.

Each Great Cultivator offered a treasure mirror, waiting to attack with full force once within range.

Li Shiming did not act rashly; he summoned the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ from within, activated forty brains, and with the aid of the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ in the equipment space, he simultaneously activated forty ’Thunder Fall Skills.’

Ever since he ascended to Peak Great Cultivator, his Spirit had significantly improved, allowing him to simultaneously utilize more brains.

Using forty brains was just his normal state; the consumption wasn’t much, and it could be used for daily combat.

His figure disappeared, activating ’Heavenly Distance,’ and he appeared at a relatively special position among the six Great Cultivators.

This position maintained an equal distance from each Great Cultivator, putting all of them within his attack range.

Forty ’Thunder Fall Skills’ blossomed in the void, transforming into forty thunder dragons that roared toward the six Great Cultivators.

The six Great Cultivators had extremely rich combat experience; they had encountered many strong cultivators and relied on their team’s coordination. Even Peak Great Cultivators stronger than them had records of being defeated.

Holding Law Hall holds a special status among the various forces in Cloud Island Sea; it is the department for dealing with powerful enemies or internal traitors, and each cultivator in it is a combat genius, studying Secret Techniques specifically for battle.

In the Cultivation World, being strong in combat does not necessarily mean being a cultivation genius. Some Secret Techniques specifically for combat can effectively elevate a cultivator’s combat power, although cultivating these Secret Techniques has some side effects that could somewhat affect cultivation.

The six Great Cultivators cultivated Secret Techniques specifically for battle. Upon discovering Li Shiming’s use of Space Movement, followed by releasing lightning, they collectively crushed a bead.

Then, several strands of lightning swallowed them up. Li Shiming, being a Peak Great Cultivator himself, used the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ to enhance the Thunder Skill’s power, and the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ further forcefully boosted it by one rank.

This made the ’Thunder Fall Skill’ he used so powerful that even Peak Great Cultivators found it hard to withstand any single strand of lightning.

Furthermore, using forty powerful ’Thunder Fall Skills’ all at once showed he did not hold back from the start, ensuring a strike meant to annihilate.

The lightning speed was swift, and after the massive thunderous roaring ceased, the battlefield fell silent.

Li Shiming did not continue attacking, as he was curious about the beads the six Great Cultivators had used.

When the lightning dissipated, only two Peak Great Cultivators survived, while the other four Great Cultivators, close to peak power, failed to endure the lightning’s onslaught and perished.

In the face of such powerful lightning attacks, both the physical body and Nascent Soul seemed exceptionally fragile.

The two surviving Peak Great Cultivators did not come out unscathed; their fourth-grade top-quality treasure mirrors were shattered, and their robes were charred in large patches.

While they still stood in the void, their bodies suffered immensely.

They tried to speak, but Li Shiming suddenly appeared beside them, placing his hands on them, and terrifying lightning poured into their bodies.

"It seems the beads’ effect is over!" Li Shiming noticed the life force of the two Peak Great Cultivators fading and remarked, shaking his head.

He immediately summoned the corpses of the six Great Cultivators and found spatial items on them.

Finally, only from the soul crystal ring of the leading Peak Great Cultivator did he discover the beads they had used earlier.

Li Shiming’s Divine Sense scanned the beads; they were some kind of one-time-use treasure, with unfamiliar attached rune magic, but he could roughly guess the function.

They seemed to be one-time-use treasures specifically against lightning attacks, enhancing a cultivator’s lightning resistance, although the increase in resistance lasted a very short time.

Moreover, the beads were of fourth-grade top-quality material; even superpowers couldn’t manufacture many one-time-use treasures like these.

"Such targeted measures against me, but unfortunately, I’m not purely a Thunder Cultivator!" Li Shiming played with the bead in his hand, muttering lightly.

Even with the beads’ help, if too many Great Cultivators attacked once, he was confident that only casting Thunder Skills would allow him to kill these Great Cultivators.

Like the four Great Cultivators eliminated in the first round, they also used these lightning-resistance-enhancing beads, but these one-time-use beads indeed had a limit.

Clearly, Li Shiming’s attack exceeded the beads’ limit, resulting in the direct kill of four Great Cultivators.

Even though the other two Peak Great Cultivators were not killed in the first round by lightning, the side effects of lightning made them lose their combat ability for a short period.

In fact, Li Shiming hadn’t used his full power; if he called up a hundred brains at once, which was currently his extreme limit for casting Thunder Skills, under the onslaught of a hundred ’Thunder Fall Skills,’ even Peak Great Cultivators’ corpses couldn’t be preserved.

He searched the soul crystal ring thoroughly; the Peak Great Cultivators of Holding Law Hall did not possess any Spiritual Objects, confirmed by examining the spatial items of the remaining Great Cultivators.

The only worthwhile thing was a fourth-grade top-quality Flying Boat; other Spiritual Objects truly did not interest him. Those Great Cultivator Spirit Pills, extremely precious to other Great Cultivators, appeared to him as ordinary currency like Spirit Stones.