Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1716: Chapter 904: Battle_2

"Withdraw the formation, let’s find another opportunity!" said a peak great cultivator in a deep voice.

Their reputation was already lost, but fortunately, it wasn’t just one super force losing face; everyone was losing face together, so there was no need to worry about being laughed at by each other.

Now that Li Shiming had escaped, staying here was not an option.

With the words of this peak great cultivator, the other peak great cultivators also instructed their teams’ great cultivators to disperse the trapping formation and prepare to leave.

Just as the trapping formation was lifted and the great cultivators were about to handle the floating mountain, Li Shiming’s figure appeared.

Using the ’Divine Foot Skill’, Li Shiming observed the situation here. When the trapping formation was lifted and the great cultivators relaxed, he executed a ’one-step reach’ and appeared by a floating mountain.

He didn’t choose to slay the great cultivators but set his target on the floating mountain.

He saw the uniqueness of the floating mountain, which carried a complex formation by itself, capable of forming powerful offensive and defensive formations. When six floating mountains were combined, their formations would stack, exponentially increasing their power.

In cooperation with the great cultivators, even peak great cultivators trapped within would be extremely passive.

Li Shiming appeared next to a floating mountain, wrapped it with his divine sense, and directly stored it in an empty soul crystal ring.

The soul crystal ring is the most powerful spatial item in the cultivation world; it can hold not just one floating mountain, but even ten.

His sudden appearance shocked all the great cultivators, and their first thought was to surround and kill Li Shiming.

After receiving the first floating mountain, Li Shiming smiled slightly, his figure disappearing again, appearing next to another floating mountain, wrapping it with his divine sense and storing it away.

It was only then that the great cultivators realized Li Shiming was trying to collect the floating mountains.

Among them, some great cultivators turned to protect the floating mountain, while others, whose own floating mountains had been taken by Li Shiming, pursued him.

Amid this chaos, Li Shiming mobilized a hundred minds within him, cooperating with the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ and the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl,’ which was his most violent attack since advancing to a peak great cultivator.

Thunder rumbled ominously in the sky, carrying a terrifying fear that made all the great cultivators uneasy.

Never before in the cultivation world had there been a scene where a hundred peak thunder cultivators simultaneously cast the ’Thunder Fall Skill.’

This time, Li Shiming cast a hundred ’Thunder Fall Skills,’ nearly exhausting half of a Nascent Soul’s spiritual power.

This was different from normal battles; in a normal battle, a hundred ’Thunder Fall Skills’ wouldn’t be used, let alone casting a hundred at once. The immense consumption was beyond his imagination when he truly used it.

But the power was truly astounding. To maximize its effect, he targeted ten pursuing great cultivators, among them two peak great cultivators.

Amidst the blinding electrical light, the silhouettes of the ten great cultivators were enveloped by white-hot lightning.

Across the entire battlefield, all the great cultivators halted their actions, blankly staring at the region shrouded by a hundred ’Thunder Fall Skills,’ awaiting the fate of the ten great cultivators.

Actually, upon sensing the power of a hundred ’Thunder Fall Skills,’ they already guessed the outcome for the ten great cultivators.

The battle began in an instant and ended in an instant. The lightning dissipated, revealing the scene within.

Among the ten great cultivators, eight ordinary great cultivators didn’t leave even a trace, their physical bodies and Nascent Souls along with their magical treasures all turned to ashes.

The remaining two peak great cultivators fared slightly better, seemingly using some secret technique, leaving their bodies relatively intact.

The remaining great cultivators on the scene were internally collapsing, losing almost a third of their combat power in this first clash.

Li Shiming’s Divine Foot Skill, without any effective countermeasures, was almost impossible to restrain or attack him.

Unlike the stunned great cultivators, Li Shiming’s figure flickered rapidly, consecutively collecting the remaining four floating mountains.

He had confirmed that each floating mountain contained a super force’s highest achievements in formation research, with a vast amount of top-level fourth-grade formation materials invested.

One could say the six floating mountains were six top-level fourth-grade magical treasures. More accurately, they were super formation magical treasures assembled from a vast number of top-level fourth-grade magical treasures.

This was why he prioritized taking the floating mountains. If he could thoroughly research the floating mountains, he would virtually acquire the majority of Cloud Island Sea’s formation knowledge.

Just as he collected all the floating mountains and was preparing to attack the remaining great cultivators, what happened in front of him was beyond belief.

The remaining twenty-six great cultivators all took out their life-saving jade talismans, their figures scattering in all directions.

"What is this?" For a moment, Li Shiming did not know who to pursue, so he chose not to chase at all.

He didn’t think his combat power was that exaggerated. Among all his magical treasures, his innate magical treasure IBMz15, though initially the least combat-capable, proved most helpful in the later stages.

Imagine having a hundred and ninety-one minds; if his spirit were strong enough, he could unleash a hundred and ninety-one spells at once.

This meant he alone was equivalent to a hundred and ninety-one cultivators of the same rank. As a peak great cultivator, he was like having a hundred and ninety-one peak great cultivators attacking simultaneously.

Of course, he could currently only mobilize a hundred minds to cast spells simultaneously, but the results of this attempt showed the immense power of this approach.

Ten great cultivators, including two peak great cultivators, from the power-holding halls of the superforces, each great cultivator’s combat power far exceeding those of the same rank.

But in front of him, they were obliterated.

Without IBMz15, without a hundred and ninety-one brains, with only one brain, even with the spiritual treasure ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ and the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl,’ he would at most be slightly stronger than an ordinary peak great cultivator, unable to annihilate wide ranges of same-rank great cultivators.

It was his terrifying displayed combat power that had frightened away the remaining great cultivators.

These battle specialists from the holding law halls of the six super forces were truly frightened. The more skilled at fighting, the more they understood Li Shiming’s power.

Li Shiming shook his head and collected the corpses of the two peak great cultivators.

Even the soul crystal ring contained no particularly rare spiritual objects, only yielding some items that he considered common.

"Golden Wing, you, Little Feng, and the Illusion Spirit Dragon go play in the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven; the coming days are getting dangerous!" Li Shiming summoned his three spiritual pets and instructed the Golden Winged Dapeng.

Though the Golden Winged Dapeng was somewhat unwilling, it obediently returned to the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven with Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon.

Li Shiming had no other choice; he believed that after this battle, the six super forces would not send great cultivators against him again.

So unless the six super forces were willing to give up, the next ones to come after him would certainly be powerful beings.

Whether it was an avatar or the main body of a powerful being, he was not capable of handling it.

He had a teleportation ring, but if he left the Golden Winged Dapeng and others outside, should something happen, he wouldn’t have time to recall the three spiritual pets.

He was preparing for the worst and believed it was an inevitable outcome.

"Let’s first check out the center area of the Cloud Island Sea!" Having arrived at the Cloud Island Sea and read some travelogues from his spoils, he became very curious about the center area of the Cloud Island Sea, determined to leave only after seeing it, even if driven away by powerful beings.

He didn’t ride the flying boat, although he could use fourth-grade top-quality flying boats, his ’one-step reach’ was faster than any fourth-grade top-quality flying boat.