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Chapter 1720: Chapter 906: Return (Part 2)

Great Power Wuda was extremely confident that her attack would definitely capture Li Shiming.

She was already considering what to do with Li Shiming once she captured him.

In the eyes of other cultivators, she had effortlessly blocked Li Shiming’s thunder attack, but only she knew the price she had paid.

The energy within this avatar had been largely consumed to resist Li Shiming’s thunder attack.

She had overestimated herself, giving Li Shiming time to attack first. If she hadn’t held back, even if Li Shiming was a Great Cultivator in thunder, her attack would have hit Li Shiming before his could reach her.

A total of a hundred lightning attacks, each one nearly at the power of a Half-step Great Power, and each one consumed roughly ten years’ worth of her energy.

It doesn’t sound like much, but the consequence of a hundred "Thunder Fall Skills" was that she was forced to deplete a thousand years’ worth of energy.

This energy was all painstakingly accumulated in the Grotto Heaven, and using up a thousand years of accumulation makes her heartache, leaving her breathless; although as a Great Power Avatar, she doesn’t need to breathe.

Just as the invisible, intangible wind blew towards Li Shiming’s body, his body inexplicably became ethereal.

Great Power Wuda felt her energy pass through Li Shiming’s ethereal body, and she let out a sharp, furious roar.

She had missed. Faced with a Great Cultivator, she could not capture him.

And for this, she had expended a thousand years of accumulated energy, so how could she face the other Great Powers!

Li Shiming’s figure appeared out of thin air over the sea surface.

He sensed a familiar aura; the spiritual energy here, the sea breeze here, was very familiar. This was his Dongqi Continent.

Through the positioning of IBMz15, he was at the exact spot where Great Power Luo Yuan’s avatar was pursuing him and where he used the teleportation ring to escape.

It seems the positioning of the teleportation ring is incredibly accurate, even after thirty years, he still returned to the starting point.

Li Shiming felt the strange changes within himself, which had occurred in every aspect from spirit to spiritual power after the battle with Great Power Wuda’s avatar.

The opportunity to fight a true Great Power, with the chance to give his all, had a tremendous impact on him.

Although these changes might not help enhance his combat abilities immediately, they were incredibly important for long-term transformation.

His spiritual power was transforming towards a more solid state, seemingly growing due to the battle with the Great Power Wuda’s avatar. Spiritually, he gained significantly after directly facing the avatar.

He glanced at his teleportation ring; the spatial energy within had been completely exhausted.

The three internal spatial coordinates were currently in a gray, unusable state.

Li Shiming hesitated slightly. Although the best choice would be to wait twenty years until the teleportation ring recharged with spatial energy and then return to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, he decided to return immediately.

He had already been chased by a Great Power avatar twice.

Through these two experiences, he had gained some deep insights into Great Powers.

The Great Powers he had encountered seemed somewhat different from those described in the "Heavenly Human Technique".

Previously, he didn’t understand the differences, but through this interaction with Great Power Wuda, he had some speculations about these differences.

The Great Powers he encountered, such as Great Power Luo Yuan and Great Power Wuda, shared one trait: they were Great Powers of superpowers and were stationed at the mountain gates.

From the hints given by Great Power Wuda, Li Shiming understood that Great Powers like Wuda were repulsed by the external world. Even when fighting with their avatars, they were consuming their own energy, unable to supplement it from the outside world.

According to Li Shiming’s judgment, whether Great Power Wuda or previously Great Power Luo Yuan, sending avatars to capture him incurred a significant cost.

Having experienced escaping from the hands of Great Power avatars, the chances that Great Powers would send out avatars again were minimal.

He had not returned to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect for thirty years. Although the sect had firmly controlled the Dongqi Continent, without him to stabilize the situation, the sect faced considerable pressure.

Even if he appeared at the sect once and then hid away, it would still be extremely beneficial for the sect.

With this in mind, Li Shiming chose not to use "One Step to Success," but instead, he ostentatiously took out the fourth-grade top "Jade Pearl Flying Boat" to head towards the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

He was already near the Dongqi Continent’s maritime region, and upon entering the coast of Dongqi Continent, he used his identity jade disc to contact his master, Grandmaster Hu.

When the "Jade Pearl Flying Boat" reached outside the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s mountain gate, he saw several Great Cultivators already waiting for him outside.

Not only Great Cultivators, but other than the Nascent Soul Cultivators in key positions who couldn’t leave, all other Nascent Soul Cultivators were standing outside the mountain gate.

This was an extremely grand welcoming ceremony, and coupled with Li Shiming’s intentional display, he stopped the fourth-grade top flying boat in front of all the cultivators.

Although the Ten Thousand Beast Sect was already considered a top-tier sect of large-scale strength, infinitely close to the power of a superpower, most cultivators in the sect had never seen a fourth-grade top flying boat.

Or rather, the Dongqi Continent had never had a fourth-grade top flying boat. Li Shiming’s flight on this flying boat was an eye-opener for all the cultivators.

"Shizhen, it’s good to have you back safely!" Grandmaster Hu approached Li Shiming. He did not look at the fourth-grade top flying boat but scrutinized Li Shiming, only relaxing when he saw nothing unusual on him.

"No, your aura has become stronger; this is the aura of a Peak Great Cultivator!" Master Ding exclaimed loudly, losing control over his voice.

The other Great Cultivators only then noticed the change in Li Shiming’s aura. They were all at the Early Stage of the Great Cultivator realm, unlike Grandmaster Hu and Master Ding, who had seen Peak Great Cultivators before and thus recognized the subtle difference in Li Shiming’s aura.

"We have a Peak Great Cultivator!" Grandmaster Chai shouted excitedly.

The Great Cultivators lost their usual composure, venting their emotions.

No one understood better than they did what having a Peak Great Cultivator represented.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect had forcefully destroyed the Sun Concealing Sect and expelled the Lianhua Temple, but the sect’s lack of sufficient power had become apparent in the following period.

If it hadn’t been for the two late-stage golden corpses left by Li Shiming suppressing the scene, keeping the Dongqi Continent’s Great Cultivators from acting rashly, the continent might not be as peaceful today.

Now that Li Shiming had become a Peak Great Cultivator, just spreading this news would stabilize the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s status, and no force or cultivator would ever again question the sect’s strength.

Li Shiming released a bit of the aura belonging to a Peak Great Cultivator, and the cultivators of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, instead of feeling fear at this terrifying aura, felt immense pride and honor for the first time.

Led by the Great Cultivators, Li Shiming and his master, Grandmaster Hu, entered the mountain gate of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect side by side.

"Master, I will stay for a while this time, restart the alchemy commissions, but I won’t stay at the mountain gate for long. To outsiders, just say I am ascending to the Peak Great Cultivator Realm and need some time to travel!" Li Shiming instructed Grandmaster Hu.

"Are you worried about the Great Powers attacking?" Grandmaster Hu asked softly.

"Yes, my strength is still far too lacking, but a Great Power attacking me comes at a cost!" Li Shiming nodded without avoiding the issue.

He was now fully aware of the vast gap between himself and a Great Power, a gap that could not be bridged simply by numbers.

Even a hundred of himself could not shake a Great Power’s avatar, let alone a true Great Power.