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Chapter 1793 - 943: Duke of Thunder

Li Shiming sensed the ninth bolt of Heavenly Thunder. After comparing it, he felt that the power of this Heavenly Thunder was even stronger than the attack of the Half-step Great Power Lian Lei he had previously encountered.

Although it could not compare to the true might of a Great Power, a Heavenly Thunder like this was absolutely enough to annihilate any fourth-grade living being.

As for whether the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining could survive under the ninth Heavenly Thunder, he had not the slightest confidence.

In any case, once this Heavenly Thunder fell, if even a shred of its residual power reached him, he would not even have the ability to protect himself.

The terrifying ninth Heavenly Thunder fell onto the body of the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining. The Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining used its wings to shield its body, forcibly enduring this bolt of Heavenly Thunder.

Standing far away, Li Shiming sensed the power of space emanating from that pair of wings on the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining.

He vaguely saw that when the Heavenly Thunder struck the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining, a spatial fissure appeared on that pair of wings.

That terrifying Heavenly Thunder fell into the spatial fissure, and then the Heavenly Thunder reappeared from within the thunderclouds, blasting apart the densely packed thunderclouds in the sky.

As for the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining under the ninth Heavenly Thunder, although its surface appearance was extremely miserable, it still survived the Heavenly Tribulation.

The wings of the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining retracted behind its back, revealing its battered body.

The wounds on this body were trying hard to heal themselves, but the remaining Heavenly Thunder might within the wounds prevented their closure, making the self-healing process extremely slow.

However, when the heaven-and-earth reward after the Heavenly Tribulation arrived, the injuries on the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining disappeared completely in nearly three breaths.

The energy formed from the heaven-and-earth reward did not merely heal its injuries, but was also remolding the body of the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining.

A powerful aura surged out from the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining and was still continuously rising.

After a long while, as the energy formed by the heaven-and-earth reward dissipated, the aura on the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining stopped increasing.

Li Shiming could be certain that the realm of the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining had not reached the level of a Great Power, that is, the conceptual "Flying Night Demon" level.

But it had definitely surpassed the level of a Golden Corpse and reached a realm similar to a human Cultivator’s Half-step Great Power.

Of course, even if a Great Power who specialized in Corpse Refining research came here, they still would not be able to identify what type of Corpse Refining the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining was.

Because a Corpse Refining like the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining had never appeared in the Cultivation World before, Li Shiming’s experimental research had created a monster.

Li Shiming looked at the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining in the sky. With a slight movement of his mind, the figure of the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining disappeared from where it was and then appeared in front of him.

The Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining displayed extreme respect toward him; this could also be sensed from the connection of the master-recognition contract.

Its realm surpassing Li Shiming’s had not caused any sign of losing control.

This was a good thing. No matter what kind of monster the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining was, as long as it was under Li Shiming’s control and possessed extremely powerful strength, this experiment could be considered a success.

Li Shiming carefully observed the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining. The weapons visible on its body, aside from the obvious fangs, were the ten sharp nails on its fingers.

Those nails were a type of weapon that surpassed fourth-grade yet had not reached the fifth-grade level.

Just those nails alone could easily tear open the body of a Peak Great Cultivator; he even suspected whether a Half-step Great Power could withstand the attack of a pair of claws from the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining.

And the nails were not its strongest offensive method; the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining also possessed the ability to control lightning and space.

As he communicated with the consciousness of the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining, Li Shiming discovered that its offensive methods were extremely diverse, far from what the previous Late-stage Golden Corpse could compare to.

The Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining possessed the ability to control lightning; this was also the reason it was able to forcibly get through eight bolts of Heavenly Thunder during the Heavenly Tribulation.

Generally speaking, Heavenly Thunder was naturally restraining toward Corpse Refining.

This was also why Cultivators often failed when refining Corpse Refining; newly born Corpse Refining found it very hard to withstand attacks from Heavenly Thunder.

The previous form of the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining was Yang Xing, a Half-step Great Power of the Yuqing Sect. Yang Xing cultivated the "Yuqing Thunder Scripture," and was a Thunder Cultivator Half-step Great Power who had practically integrated the Thunder Rules into his very bones.

Even though the Half-step Great Power Yang Xing had fallen, there were still remnants of the Thunder Rules in his fleshly body. During the process of Corpse Refining transformation, the residual Thunder Rules were converted by the Refining Corpse Rune into a Thunder Rule Imprint.

The other ability the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining possessed was its spatial ability. The ninth Heavenly Thunder was forcibly transferred by it using its spatial ability; this was an application of its spatial ability.

And the Space Movement ability was something it innately mastered; when Li Shiming summoned it back, it had used Space Movement.

Li Shiming’s spatial ability was grasped by cultivating the Divine Foot Skill. In terms of control over spatial abilities, he was far inferior to the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining.

With the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining, Li Shiming could continually study its spatial abilities and thereby improve his own spatial ability.

The commotion here was so great that it could not be hidden from the Ten Thousand Beast Sect ten thousand miles away, or from many Cultivators on the Dongqi Continent.

However, when he came out, he had already notified the Ten Thousand Beast Sect in advance. On the Dongqi Continent, he was the strongest existence and also the Cultivator with the greatest authority, so no Cultivator came over to disturb him.

Li Shiming wanted to test the combat strength of the Sharp-mouthed Fanged Corpse Refining, but he quickly abandoned this idea.