Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1515: 804: The Situation
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The ‘Thunder Cloud Skill’ spans only a brief moment from the thundercloud's formation to the lightning's descent, yet the fearsome thunder aura inside the thundercloud causes cultivators to sense time stretching out endlessly, making it feel incredibly drawn-out in their minds, even as they remain utterly immobilized.
A resounding “Boom” echoes as the initial lightning bolt crashes down, with dozens more strikes soon following, converting the base's surrounding region into an immense sea of crackling lightning.
The two Great Cultivators of the White Emperor Sect unleashed their ultimate forms, integrating into the Sect Formation via Nascent Soul Dharma Form, while close to a hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators poured their spiritual power into various formation nodes to bolster its most robust defensive mode.
Regrettably, this barrier couldn't hold up for even a single breath.
The onslaught from the ‘Thunder Cloud Skill’ proves far too relentless, with just one breath's worth of assault matching the fury of ten Thunder Cultivators at their maximum output firing lightning barrages.
Given these conditions, forget about merely scraping by with a major sect's formation defenses—even the arrays employed by superpowers would struggle to endure such a devastating barrage without mighty cultivators to reinforce them.
When evaluating Li Shiming’s spellcasting might, he transcends the bounds of an ordinary cultivator.
Forget the fact that he commands five Nascent Souls; even without deploying them, merely tapping into a fraction of his one hundred ninety-one brains allows each one to unleash a spell.
This multi-target spellcasting, done all at once, once faced constraints chiefly from energy shortages, but since reaching Great Cultivator status—particularly through practicing the ‘Heavenly Human Technique’ cultivation method—he possesses ample reserves to fuel such expenditure.
Against stationary foes like these, his multi-target spell prowess hits its absolute height.
Within a single breath—right after the opening volley of lightning descends—the whole base formation shatters entirely.
Stripped of the formation's shield, the full White Emperor Sect base lies utterly vulnerable to the fury of ten ‘Thunder Cloud Skills.’
The two Great Cultivators grasped the sheer horror of Li Shiming’s battle strength the very instant their defensive formation came under assault.
They abandoned all will to fight, desperate to escape to safety the moment the formation crumbled.
Yet the ‘Thunder Cloud Skill’ had already taken full shape, locking onto every living being as a target for its lightning strikes, prioritizing cultivators above all—and the Great Cultivators' auras drew the bolts straight to them first.
The swiftest assault in existence—excluding those aided by the ‘Speed Rule Imprint’—remains the velocity of lightning itself.
The two Great Cultivators morphed into beams of escape technique light in an attempt to flee, but trailing lightning bolts hammered them, shattering their escape states.
This blow left them gravely wounded, stripping away every layer of their defenses.
Life-preserving Jade Talismans materialized in their grasps; though reluctant, they now faced no choice but to invoke their final resort.
But the moment they drew forth the Jade Talismans to trigger them, a sword gleam materialized from the emptiness. Given how near the two Great Cultivators stood to each other, the sword light burst from beside one, pierced through both their forms, and then faded away.
The two Great Cultivators froze in stunned silence on the spot, letting the lightning pummel them without cease.
Cultivators distant from the scene, hampered by the ‘Thunder Cloud Skill’s’ lightning barrage, found it impossible to deploy the ‘Traceless Illusion Sword,’ and even the ‘Chaos Sword Intent’—under Li Shiming’s deliberate suppression—escaped detection by any cultivator.
The clash concluded almost before it ignited, though Li Shiming held back until the ten ‘Thunder Cloud Skills’ expended their full wrath, ensuring the foes understood the dire price of provoking the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.
As the final lightning vanished, the base revealed no trace of survivors amid its eerie hush; in the devastated wreckage, only the two Great Cultivators’ bodies—spared intact on purpose—remained, while everything else had been scorched clean by the lightning's wrath.
The nearly one hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators of the White Emperor Sect vanished without leaving so much as a corpse behind.
Li Shiming’s form flickered, materializing next to the fallen Great Cultivators’ bodies; he gathered their remains, then vanished from the ruins.
Not until thirty minutes after Li Shiming’s departure did bolder observing cultivators venture near to survey the site.
The White Emperor Sect’s base setup had been brazenly bold, not just claiming this mountain gate by force but boldly proclaiming the surrounding lands as White Emperor Sect territory to all local cultivators.
This claim gained acceptance from the Dongqi Continent natives and the three major sects.
The Ten Thousand Beast Sect alone rejected it, though everyone knew the three major sects were relentlessly compressing the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s room to maneuver—if they couldn’t weather this trial, annihilation loomed as a real threat.
Today, onlookers beheld the Ten Thousand Beast Sect striking back with unimaginable ferocity.
The toll included the White Emperor Sect’s prime base on the Dongqi Continent, claiming two Great Cultivators and almost a hundred Nascent Soul mid-stage cultivators.
Among the watching cultivators lurked informants from the three major sects, and news of the event raced swiftly to the three major sects’ leadership.
At the Yuqing Sect’s base, Great Cultivator Lv Han reviewed the fresh intelligence report.
The Yuqing Sect’s stakes on the Dongqi Continent remain modest, thanks to the heavy blows both Yuqing Sect and White Emperor Sect endured lately; White Emperor Sect’s damages ran deep as well, and since both superpowers had crossed the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, they forged a tentative alliance of cooperation.