Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1522 - 807: Annihilating the Sect (Part 2)

His urge to howl in rage surged as the sect enduring for ten thousand years fell in their era; sorrow choked him for the comrades he'd shared almost a millennium with in life; desperation to act gripped him, yet apocalyptic thunderbolts dominated his sight.

Those thunderbolts brought back the memory of the heavenly tribulation during his initial breakthrough to Nascent Soul, though that one delivered just three strikes, whereas this onslaught was a relentless flood of calamity.

He couldn't help pondering if even during a half-step Mahayana advancement, any tribulation bolt could match the might of the lightning crashing before him now.

"It's finished!" Master Qiao detected a lightning bolt targeting him. The thought barely crossed his mind when the bolt swallowed his form in its blaze.

Li Shiming exhaled deeply while unleashing forty 'Thunder Cloud Skills' at once, leaving him drained to some degree. This appeared to mark his present boundary.

On this occasion, he relied on raw power to shatter the Taichu Sect's formation, with slaying six great cultivators merely incidental.

The Taichu Sect's mountain gate required no more assaults. Once the sect formation crumbled, innumerable lightning bolts first eradicated every Nascent Soul cultivator. For those beyond Nascent Soul, the 'Thunder Cloud Skill' proved unnecessary, as the lingering force from the strikes sufficed to end them.

With a flick from Li Shiming, the corpse of the White Emperor Sect's great cultivator at the Taichu Sect's mountain gate, plus seven great cultivator bodies in total, soared toward him.

He had deliberately spared these seven great cultivator remains, maintaining their wholeness.

If the full fury of lightning from the forty 'Thunder Cloud Skills' had targeted the great cultivators, those six caught in the 'Thunder Cloud Skill' zone could have been reduced to ashes by the onslaught.

After securing the seven great cultivator corpses, he soared through the Taichu Sect's mountain gate.

Little remained untouched in the Taichu Sect's mountain gate; devastation scarred nearly every inch.

The spirit fields, ample to sustain thousands of cultivators with resources, lay utterly ravaged by his assault.

Such ruin was inevitable; absent the array's shield, even the stray waves from the lightning wrought havoc, to say nothing of the 'Thunder Cloud Skill's' blind fury.

Still, Li Shiming understood that despite the heavy toll on the Taichu Sect's mountain gate, its vital essence endured.

That essence was the Grotto Heaven, bound inseparably to the Taichu Sect's mountain gate, impervious to outside forces.

His divine sense swept across the Taichu Sect's mountain gate, swiftly locating the Grotto Heaven's entrance amid the debris.

The grand hall atop the Grotto Heaven entrance had toppled, its wreckage sealing the space gate's access. Stepping into the space gate's domain, the hall's fragments were sliced away and thrust into the Grotto Heaven.

As Li Shiming's divine sense located the Cave Heaven Space Gate, the Space Gate amid the ruins remained upright, sharply delineating its spatial bounds within the chaos, creating an eerie spectacle.

He cast a look at this Cave Heaven Space Gate but chose not to step inside.

Rather, he produced one hundred and eight Buddha Beads, flinging them outward where they morphed into formation anchors, weaving a barrier around the Taichu Sect's mountain gate.

Next, he drew forth an Identity Jade Disc to reach Grandmaster Hu.

Over the last decade, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect seldom mounted direct assaults, and oddly, despite awareness of Ten Thousand Beast Sect cultivators' actions by the other two sects, no countermeasures emerged.

This stemmed from reports reaching both sects that Li Shizhen, back from afar and freshly elevated to great cultivator, targeted the Taichu Sect's mountain gate.

The two major sects monitored updates from the Taichu Sect's mountain gate; lacking firm details, they hesitated to move.

Li Shizhen's might chilled them. Across Dongqi Continent's history, great cultivator deaths stayed rare. Even the slaying of a Ten Thousand Beast Sect great cultivator involved a calculated ambush leveraging multiple great cultivators' numbers against him.

Yet behold Li Shizhen, confronting two great cultivators directly and, despite the White Emperor Sect duo's home formation edge, dismantling it to eliminate those two White Emperor Sect great cultivators plus almost a hundred Nascent Soul Middle Stage experts.

Li Shizhen's battle might left the two major sects reeling. Learning of his strike on the Taichu Sect's mountain gate, they viewed it as the ultimate gauge of Li Shiming's strength.

Word spread of the Taichu Sect's formation collapse and the demise of seven great cultivators total, one from the White Emperor Sect, to the two major sects.

Lianhua Temple and the Sun Concealing Sect could no longer remain idle. They refused to watch their ancient legacies perish in their time, much like the Taichu Sect facing annihilation by Li Shiming.

No coordination was needed between the two major sects; they promptly dispatched surrender missives and admissions of defeat to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect's Grandmaster Hu, offering reparations to appease the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

The swift capitulation of the two major sects caught Grandmaster Hu off guard.

Grandmaster Hu had only just gotten Li Shiming's update; scarcely the span of a tea's brewing had elapsed when the surrender letters from the two major sects arrived.

En route to the Taichu Sect, Grandmaster Hu mulled over his reply to the two sects.

Other Ten Thousand Beast Sect great cultivators had empowered him to confer with Li Shiming on managing the surviving two sects.

Li Shiming's view carried immense weight, poised to sway outcomes decisively; every Ten Thousand Beast Sect great cultivator recognized this.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect's turnaround hinged on Li Shiming's dominance.

Thanks to Li Shiming, Grandmaster Hu's already prominent sect standing rose even higher.

Grandmaster Hu sped onward with utmost haste, arriving at the Taichu Sect in record time.

Approaching the Taichu Sect, the devastation froze him in shock.

This had been the Taichu Sect, a paradise-like realm, now a wasteland of rubble, the Thunder Cultivator's fearsome strike imprinting lasting thunder energy across the zone.

Because the Thunder Cultivator's assault bore hints of the Thunder Rules, the thunder energy lingering here would persist for no less than thousands of years.

Grandmaster Hu harbored no pity for the Taichu Sect; he grasped fully that absent Li Shiming's arrival, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect's mountain gate might have suffered a parallel fate.

He felt only gratitude, grateful for accepting Li Shiming as disciple, which steered the Ten Thousand Beast Sect through its darkest hour.

"Master, you've arrived!" Li Shiming spotted Grandmaster Hu and parted the formation, calling out.

"Shizhen, you've toiled greatly!" Grandmaster Hu passed into the formation, sensing the stable aura cloaking Li Shiming, and let go of his final concern, smiling as he spoke.

"It's no real toil, merely that after rising to great cultivator, I craved foes to gauge my fighting strength!" Li Shiming replied smilingly. He proceeded to brief Grandmaster Hu on the Taichu Sect's mountain gate circumstances: "I held back from the Taichu Sect's Grotto Heaven, so the sect should dispatch cultivators to probe it. Surely over the years, the sect has amassed some data on this Grotto Heaven."

Li Shiming recognized his own ruinous force well. The Taichu Sect's Grotto Heaven, holding immense worth, ought to pass whole to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

Should he delve in, he worried about causing disorder within.

"Regarding this Grotto Heaven, our sect's intelligence has long permeated it, collecting ample details. I expect claiming it outright poses no major hurdle!" Grandmaster Hu eyed the Grotto Heaven entrance's space gate, his features brightening with joy as he declared.

Acquiring an extra Grotto Heaven meant a huge surge in resource yields.

A Grotto Heaven forged by a mighty figure, particularly one tying to the mountain gate, could yield enormous cultivation supplies.

Through the years, why did the Ten Thousand Beast Sect produce so few great cultivators if not from shortages for Nascent Soul Middle Stage advancement?

Adding this Grotto Heaven would boost the Ten Thousand Beast Sect's great cultivator count by over half.

Naturally, this demanded time, maybe centuries, yet for a sect, such a span felt brief.