Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1543 - 818: Life and Death
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Though Li Shiming's existence has spanned merely over a century, his encounters outnumber those of countless cultivators enduring close to a millennium. He has beheld demise, inflicted it directly with his own strikes, and hovered perilously near the edge of oblivion on multiple occasions.
He has observed formidable cultivators, and especially via his clone, he has glimpsed the dread unleashed by the Great Power Elder.
Yet the might of the Sword Elder had never been directed at him, leaving him without the grip of true terror.
Now, in this very instant, one lone finger instilled in him the sensation of death, the chill of fear, and the utter powerlessness of a frail being confronting an overwhelming force.
His innate treasure, IBMz15, blared urgent warnings, relentlessly projecting a barrage of evasion strategies before his eyes.
Still, the finger emerging abruptly from emptiness bore an unfathomable restraining energy that locked him in place, rendering any attempt to dodge impossible.
He could merely stare as the finger advanced toward his form, bypassing the safeguard woven around him by the 'Heavenly Human Technique' using 'Chaotic Spiritual Power'.
Against the barrier of 'Chaotic Spiritual Power', the finger appeared to occupy a separate dimension, gliding through without triggering the least disturbance.
Next, the finger pressed onward, and upon brushing Li Shiming’s robe, the elite fourth-grade magical treasure instantly unleashed its automatic protection spell.
Regrettably, despite the spell's activation, it proved as ineffective as the earlier 'Chaotic Spiritual Power' shield in halting the finger's path.
Only upon the finger's contact with the solid fabric of the robe did he sense the incomprehensible potency radiating from it.
The elite fourth-grade robe detonated in a thunderous blast, this supreme garment of the cultivation realm shattered into irreparable shards by the single finger.
One must understand that the elite fourth-grade robe adorning Li Shiming served as his spoils from battle.
Typically, even if damaged, such an elite fourth-grade robe could gradually mend itself with infusions of spiritual power.
But on this occasion, the elite fourth-grade robe suffered total annihilation, beyond any hope of revival.
This revealed that the finger's force had obliterated every rune array embedded within the elite fourth-grade robe.
At last, the finger struck Li Shiming’s flesh, subjecting his body to an inconceivable crushing weight.
His flesh split open, sinews burst apart sequentially, and his skeleton emitted grinding noises. Even more horrifying, one of his Nascent Souls found itself instantly sealed by this force, cut off from accessing its power.
Right as he believed his end had arrived this time, the finger withdrew.
As the finger vanished, Li Shiming’s frame was hurled backward uncontrollably.
Nevertheless, with the finger's menace gone, regardless of the gravity of his wounds, he paid them no heed.
Meanwhile, Yan Gao Great Cultivator and Wang He Great Cultivator contended with five late-stage Golden Corpses, confident in Li Shiming’s fate since they fully grasped the nature of the force deployed against him.
Such immense power ought not to manifest beyond the sect's bounds. It emerged only because of Li Shiming’s prowess and certain unique circumstances.
The pair of Peak Great Cultivators unleashed their full assault on the late-stage Golden Corpses, though a wave of futility began to swell inside them.
The late-stage Golden Corpses had endured numerous blows, and with strikes from Peak Great Cultivators, even a fully equipped great cultivator would have crumbled by now.
However, the five late-stage Golden Corpses showed only superficial marks on their hides, nowhere near crippled or defeated.
The incredible resilience of the five late-stage Golden Corpses forced them to treat each as an elite fourth-grade magical treasure in motion, and with every one brandishing a top fourth-grade iron hammer magical treasure, they remained wary of allowing the five late-stage Golden Corpses to draw near.
They had spotted Li Shiming’s dire straits, understanding that once he fell under control, the five late-stage Golden Corpses would inevitably forfeit their fighting ability.
Just as they prepared for one of them to subdue Li Shiming, a verdant glow erupted from his body, brimming with vital essence—it was the restorative radiance, the essence of vitality, born from the 'Innate Wood' divine skill.
"That’s the 'Innate Wood' divine skill—how can this be?" Master Wang He identified the 'Innate Wood' divine skill, having spent nearly a year alongside Li Yuanba.
Li Yuanba had leveraged the 'Innate Wood' divine skill to win over virtually every cultivator in the Hell Cave Heaven, placing all major factions in his debt, from which he reaped immense rewards.
In the cultivation world, while a few cultivators might possess this divine skill through inheritance, Li Yuanba alone was famed for applying it to great cultivators, as Master Wang He had learned.
Li Yuanba could wield the 'Innate Wood' divine skill on great cultivators thanks to a wood-attuned treasure granted by the Sword Elder, and given its origin from the Sword Elder, even great cultivators who knew of it refrained from desiring it.
Naturally, Li Yuanba proved no simple sword cultivator to confront, wielding the strength of a Nascent Soul Middle Stage great cultivator, viewed by numerous great cultivators as an equal.
Yet when had Li Shiming mastered the 'Innate Wood' divine skill as well? A great cultivator armed with the 'Innate Wood' divine skill posed an extraordinarily vexing foe.