Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1545 - 819: Devastating Blow
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Even though Li Shiming harbored a few doubts, he aimed to put as much space as he could between himself and the jade compass. Upon reaching the Great Cultivator stage, his spiritual awareness had surged dramatically, extending his striking distance beyond that of fellow Great Cultivators.
From what he considered a secure spot, he unleashed his assault on the pair of Peak Great Cultivators.
He activated twenty consciousnesses, all at once forming the spell runes for the 'Thunder Fall Skill'. In near unison, the twenty instances of 'Thunder Fall Skill' burst forth from the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer'.
Right then, he held nothing back, concentrating entirely on swiftly dealing with the two Peak Great Cultivators.
His true power wasn't rooted in thunder artifacts like the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl', nor in the 'Chaos Sword Intent', and certainly not in the formidable 'Heavenly Human Technique'.
Rather, it stemmed from his one hundred and ninety-one consciousnesses paired with five Nascent Souls, granting him vast spiritual energy and the capacity to unleash a multitude of spells all together.
This talent for simultaneous spellcasting turned him into a lone force rivaling an entire battalion. With sufficient spiritual energy, he could match the output of one hundred and ninety-one Great Cultivators.
As a result, once he pierced through any barriers, he could drown foes in a storm of spells, overwhelming and slaying them.
Naturally, the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl', 'Chaos Sword Intent', and 'Heavenly Human Technique' also played a key role, letting him demolish mighty adversaries with greater ease even as he fired off spells in rapid succession.
The two Peak Great Cultivators remained baffled as to why Li Shiming hadn't fallen under the sway of the Half-step Great Power. Whenever that Half-step Great Power intervened, no Nascent Soul Cultivator ever slipped free from their hold.
Yet suddenly, ten streaks of lightning hurtled toward each of them, striking both Peak Great Cultivators at the same instant with ten 'Thunder Fall Skills' apiece.
The 'Thunder Fall Skills' moved with blistering speed. Master Wang He might not have been caught off guard enough to freeze, and he still could have tried dodging via Thunder Escape, but since he believed Li Shiming was under the Half-step Great Power's control and was stunned by the sheer spiritual power Li Shiming summoned, the window for Thunder Escape vanished by the time he noticed the incoming lightning.
This assault from Li Shiming carried no restraint whatsoever. He poured the complete might of the 'Thunder Fall Skill' into it, holding back only on upgrading the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' to spirit treasure status.
As he executed the 'Thunder Fall Skill', he channeled the peak thunder spiritual power into the twenty spell runes for it, while also drawing on the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' within the 'Machine Room Space' to amplify all twenty 'Thunder Fall Skills'.
In effect, both Master Wang He and Yan Gao Great Cultivator confronted the combined onslaught of ten Thunder Cultivators whose strikes outmatched their own in potency.
Even if every Peak Thunder Cultivator in the whole Cultivation World were rounded up, their numbers wouldn't reach twenty in total.
Master Wang He felt the dire peril closing in, so he expanded his life-bound magic treasure, the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer', to shield himself, while bolstering his defenses with the Anti-lightning Secret Method.
This represented his absolute best effort. In an open area free of constraints, he would have triggered the life-saving jade talisman bestowed by a Great Power already.
Li Shiming's prowess in thunder skills surpassed anything Master Wang He had imagined. Had Li Shiming struck with such ferocity from the start, he would have met his end immediately, never surviving to this moment.
Though the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' served primarily as an offensive magic treasure, it had been refined over ages through the 'Yuqing Thunder Scripture'. As a life-bound item in particular, it could merge into the Nascent Soul in energetic form, endowing it with remarkable resistance to thunder assaults.
The 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' might offer scant protection against other forms of attack, yet it excelled at repelling thunder strikes, even those exceeding its own strength.
Still, Master Wang He knew that ten 'Thunder Fall Skills'—boosted by the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' no less—vastly overwhelmed the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer's' ability to endure.
He could now verify that the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' truly resided with Li Shiming, though he had no clue how Li Shiming had masked its aura so thoroughly that even Great Powers failed to sense it.
But detecting the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl's' essence amid Li Shiming's unrestrained outburst, he wished he had never picked up on it at all.
Locked in defense, he couldn't risk using Thunder Escape in the slightest. Activating it would shatter his guard, and a single hit from those ten 'Thunder Fall Skills' would prove fatal beyond endurance.
His only wish was that Li Shiming's barrage might get stopped, or that it would let him near the jade compass, where he could call on the Yuqing Sect's Half-step Great Power for aid—perhaps even be pulled into their Grotto Heaven.
Of course, the odds of that were slim, yet if he entered the jade compass's influence, the Half-step Great Power might help him deflect the onslaught.
"Crack," came a sharp, clear snap of fracture, paired with searing agony ripping through Master Wang He's mind—he realized his life-bound magic treasure, the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer', had suffered harm.
The 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' had intercepted six 'Thunder Fall Skills' before crumbling, and this came after the thousands of years of cultivation Master Wang He had poured into it.
Now, the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' stood not just broken, but stripped entirely of the millennium-long nurturing it had received.