Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1546 - 819: Seriously Wounded (Part 2)

Yet he couldn't afford to dwell on those matters any longer. Once hurt, the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' morphed into a thread of energy that flowed straight into his frame.

To stay secure, he required enduring four 'Thunder Fall Skills', though his sole defenses remained the Thunder Shield encircling him and the Thunder Resistance Secret Method.

A lone lightning strike shattered the Thunder Shield; the bolt's energy proved far too intense.

Master Wang He then endured the leftover lightning strikes, his form turning pitch-black and scorched as he got hurled away and crashed hard onto the earth.

He lacked the opportunity to seek aid from the half-step Great Power, now lying in critical condition and out cold.

What kept him from instant death was his cultivation of the 'Yuqing Thunder Scripture', granting his physique robust tolerance to lightning through years of Thunder Skill practice, bolstered by the Thunder Resistance Secret Method to evade immediate demise.

Meanwhile, Yan Gao Great Cultivator also felt the dread of ten 'Thunder Fall Skills'. This round saw Li Shiming unleashing tenfold the previous count, with power surging far beyond earlier strikes.

Not that he repeated Master Wang He's error, assuming the half-step Great Power would handle Li Shiming, thus delaying his dodge from the assault.

Even with dodging prowess, his Earth element couldn't outpace the lightning's swift assault.

Still, Yan Gao Great Cultivator's Earth element excelled in protection. On pure instinct, he summoned a towering earthen barrier ahead as peril loomed, without a second thought.

Next, he unleashed his Innate Treasure Mountain Peak Treasure to shield the front, all while surging Earth Element Spiritual Power through his veins to craft armor from soil and stone.

In mere moments, he showcased the utmost defensive prowess of an Earth-element Peak Great Cultivator.

The 'Thunder Fall Skill' lightning slammed into the earthen wall, draining just a fraction of its might, before the surplus raged onward toward the Mountain Peak Treasure.

Strike after strike—one, two, three—up to the eighth bolt, at last taxing the Mountain Peak Treasure to its breaking point.

Yan Gao Great Cultivator swiftly recalled his Innate Treasure Mountain Peak Treasure, knowing one more hit would wreck it badly.

He trusted his personal barriers could handle the final two lightning bolts.

The lightning crashed against the outer rock shell of his Earth armor, cracking it open in spots before exploding it into scattered stone fragments everywhere.

Through this clash, the lightning's full force got fully unleashed and spent.

The ultimate bolt hammered the soil layer, which soaked up the electric surge, shifting from yielding to rigid, only to crumble apart like the stone before it.

Yet with nothing guarding beyond the soil layer, the residual charge zapped Yan Gao Great Cultivator's flesh, locking his body in brief paralysis.

Yan Gao Great Cultivator drew a deep, relieved breath; he'd managed to fend it off at last.

But then another lightning bolt hurtled his way, hitting him with the realization that his prior struggles had only countered a single wave from Li Shiming's barrage.

Li Shiming hadn't idled without striking. Maybe aiming to let Yan Gao Great Cultivator live, he held back his full might, merely tacking on an extra lightning bolt.

Anything less, and unleashing twenty more 'Thunder Fall Skills' could have slain Yan Gao Great Cultivator and the scarcely breathing Master Wang He many times through.

This final strike caught Yan Gao Great Cultivator utterly exposed, charring him black and leaving him to share Master Wang He's fate.

Li Shiming's Divine Sense scanned the pair of Peak Great Cultivators, drawing the gravely wounded pair nearer before weaving multiple spells from the 'Heavenly Human Technique' upon them.

These spells fused into their forms, with intricate runes blooming swiftly over both figures.

This marked merely the outer web of runes, meant to bind their physical shells. A deeper layer targeted their Nascent Souls for sealing, hidden away on the Great Cultivators' cores and thus unseen.

Since both Yan Gao Great Cultivator and Master Wang He relied on the soul crystal ring, the seals could only clamp down on their bodies and Nascent Souls, blocking access to Spiritual Objects or the drawing of Spiritual Power from the soul crystal ring.

Thanks to the supreme prowess of the 'Heavenly Human Technique', dissected by IBMz15, neither Great Cultivator stood a chance against the unyielding seal.

Only now did Li Shiming ease up completely. The half-step Great Power's inaction so far backed his prior guess.

Though it looked like he'd poured everything into the fight earlier, in truth, several minds had stayed locked on the jade compass, ready to flee at the slightest stir from the half-step Great Power or any rift detected by 'Divine Eye'.

He never anticipated crippling both Peak Great Cultivators without the half-step Great Power stepping in.

Li Shiming then invoked the 'Innate Wood' Divine Skill on each Peak Great Cultivator, guaranteeing their wounds wouldn't claim them outright.

Naturally, one dose of 'Innate Wood' Divine Power Energy couldn't mend their damages entirely, just steadying the worst of it to halt any worsening.

He tossed the duo aside and shifted focus to the jade compass.

By now, Yan Gao Great Cultivator and Master Wang He had stirred awake. Sealed in body and Nascent Soul, speech eluded them, leaving only glances to exchange thoughts.

Helpless shock gleamed in the eyes of both Great Cultivators; they'd beheld Li Shiming's horrifying might firsthand.

That bizarre Secret Technique enabling twenty simultaneous 'Thunder Fall Skills' ranked among the realm's deadliest arts, no doubt.

They chalked up Li Shiming's 191 brains to some arcane Secret Technique, offering a vague rationale.

Li Shiming's edge stemmed from his Innate Treasure IBMz15, which lacked any battle functions and served purely as support, rendering it far inferior to those wielding assault-oriented Innate Treasures.

Such non-fighting Innate Treasures usually fell to auxiliary-role cultivators; without Li Shiming's five Nascent Souls granting five Innate Treasures, it'd have been an unfixable flaw.

Yet the Innate Treasure IBMz15 boosted his fighting edge in a unique way.

Every brain held its own spellcasting power; with enough Spiritual Power, they could unleash incantations freely.

Even more baffling to the two Great Cultivators was how the half-step Great Power failed to crush Li Shiming—that topped all shocks.

Li Shiming eyed the jade compass, mulling over tactics, as his Innate Treasure IBMz15 combed its vast archives for fixes to their bind.

"Formation!" In near unison, Li Shiming and IBMz15 settled on the identical route.

Li Shiming went with gut feeling, while IBMz15 drew from endless data crunching.

When it came to formations, the prime counter to the jade compass's Grotto Heaven lay in spatial arrays.

In this realm, IBMz15 led the pack in spatial formation studies.

Drawing from the horde of spatial array texts seized from Great Venerable Hongfa, IBMz15 had forged the 'Space Acceptance Array' years back, a breakthrough from decades past.

IBMz15's spatial formation probes had since plunged far deeper.

Li Shiming settled into a cross-legged pose, granting time for IBMz15 to probe the ambient reality and surroundings, crafting a spatial formation plan to tame this Grotto Heaven.

He held ninety percent certainty the half-step Great Power remained trapped in the Grotto Heaven. Still, he refused to near it sans restraints on the space.

IBMz15 handled the probing and scheming; his role lay in feeding 'Divine Eye' observations to track shifting energies around them.

At the same time, he turned awareness to the bound Nascent Soul—not his main one; his five Nascent Souls linked via the 'Five Elements Qi Absorption Array', so the sealing grip had picked one at random.