Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 988: Chapter 540: Slay (Part 2)

He hadn’t encountered a situation like this in years. Ever since he advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, he had been at the top, especially as the Skywalk Trading Company lacked any Great Cultivator, with him and several Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioners standing at the peak of power.

Now, being pushed to such an extent by a junior who just advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage, it was no wonder he lost his composure.

“You are indeed too strong. When you are weaker than me, I will fight you head-on!” Li Shiming said with a smile.

As he spoke, ‘Space Movement’ was activated, dodging a surprise attack of Jin Kai’s Secret Technique.

Jin Kai had mastered many Secret Techniques indeed; the Skywalk Trading Company, after all, was a force dealing in resources, with numerous Secret Techniques circulating through its hands.

Li Shiming felt that if he wasn’t careful, Jin Kai might pull him within a two-thousand-meter range using a Secret Technique.

Of course, such a thing was impossible to happen. His life-bound magical treasure IBMz15 promptly reminded him, along with his own activation of ‘Divine Foot Skill,’ which gave him complete control over the battlefield.

Additionally, he simultaneously activated ‘Space Movement’ in multiple brains; he could exhibit ‘Space Movement’ to evade at any time.

“I’m going to fight with you!” Jin Kai roared in anger, sensing the situation within his body.

If he didn’t use the Nascent Soul Dharma Form now, he wouldn’t have another chance; his injuries were about to worsen, and this worsening was something he couldn’t stop.

Li Shiming’s lightning attacks each carried power surpassing the all-out attacks of a Nascent Soul Early Stage Peak Thunder Cultivator. Once accumulated to a certain extent, it was enough to destroy Jin Kai’s already fragile defenses.

Jin Kai’s defense against lightning relied entirely on the Gold Ruler treasure, but the Gold Ruler treasure had its limits. Under repeated attacks of Heavenly Thunder, its internal runes were damaged, and the spiritual imprint was weakened.

He knew full well that once the Gold Ruler treasure above his head was destroyed, leaving aside the damage from subsequent lightning, the backlash from the damaged Gold Ruler treasure was not something his heavily injured body could withstand.

With his shout, his Nascent Soul flew out from his head, transforming into a gigantic figure ten meters tall.

Countless golden energy needles shot out indiscriminately towards the surroundings, covering nearly the entire area with a range exceeding over five thousand meters.

He was bursting with full power; this was an explosion his body couldn’t withstand, but he decided to do so to deal with Li Shiming.

The terrifying golden energy needles instantly covered the area.

He wasn’t bursting randomly; he was also analyzing and calculating, unknowingly leading Li Shiming to the edge of the Heaven and Earth Net Restriction.

Here, Li Shiming had no space to retreat even if he wanted to—his only options for movement were left, right, or forward, but regardless of which direction he used ‘Space Movement,’ he would still be within the attack range of the golden energy needle.

This indiscriminate, large-scale attack was the best method to counter such space movement abilities.

However, Li Shiming’s Divine Foot Skill was beyond Jin Kai’s judgment, and Jin Kai underestimated Li Shiming’s mastery over the Divine Foot Skill.

Seeing the golden energy needles being unleashed, Li Shiming didn’t panic at all; he took one, two, three steps, gracefully shuttling through the golden energy needles, his figure appearing each time within the intervals of the golden energy needles.

Perhaps Jin Kai’s method was effective against other cultivators proficient in the Divine Foot Skill, but Li Shiming possessed his life-bound treasure, IBMz15, which gave him a whopping one hundred and ninety-one brains, each capable of independently activating the Divine Foot Skill.

This meant that theoretically, he could simultaneously prepare one hundred and ninety-one ‘Space Movements,’ and these ‘Space Movements’ could be executed nearly without intervals.

Jin Kai’s Nascent Soul Dharma Form stood frozen in the void, his face full of disbelief.

What did he see? Enhanced by the Nascent Soul Dharma Form, his perception was clearer, and he sensed Li Shiming’s figure repeatedly flickering in the midst of his wide-range attack.

When it stopped once more, Li Shiming was already far on the other side of the Heaven and Earth Net Restriction, out of his attack range.

At the cost of everything, with full power, just like that, Li Shiming effortlessly defused it.

Meanwhile, he felt unstable energy within his Nascent Soul, unable to maintain the Nascent Soul Dharma Form.

The Nascent Soul Dharma Form appeared suddenly and then vanished, and the tiny Nascent Soul fled in panic back into Jin Kai’s body.

“It’s my turn!” Li Shiming of course also sensed Jin Kai’s situation; he knew it was the final moment and decided not to hold back any strength.

The Fire Thunder Nascent Soul, Gold Thunder Nascent Soul, Water Thunder Nascent Soul, Wood Thunder Nascent Soul, Mu Lei Nascent Soul flew from his head, transforming into five Nascent Soul Dharma Forms.

The Fire Thunder Nascent Soul drew his true body into the Dharma Form, shielding it.

The Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image separately controlled the Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer and the ‘Flowing Light Star Meteor,’ while the remaining four Nascent Soul Dharma Forms also wielded the ‘Flowing Light Star Meteor,’ launching an attack on Jin Kai.

The ‘Flowing Light Star Meteor,’ a Third-Grade Artifact Tribulation Treasure, was not the main attack force; besides the Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer, the true attack force lay in the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent within the five flying sword treasures.

This Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent held the power of the Nascent Soul Early Stage Peak, already capable of dealing with Jin Kai, whose body was in turmoil and could no longer retaliate.

Throughout his millennium of experiences, there had never been a day as shocking as today.

Li Shiming’s successful short-term advancement to the Nascent Soul Stage was already a significant surprise, not to mention becoming a Nascent Soul Thunder Cultivator, capable of suppressing Nascent Soul Early Stage Peak cultivators aside from insufficient spiritual power foundation.

This wasn’t the end; the two Golden Corpses and the dragon-type Spiritual Pet he possessed were far superior to others of the same level.

Now, Li Shiming had summoned five Nascent Souls before him; he desperately wished to relay this news to the Skywalk Trading Company, but he already had no opportunity.

Under the control of the Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image, the power of the Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer multiplied, unleashing lightning akin to Heavenly Thunder attacks.

Just the first strike of lightning made the Gold Ruler treasure emit a mournful sound, getting struck out, with its surface covered in cracks mid-air.

Jin Kai was prepared to burst forth again; he would not let Li Shiming easily succeed.

Yet the destruction of the Gold Ruler treasure caused backlash that disrupted his painstakingly gathered focus once again.

He involuntarily spat out a mouthful of blood, losing control over his body.

Five ‘Flowing Light Star Meteors’ simultaneously slashed his body, and the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent within pierced into his body, targeting his Nascent Soul.

The Nascent Soul cultivator’s body was the Nascent Soul’s final defense, and now this defense couldn’t protect the Nascent Soul.

Without the Heaven and Earth Net Restriction, Jin Kai could have allowed the Nascent Soul to emerge, utilizing its speed to escape, but now the Nascent Soul had no escape route.

The five Heavenly Thunder Sword Intents, while attacking the Nascent Soul, systematically destroyed his body.

As the Mu Lei Nascent Soul drove the Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’s second bolt of lightning, hitting Jin Kai, the life force within Jin Kai disappeared, and his Nascent Soul was dispersed.

Li Shiming slowly exhaled, and the five Nascent Souls returned to his body.

The battle consumed too much, and even with three more years of accumulated spiritual power, it still wasn’t enough for unrestricted expenditure.

This was natural; other cultivators accumulate hundreds of years of spiritual power, and no matter how abundant his cultivation resources or favorable his environment, he couldn’t compare three years of cultivation with hundreds of years from other cultivators.

This battle did reveal one of his strengths: his instant explosive combat power.

At full strength, he resolved the fight in a short time; under the full exertion of five Nascent Souls, Jin Kai couldn’t even manage the final struggle.

Li Shiming collected Jin Kai’s Mustard Seed Ring, then gathered his corpse.

Ren Xun’s Mustard Seed Ring and corpse were also collected; now it was time to deal with the huge entity in front of him.

The cultivators inside the Skywalk Trading Company’s long-distance Flying Boat were already stunned by the battle outside; their strongest were only Golden Core cultivators, entirely unqualified to participate in such a level of battle.