Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1200: Chapter 646: The Meeting

Even if it is to strengthen their lifebound flying sword, a sword cultivator would only personally do it, and would not ask for help from other artifact refiners.

”It can be finished in ten days!” Li Shiming smiled as he received the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword.

Had it been before his advancement to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, it would have taken him at least several months to imbue the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword with laws. Now, it was different; the elevation in his level brought a comprehensive enhancement.

In the engine room space, his level of control reached 1 nanometer, which allowed him to completely overturn the original design of the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword.

If it weren’t for his ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ and ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ already being formed, he would have wanted to completely reforge these two Fourth Grade Top-level Artifact Tribulation lifebound artifacts.

Although the design of the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword was completely overturned, the original concept did not change; what changed was converting the original 5-nanometer lines to 1 nanometer.

His design plan for the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword was to enhance its speed, while also considering the strength of the sword.

As for the sharpness and armor-piercing power of the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, with his ’Void-Shattering Sword Intent’, he no longer needed to consider enhancement in this aspect.

With Li Yuanba standing guard beside him, Li Shiming used one hundred and ninety brains for artifact refining, leaving only one brain to handle other matters.

The one hundred and ninety brains transformed into one hundred and ninety independent divine senses in the engine room space, working together to start the law imbedding process on the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword.

He planned to inscribe fifty million micro formations, increasing five times over the original design, with each micro formation composed of eight speed runes and one sturdy rune.

This resulted in the small body of the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword being packed with forty million speed runes and fifty million sturdy runes.

After ten days, Li Shiming retrieved the completed Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword from the engine room space and tossed it to Li Yuanba.

Li Yuanba took the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword and immediately used ’A Distance of a Thousand Miles’ to leave the range of the Concealing Array, reaching a safe place far away.

He looked at the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword in his hand, and as Li Shiming and he were one, although the rune imbued on the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword was carved by Li Shiming, there was no hint of unfamiliarity in his perception, as though he had personally carved the rune.

This lack of any unfamiliarity meant that his lifebound artifact, the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, did not suffer from a weakened control due to being enhanced with external help.

At the same time, he could feel an intimidating power from the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, a sword whose inherent quality alone could threaten Nascent Soul Middle Stage Body Refining cultivators.

It should be noted that Li Yuanba had trained in the Sword Body, a Sword Cultivation Body Technique from the ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’. Though progress was limited after he advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, he still reached the initial level of Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

This allowed his defensive power to reach an incredible level, yet even with such defense, he could clearly perceive that the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword could pierce through his defense without any additional support.

Yet he didn’t have much time to examine, as he sensed a change in the sky.

Reaching such a level of enhancement naturally led to the encounter with an Artifact Tribulation, something he had expected, so he wasn’t surprised.

He looked up at the thunderclouds in the sky, a flash of pride in his eyes. This was the first Nascent Soul Middle Stage Heavenly Tribulation he and his main body, Li Shiming, faced, but he held no worries in his heart.

He was a sword cultivator, a Nascent Soul Middle Stage sword cultivator, one who had cultivated the Sword Body, and he had an exceptionally powerful lifebound flying sword in his hand.

”Break for me!” he shouted, disappearing in place before the first Heavenly Thunder fell, using ’A Distance of a Thousand Miles’ to appear within the thunderclouds.

The ’Void-Shattering Sword Intent’ empowered the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, which weaved and sliced through the thunderclouds.

”So fast!” Li Yuanba marveled in his heart.

The acceleration effect of forty million speed runes on the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword was so great that if the sword wasn’t his lifebound flying sword, with a mysterious connection between them, his divine sense might not have kept up with the sword’s flying speed.

Even then, the speed of the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword made its control more difficult for him.

Only because he had trained in the ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’ from a young age, making controlling the flying sword almost instinctive, was he barely able to control the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword.

The energy-gathering thunderclouds paused momentarily, as Li Yuanba’s sword cut the clouds into countless small fragments.

In just a split second, under his control, the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword shuttled back and forth in the thunderclouds hundreds of times, creating a sword net with its cutting trajectory.

This was no sword light forming a sword net, but the actual body of the lifebound flying sword forming a sword net, vastly differing in power.

The ’Void-Shattering Sword Intent’ unleashed a terrifying might, breaking through the thunderclouds’ internal thunder energy even when faced with them.

If a cultivator ventured into the thunderclouds, they’d find a faint slicing spatial net formed by the ’Void-Shattering Sword Intent’ tearing through the void within the clouds.

Under such circumstances, the first Heavenly Thunder forcibly fell, a micro thunderbolt too small to even illuminate the sky, traversing the void and landing on Li Yuanba.

The power of this micro thunderbolt couldn’t even shake his Sword Body, much less affect his actions.

One couldn’t blame the thundercloud; when it was brewing the first Heavenly Thunder, Li Yuanba had already used ’A Distance of a Thousand Miles’ to enter the thunderclouds, followed by slicing with the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword.

While brewing the Heavenly Thunder, most of the thunder energy in the cloud was sliced away, and only a minimal part remained, forming this micro thunderbolt.

This was likely the weakest of the Heavenly Thunders in the Tribulation, which might not even be able to kill a Golden Core cultivator here.

The thundercloud, feeling provoked, suddenly exploded, increasing its thunder power internally; the slicing spatial net created by the ’Void-Shattering Sword Intent’ and the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword didn’t withstand for even a moment before being devoured.

”Second Slash!” Li Yuanba shouted again.

The Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword shot out, slicing inwards from the outer edge of the thundercloud like peeling a potato.

Due to the astonishing speed of the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, the large potato-like thundercloud quickly reduced in size.

When facing the second Heavenly Thunder, Li Yuanba even had time to test the power of the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, showing just how confident he was in himself.

The speed of brewing the Heavenly Thunder in the thundercloud quickened significantly this time, albeit at a cost to its power, but at least the thundercloud wouldn’t be weakened too much.

However, the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword was still too fast. When the thundercloud released the second Heavenly Thunder, although its power was several times that of the first, it still posed no threat to Li Yuanba.

As Li Yuanba prepared to use the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword to pierce the thundercloud again, the energy in the heavens surged, and the thundercloud expanded a hundredfold in size at once.

The terrifying heavenly might enveloped the entire area, making Li Yuanba feel the pressure.

The heavens wouldn’t tolerate continuous provocation, and Li Yuanba’s behavior akin to trifling with the heavenly tribulation finally incited the wrath of the sky.

Li Yuanba’s expression changed, but he did not retreat, as there was no possibility of retreating now.

Heavenly Thunder can disregard anything, directly affecting where a cultivator is present.

He pushed his Sword Body to its limit, the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword appearing before him at his will, while his Nascent Soul emerged, transforming into a ten-meter tall Nascent Soul Dharma Form.

The Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’s Power Storage Secret Method was deployed, and the Spiritual Power Pattern within the Nascent Soul Dharma Form continuously flowed into the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword.

He was surprised to find that the amount of spiritual power the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword could bear exceeded his expectations, and the originally thought-for reinforcement of its sturdiness with fifty million solid runes also allowed it to accommodate more spiritual power.