Cultivation is just so scientific!-Chapter 564 - 328 Ambush_2

The result was as expected; he found nothing on his person—no trace of a curse whatsoever.

The four Flying Boats were undoubtedly designed for ambushing cultivators, equipped with special Arrays seldom seen on such vessels.

This allowed the cultivators aboard the four Flying Boats to harbor malicious intent against Li Shiming without his timely detection.

Such Arrays were extremely rare; at least Li Shiming had rarely encountered them.

The four Flying Boats were arranged in a variant of the Four Phase Array, concealing the energy fluctuations of this airspace and simultaneously restricting Li Shiming’s Meteor Ink Boat from escaping.

When the Four Phase Array was set up, the utilization of Spiritual Power disrupted the previous Array that could isolate malicious intent, allowing Li Shiming to sense the cultivators on the four Flying Boats.

Twelve Golden Core cultivators, among them two were Late-stage Golden Core cultivators, and the rest were at the Early to Mid-stage of the Golden Core.

Indeed, their combat power was strong, nearly sufficient to suppress Li Shiming’s Silver Corpse.

However, he didn’t plan on using the Silver Corpse; the Four Phase Array was indeed effective, but these cultivators seemed unaware that he was also an Array Master.

Setting up an Array to restrict the actions of an Array Master in the presence of said master would only be possible if there was also an Array Master among the opposing forces.

Li Shiming merely swept the area with his Divine Thought and instantly found many flaws in the Four Phase Array; breaking the Array would only require a mere thought.

He did not do so; instead, several threads of Array Spiritual Power were redirected from their original course in the blink of an eye by his several strands of Divine Thought.

As the twelve Golden Core cultivators flew out from the Flying Boats and prepared to attack Li Shiming with their treasures, they were unaware that the Four Phase Array surrounding Li Shiming had also encompassed them.

"Who are you? Why obstruct my path?" Li Shiming asked in a deep voice.

Before taking action, he wished to ascertain the identities of the opposition.

He didn’t have many significant enemies on the Beishu Continent, and it was clear these cultivators were not the Arhats of Qianye Temple.

"Master Li, you could have cooperated with Skywalk Trading Company, but you made the wrong choice, causing immense losses to our company. We from Skywalk Trading Company need your life to show the Beishu Continent what happens to those who offend us!" one of the two Late-stage Golden Core cultivators answered without any hesitation.

Clearly, the recent crackdown by the major sects of the Beishu Continent on Skywalk Trading Company hadn’t succeeded in wiping them out completely.

And it seemed that Skywalk Trading Company still maintained a strong intelligence network; otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to detect Li Shiming’s departure from his sect and intercept him here.

The group of cultivators from Skywalk Trading Company quite obviously thought Li Shiming had no escape, which is why they disclosed the truth to him.

Only then did Li Shiming realize that he might indeed have thoroughly offended the trans-continental Skywalk Trading Company.

Most of Skywalk Trading Company’s power in the Beishu Continent was destroyed due to a piece of intelligence he provided.

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Not a shred of concern crossed his mind; instead, the speed of his blood flow increased, and his eyes gleamed with light.

He had tested his life-bound magical treasure IBMz15’s numerous abilities, which had indeed greatly aided him, but he had not yet experienced its efficacy in real combat.

He willed the life-bound magical treasure IBMz15 to enter into combat mode; this time, he summoned the power of a hundred brains to partake in the battle, signifying the great importance he placed on this fight.

Being inside the Meteor Ink Boat, his defensive power was still respectable. This Flying Boat Magical Treasure possessed the defensive power of a Top-Grade Defense Treasure, at least capable of withstanding several blows from a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator.

"Such a strong Spiritual Power reaction, be careful!" The leading Late-stage Golden Core cultivator was preparing to launch an attack with his flying sword treasure after the conversation ended.

But sensing the intense Spiritual Power reaction coming from Li Shiming’s direction, the strength of the reaction prompted him to instantly switch to defensive mode, channeling all his Spiritual Power into his defense treasure.

Because Li Shiming was within the Meteor Ink Boat, the twelve Golden Core cultivators across from him did not see his movements.

The technique he applied was not some Forbidden Technique, nor did he use a talisman beyond his own level, but instead, he cast the Third-grade single-target spell ’Supreme Mysterious Divine Thunder’.

Just casting ’Supreme Mysterious Divine Thunder’ once wouldn’t cause such a reaction in a late-stage Golden Core cultivator. Each of his hundred brains was controlling Divine Thought to cast ’Supreme Mysterious Divine Thunder’ once.

That was possible because he possessed five Golden Cores. Otherwise, if it were any other cultivator who had just advanced to the Golden Core, casting a hundred Third Grade Techniques all at once would be enough to drain all the Spiritual Power within a Golden Core Early Stage cultivator’s Golden Core.

In the span of a single breath, ’Supreme Mysterious Divine Thunder’ was ready to be cast.

In the small cabin of the Meteor Ink Boat, the light from a hundred spell patterns almost made it too bright for the eyes to see anything.

Following the warning issued by the late-stage Golden Core cultivator, the other Golden Core cultivators also sensed the terrifying fluctuations of Spiritual Power within the Flying Boat Magical Treasure.

They did not launch an attack that would be mutually destructive right away, since Li Shiming had fallen into the Four Phase Array and couldn’t escape. They also had the advantage in numbers—they could simply outlast Li Shiming.

With the advantage in hand, all they needed to do was to block Li Shiming’s first round of attack. They believed he wouldn’t be able to launch such an attack again, and then it would be time for them to deal with Li Shiming.

The two late-stage Golden Core cultivators exchanged a look, one that carried questions in their eyes.

They did not sense this surge of power as coming from a talisman; the intense Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power fluctuation was many times stronger than the Thunder Attribute Magic they were familiar with.

They did not believe that Li Shiming was casting Thunder Attribute Magic. Third Grade Techniques, especially when outnumbered in actual combat, were almost impossible to apply.

Because casting a Third Grade Technique required too much preparatory time. Not just fresh Golden Core cultivators like Li Shiming, specialized in Alchemy and new to the Golden Core, but even veteran Golden Core cultivators who had spent hundreds of years in the Golden Core Stage rarely put much effort into Third Grade Techniques.

It’s not that Third Grade Techniques aren’t powerful, but spending hundreds of years to increase the proficiency of a particular Third Grade Technique to its limit doesn’t match the time and effort with the effects when cast.

With that much time, if spent on studying talismans, one could completely turn a Third Grade Technique into a talisman, thereby achieving the effect of fast casting.

With the aid of his life-bound magical treasure IBMz15, Li Shiming was able to practice a Third Grade Technique to the theoretical fastest casting speed.

What was most crucial was that the life-bound magical treasure IBMz15 gave him more brains to use, where a single brain could only cast one spell at a time. This was not only limited by the rules of Heaven and Earth but also the limit of what a cultivator’s brain could endure.

The application of the life-bound magical treasure IBMz15 to combat, with a hundred brains, sidestepped the rule’s restrictions, allowing him to cast a hundred Third Grade Techniques at once.

In a single breath, Skywalk Trading Company did not react immediately but instead responded to Li Shiming’s question, granting Li Shiming the advantage of acting first.

Just as the twelve Golden Core cultivators retracted their treasures and focused fully on defense, the Meteor Ink Boat, from inside to out, burst forth with a dazzling magical light.

The spectacularly beautiful ’Supreme Mysterious Divine Thunder’ spell patterns, repeated a hundred times and bursting simultaneously, created an intensely visual scene.

However, the twelve Golden Core cultivators were too late to admire the ultimate beauty of Thunder Attribute; a hundred thunderbolts struck at them.

Thunderbolts cast by Thunder Skills are the fastest in magic, and unless one has Divine Skills, it’s impossible to dodge within the range of attack.

Even with Divine Skills, one must have them prepared in advance and ready to activate in an instant.

Clearly, none of the twelve Golden Core cultivators here had mastered such Divine Skills.

A hundred thunderbolts struck, with each early-to-middle-stage Golden Core cultivator taking eight thunderbolts, while the two late-stage Golden Core cultivators received special attention, each taking ten thunderbolts.

Thunder Skills, known alongside Swordmanship as the strongest form of attack, displayed a unique elegance in Li Shiming’s hands, as he alone was equivalent to a hundred Thunder Skill cultivators launching their attacks at the same time.

This was the role of the life-bound magical treasure IBMz15 in combat, which made it more powerful than any other magical treasure.