Chapter 229: Chapter 161 Sword Intent
Li Shiming looked at the flames and frost before him, merging into one, and since the Beishu Qi Refining Cultivators had little time to prepare, the Spells they released only had the power of the Qi Refining Peak at their most.
He didn’t even try to dodge and charged headlong into the destructive Spiritual Power Pattern formed by the flames and frost.
The flames and frost forcefully breached the Spiritual Power Pattern defending him, reducing his robe to tatters instantly, but when these powerful attacks of the Qi Refinement Realm hit his skin, they hardly had any effect.
At least for a short period, these attacks could not cause much harm to Li Shiming.
He crossed the area covered by the Spells and rushed into the defensive circle of the Beishu Qi Refining Cultivators.
He didn’t make any attacks, as he was well aware that once he left Sword Escape and lost the advantage of speed, he would be surrounded and trapped by the many Beishu Qi Refining Cultivators on the spot.
Even with his strong defensive power, he didn’t dare let these strongest cultivators of the Qi Refinement Realm surround him.
Sword light passed by a Beishu Qi Refining Cultivator who was sitting cross-legged, energizing a talisman, and the cultivator only felt a void in his hand, followed by a backlash originating from his abdomen, causing him to spit out a mouthful of fresh blood.
Li Shiming captured the talisman with his Spiritual Thought without even looking, and stashed it into his storage bag.
After the sword light rushed through the area of the Beishu Qi Refining Cultivators, it quickly turned and sped back into the “Inverted Nine Palace Trigram Formation.”
From leaving to re-entering the “Inverted Nine Palace Trigram Formation,” the whole process took merely two moments, and when he returned, his robe was in tatters, yet he bore a smile on his face.
Even the Golden Core Elders on Seven Star Island were surprised by his actions. Li Shiming’s exceptional defensive power was well known to the Golden Core elders and was not a secret.
When Li Shiming was at the Qi Refining Sixth Level, he had relied on the manifestation of the true intent of the Angry-eyed Vajra to advance to the Qi Refining Seventh Level, and now already at the Qi Refining Eighth Level, the enhancement from the true intent forming the “Vajra Body Protection Divine Skill” was short-term blockade of the covering Spell attacks, which did not surprise the Golden Core elders much.
What truly surprised the Golden Core Elders was Li Shiming’s decisiveness.
Without any hesitation, upon spotting the use of a talisman, he charged out and successfully recaptured the talisman. This speed, this determination, was even stronger than the combat awareness of the genius cultivators nurtured by the Sect.
“Junior Brother, are you alright?” He Chuan asked with concern.
“Not hurt; the power of the covering Spells was dispersed!” Li Shiming replied with a smile and a shake of his head.
He Chuan and the other Seven Sects cultivators understood, even if the power had been dispersed, a covering Spell was not something a regular Body Refining Cultivator could withstand with his body.
Having had a talisman stolen and causing the Qi Refining Cultivator to suffer backlash, the Beishu Qi Refining Cultivators felt stifled.
“Fellow seniors, now that we have the upper hand, why not fight them with all our strength?” Li Shiming looked at the other Seven Sects cultivators and proposed.
Thirteen of the Seven Sects cultivators, and ten Beishu Qi Refining Cultivators, one of whom, the strongest, had been seriously injured.
“It’s been planned for a while!” the Seven Sects cultivators said with fighting spirit.
Previously struck, now was the perfect time for revenge.
Li Shiming stowed away the Three-headed Six-armed Copper Corpse, and the other two Xuanming Sect cultivators also gathered up their copper corpses.
The copper corpses could be summoned at will, and summoning them at the right moment would have a better effect.
The “Inverted Nine Palace Trigram Formation” was left behind, providing a safe haven for the Seven Sects cultivators in case of danger, always allowing them a retreat back to this spot.
“Kill!” The Seven Sects cultivators shouted in unison, prepared their Magic Artifacts and talismans, and rushed out of the “Inverted Nine Palace Trigram Formation” towards the Beishu Qi Refining Cultivators.
Li Shiming targeted the Beishu cultivator who had suffered the backlash. A Qi Refining Cultivator with talismans surely had an extremely powerful background; they wouldn’t be short on good items.
With the newly taken talisman, he already had three.
Consider the cultivators who owned talismans: Yin Shilan’s father was a Golden Core Elder of Sky Sea Sect, and Baili Jin Yan’s father was a Golden Core Elder of Holy Ice Sect.
Seeing the Seven Sects cultivators charging out, the Beishu Qi Refining Cultivators did not shrink back and met them head-on.
The Beishu cultivator targeted by Li Shiming also set his sights on Li Shiming. Even with a Golden Core supporting him, talismans were extremely precious.
Creating a talisman consumes the Origin Power of a Golden Core Elder’s Magic Artifact and also harms the Golden Core Elder himself; even the most indulgent wouldn’t provide a second talisman to a Qi Refining Disciple.
Thus, the Beishu cultivator was intent on killing Li Shiming and reclaiming his own talisman.
Both cultivators, interested in each other’s storage bags, coincidentally chose to leave the chaotic battle zone.
Li Shiming couldn’t use the “Ice Heart Jade Thought Technique” Spiritual Thought attack here; otherwise, even if he defeated his opponent, Elder Baili of Holy Ice Sect would confirm that it was he who killed Baili Jin Yan.
Yet he had more than a few tricks up his sleeve. The Broken Jade Sword transformed into a beam of sword light and shot towards the Beishu cultivator.
The Beishu cultivator, worried about Li Shiming’s Three-headed Six-armed Copper Corpse, wanted to quickly resolve the fight with Li Shiming, not giving Li Shiming a chance to summon the copper corpse.
A Jade Seal appeared in the Beishu cultivator’s hand, and with a flip of his wrist, the Jade Seal flew above Li Shiming’s head, transforming into a Jade Mountain crashing downwards.
Under the Jade Seal, Li Shiming felt a binding force emanating from it, targeting not just his body but also his spirit.