"Put in more effort, the Ice Crystal Beast is about to fall!" Yuan Xi shouted loudly.
Just as the Golden Core cultivators were preparing to go all out to finish off the Ice Crystal Beast, another roar of an Ice Crystal Beast echoed.
Another Ice Crystal Beast surged out from the sea, and as soon as it appeared, it unleashed a barrage of ice arrows.
This indiscriminate shower of ice arrows nearly covered the entire battlefield.
The Golden Core cultivators couldn’t spare the effort to finish off the previous Ice Crystal Beast and hurriedly strengthened their defenses. Yuan Xi even moved next to Yuan Xiao and raised a defensive magic artifact for him.
The injured Ice Crystal Beast was also hit by the ice arrows, but these ice arrows were not an attack on the Ice Crystal Beast. Upon contact with the injured Ice Crystal Beast, the ice arrows rapidly merged into its body.
The wounds on the injured Ice Crystal Beast were covered with ice crystals. These ice arrows enhanced the energy within its body and healed its injuries.
The faces of several Golden Core cultivators turned grim. Anyone could see that the newly arrived Ice Crystal Beast was extremely powerful, at the middle-stage of a Great Demon.
The middle-stage Great Demon level was the same realm as Yuan Xi’s, but human cultivators’ realms cannot be compared to those of Great Demons.
The Ice Crystal Beast possessed the ability to control ice, which not only enhanced its attack power but also significantly strengthened its defensive power.
A single Ice Crystal Beast at the early stage of a Great Demon would require several ordinary Golden Core Early Stage cultivators working in concert to defeat it.
Originally, with Yuan Xi, a Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator, they could have easily and unscathedly dealt with the first Ice Crystal Beast.
But the appearance of this second Ice Crystal Beast brought great trouble to this group of cultivators.
"Prepare to retreat, Yuan Xiao, abandon the formation here and block the Ice Crystal Beast for a moment!" Yuan Xi, being the leader, decisively ordered.
Yuan Xiao was somewhat reluctant, but he still waved the formation flag in his hand, making the last enhancements, hoping the formation could hold out a while longer to buy them time to escape.
The other Golden Core Early Stage cultivators exchanged a glance, all showing signs of fear on their faces.
The middle-stage Great Demon Ice Crystal Beast, if it wasn’t for the Ice Crystal Beast’s rushed use of area ice arrow attack to save the first Ice Crystal Beast, they might have been injured under the middle-stage Great Demon Ice Crystal Beast’s first attack.
At this moment, they were in a bit of a panic. Hearing Yuan Xi say to retreat, they forgot the pre-discussed retreat plan.
They collectively turned and activated their respective flying magic artifacts, flying towards the rear.
The middle-stage Great Demon Ice Crystal Beast was distracted by them, and because the formation suddenly lost the support of six Golden Core Early Stage cultivators, the formation’s power greatly diminished.
The Ice Crystal Beast spewed out a series of ice arrows, catching up with several Golden Core Early Stage cultivators.
"Ah!" Screams echoed out, among the six Golden Core Early Stage cultivators, except for Ma Dongxin, whose luck was good—the ice arrows aimed at him were blocked by a defensive magic artifact on his back and sent him further—they all were hit by the ice arrows and fell from the sky.
"Damn it, these useless guys!" Yuan Xi didn’t expect this situation to arise, he cursed angrily.
With his command, although facing a middle-stage Great Demon Ice Crystal Beast was a bit tricky, the chances of safely retreating were very high.
But these temporary teammates had no cooperative spirit at all, leading to such a predicament.
However, it was too late to lament; the middle-stage Great Demon Ice Crystal Beast didn’t pursue the only escaping Ma Dongxin but instead set its sights on Yuan Xi and Yuan Xiao.
The other injured Ice Crystal Beast also turned its gaze towards them.
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"Xiao’er, I’ll hold them back for you, you leave first!" Yuan Xi instructed in a deep voice.
"Father, how can I leave you behind? Let me push the formation to see if it can affect them!" Yuan Xiao shook his head and said.
"You stubborn child!" Yuan Xi shook his head helplessly.
With this delay, they missed the opportunity to escape, and even if he wanted to block the Ice Crystal Beasts, he couldn’t simultaneously fend off the attacks from both prepared to strike.
Just as the father and son were feeling despair, a white light flashed through the space.
With a ’boom’ sound, though only one thunderclap, it brought down two bolts of lightning.
The lightning pierced straight through the bodies of the two Ice Crystal Beasts from their heads down.
Whether it was an early stage or middle-stage Great Demon, under the lightning, there was only one inevitable result.
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"To the fellow who saved us, I am immensely grateful!" Yuan Xi’s eyes flashed with astonishment as he clasped his hands in gratitude.
Li Shiming used ’Distance as Will’ to step from afar and appeared in front of Yuan Xi. He didn’t use ’Step by Step Lotus’ because ’Step by Step Lotus’ was too conspicuous and would immediately reveal which Divine Skill he was using.
But ’Distance as Will’ was much more low-key. At least the Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator Yuan Xi in front of him couldn’t recognize ’Distance as Will’ as Divine Foot Skill, only assuming it was some sort of flying secret technique.
Li Shiming did not want to expose his identity just after arriving on the Dongqi Continent.
The Heavenly Inquiry Sect belonged to the Dongqi Continent, and he didn’t know when Ancestor Luo Wei might return. If the news of him mastering the Divine Foot Skill leaked out, Ancestor Luo Wei might suspect him.
So Li Shiming changed his combat style, using the thunder attacks he rarely utilized on the Beishu Continent.
Although he had only cultivated the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ for eleven months, due to his Golden Core realm reaching a Great Elder level, and with the aid of the Fourth Grade Sky Strike Thunder Hammer, he was able to cultivate the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ to a level comparable to the Late-stage Golden Core.
He now only exposed his identity as a Thunder Cultivator; as a late-stage Golden Core Thunder Cultivator, no one would suspect that the Alchemy Master Li Shiming was a Thunder Cultivator.