The three Great Elders arrived a bit late and missed the spectacle of the hundred and ninety heavenly thunders falling continuously, otherwise they wouldn’t think this way.
They kept talking, but their pace did not slow down.
Soon, they saw Li Shiming. At this time, the hundred and ninety ’Flowing Light Starfall’ flying sword magical treasures around him were gone, and he was playing with his own Identity Jade Disc.
Li Shiming also saw the three Great Elders. They stopped when they were five hundred meters away.
They simultaneously summoned their spirit pets, all with dragon bloodlines, though the bloodline was weak, so their spirit pets did not show much dragon appearance.
However, these three dragon-type spirit pets were meticulously cultivated, their auras matched, all nurtured to the Great Elder level.
If not for their masters’ level limiting them, it was feared these three dragon-type spirit pets might have advanced to the fourth grade.
"Who sent you?" Li Shiming asked in a deep voice as the three Great Elders summoned their spirit pets.
He did not intend for the three Great Elders to answer. He had his own way to get the answers.
’Telepathy’ was activated, and although the three Great Elders were at the same level as he was, they were not his equal mentally.
As long as their level wasn’t higher than his and they were weaker in spirit, they couldn’t block his ’Telepathy’.
’Telepathy’ was a divine skill; even in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, it was not something one could possess easily.
He heard a name, ’Chen Zhou’, someone he did not know by this Nascent Soul Cultivator, but seeing that the three Great Elders all had dragon-type spirit pets, he could deduce ’Chen Zhou’ was a significant member of the dragon line.
"Master Li, hand over your dragon-type spirit pet, and sign a contract, and we will spare you!" The Great Elder didn’t answer Li Shiming’s question but said lightly.
The reason they stopped was to set up a formation preventing Li Shiming from escaping.
They thought they were being covert, but they didn’t realize they were facing an Array Master of such caliber.
Li Shiming had already noticed their small actions; when they stopped five hundred meters away, an Array Plate was thrown to the ground and activated.
Once the formation was activated, he realized it wasn’t simple, but he wasn’t very worried about it.
If it were a day earlier, he might be concerned about how many tricks the Great Elders of such a sect like the Ten Thousand Beast Sect could have and how powerful their spirit pets would be.
But things were different now; he had absolute confidence in annihilating any peers, whether human or demon spirit pets.
If it weren’t for trying to find out who wanted to deal with him, he wouldn’t have waited until now to make his move.
"So this is the Heaven and Earth Net Restriction? This is something only the sect’s Law Enforcement Hall would equip. Are you practitioners from the Law Enforcement Hall?" Li Shiming seemed not to hear the Great Elder’s words, looking around as he asked.
Although there was no visible movement after the formation was set up, under the ’Divine Vision’, he saw the flow of the formation’s aura and recognized what it was.
The Heaven and Earth Net Restriction was no ordinary formation, even in the Nascent Soul Stage Book Collection Pavilion, it was only documented, not with the method to arrange it.
Because it was a treasure of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s Law Enforcement Hall, specially equipped for capturing powerful cultivators.
"How do you know?" The Great Elder who just spoke changed his expression, surprised by Li Shiming’s question.
The Heaven and Earth Net Restriction was incredibly concealed, and it was borrowed from the Law Enforcement Hall for this mission to ensure nothing went wrong.
Unexpectedly, Li Shiming recognized the Heaven and Earth Net Restriction at a glance; could it be that Li Shiming was already aware of their actions?
With doubts in their hearts, the three Great Elders exchanged a look, hesitated no longer, and prepared to act immediately.
Li Shiming moved faster than them. With a wave of his hand, a hundred and ninety-one ’Flowing Light Starfall’ flying sword magical treasures appeared in the air.
Each ’Flowing Light Starfall’ flying sword magical treasure contained Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent. With its terrifying might, combined with the power nearly equal to a fourth-grade magical treasure, its presence could intimidate any Great Elder.
This was merely one ’Flowing Light Starfall’; with a hundred and ninety-one appearing together, the might was unimaginable.
The three Great Elders foolishly set up the ’Heaven and Earth Net Restriction’, causing the area to be blocked by the restriction.
Don’t mention Li Shiming; even if they wanted to leave the area, they would have to first disable the ’Heaven and Earth Net Restriction’.
A look of despair flashed in the three Great Elders’ eyes. They all had life-saving treasures, but within the ’Heaven and Earth Net Restriction’, the most effective fourth-grade escape talisman couldn’t be used.
And at their level, even if they activated the fourth-grade defense talisman, it wouldn’t achieve the genuine effect of a fourth-grade defense technique.
"Slay!" Li Shiming did not let the hundred and ninety-one ’Flowing Light Starfall’ hover for long; manipulating that many was still somewhat consuming.
It wasn’t a spiritual depletion, just more draining on the Spiritual Power Pattern.
A hundred and ninety-one ’Flowing Light Starfall’, each flying sword magical treasure controlled individually by Divine Thought, had power no different than a cultivator controlling a single flying sword magical treasure.
He possessed a hundred and ninety-one brains, each with Great Elder level spirit, controlled by Divine Thought borne of such spirit; coupled with the augmentation of Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent, this was the peak power that could be displayed by Golden Core Stage flying sword magical treasures.
With his command ’Slay!’, the three Great Elders summoned third-grade upper-stage defense magical treasures and all possible defensive means to resist his attack.
Yet all of this was like a joke before a hundred and ninety-one ’Flowing Light Starfall’; the defenses on the three Great Elders didn’t last even for a moment, they were broken through.
In their eyes filled with terror and despair, they couldn’t even utter pleas for mercy before being slain by ’Flowing Light Starfall’.
"How can they be so weak?" Li Shiming murmured discontentedly.
He had refined all hundred and ninety-one ’Flowing Light Starfall’, intending to seize the combat opportunity with the three Great Elders and their three Great Elder level dragon-type spirit pets to test his full power in battle.
Clearly, he overexerted; the three Great Elders could be slain with just one ’Flowing Light Starfall’ each, let alone with all hundred and ninety-one, the rest remained in the air, unused.
It wasn’t fair to call the three Great Elders weak, although Li Shiming wasn’t a real Sword Cultivator, he shared the technique of his Sword Cultivator avatar, Li Yuanba’s ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’ to control flying sword magical treasures.
Li Shiming could not exert the full potential of the ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’, but the ’Flowing Light Starfall’, having undergone heavenly tribulation, could rival a fourth-grade magical treasure with its third-grade quality.
Not to mention, it contained Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent, which now was fundamentally different from before.
When the first ’Flowing Light Starfall’ struck one of the Great Elders, his third-grade defense magical treasure was first hit by Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent, drastically reducing his control over it and causing its internal Spiritual Power Pattern to become chaotic.
Then, ’Flowing Light Starfall’ struck the third-grade defense magical treasure, and without the Great Elder’s support, it shattered instantly.
The other defenses were even more vulnerable, as fragile as paper.
If one were to evaluate the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent, Li Shiming’s had gone through a hundred and ninety heavenly thunder strikes, reaching its zenith in the Golden Core Stage, worthy of Great Elder level appraisal.
A Great Elder level’s Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent, combined with the might of a fourth-grade ’Flowing Light Starfall’, was lethal to any Great Elder.
’Flowing Light Starfall’ contained thirty-six Six Trigram Arrays, each with an acceleration rune, making it faster than regular fourth-grade flying sword magical treasures.