The Blade Mantis carried Elder Gong You as it rushed toward the grasslands, covering the three-thousand-meter distance in just a few breaths.
Wu Shao, however, moved swiftly, a terrifying sound of breaking air accompanying him as his figure appeared behind Elder Gong You.
Elder Gong You had anticipated this and exerted force on the Blade Mantis’s back, charging forward.
Meanwhile, the Blade Mantis turned and launched an attack at Wu Shao, its blade arms creating countless afterimages that engulfed Wu Shao’s figure.
With a sound of "bang," a humanoid hole appeared on the Blade Mantis’s body.
Through the humanoid hole, Wu Shao was seen catching up to Elder Gong You, who drove a flying knife magical treasure to slash at him.
Wu Shao paid no attention to the flying knife magical treasure, allowing it to land on his body.
The flying knife magical treasure couldn’t affect his speed and was repelled when it hit him.
He punched out, this punch bore the profound truth of heaven and earth that only a Nascent Soul cultivator could comprehend. The short five-meter distance between them was crossed as the punch struck Elder Gong You’s back.
Wu Shao’s fist penetrated Elder Gong You’s back, emerging from the chest; such an injury was unquestionably fatal, not to mention the terrifying energy within the punch, which extinguished Elder Gong You’s life force at the moment of impact.
Wu Shao disdainfully discarded Elder Gong You’s body from his fist, taking off the Mustard Seed Ring from Elder Gong You, and in a flash, returned to Young Master Zhang Xian’s side.
If Li Shiming hadn’t exposed his identity, he wouldn’t have risked Zhang Xian being attacked to kill Elder Gong You.
Seeing that Elder Wei Long and Li Shiming didn’t attack Young Master Zhang Xian, he thought it was his displayed combat strength that intimidated them.
But it was too late, as soon as Li Shiming revealed his identity, they all had to die.
Elder Wei Long’s eyes revealed despair, though he had several life-saving means, in the Green Field Cave Heaven, the Far Escape Talisman was useless, rendering his life-saving measures a joke before a Nascent Soul cultivator.
He looked at Li Shiming with great reluctance; if Li Shiming hadn’t revealed Wu Shao’s identity, he wouldn’t have ended up like this.
"Let’s die together!" He shouted, sending out a thread towards Li Shiming.
But when the thread magical treasure extended halfway, it ceased advancing, his eyes showing even stronger despair than before.
Above Li Shiming’s head floated one hundred ninety-one flying sword magical treasures.
The number, one hundred ninety-one flying sword magical treasures, was beyond the control of even a Great Elder.
Although it’s common in the Cultivation World for cultivators to use many magical treasures, such treasures are set-based, composed of multiple magical items, with one principal magical treasure as the core, enabling a cultivator to indirectly control other magical treasures through the principal one.
Even with such a control method, the highest record in the Golden Core Stage Cultivation World was a Great Elder controlling a set composed of seventy-two items.
Li Shiming’s one hundred ninety-one flying sword magical treasures, however, were not set-based; each flying sword magical treasure was a standalone item.
This was Elder Wei Long’s first impression upon seeing Li Shiming’s collection of one hundred ninety-one flying sword magical treasures, causing his attack to halt and leaving him astonished.
Yet Wu Shao was even more stunned than Elder Wei Long, for he saw not one hundred ninety-one flying swords but each sword itself.
"How did you obtain so many Artifact Tribulation Treasures?" Wu Shao, despite being a worldly Nascent Soul cultivator, couldn’t help but ask.
He wondered if the entire Dongqi Continent could amass so many Artifact Tribulation Treasures, counting in Fourth-Grade magical treasures. In history, there were numerous brilliant talents among Nascent Soul cultivators who produced Artifact Tribulation Treasures.
Yet he had never seen a Third-Grade Artifact Tribulation Treasure.
Artifact Tribulation Treasures are unacceptable to the Heaven and Earth Rules, possessing power far beyond their rank, undergoing heavenly thunder baptism upon birth.
Treasures that endure heavenly thunder have extraordinary spirit and power.
"You don’t need to know, as you’re bound to die!" Li Shiming said casually.
Since he had revealed his utmost strength, he intended for none of them to survive.
"You can’t kill me; do you know who the young master’s father is?" Wu Shao shouted, not expecting Li Shiming’s answer, instead revealing, "Master Zhang of Feiyun Pavilion, would you truly offend a Great Cultivator?"
A Great Cultivator, the pinnacle of the Nascent Soul Stage, Late-stage Nascent Soul Cultivators are termed Great Cultivators.
Entering the Late-stage Nascent Soul, a Great Cultivator’s strength undergoes a profound transformation, completely overpowering Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioners in combat.
If it were outside the Green Field Cave Heaven and encountering a Great Cultivator’s son, Li Shiming would certainly retreat immediately, avoiding killing.
For a Great Cultivator’s means are unpredictable; truly killing a Great Cultivator’s son might soon lead to a relentless pursuit unto death.
But now in the Green Field Cave Heaven, a creation of a powerful being, a Great Cultivator cannot investigate events inside, moreover, Green Field Cave Heaven even prohibits Nascent Soul cultivators from entering.
After this instance, Green Field Cave Heaven will close for four hundred years; perhaps in four hundred years, Li Shiming himself will be a Great Cultivator, and even if Master Zhang finds a way to enter Green Field Cave Heaven to investigate, it will pose no threat to him.
"I..." Young Master Zhang Xian realized the dire circumstances, he was about to speak offering promises, but before he could, the one hundred ninety-one flying sword magical treasures above Li Shiming’s head moved.
’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ divided into two batches, with ten ’Flowing Light Star Meteors’ shooting towards Elder Wei Long, all others aiming at Wu Shao and Young Master Zhang Xian.
Elder Wei Long took out an enormous shield magical treasure, merging his body with the shield magical treasure, this being his strongest defense secret technique.
Yet Li Shiming regarded him too highly, deploying ten ’Flowing Light Star Meteors’ against him; his first use of one hundred ninety-one ’Flowing Light Star Meteors’ was against three Great Elders of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, with just one ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ slaying a Great Elder.
The shield magical treasure, made of extremely solid materials, couldn’t stop the ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’, which effortlessly penetrated the shield magical treasure and Elder Wei Long’s body.
The Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent erupted within him, extinguishing his life force.
"Young master, be careful!" Wu Shao yelled as one hundred eighty-one ’Flowing Light Star Meteors’ flew towards them, standing in front of Young Master Zhang Xian.
Currently, his only reliance was his robust physique, with the Nascent Soul scattered within, making his body even tougher than the Nascent Soul Stage, having superior defense.
But the flaw was apparent due to the Nascent Soul Body Fusion Secret Method, rendering him unable to use Fourth-Grade magical treasures.
Nonetheless, his body’s defensive capability exceeded Third Grade Upper Stage defensive magical treasures, nearing Fourth-Grade magical treasures’ defensive power, making him invincible as long as he avoids Nascent Soul cultivators.
Of course, his belief in invincibility was before encountering Li Shiming, who’d have thought Li Shiming could wield so many Artifact Tribulation Treasures.
Each ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ was equivalent to a Fourth-Grade Flying Sword Magical Treasure, which shouldn’t be a power Golden Core cultivators can command.
"Slash!" Li Shiming deployed ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’s’ attack secret technique, waving his hand, all ’Flowing Light Star Meteors’ shining with Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent, enhancing their power further.
The first ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ slashed Wu Shao, leaving a shallow wound that ricocheted the meteor.
The second ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ precisely hit that wound, deepening it slightly, with blood already seeping out.