CHAPTER 1009: CHAPTER 551: RESCUE

The Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image isn’t just casting a single thunderbolt; the most basic thunder spell in the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ is a single-point thunder attack spell, relatively low in consumption but immensely powerful.

When Li Shiming cast the thunder spell, he activated the spell with five brains simultaneously.

Although he wanted to have a fair fight with Xiong Long, he didn’t use the Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer, his life-bound magical artifact, nor did he have any other thunder items, so he used five brains to compensate for the lack of help from thunder items.

The Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image continuously emitted thunder spells at intervals of a breath and three spells.

In the past, Li Shiming wouldn’t dare use such a tactic, for the spiritual power within his nascent soul was insufficient, and he didn’t dare to expend it this way.

Back then, simply maintaining the Dharma Image of the nascent soul already strained its endurance, not to mention the energy consumption of casting spells with it.

But now, having reached a level equivalent to a century of rigorous cultivation, he could lavishly spend the spiritual power within the nascent soul’s body.

The spiritual power within the nascent soul was enough for him to engage in prolonged battle without worrying about running out of spiritual power.

’Boom boom boom,’ the consecutive lightning strikes landed on Xiong Long. Though the earth element spiritual power armor on Xiong Long’s body blocked most of the force, it still affected Xiong Long’s speed.

Xiong Long wanted to approach the Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image, but the continual lightning prevented his speed from increasing.

The most troubling for him was that the cultivator opposite had an attack range much farther than his, leaving him in a position where he could only be passively hit, unable to counterattack.

Brother Song was hesitating, wanting to turn and help, but he was stopped by Li Shiming.

He wanted to flee on his own, but if he did so and Li Shiming got injured or killed by Xiong Long, Grandmaster Hu would definitely not spare him upon returning to the sect.

As he hesitated, he discovered that Li Shiming’s strength exceeded his expectations.

"How is this possible!" he wondered in shock.

In just a few years, Li Shiming’s strength at the nascent soul early stage had surpassed his, making him realize the gap between himself and a true genius.

He also noticed that Li Shiming was overpowering Xiong Long, unable to let Xiong Long display his full strength.

Feeling frustrated at being suppressed by the Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image, Xiong Long let out a loud shout, and a golden hammer appeared before him, which was his life-bound magical artifact, the Thick Earth Hammer.

The Thick Earth Hammer quickly enlarged, like a small mountain, blocking before him.

The Thick Earth Hammer is a magical artifact that can both attack and defend, made from fourth-grade earth material. When paired with earth element spiritual power, it becomes incredibly defensive, and with the bonus of being a life-bound magical artifact, Li Shiming’s Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image couldn’t break its defense with just lightning spells alone.

Catching his breath, he finally had time to use other means.

He lightly patted his waist with his left hand, releasing a swarm of golden spiritual insects from the spirit worm bag at his waist.

These were the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles,’ an earth element spiritual insect composed of four fourth-grade ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ along with thousands of third-grade ’Three Gold Earth Beetles.’

The ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ ranked twenty-third on the Spirit Insect List. It’s a mistake to underestimate a twenty-third rank, as the Spirit Insect List is the ranking of spiritual insects across the entire Cultivation World.

Many spiritual insects on the Spirit Insect List are nearly extinct, and this list has been documented for thousands of years, with every spiritual insect on it being an extremely terrifying existence.

Most of Xiong Long’s reputation comes from the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’; his own defense capability is already formidable, and the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ serve as his sharpest spear.

"Attack!" he waved his hand, directing all ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ towards Li Shiming.

The ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ didn’t just fly randomly; the four fourth-grade ones formed arrowheads, and the remaining third-grade ones made up the arrow shafts, forming four arrow-shaped formations.

Xiong Long further enhanced the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ with a secret technique, upgrading them comprehensively.

Although most of his reputation came from the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles,’ few cultivators have truly witnessed them.

From afar, Brother Song perceived Xiong Long as using four short arrow artifacts because the arrow-shaped formations created by the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ looked and felt almost exactly like four short arrow artifacts.

However, Li Shiming retained the ’Divine Eye,’ seeing something different from Brother Song.

He saw each ’Three Gold Earth Beetle’ on the four short arrow artifacts, realizing that the ’Gu Feng Sect’ was proficient in driving spiritual insects, indicating these were indeed spiritual insects.

He didn’t have much research on spiritual insects; he had once obtained a ’Nine Shao Insect Scripture’ during his time on the Beishu Continent, but it was an ancient script on insect control, quite different from modern spiritual insects.

When the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ appeared, he felt Little Feng’s excitement.

Little Feng resided in the Spirit Pet Bag, an item from the Ten Thousand Beast Sect designed for spiritual pets, allowing them to rest better inside.

Little Feng was very curious about the outside, and to keep Little Feng settled inside the Spirit Pet Bag, he shared his view and part of his perception with Little Feng.

This allowed Little Feng to see and sense what was happening outside, even while inside the Spirit Pet Bag.

This was necessary as Little Feng was still in its juvenile stage, lacking much self-protection ability.

The excitement from Little Feng surprised Li Shiming, as Little Feng seemed to want to eat these insects.