CHAPTER 1010: CHAPTER 551: RESCUE (PART 2)

Little Feng is a Red Gold Phoenix. Although the Spiritual Beast Essence Boosting Pill provides Little Feng with the energy needed for growth, Little Feng’s growth cycle is still extremely long.

However, Little Feng has an instinct that when it discovers the energy it needs, it will actively ask for it.

Li Shiming learned from Little Feng that eating these insects could help Little Feng grow faster.

In front of the Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image, a complex magic rune appeared, which is the Thunder Cloud Skill, a range attack Thunder Skill.

Even though the Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image cast the Thunder Cloud Skill, it did not affect the casting of single-target Thunder and Lightning Magic—it still produced three Thunder and Lightning Magic spells each breath.

The Thunder and Lightning Magic targeted Xiong Long’s attack, striking the Thick Earth Hammer three times each breath. Although unable to attack Xiong Long’s Nascent Soul Dharma Image, it still prevented Xiong Long from leaving the defense constructed by the Thick Earth Hammer.

The four short arrows composed of ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ were fast, but the Thunder Cloud Skill’s speed was even faster; Thunder Skill naturally is the fastest attack magic.

A patch of thundercloud completely covered all the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles.’ Lightning flickered within the thundercloud, indiscriminately attacking the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles.’

After ten breaths within the Thunder Cloud Skill, not a single ’Three Gold Earth Beetle’ had died.

It was unclear whether it was due to the formation of the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ or the secret technique cast by Xiong Long, causing every ’Three Gold Earth Beetle’ to disperse all attacks among each of them when attacked.

The power of the Thunder Cloud Skill is indeed not small, but when spread among all the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ in the short arrow formation, its power became limited.

After enduring a round of attacks from the Thunder Cloud Skill, the four short arrow formation burst out of the Thunder Cloud Skill’s range.

At this moment, the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ were only a hundred meters away from the Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image, yet the Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image did not retreat, as retreating would prevent continued attacks on Xiong Long.

Xiong Long lost his suppression by Thunder and Lightning, and the previously manufactured battle results were entirely gone.

Of course, Li Shiming dared to do so because he had nothing to fear.

The Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image opened its mouth and emitted a piercing screech—this was the ’Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ mental attack secret technique.

With Li Shiming’s current status and position, there was no need to worry about any trouble anymore.

Like ’Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear,’ a technique simulating the Heavenly Demon’s cry—this secret mental attack technique was analyzed and studied from the Heavenly Demon’s cry by his life-bound magic artifact IBMz15.

Such as the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ he practiced that exhibited the power of Heavenly Thunder, having a Golden Corpse, etcetera—all were no longer secrets.

With his Nascent Soul Stage realm, casting ’Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ naturally has a different power than at the Golden Core Stage.

’Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ when cast released an invisible mental wave, rushing towards the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles.’

Within the mental wave, there were Heavenly Demon Spiritual Attack Runes simulated by the ’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique,’ and it was these runes that endowed ’Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ with its formidable power.

At the Golden Core Stage, the simulated ’Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ only had a certain resemblance, and merely resembling was enough for ’Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ to affect Golden Core cultivators.

Now, with the improvement of his realm, the data of the Heavenly Demon’s screech attack recorded by the life-bound magic artifact IBMz15 was reanalyzed, sorting out Heavenly Demon Spiritual Attack Runes and simulating them using the ’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique,’ resulting in today’s mental attack secret technique with Nascent Soul Stage power.

Compared to the inherent mental attack secret technique of ’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique,’ ’Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ is more suitable for use in battle.

The inherent mental attack secret technique of ’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique’ requires bringing the cultivator into a mental illusion, which is difficult to achieve in battle, related to his minimal experience with spirit attacks and lack of guidance from a mentor.

Even Grandmaster Hu could not offer much guidance to Li Shiming regarding ’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique’ spirit-type cultivation techniques, let alone guide Li Shiming in using ’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique’ in combat.

As a sound of ’Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ was emitted, the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ collectively halted, ceased their forward flight instantly.

’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ formation dispersed, unable to maintain its integrity after the spirit attack.

Mu Lei Nascent Soul Dharma Image then cast a spiritual illusion of ’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique’; a spirit rune descended upon the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’.

The four fourth-grade ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ struggled against the spiritual illusion of the ’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique’, but the third-grade ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ all fell into the illusion.

’Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ opened a breach in the spirit defenses of the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’, allowing ’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique’ to exploit the gap.

Li Shiming, through the spiritual energy of the ’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique’, could perceive the state of the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’.

Xiong Long also sensed the state of the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ through his spiritual contract with them.

He wanted to wake the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’, but suppressed by the Thunder and Lightning Magic, he couldn’t leave the Thick Earth Hammer’s defense.

Moreover, he was too distant from the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’, rendering most secret techniques ineffective at such a range.

Originally, he sent the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ to attack Li Shiming because once they accepted a command, they would relentlessly pursue and attack, regardless of distance, even millions of miles.

Unless commanded by Xiong Long, the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ would continue their attack.

Yet now, being too remote, he couldn’t close the distance, leaving the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ isolated and unassisted.

Just then, a subtle motion in Li Shiming’s Divine Sense released Little Feng.

Little Feng flapped its small wings, appearing beside the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’, pecking at a third-grade ’Three Gold Earth Beetle’.

The petite ’Three Gold Earth Beetle’, despite losing formation and secret technique enhancement, still maintained formidable defensive power.

But at this moment, the ’Three Gold Earth Beetle’ met its nemesis; Little Feng’s sharp beak easily pierced the body of the third-grade ’Three Gold Earth Beetle’.

This third-grade ’Three Gold Earth Beetle’ lifeless, its body was swallowed whole by Little Feng.

Then came the second third-grade ’Three Gold Earth Beetle’, one after another, consumed by Little Feng.

With each ’Three Gold Earth Beetle’ devoured, Little Feng’s internal energy increased significantly.

Little Feng’s pace of consuming insects quickened, from initially pecking them to consuming ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ directly.

Li Shiming still worried; should a ’Three Gold Earth Beetle’ survive entering Little Feng’s belly, wouldn’t there be danger?

But upon sensing Little Feng’s condition, he discovered that the ’Three Gold Earth Beetle’ was scorched by flames inside Little Feng, its soul instantly annihilated.

Witnessing the situation, he decided to leave Little Feng alone.

"What are you doing? My spiritual insects!" Xiong Long, noticing the anomaly, shouted loudly.

The ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’, through the spirit contract, remained unresponsive to him; he could sense the contract was still intact, but ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ were dying, severing the spirit contract.

The spirit contract persisted, yet regardless of his commands, the ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ ignored him.

The ’Three Gold Earth Beetles’ trapped within the spiritual illusion of ’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique’, could only be awakened remotely if Xiong Long deployed a spiritual secret technique surpassing Li Shiming’s.

But among same-stage cultivators, who could possess a stronger spirit than Li Shiming?

’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique’ was a top-tier spiritual cultivation technique, and Li Shiming, with a hundred and ninety-one brains, equivalent to each brain being a Nascent Soul cultivator of spiritual techniques, his spirit was the sum of a hundred and ninety-one Nascent Soul cultivators.