Cultivation is just so scientific!

He arrived nearby and immediately sensed the eerie atmosphere at the scene.

He saw the corpses on the ground and the 'Cloud Stepping Order' that no one dared to approach.

Then he discovered the formation set up by Li Shiming, which was not some profound formation, just a simple concealment formation.

"Lai Da, Lai Er, what happened here?" The Great Elder asked Lai Yuan and Lai Li.

From his address, it could be heard that this Great Elder was an old acquaintance of Lai Yuan and Lai Li.

"Fellow Daoist Wei, that one over there is the Thunder Cultivation Great Elder, who just snatched a 'Cloud Stepping Order'!" Lai Yuan pointed to Li Shiming's location and replied.

Upon seeing Elder Wei Long, Lai Yuan regained his courage against Li Shiming.

Li Shiming was no longer the strongest presence here; with Elder Wei Long to counter him, Li Shiming would be less unscrupulous.

"Thunder Cultivation Great Elder, which sect's core disciple is this again?" Elder Wei Long distanced himself from Li Shiming, chose a place to sit, and muttered to himself.

His soliloquy was somewhat loud, meant for Li Shiming to hear, to see his reaction.

Upon hearing that Li Shiming was the Thunder Cultivation Great Elder, Elder Wei Long lost the desire to battle.

If the Thunder Cultivation Great Elder couldn't be killed instantly, it would become very troublesome.

Seeing that Li Shiming did not respond or emerge from the formation, he looked into the distance.

Two more figures were approaching, and when they became clear, they were a Great Elder and a Third Grade Blade Mantis Spiritual Pet.

"Fellow Daoist Gong You, long time no see, there's actually a chance to compete for fortune with you this time!" Elder Wei Long greeted with a smile.

"Fellow Daoist Wei Long, long time no see!" Elder Gong You nodded with a smile, but when he saw Lai Yuan and Lai Li, his smile faded: "Lai's twins, I hope to meet you in the Grotto Heaven!"

"Gong, in the Grotto Heaven encounter, who knows who will kill whom!" Lai Yuan replied coldly.

But his actions were honest, as he and Lai Li moved aside, widening the distance between them and Elder Gong You.

"Just missing the monk from Lianhua Temple, the three of us are complete, seems like this time it's a competition between us two for the fortune!" Elder Gong You glanced around and said with a smile to Elder Wei Long.

He did not regard Lai's twins, being the Great Elder of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, his strength was equivalent to two Great Elders.

The only one he considered a match was Elder Wei Long from the Taichu Sect.

"There's also a Thunder Cultivation Great Elder over there, his temper isn't good!" Lai Yuan pointed to Li Shiming's location.

"Noisy!" Li Shiming's voice rang out.

He could no longer tolerate the continuous provocation from Lai Yuan.

Having reached the Great Elder realm, after reading numerous insights on advancing to the Nascent Soul Stage, although he hadn't truly advanced, he learned some useful information.

Reaching the Great Elder realm required acting with as much recklessness as possible and releasing one's emotions.

He certainly couldn't do this within the sect, and he came out this time to seek opportunities for advancement to the Nascent Soul Stage. Faced with Lai Yuan's repeated provocations aimed to estrange him from other Great Elders, how could he tolerate it further?

A bolt of lightning fell from the sky, and before Li Shiming made a sound, he had prepared the Thunder Fall Skill in advance.

With his spirit reaching the Great Elder realm, the distance at which he could cast the Thunder Fall Skill far exceeded ordinary cultivators' imaginations. The safe distance Lai Yuan imagined was still within the attack range of the Thunder Fall Skill.

When Lai Yuan sensed the thunder above his head, the only thing he could do was activate his life-saving means, and a Third Grade Ghost Soul appeared above his head.

The Third Grade Ghost Soul was the Lifebound Ghost of his cultivation method, capable of instantaneously dodging most attacks, even spell attacks, evading more than seventy percent. The remaining power could be blocked by the robe and Spiritual Power Pattern shield on him.

He didn't want to use the Third Grade Lifebound Ghost, but Li Shiming's attack was too sudden; the thunder sounded in the sky, but the actual attack was faster than the sound, making it impossible to do anything else.

"Ah!" When the thunder struck the Third Grade Lifebound Ghost, Lai Yuan and the Third Grade Lifebound Ghost let out a simultaneous scream.

Because Li Shiming had personally endured one hundred and ninety times of Heavenly Thunder, his cultivation of the 'Yuqing Thunder Scripture' acquired the characteristics of Heavenly Thunder.

And Heavenly Thunder is a natural nemesis of ghosts.

Even though this Third Grade Lifebound Ghost had specific immunity abilities due to Lai Yuan's cultivation technique, allowing it to evade most attacks, the properties of Heavenly Thunder were neither evadable nor avoidable.

If Heavenly Thunder could be evaded using methods, then undergoing tribulation wouldn't be the most perilous thing.

The Third Grade Lifebound Ghost being one with Lai Yuan, when it was struck by Heavenly Thunder, it was almost instantly dispersed, causing a severe shock to Lai Yuan's soul.

It wasn't over yet, the dropping thunder hadn't dissipated and its aftershock hit Lai Yuan's body.

Light flickered on Lai Yuan's body, activating his autonomous defensive talisman, a life-saving means for cultivators of major sects.

The autonomous defensive talisman blocked the Thunder Drop but didn't last even half a breath before its defense was broken.

The final sparks of the Thunder Drop fell on Lai Yuan's body. Though losing most of its power, it didn't cause Lai Yuan to fall on the spot, it still made him completely paralyzed, unable to move for a while.

Not yet detached from the shadow of death, Lai Yuan sensed another flash of lightning appearing in the sky.

"It's over!" he thought, but it was already too late, another Thunder Fall Skill fell from the sky.

As Lai Yuan was attacked, Lai Li, not far from him, was just ready to assist but stopped when seeing the Thunder Fall attack with Heavenly Thunder aura.

Being a Devil Cultivator, he had means to counter Thunder Cultivators, not too afraid of the Thunder Cultivators' Thunder Skill.

But this didn't include Heavenly Thunder. Heavenly Thunder is the bane of all evil, or perhaps beyond just evil, as all living beings inherently fear Heavenly Thunder.

Heavenly Thunder is the Heaven and Earth Rules' means of judgment. The Thunder Fall cast by Li Shiming, with Third Grade Heavenly Thunder, might not be much against Nascent Soul Cultivators, but was enough of a threat to Golden Core cultivators.

Lai Li hesitated for a moment, two Thunder Falls almost consecutively fell, and Lai Yuan turned into charcoal, no longer breathing.

Fear appeared in Lai Li's eyes, and a talisman appeared in his hand, transforming into starlight, enveloping his body.

With his body turning into rainbow light with spots of starlight enveloping him, he fled to the distance at lightning speed.

Li Shiming did not chase Lai Li; to kill Lai Li, who used an escape-type life-saving talisman, he would have to use the Divine Foot Skill to catch up. He didn't want to expose his trump card in front of a group of cultivators just to kill an irrelevant cultivator.

With a sweep of his Divine Thought, he picked up Lai Yuan's Space Ring on the ground. Although all cultivators knew that as a cultivator of the Sun Concealing Sect, Lai Yuan's Space Ring must contain many valuable items, not one dared to snatch it.

All cultivators, including Wei Long and Gong You, the two Great Elders, were stunned.

It was already shocking for Li Shiming to kill a Late-stage Golden Core cultivator with one strike, but compared to instantly killing Lai Yuan, a major sect's Late-stage Golden Core cultivator, it was even more astonishing.

Elder Gong You exchanged glances with Elder Wei Long, mutually drawing closer to each other.

If Li Shiming were to strike again, they had already decided to join forces against him.

The sharpness of Li Shiming's attack as a Thunder Cultivator was undeniable to both Great Elders—it was too fierce, to the extent that the two of them, the Great Elders, were perturbed.

It was simply inconceivable for the Heavenly Thunder feature to appear in the Thunder Fall Skill attack, which wasn't supposed to happen.

Is it possible to dodge the Heavenly Thunder? If so, then facing tribulations wouldn't be the most dangerous ordeal.

The Third Grade Lifebound Ghost was one with Lai Yuan, and when it was struck by Heavenly Thunder, it was almost instantly dispersed, which caused a massive shock to Lai Yuan's soul.

And before he could even react to anything else, Lai Yuan noticed another flash in the sky.

"Annoying!" Li Shiming's voice rang out.

Tired of being provoked by Lai Yuan, he could no longer bear it.