There is an absolute difference in combat power between a middle-stage Jindan cultivator and a late-stage Jindan cultivator.
Only the elite mid-stage Jindan cultivators who are focused on being trained by large sects can fight against opponents of higher levels thanks to their more powerful skills and magic weapons.
But that was just a battle with an ordinary late Jindan cultivator. If he encountered a late Jindan cultivator from the same large sect, he would still not be able to defeat him.
The higher the realm, the more difficult it is to fight against opponents of higher levels.
There are very few cultivators like Li Shiming who can fight against opponents of higher levels at an early age. He is able to do so with the help of his natal magic weapon IBMz15.
So when the two late Jindan cultivators who were fighting changed their attack targets at the same time and attacked the two middle Jindan cultivators, the defense of the middle Jindan cultivators who were not prepared was broken in an instant.
After two screams, two mid-stage Jindan cultivators were killed.
The two late Jindan cultivators smiled and walked forward to collect the spoils. They stopped fighting and stood side by side.
"You two should get out of here quickly. You will die if you stay!" One of the late Jindan cultivators said coldly to the remaining two middle Jindan cultivators.
The two middle-stage Jindan cultivators would not give up the opportunity to enter the Green Field Cave Heaven just because of his words.
They just distanced themselves from all the late Jindan cultivators, fearing that they would suffer the same fate as the two middle Jindan cultivators just now.
"Give me a Cloud-Stepping Order!" Li Shiming stood up and spoke to the two late Jindan cultivators who were collecting the spoils.
After seeing two late Jindan cultivators each find a Stepping Cloud Order from the corpses, he thought of giving one of the Stepping Cloud Orders to his clone Li Yuanba.
"What?" The late Jindan cultivator was obviously stunned when he heard Li Shiming's words.
He didn't expect that there were obviously two late Jindan cultivators joining forces on his side. Moreover, after they had just killed two middle Jindan cultivators, there were still cultivators who dared to make such a request.
When he saw that it was Li Shiming who was speaking, his expression changed.
If they were alone and Li Shiming asked for a useless Stepping Cloud Order, he would definitely agree and immediately take it out and give it to Li Shiming.
But if he were to hand over the Stepping Cloud Order at the mere words of Li Shiming in front of so many cultivators, he would lose face.
"Fellow Daoist, if you want the Stepping Cloud Order, there are so many cultivators here, you can ask anyone you want. Why do you have to ask me for it?" He exchanged a glance with his companion and replied while being cautious and alert.
"Why are you talking so much nonsense!" Li Shiming could sense that the reaction of the Stepping Cloud Order was getting bigger and bigger. It seemed that the Green Field Cave Heaven would be opened soon, he said in a deep voice.
As he spoke, a bolt of lightning from his hand flew towards the late Jindan cultivator who was speaking.
The late Jindan cultivator, who had been prepared, took out a defensive magic weapon and held it in front of him. Before he could say anything, the lightning hit the defensive magic weapon.
All the Jindan cultivators present heard a "crack" sound, and their eyes tightened.
They saw that the defensive magic weapon of the late Jindan cultivator was hit by the lightning and was blown away like an ordinary object, and the defensive magic weapon turned into pieces halfway.
After hitting the defensive magic weapon, a beam of lightning shot towards the late Jindan cultivator. This time, the late Jindan cultivator had no defense and was hit directly.
The body of the late Jindan cultivator stiffened. He felt the destructive lightning circulating in his body. His life force was quickly extinguished.
He wanted to scream, but he couldn't open his mouth.
"This is thunder from the sky!" What he wanted to shout out was heard by Li Shiming's telepathy.
Unfortunately, apart from Li Shiming, no other cultivator knew what the late Jindan cultivator wanted to express.
Li Shiming's body turned into lightning and appeared next to a late Jindan cultivator. He took off his space ring and grabbed the jade ruler magic weapon that had fallen to the ground.
He found two Stepping Cloud Orders from the space ring, and nodded with satisfaction after looking at them.
Apart from his actions, no other cultivators in the entire area dared to move, for fear of causing him to misunderstanding.
A late Jindan cultivator, who had just shown impressive combat power, was killed by Li Shiming with just a casual blow.
This impact was too great for these late Jindan cultivators.
Li Shiming's figure flashed and he returned to the big rock before. He took out several third-grade formation flags and threw them beside him.
Soon his figure was obscured by the formation, and the other Jindan cultivators could no longer see him.
This kind of hidden formation was arranged randomly, and one could sense it with divine sense. However, seeing what Li Shiming had just done, how could any cultivator dare to disturb him?
This was exactly the effect he wanted. He summoned his clone Li Yuanba and handed a 'Treading Cloud Order' to Li Yuanba.
Under the eyes of a group of Jindan monks, Li Shiming and Li Yuanba were waiting for the opening of the Green Field Cave.
The companion of the deceased late Jindan cultivator threw the extra 'Treading Cloud Order' on the ground and moved away from it.
The rest of the Jindan cultivators didn't care about the 'Taoyun Order' on the ground. They all had their own 'Taoyun Order' and didn't want to offend the killing god Li Shiming because of a useless 'Taoyun Order'.
"It seems that I am late!" A figure was approaching from afar, and the aura of the great elder could be sensed from a long distance.
He came closer and immediately sensed the eerie atmosphere at the scene.
He saw the corpse on the ground and the "Cloud-Stepping Order" that no one had approached.
Then he discovered the formation set up by Li Shiming. It was not a sophisticated formation, but just a simple hidden formation.
"Lai Da and Lai Er, what happened here?" the great elder asked Lai Yuan and Lai Li.
From the address, it can be heard that this great elder is an old acquaintance of Lai Yuan and Lai Li.
"Fellow Daoist Wei, that person over there is Great Elder Lei Xiu, he just grabbed a piece of 'Treading Cloud Order'!" Lai Yuan replied, pointing at Li Shiming's position.
After seeing Great Elder Wei Long, his courage against Li Shiming returned.
Li Shiming is no longer the most powerful person here. With the presence of Elder Wei Long who can fight against Li Shiming, Li Shiming will at least not be so reckless.
"Great Elder Lei Xiu, which sect's core disciple are you?" Great Elder Wei Long distanced himself from Li Shiming, chose a place to sit down, and muttered to himself.
He spoke to himself a little loudly, for Li Shiming to hear, wanting to see Li Shiming's reaction.
After hearing that Li Shiming was Great Elder Lei Xiu, Great Elder Wei Long lost the idea of fighting him.
It would be very troublesome if Great Elder Lei Xiu could not be killed immediately.
Seeing that Li Shiming did not respond and did not come out of the formation, he looked into the distance.
Two more figures were approaching. When I could see the two figures clearly, I found that they were a great elder and a third-grade blade mantis spirit pet.
"Fellow Daoist Gong You, it's been a long time since we last met. This time I actually have the chance to compete with you for an opportunity!" Great Elder Wei Long greeted him with a smile.
“Daoyou Wei Long, it’s been a long time since we last met!” Great Elder Gong You nodded with a smile. After seeing Lai Yuan and Lai Li, he stopped smiling and said, “Lai’s two evil men, I hope to see you in the cave!”
"The man surnamed Gong met in the cave, and it's still unknown who killed whom!" Lai Yuan replied coldly.
But his actions were honest. He and Lai Li moved to the side for a distance, increasing the distance between them and Great Elder Gong You.
"Except for the monks from the Lotus Temple, our three families are complete. It seems that this time we two will have to compete for the opportunity!" Great Elder Gong You glanced around and said to Great Elder Wei Long with a smile.
He did not take the two Lai family villains seriously. As the grand elder of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, his combat power was equal to that of two grand elders.
The only person he considered as a rival was the great elder Wei Long from the Taichu Sect.
"There's a great elder named Lei Xiu over there, and he has a bad temper!" Lai Yuan said, pointing at Li Shiming's position.
"Shut up!" Li Shiming's voice rang out.
He didn't want to put up with Lai Yuan anymore who kept provoking him.
When he reached the level of a great elder, he read a lot of experiences of being promoted to the Nascent Soul stage. Although he did not actually advance to the Nascent Soul stage, he still learned some useful information.
When one reaches the level of a great elder, one needs to be as willful as possible and release one's emotions.
Naturally, he did not have the conditions for this in the sect. He came out this time to seek an opportunity to advance to the Nascent Soul stage. He encountered Lai Yuan's repeated provocations, who wanted to make him fall out with the other great elders. How could he endure it any longer?
A bolt of lightning fell from the sky. Before Li Shiming made any sound, he had already prepared the lightning spell.
With his spirit having reached the realm of a great elder, the distance at which he could cast the thunder spell was far beyond the imagination of ordinary cultivators. The safe distance that Lai Yuan considered was still within the attack range of the thunder spell.
When Lai Yuan felt the lightning falling on his head, the only thing he could do was to activate his life-saving means, and a third-grade ghost appeared above his head.
The third-grade ghost is his natal ghost for practicing martial arts. It has the ability to dodge most attacks instantly, even spell attacks, more than 70% of them can be dodged. The remaining power can be blocked by his robe and his own spiritual shield.
He didn't want to use the third-grade natal ghost, but Li Shiming's attack was too sudden. Thunder sounded in the air, but the real attack was faster than the sound, and there was really no way to make any other reaction.
"Ah!" When the lightning struck the third-grade natal ghost, Lai Yuan and the third-grade natal ghost screamed at the same time.
Li Shiming's thunder magic was due to his personal experience of 190 thunders from heaven, which gave the 'Yuqing Thunder Canon' he practiced the properties of thunder from heaven.
And heavenly thunder is the natural nemesis of ghosts.
Even though this third-grade natal ghost had a special immunity ability due to Lai Yuan's martial arts, and could be immune to most attacks, the characteristics of the heavenly thunder were such that it could not be immuned or avoided.
If the heavenly thunder could be dodged, then surviving the calamity would not be the most dangerous thing.
The third-grade natal ghost and Lai Yuan are one and the same. After the third-grade natal ghost was hit by the heavenly thunder, it was almost instantly shattered, which also caused a great impact on Lai Yuan's soul.
This is not over yet. The lightning has not yet dissipated, and the aftermath hit Lai Yuan's body.
There was a flash of light on Lai Yuan's body, which was activating his autonomous defense talisman. As a cultivator from a large sect, he all had some means of preserving his life.
The self-defense talisman blocked the falling lightning, but it didn't even last half a breath before the defense was broken.
The last flash of lightning fell on Lai Yuan. Since it had lost most of its power, Lai Yuan did not die on the spot. However, it made Lai Yuan's body stiff and unable to move for a while.
Lai Yuan had not yet escaped from the shadow of death, he sensed another flash of light in the sky.
"It's over!" he thought in his mind, but it was too late, another lightning spell fell from the sky.
When Lai Yuan was attacked, Lai Li, who was not far away, was about to help. However, when he saw that it was a lightning attack with the aura of heavenly thunder, Lai Li stopped.
As a demon cultivator, he has the means to fight against thunder cultivators and is not too afraid of their thunder magic.
But this does not include heavenly thunder, which is the nemesis of all evil. Perhaps not only evil, but all living beings will instinctively fear heavenly thunder.
Heavenly thunder is a means of punishment according to the rules of heaven and earth. Among the falling thunder cast by Li Shiming, the heavenly thunder is of the third grade. It may be of no use to Nascent Soul cultivators, but it is still very threatening to Golden Core cultivators.
Lai Li hesitated for only a moment, and two bolts of lightning struck almost immediately, turning Lai Yuan into charcoal without a single breath.
A look of fear appeared in Lai Li's eyes. A talisman appeared in his hand, and the talisman turned into starlight that wrapped around his body.
His body turned into a rainbow light along with the starlight and fled into the distance at the speed of lightning.
Li Shiming did not chase after Lai Li. If he wanted to kill Lai Li, who used a life-saving talisman to escape, he could only use his divine feet to catch up with him. He did not want to expose his trump card in front of a group of monks just to kill an insignificant monk.
With his divine sense, he grabbed Lai Yuan's space ring on the ground. Although all the cultivators knew that as a cultivator of the Yanri Sect, Lai Yuan must have a lot of good things in his space ring, no cultivator dared to snatch it.
All the monks, including the two great elders Wei Long and Gong You, were shocked.
To say that Li Shiming had killed a late Jindan cultivator with one strike had shocked all the cultivators, but compared to his instant killing of Lai Yuan, a late Jindan cultivator from a large sect, it shocked them even more.
Great Elder Gong You's eyes met with Great Elder Wei Long's, and they moved closer to each other.
If Li Shiming makes another move, they have decided to join forces to fight against Li Shiming.
The main reason was that the attack of Li Shiming, the thunder cultivator, was too sharp, so sharp that it frightened the two great elders.
Although they are much stronger than Lai Yuan, they cannot guarantee that they can withstand the terrifying thunder spell. The thunder spell that contains heavenly thunder should not appear at all.
Could it be that this thunder cultivator used heavenly thunder to cultivate? He actually made his own lightning contain the power of heavenly thunder. How could he resist such lightning?