When the battle started, the golden corpse Nanming was the fastest. He suddenly appeared in front of the Emperor of the Netherworld and grabbed him with one claw.
The Netherworld Emperor, who has become a fourth-grade ghost, is far less powerful than when he had a physical body.
He even felt that even at his peak, the speed of this golden corpse was far beyond his, and he was unable to dodge this attack.
However, the golden corpse Nanming's claw only passed through the body of the Nether Emperor and did not cause much damage to him.
The Emperor of the Underworld reacted quickly and grabbed the golden corpse Nanming with the same hand.
The golden corpse Nanming flashed and returned to Li Shiming's side, making the attack of the Emperor of the Underworld fail.
The proactive attack by the Golden Corpse Nanming gave Li Shiming time to launch his thunder magic.
A bolt of lightning shot out from the void and hit the Emperor of the Underworld directly.
The Emperor of the Underworld felt the shock of his soul, and he felt threatened.
"Heavenly thunder!" His body strangely became more transparent, and at the expense of his attack power, he strengthened his immunity to various energies. This was his innate ability that he cultivated into a fourth-grade ghost.
Lightning with the attributes of heavenly thunder fell on the body of the fourth-grade ghost. The fourth-grade ghost only felt waves of tearing sensation, but his innate ability still played a role, so that the damage he suffered was still under control.
Of course, the most important point is that Li Shiming’s realm is too low. One small realm in the Nascent Soul stage is another level.
There is a huge gap between the early and middle Nascent Soul stages. If it weren't for the fact that the 'Jade Purity Thunder Code' that Li Shiming practiced had the attribute of heavenly thunder, which was exactly the nemesis of the fourth-grade ghost of the Nether Emperor, I'm afraid that even this much damage wouldn't have been done.
Li Shiming was really surprised. Although he just casually released this thunder method, it was the nemesis of the fourth-grade ghost. Even if he couldn't kill it with one strike, he should at least make the opponent suffer.
"It's useless. The stronger you are, the greater your potential is. I like this body of yours very much!" The Emperor of the Underworld made a shrill cry.
Li Shiming really wanted to tell the Emperor of the Netherworld that he only had three spiritual roots and he really couldn’t understand why he always encountered monks who wanted to take over his body.
Seeing that ordinary thunder magic could not cause any harm to the Emperor of the Netherworld, he no longer hid his methods.
He doesn't have many means to deal with the fourth-grade ghost, and his Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent is also at the power of the early Nascent Soul stage, so he can't fight across levels.
His only choice is the Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer, which is his confidence in fighting against high-level monks.
With a thought, a small thunder hammer flew out of his body.
As soon as it flew out, a terrifying aura of thunder and lightning suddenly filled the entire space.
The weapon of weapon robbery originally has a super-level effect, not to mention the bonus of the natal magic weapon, which makes the power of the sky-strike thunder hammer increase again.
The Emperor of the Underworld knew that something was wrong immediately after Li Shiming sacrificed his Heavenly Thunder Hammer.
Although he didn't know what kind of magic weapon the Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer was, just based on the power displayed by the Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer and Lei Xiu's thunder magic, he, who was only a barely fourth-grade ghost, really couldn't resist it.
Fortunately, this is his home ground, and he has arranged life-saving measures here, otherwise he might really be killed here.
As he thought about it, he began to disperse the body of the fourth-grade ghost, splitting it into one hundred parts and flying to one hundred locations respectively.
His cave was not built in a random location. He discovered a space crack here that year, and cold energy continuously flowed in from the space crack.
He built a cave here and used the cold and yin energy to set up the formation here.
He divided the fourth-grade ghost into one hundred parts, and the one hundred locations they entered were exactly the one hundred nodes of the formation.
There is a space crack below this formation. When he enters the node of the formation, it is basically equivalent to entering the space crack.
Of course, it is not really entering the space crack, but relying on the formation to draw part of the power of the space crack into the formation.
Unless Li Shiming has the power to tear through the space cracks, he will not be able to harm these one hundred clones.
This is the important reason why the Emperor of the Underworld dared to set a trap here. As long as no great monk came, he was confident that he could escape with his life.
In other words, below the level of a great cultivator, he is equivalent to an immortal body in this cave.
Li Shiming activated the Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer and mobilized the spiritual power in his body to flow into the Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer. However, he felt a little overwhelmed in just a moment because the Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer required too much spiritual power.
He has now stabilized in the early stage of the Nascent Soul, and with the spiritual power provided by five Nascent Souls, he is able to use the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer.
He discovered that using the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer once consumed one tenth of the total spiritual energy in his body. He had anticipated this, but he did not expect it to consume so much.
If you want a magic weapon to be powerful, it will consume more, this is inevitable.
This is still the early stage of Nascent Soul. When he advances to the middle and late stages of Nascent Soul and uses the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer again, the spiritual power consumed will increase many times.
"When you are together, you may be able to block my attack. You are seeking death now!" Li Shiming found that the Emperor of the Underworld had dispersed and hid in the nodes of the formation. He could not help but say in a deep voice.
The Emperor of the Underworld did not answer him. He did not want to explain more.
This enemy was too terrifying, and the Nether Emperor did not want to be so talkative as to cause Li Shiming to guess that there was a space crack behind the formation.
In fact, Li Shiming did not find any spatial cracks. The formation inheritance of the Nether Emperor belonged to the Yanri Sect, which was as famous as the Wanshou Sect. The formation inheritance was not the same system as what Li Shiming had learned.
In addition, the formation that the Emperor of the Netherworld was looking for was a formation that he had spent many years researching and consulting countless formation masters to develop. It was a formation specifically used for space cracks.
This formation has developed the capabilities of space rifts very thoroughly, and can be considered the ceiling among fourth-grade formations.
This kind of formation not only requires calculation, but also requires knowledge of its operating principles in order to deduce it.
My life-long magic weapon IBMz15 has been calculating since entering this space, but it has not produced any results because it does not know the operating principle. This is another formation system, and it is different from all the knowledge in the Formation Starlight Sea.
The Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer emitted a golden light, and in an instant it was like a huge sun across the sky. Then the huge sun produced a thick pillar of light, but the light pillar contained no flames, but thick lightning.
With a "boom", lightning struck the ground.
This was the first time that the Heavenly Thunder Hammer was used in actual combat, but to Li Shiming's disappointment, the seemingly terrifying blow did not even create a small hole on the ground.
All the power of thunder and lightning was blocked by a simple formation.
He had imagined that at least half of the Netherworld Emperor's clones would be killed, but not a single one was affected. Not to mention being killed, not even one was injured.
Li Shiming couldn't quite believe it. According to his estimation, the full force of the Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer was definitely beyond the attack of the early Nascent Soul stage.
And such attacks cannot harm the Emperor of the Netherworld.
However, his attack was not completely ineffective. At least it allowed his life-saving magic weapon IBMz15 to analyze some clues.
At the moment when the lightning came into contact with the formation, a strong spatial fluctuation was generated, and it was this spatial fluctuation that made the power of the lightning disappear.
Although he didn't know where the spatial fluctuations came from, with the help of his lifelong magic weapon IBM z15, it was like adding an important hint to a math problem, making the calculation much easier.
He did not attack again, as he could see that the Nether Emperor, hiding in this state, had no power to fight back.
It seems that the Emperor of the Underworld intends to waste time with him like this. The space here is wrapped in a formation. The formation contains some kind of spatial energy that makes it impossible to use the divine foot ability, and it is also impossible to break the formation by force.
The Emperor of the Underworld is willing to waste time, but he is not.
He suspended the Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer in the air and stood on it.
"Don't waste your time. This space will soon be filled with cold energy. Even if you can hold on, can you last a hundred years? When you can't hold on, your body will still be mine!" The harsh voice of the Emperor of the Underworld appeared simultaneously from all directions of the space.
The sounds emitted simultaneously by one hundred fourth-grade ghost clones made the space even more eerie.
Li Shiming did feel that the cold and yin energy was increasing in the space. Perhaps it would not be long before the spiritual energy would be expelled from the space, leaving only the cold and yin energy.
The cold and yin energy is only suitable for the survival of creatures like corpses and ghosts. Human monks need a spiritual environment, and in a cold and yin environment they need to consume spiritual power to protect themselves.
"You think too much!" Li Shiming said lightly.
At this time, my life magic weapon IBMz15 has almost analyzed the formation and is building a formation model.
Indeed, this formation is too advanced, and it is another formation system. However, after understanding the purpose of the formation and knowing the spatial energy utilized by the formation, many things that were confusing became clear.
Furthermore, no matter how the formation system changes, its essence will not change. It's just that without knowledge of the system, the amount of calculation will increase to a level that ordinary formation masters cannot imagine.
But as long as IBMz15 is given time, its computing power can calculate amounts beyond the imagination of any cultivator in the world of immortal cultivation.
A formation model appeared in Li Shiming's mind, and he already understood many aspects of the formation.
He had a way to figure out how the formation worked and how to enter it, but the only trouble was that he found that the spatial energy at the formation's nodes could only accommodate a third-grade life form.
But even if a fourth-grade ghost is divided into one hundred parts, any one of them is much stronger than a normal third-grade life.
This is a ghost, one of the most difficult creatures to deal with.
In just a moment, he thought of a solution and a smile appeared on his face.
He moved his mind slightly, and the Sky Ghost appeared in the space from the computer room.
The Sky Ghost is invisible. Its invisibility ability belongs to the Sky Demon, and it has been tested in the cave of the powerful Zhai Ge. A fourth-grade ghost cannot discover the Sky Ghost.
Indeed, the appearance of the Heavenly Ghost was not discovered by the Emperor of the Underworld.
Li Shiming controlled the Sky Ghost with his consciousness and flew towards the ground. When approaching the ground, the Sky Ghost flew in from one direction, and then flexibly changed several directions in succession before it actually entered the formation.
The Heavenly Ghost pounced into one of the formation nodes and connected with Li Shiming's perception, allowing Li Shiming to discover the situation inside the formation node.
This is almost another space, filled with strange cold energy, and the space is extremely unstable, as if it would collapse if there was any movement.
The space inside the array node is not large, less than one cube, and is irregular.
The Heavenly Ghost came behind the clone of the fourth-grade ghost of the Nether Emperor, opened his mouth wide, and swallowed the clone into his stomach in one gulp.
"What did you do?" The Emperor of the Underworld exclaimed.
Just now, one of his one hundred clones suddenly lost contact and disappeared without any warning.
But the clone is located at the node of the formation, which is absolutely safe.
Only third-grade creatures can enter. Even if Li Shiming cracks the formation, he can only use third-grade creatures to enter the node to attack his clone.
But with the strength of the clone, no third-grade creature can defeat it.
But the fact is that it happened. One of the clones disappeared inexplicably, and even the Emperor of the Underworld himself couldn't believe it.
This time it was Li Shiming's turn to not bother to pay attention to him. Anyway, the Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer was ready to go in the air. As long as the Emperor of the Underworld dared to come out, he would be killed with the Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer.
The Emperor of the Underworld also understood this. He could only hope that the missing clone had nothing to do with Li Shiming, but that there was a problem with the space crack.
Just as he was thinking about it, another clone lost contact.
The Heavenly Ghost is enjoying the food. Yes, for the Heavenly Ghost, the fourth-grade ghost took the initiative to divide itself into one hundred parts and reduced its strength to the third grade, which is equivalent to cutting itself into pieces that are just right for the Heavenly Ghost to enjoy.
The Sky Ghost devours very quickly. It moves quickly through every node in the formation. Once it enters, it pounces on it and devours the clone in one gulp.
The clone was completely unable to detect the existence of the Heavenly Ghost, and it was too late after being swallowed. Once swallowed into the Heavenly Ghost's belly, it would be instantly shattered by the Heavenly Ghost. The energy did not need to be digested immediately but stored first.
"Stop now, spare me, I have a big treasure to give you!" The Emperor of the Underworld was anxious, and he begged for mercy loudly.
In just this short period of time, he has lost more than half of his clones, and he still doesn't know what destroyed them.
Even though he was a disciple of the Yanri Sect, he had never heard of such a strange method.
How could Li Shiming stop? This was an opportunity for the Heavenly Ghost. Otherwise, where would Li Shiming find so much ghost energy for the Heavenly Ghost?
Tiangui is his important helper, and can always produce unexpectedly powerful effects at critical moments.
Now that he has advanced to the Nascent Soul stage, the Heavenly Ghost also needs to reach the fourth level before it can continue to help him.
As for the great treasure, he just listened to it. He didn't believe that there was any great treasure. If there really was a great treasure, why didn't the Emperor of the Underworld go and dig it himself?
"I still have the inherited skills of the Yanri Sect. If you leave me with a life, I will be willing to copy it for you!" Seeing that he could not impress Li Shiming, the Emperor of the Netherworld changed his condition.