Refining the Heavenly Way

The opponent underestimated Li Shiwei, having already guessed that she would be very strong.

After all, how could someone who can produce that kind of technology not be strong?

So from the very beginning, they were prepared to gang up on Li Shiwei with all four of them!

The four of them emerged together, unleashing their full Martial Way Divine Intent.

This is a necessary battle. The technology that Li Shiwei brought is not just a simple 'innovation'. If it is fully promoted, it will destroy the world's original technological system.

It's like the arrival of alien technology from the heavens, which completely destroyed Earth's electronic technology. If we don't stop it, the future 'path' of civilization will be completely distorted by this new technology.

Therefore, they must ban the spread of this technology.

Although many of the local Rank 7 members support technological advancement, they feel that... this is wrong, this is digging up the roots, so taking action against Li Shiwei became the best choice under duress.

Seeing the gleam of their swords, Li Shiwei's eyes widened in surprise.

Because... the Martial Way Divine Intent of the four people is exactly the same.

They were all white phantoms, exuding an aura of protection.

This is absolutely impossible in the world.

The martial arts of the world place great emphasis on self-discipline. Martial arts require an extremely strong and unwavering Dao heart, because once the Martial Way Divine Intent is condensed, martial artists have no reference point at all.

There are no obvious ranks in martial arts; they are classified entirely by combat strength. If you can kill a fifth-rank martial artist, then you are a fifth-rank martial artist. It's that simple.

The reason is still unclear, but Li Qi speculated that it might be because the essence of Martial Dao Inner Qi is extremely noble, so there is no need to improve one's own essence; what they cultivate is only power.

Therefore, in order to master this sublime essence that far exceeds their own cultivation level, they need an extremely firm Dao heart, the kind of heart of a martial artist that remains unmoved even after countless calamities and dares to throw a punch even in the face of the Azure Heaven.

But this time is different; all these people's martial arts are cut from the same mold.

This reminded Li Shiwei of her observations of martial arts in this world a few years ago. She discovered that they all imitated the divine intent within their Cultivation Method, trying to align themselves with the Cultivation Method, rather than using their own divine intent to guide their own Dao Path. (See Chapter 550 for details)

This must be why this Seventh Rank World can produce so many seventh-rank cultivators at once, right? No wonder martial arts practitioners in this world have such low status, unlike mentors and priests.

"In that case, what's the difference between one and four?" Li Shiwei thought to herself.

Four of them are the same, so what?

When the quantity doesn't create a qualitative difference, the key to a coordinated attack is to catch the opponent off guard. After all, two fists can't fight four hands, and you can't stop the ones in front.

In a battle between cultivators of similar cultivation levels, the most important thing is the mind. One must use keen eyesight and knowledge to find the element of mutual restraint. The greatest chance of victory lies in grasping the opponent's weaknesses and finding a way to counter them.

Therefore, the most powerful aspect of ganging up is that you find the foothold of one person but not the foothold of the second. Even if you find both, you have to use two different methods to deal with them, which doubles the pressure of the battle.

With one more person, the increase will double.

But now, the four of them are exactly the same, even their Martial Way Divine Intent is exactly the same.

In this situation, the siege would be ineffective. Li Shiwei only needs to find a foothold to easily deal with four people!

The way we fight in this world is too outdated.

But her talisman array stirred the earth's energy, causing the surrounding terrain to change, mountains to crumble and the earth to split, like an earthquake of magnitude eight.

Li Shiwei's grand formation rose up. These were fifth-grade handwritten talismans. Each one could be drawn out individually and have its own unique effect. With tens of thousands of talismans, they could handle tens of thousands of different situations. There were at least twenty kinds of antidotes alone. At least there was no poison that Shen Shuibi knew she couldn't deal with.

The method commonly used by Li Shiwei involves setting up a large array with talismans. This was a method that Shen Shuibi had already set up. Rabbit is a master of array formations, and this was a carefully configured combination array. One set of talismans is one array base, which is enough for Li Shiwei to fight against ordinary seventh-rank opponents.

At the same time, she used the orthodox landscape formations she learned from her father to take advantage of the terrain.

In this way, she even easily suppressed four identical seventh-rank cultivators!

A thunderclap exploded, and thunder roared! Dust and smoke billowed all around.

The four martial artists were tightly entangled by talismans, Thunder Method, fire magic, and water magic, and could not break free.

If a martial artist cannot get close, then they cannot unleash their power.

If it were a martial artist from across the land, they might be able to charge up, but these natives had absolutely no idea how to make a rapid advance.

No, they have it.

However... the skills they possessed were not fast enough for Li Shiwei, who came from a prominent family.

Fire magic descended from the sky, and real fire spread for dozens of miles, turning the earth into glass. The villager was half-submerged in the sea of fire, and the intense heat caused his skin to peel off, giving off the smell of roasted meat.

However, for a seventh-rank official, such an injury is common. The skin heals quickly, and although the pain will not lessen, it will not affect movement.

At that moment, thunder roared down from the sky!

The privates moved swiftly and moved with incredible speed. Even when thunder crashed to the ground, causing it to tremble and collapse, it could not harm them in the slightest. However, they were unable to break into Li Shiwei's great formation.

The formation has three layers of defense.

The outermost layer of Technique Method consists of water magic, Thunder Method, and fire magic that stretch for dozens of miles.

The main body of the formation is in the middle, and it requires overcoming the obstacles of mountains and rivers.

At the very back is a row of high-level protective talismans, as solid as a rock.

Li Shiwei felt that everything was foolproof.

However, the four people exchanged a glance.

Immediately afterwards, the four of them forced their way through, trading injury for an opportunity, and regrouped.

Countless Technique Method followed closely behind, and a beam of light exploded beside them!

Unable to avoid it, one of the four lost his balance and fell to the ground, his calf slightly bumped, instantly turning his entire leg into a bloody mess.

With the support of the formation, Li Shiwei was fully capable of exerting the power of a seventh-rank official, and a standard seventh-rank official of the highest order, which was enough to kill these opponents.

However, losing only one leg was not enough to stop the seventh-rank martial artist's actions. He rolled on the ground to avoid the follow-up strikes of the lightning, and dragged his crippled leg, he managed to catch up with the other three, using all his strength to resist the surrounding Technique Method!

Li Shiwei's first level of Technique Method has a range of tens of miles and can deal with four people at the same time. However, the large range means that the effort of a unit within a certain range is only enough to stop one person.

Now, with one person risking their life to block, the other three freed up their hands to force their way through!

Li Shiwei frowned slightly and quickened her attack.

Soon, the remaining seventh-rank native died on the spot, but his death caused the others to move twenty-seven miles closer to Li Shiwei, about one hundred meters away from entering the second layer of the formation.

Normally, even if they strolled slowly, it would only take them a second to cover 100 meters.

But now, those 100 meters are like an insurmountable chasm!

However, Li Shiwei, the one who created this formidable barrier, did not believe that it could be blocked.

"This is troublesome..." Li Shiwei's expression was gloomy, and she immediately deactivated the external Technique Method group.

Since Technique Method can no longer stop it, we should conserve our Law Power and strengthen the formation.

Even for her, if she had faced the situation just now, she would have needed luck to survive. It's easy to imagine how terrifying the attack those four people had just faced was.

Even so, these martial artists still carried their companions on their backs as they advanced!

That's right, they used a relay method, with one person dragging the others forward at all costs to avoid being subjected to widespread bombardment. In this way, one life after another was sent into the formation.

The formation contains countless talismans and the main body of the mountain and water formation.

Li Shiwei wanted to activate it, but at that moment, those Martial Way Divine Intent began to tremble.

Their Martial Way Divine Intent... is to protect.

Protect your own world.

The Technique Method pierced their bodies more than once, and he moved forward step by step through blood, but his expression remained unchanged, as if nothing had happened.

The Heavenly Dao of this world, Earthly Deity of this world, seem to have sensed this will.

As a result, Li Shiwei's mountain and water formation collapsed before it even had a chance to take effect!

The martial artists seemed to have been caught off guard.

They were clearly taken aback, just like Li Shiwei, who was stunned.

What the hell? The Mountain and Water Formation collapsed on its own? Are these Earthly Deity out of their minds?

But they didn't stop, because no matter what lay ahead, good or bad, they were ready to sprint forward.

They continued the relay and charged straight to the last layer of defense.

Li Shiwei spread her hands, and the high-level talisman burst forth with great power.

A phantom of hell appeared in the sky!

This is a projection of true hell created by Li Qi, a phantom of demonic thoughts that Li Qi synthesized from his experience of passing through the Gates of Hell.

Evil spirits filled the sky. Ox-Head and Horse-Face raised the oil cauldron, and countless wailing ghosts howled away. Eighty-one chains, covered with sharp barbs and hooks and heated red-hot, pierced towards the charging warriors.

Eighty-one chains hurtled down from the sky! The martial artist carrying his teammate rolled to dodge the first strike, but under Li Shiwei's control, more than a dozen chains rolled back.

He dodged left and right, and slashed at several more with his sword, but one still managed to break through his defenses and accurately entangle his body.

The hooks, glowing red-hot from the demonic fire, barbs, and chains pierced into the warrior's flesh, emitting a sizzling sound as the intense heat burned the flesh.

This is the demonic fire that Li Qi mastered, which he learned from the Demon Prince.

The pain was so intense that even a seventh-rank martial artist felt dizzy and couldn't help but groan. But he immediately swung his sword back and forcefully cut through the chain, charging forward once more.

The martial artist's injuries were too severe.

Covered in wounds? No, no, no, that's far from enough to describe it.

Li Shiwei found it hard to say... whether they were alive or not, but there was no doubt that, whether dead or alive, they were moving forward.

Fifty meters...

Thirty meters...

One person died.

Twenty meters...

Ten meters!

Li Shiwei panicked. Disregarding everything, she burned countless talismans, turning them into disposable items, unleashing their final power. Magnificent, immense, and spectacular, a pillar of light piercing the heavens stood before her. The karmic fires of the underworld extinguished, and the mountain of knives turned to ashes, all under the bombardment of boundless energy—

The second person died.

The seventh rank in the Seventh Rank World is like the first rank of a great power in the world.

Yet at this moment, they faced death without hesitation, in order to expel the dangerous technology brought by the outsiders and to nip a global civil war in the bud.

The three men's desperate charge broke through Li Shiwei's last line of defense.

After the last martial artist broke through all the chains with his life, the villager, a seventh-rank martial artist, finally rushed to Li Shiwei's side in his prime.

A seventh-rank martial artist, and a close-combat eighth-rank Daoist.

The result needs no explanation.

Li Shiwei was torn to pieces almost instantly! She was in grave danger and faced two life-or-death crises in less than a second when the martial artist got close to her!

The life-protecting Law Treasure given to her by her parents is being consumed at a rate of once per second, and this only gives her three seconds.

In three seconds... what can you do in the face of a storm of martial artists?

Most likely, they can only wait to die.

Perhaps it was like a revolving lantern; in a daze, Li Shiwei, who had lost the ability to resist, experienced her entire life.

She was born at the ninth rank, possessing power far exceeding that of ordinary people, and she naturally enjoyed this power.

Standing at the highest point, she naturally felt a sense of 'charity' towards others; this was true of the more than ten years she spent as a hero.

However, precisely because she was born too powerful, she lacked a real sense of what it meant to fight desperately, to experience bitter battles, or to be prepared for a fight to the death.

Yes, Li Shiwei not only lacked a real sense of civilization, she also had no particular feeling about her own life.

Just like those spoiled young ladies who cry, make a scene, or commit suicide for no reason, this is all due to their disregard for life and their lack of a real sense of existence.

This battle was, in fact, her first battle under extremely unfavorable conditions.

Could she still display the qualities of a "hero"? This thought popped into Li Shiwei's mind.

She was well aware of her own strength, never sustaining injuries in any battle, and possessed an absurdly large number of magical treasures and talismans given to her by her parents.

Therefore, for her, when facing a seventh-rank official, "defeat," "injury," and "death" were completely abstract concepts.

However, it was only when she faced these seventh-rank natives that she suddenly realized the possibility of her failure and death.

Therefore, he revealed his timid side.

However, she still chose to continue fighting, instead of running away, and faced these martial artists with the courage to fight to the death.

She felt that this should be considered a transcendence of her past self, right?

Unfortunately, even though she fought with a do-or-die spirit and seemed to display heroic brilliance, she was still defeated.

Not only was she physically defeated, but the determination she had finally made was also mocked by the martial artist in front of her.

The deaths of those martial artists were a mockery of her.

Those martial artists mocked her with their actions.

Their deaths seem to say, "The determination to fight to the death is just the most basic attitude that fighters should have, nothing special."

Yeah, it's nothing special.

For the past ten years or so, she has considered herself a hero. In the two years she has been in this world, she thought she had matured and even tried to act mature like others. But it turns out that this is the first time she has ever fought a life-or-death battle.

What right does she have to drink with this country bumpkin? Is she even qualified?

Really...

A shame.

In the fourth second, the longsword pierced her body, taking away her last chance at life.

The outcome is decided.

The dark clouds hung low in the sky, and the villager, dragging his badly wounded body, drew his sword.

The brothers who had worked together for thousands of years were all dead.

Fortunately... the Outer Domain Invader were eliminated, and the devastating technology they brought, as well as the future full-scale civil war, can be resolved smoothly.

Once again, they protected this world.

However, at this very moment...

Everyone in this world, including those at the seventh rank, fell to the ground at the same time.

They heard the wailing of the Heavenly Dao of their own world! This wailing caused unbearable pain to all living beings!

They didn't know what was going on.

But people around the world call this situation "Refining the Heavenly Way".