This Fire Salamander seemed to be a mutated species that had luckily advanced during the Demon Calamity. Not only was its cultivation barely comparable to Foundation Establishment, but it was also clumsy with its divine abilities, far from a powerful being that had possessed intelligence for centuries and had sentient intelligence on par with humans.
Li Chen soon saw through its imposing exterior to the weakness within. He attacked it with all three of his current sources of foundation establishment combat power at once, baiting it into spewing several full-strength rounds of flame, then shattered the avatar it had condensed from fire. After that, it began to exhaust itself and tried to burrow deeper into the cavern to escape.
But just then, a ball of lightning shot through the air without warning. The Combat Body unleashed the immensely powerful Thunder Dragon Spits Its Core by opening its mouth and spitting it out.
The essence of this technique was the same as before.
For a full ten years, limited by his stagnant mastery as a Puppet Master and understanding of the Dao of lightning, it had made almost no progress. Its practical application, however, had undergone a change that turned heaven and earth upside down.
Li Chen had moved the Thunder Talisman into the Magic Cube Maze and, using it as the core, cleared out an entire room specifically to build a fixed artillery emplacement. Powered by a Grand Formation, its charging efficiency, sustainability, and firing interval were all far superior to before.
The concealment afforded by space also made it naturally stealthy. Before it actually fired, only a little energy leaked through an opening the size of a ring, making it almost impossible to detect during battle.
As a result, only when the Combat Body opened its mouth and spat