Chapter 588 - 340 Trap_2
This was because he had only manufactured so much TNT explosives, taking out all his stockpile for this one operation.
Each kilogram of TNT could generate 4.2 million joules of energy; the terrifying power generated by the immediate explosion of more than two hundred tones of TNT was the largest explosive force that Li Shiming had ever detonated.
Even for this explosion, he had set up sensors inside and outside his cave dwelling in order to collect data from the explosion.
With this data combined with the reaction of Patriarch Weng Zhao, the threat effectiveness of TNT explosives against cultivators could be analyzed.
Just as Patriarch Weng Zhao was preparing to break the formation, the explosion occurred. It was initiated from all directions at the same time, with many detonators triggered at the same moment under the precision control of an internal controller, remotely operated by his life-bound magical artifact IBMz15.
The first thing Patriarch Weng Zhao did was to stimulate his Spiritual Power for defense; not sensing any spiritual power fluctuations, he didn’t increase his alertness much to the explosion, but was cautiously guarding against any potential attacks that might follow the explosion.
He believed that the explosion was just to catch his attention, and that the real threat would not come from an explosion with no spiritual power fluctuations.
But when the explosion fully erupted, he realized he had underestimated the capabilities of ordinary objects.
The instantaneous high temperature generated by the explosion engulfed him, the powerful shockwave squeezing against his body from all directions, though the toxic gases produced by the TNT had no effect on him.
Flames surged on his body as he activated the fire body of his major cultivation technique, which would allow him to be mostly immune to the high-temperature damage.
Intense shockwaves battered his spiritual power shield, and the frightful power shook his existing injuries, causing him to involuntarily spit out a mouthful of blood.
The blood evaporated into mist in midair due to the high temperature and quickly disappeared.