Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 158 - 153 Zhou Dinghai’s Adventure (3/3)

Chapter 158: Chapter 153 Zhou Dinghai’s Adventure (3/3)

"Is there news of my father?" Not long after Ying Bingfeng left, Zhou Heng received a message from Xiao Huoshui’s messenger. He hurried over and eagerly asked the woman who was seductively lounging on a recliner.

This clueless boor of a man, couldn’t he see her, a woman of irresistible charm, who could even make a stone man’s heart flutter?

Humph, such a waste of the sexy pose she’d thought so hard to come up with!

Xiao Huoshui pouted her bright red lips and said, "Yes, yes, yes, your cheap father-in-law sent someone with a message, but because you changed inns, the messenger was caught by me!"

"Your father is very safe, now living with the Sect Master of Nine Spirit Sect at the An Family!"

Sect Master of Nine Spirit Sect? Lin Jianchen? Was he also safe from calamity?

Zhou Heng didn’t believe that Lin Jianchen had the strength to carve a bloody path to safety, and his being with Zhou Dinghai made it more likely that Zhou Dinghai had given the other a Shadow Evasion Talisman!

Well, if Lin Jianchen had died, Zhou Heng really didn’t know how sad Lin Fuxiang would be!

He thought for a moment, then said, "I’ll go to Tianhang City right now. Madam Xiao, I truly thank you for this, and I’ll remember it in my heart!"

"I don’t want you to keep it in your heart, I want you to cherish me properly just once!" Xiao Huoshui let out a seductive laugh, "Maybe twice, three times, four times, I get bored very easily!"

Zhou Heng ignored her. Despite having received news of his father’s safety, one can never be at ease without seeing the person themselves. He immediately left the Xiao Family, using Swift Cloud Radiant Step to rush towards Tianhang City.

Every time he saw Xiao Huoshui, his desires surged, but now was not the time to enter Nine Mystic Trial Tower to find Orchid Concubine; he forcefully suppressed these thoughts. In his heart, his father’s safety was paramount.

It took him only three days to reach Tianhang City, and he went directly to the An Family.

"Humph!" A cold snort and a white jade-like giant hand suddenly descended from the sky, pressing down on Zhou Heng.

"Father-in-law, it’s me!" Zhou Heng’s figure twisted and at the last moment, he deftly avoided the attack.

"So it’s you!" The white jade hand immediately retracted, and An Luochen appeared on the roof. He nodded and said, "Your father is in the left courtyard. That you hurried back immediately shows your filial piety."

He felt quite reassured; a man who respected his father so would naturally not treat his own wife badly, which made him all the more at ease.

Zhou Heng didn’t bother with formalities with An Luochen, propelling himself to the left courtyard, he called out loudly, "Dad! Dad!"

"Heng’er!" Zhou Dinghai ran out from the inner room, and the father and son were both overwhelmed with emotion upon reuniting.

If not for Zhou Heng sending back a Shadow Evasion Talisman, Zhou Dinghai would undoubtedly have encountered disaster, so their reunion was naturally filled with excitement.

"Dad, have you advanced to the Initial Separation Realm?" After a while, Zhou Heng suddenly exclaimed. He could sense his father’s surging aura, which, although not as powerful as his, was of the same level in quality.

Zhou Dinghai smiled mysteriously and said, "Your dad has had quite the adventure! Come, I’ll tell you all about it!"

They sat down in the inner room, and Zhou Dinghai began to recount the whole event in detail.

The Nine Spirit Sect was attacked at night by about a dozen Martial Artists from the Spirit Gathering Realm, who were captured and had their hearts brutally extracted within minutes. The attackers were only two people wearing masks, rendering their faces unidentifiable.

Zhou Dinghai was alert and tore a Shadow Evasion Talisman immediately, but ended up being transported to a trap-filled cave that nearly cost him his life! However, he was fortunate and, despite being severely injured, he reached the depths of the cave and found two Spirit Pills.

He took one of the pills and passed out, but when he awoke, he found not only his injuries healed, but his cultivation had also broken through to the Initial Separation Realm! Worried Zhou Heng would become anxious over time, he rushed to Tianhang City.

Before this, he had given Lin Jianchen a Shadow Evasion Talisman—since Zhou Dinghai already considered Lin Fuxiang as his daughter-in-law, he naturally wouldn’t be stingy to his in-laws. Due to the time Zhou Dinghai spent in the cave, Lin Jianchen arrived at the An Family first.

Then, An Luochen sent someone to notify Zhou Heng.

It all sounded straightforward when Zhou Dinghai recounted his cave experience, but Zhou Heng knew it was an extremely dangerous situation. His father had a strong will to live and would not give up before reuniting with his mother.

"Heng’er, this is the other Jade Heart Pill, take it immediately!" Zhou Dinghai took out a Pill Bottle and handed it to Zhou Heng.

"Dad, you should take it!" Zhou Heng pushed it back, "Your son doesn’t need to worry about increasing his cultivation!"

He possessed the Black Sword, which was better than any miraculous pills; if he were willing to transform into a demon and commence a massacre, his cultivation would grow terrifyingly fast.

"This pill can only be taken once, more is useless!" Zhou Dinghai shook his head, "Heng’er, all my hopes lie with you. The higher your cultivation, the more at ease I can be!"

Zhou Heng could only accept the Pill Bottle, not doubting the one-pill restriction, as the Yellow Dragon Pill was similar.

"You must go into seclusion now and refine the pill’s power immediately!" Zhou Dinghai wished his son would grow strong enough to reach the Spirit Sea Realm quickly, to bring his wife back.

"I understand!" Zhou Heng asked An Luochen for a private chamber. Upon entering, he stepped right into the Nine Mystic Trial Tower without paying any attention to the flirtatious posturing of Orchid Concubine. He went directly to the third floor, took out the Jade Heart Pill, swallowed it, and began the refinement process.

The Jade Heart Pill was by far the strongest pill Zhou Heng had ever seen, capable of skyrocketing Zhou Dinghai, who was still in the Initial Separation First Layer Heaven, straight into the Initial Separation Realm! However, the Jade Heart Pill seemed insufficient when faced with him, a freak with a Dantian space forty times larger than that of an ordinary Initial Separation Realm. How could it be easily filled?

Fortunately, it finally pushed Zhou Heng’s cultivation to the peak of the Initial Separation Third Layer Heaven, just in time to make an attempt on breaking through to the Land Cleaving Realm!

Let’s do it!

Zhou Heng’s spirit was completely immersed in his Dantian World as his Divine Sense took human form, wielding the Black Sword.

To reach the Land Cleaving Realm was to transform this initial chaotic world into a true heaven and earth, solidifying the liquid spiritual power into a solid ground and giving preliminary perfection to the Inner World. How could a chaotic space be called a world?

He executed the Sky-soaring Nine Forms, constantly circulating this unparalleled swordsmanship.

As he controlled the sword, he became one with nature and resonated with the Dao, silently chanting the universe’s mysteries. His entire being appeared ethereal and pure as if omniscient and omnipresent.

Circulating the Sky-soaring Nine Forms was in itself a process of enlightenment, and the profundity of this swordsmanship far exceeded the Land Cleaving Realm and Open Heaven Realm. Even if Zhou Heng learned just a bit more, the enlightenment gained would be astonishing and unconventional.

If not for the lack of sufficient cultivation accumulation, he could have even broken through to the Divinity Transformation Realm in one breath!

The Inner World is the Martial Artist’s heart, his Dao, changing with his heart and transforming with his enlightenment!

Zhou Heng was immersed in the profundity of the Sky-soaring Nine Forms, his Sword Qi dancing for three thousand miles, illuminating the entire Dantian World with sword light. Rumbling sounds filled the air as chaos continuously settled, and during this process, the liquid spiritual power swiftly crystallized into a desolate world.

His Dantian was rapidly expanding, doubling, tripling, quadrupling, at an astonishing rate.

A primitive world was taking shape, quietly forming.

The birth of a new world evidently took much longer than Zhou Heng had anticipated; it was only after a full five days that he reopened his eyes.

Land Cleaving Realm!

Nature’s spiritual energy converged at a terrifying rate, cleansing his body and swiftly stabilizing his realm. This was his quickest moment of improvement and also the most critical. A moment of inattention could cause his cultivation to regress, causing the newly formed ground to revert instantaneously to its liquid state, unable to support the Dantian World and collapsing back to the Initial Separation Realm.

Half an hour later, he suddenly stood up, his eyes bright as lightning before they immediately dimmed, turning to a jade-like luster.

He examined his Dantian, and now the space had expanded by about thirty times compared to before!

From the Initial Separation Realm to Land Cleaving Realm, most people could only expand their Dantian space by fifteen times, but Zhou Heng reached thirty. Added to his earlier accumulation, his Dantian space was now eighty times larger than that of an ordinary Land Cleaving practitioner!

What did that mean?

His current strength far surpassed that of an ordinary Land Cleaving Third Layer Heaven peak practitioner!

Why do major powers value those with strong Bloodline Power? It’s because such individuals have a Dantian space that expands much more than the average person when breaking through.

Facing these individuals, Zhou Heng’s advantage wasn’t as significant, but a Dantian space eighty times larger than that of a normal Land Cleaving First Layer Heaven was an extremely exaggerated number! Ying Bingfeng was considered a distinguished member of the Ying Family, yet his Dantian space was only five times that of an ordinary Land Cleaving First Layer Heaven, a full sixteen times less than Zhou Heng!

Now, facing Ying Bingfeng again, Zhou Heng wouldn’t need any Martial Arts Techniques or Bloodline Power; one punch would be enough to burst him!

Zhou Heng also tested his Bloodline Power; the Purple Flame and Metallic Transformation had reached a Five Stars Earth Spirit Body, while the Dragon’s Power had reached a Seven Stars Heavenly Spirit Body, getting closer to the perfect Ten Stars Heavenly Spirit Body.

The enhancement of the Dragon’s Power also meant an increase in the power of the Nine Nether Ice Heaven Jue.

Zhou Heng smiled in satisfaction. Although he had been a waste due to the Black Sword for ten years, all that was compensated now, and abundantly so—hundreds, thousands of times over.

He did not leave the Nine Mystic Trial Tower but instead went to the fourth floor to challenge the trial of the Land Cleaving Realm.

It was a Fishman with the head of a fish but the torso of a human. Since it was formed by a Formation, it was unknown whether it could speak.

Zhou Heng naturally did not bother with idle talk and attacked straight away.

This Fishman was at the peak of Land Cleaving Third Layer Heaven, with a Dantian space three to four times larger than that of an average Land Cleaving practitioner. In terms of strength, it actually didn’t lose to Zhou Heng. After all, it was two minor realms higher. But against Zhou Heng, who had mastered the momentum, how could it withstand without an overwhelming level of strength?

The enemy created by the Formation was soon shattered by Zhou Heng’s assault. With a slap, a Pill Bottle suddenly dropped out from mid-air and laid quietly on the ground. (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)