Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 233 - 225 Battle of Spirit Sea Realm (1/3)

Chapter 233: Chapter 225 Battle of Spirit Sea Realm (1/3)

Five masked Mountains and Rivers Realm experts left the cave and charged towards Black Donkey and Han Yiyao.

Zhou Heng did not stop them, his essence, qi and spirit had already been brought to the peak. As for that figure lurking in the dark recesses of the cave who had yet to reveal their true form, they were an existence of the Spirit Sea Realm! This was the strongest opponent he had encountered so far, and he did not dare to be careless in the slightest!

The higher up the martial path, the greater the gap between each great realm. For instance, the difference in strength between the Land Cleaving Realm and the Initial Separation Realm is about tenfold, but between the Open Heaven Realm and the Land Cleaving Realm, it’s a staggering hundredfold difference.

How many times stronger can the Mountains and Rivers Realm crush the Open Heaven Realm?

At least two hundred times!

Although Zhou Heng’s dantian space was enormous, greatly narrowing the gap between them, how much larger was the gap between the Spirit Sea Realm and the Open Heaven Realm?

Even the most ordinary Spirit Sea Realm expert would have at least a thousand times Zhou Heng’s spiritual strength. Even if Zhou Heng’s brute strength reached the Mountains and Rivers Realm, it would be impossible to bridge this vast gulf!

The only thing Zhou Heng could rely on was his body’s strength; otherwise, he would have long escaped using Swift Cloud Radiant Step, taking Han Yiyao and Black Donkey into the Nine Mystic Trial Tower, and fled as far as he could!

He certainly intended to settle the account with the Mao Family, but he absolutely could not blindly act out of a misguided sense of courage and send his life to its doom!

Although Han Yiyao and Black Donkey were facing five from the Mao Family’s Mountains and Rivers Realm experts, the disparity in strength wasn’t exceedingly ridiculous. Even if they couldn’t win, they wouldn’t be defeated and captured in a short time.

He wanted to cross swords with a Spirit Sea Realm expert, to see just how terrifying an expert of this realm truly was!

"Youngster, which family or sect do you belong to?" As an impassive voice sounded, an old man in red also emerged from the cave. He did not have his face covered like the others. His face was quite thin, and his stature was not tall, but he had an aura that intimidated heaven and earth, suppressed all things, and left people involuntarily feeling diminished before him.

This was the pressure of the Spirit Sea Realm!

His voice, carrying an unquestionable authority, rolled like thunder, as if even those lost in deep slumber would instantly wake upon hearing it.

Zhou Heng, however, laughed heartily. His spirit was exceptionally resilient; it had been forged through countless hardships. The old man in red, who thought to intimidate and conquer without a fight, was clearly mistaken!

"Old guy, I’ve always respected my elders and the wise, but some do not act their age, so they can only be treated as old rascals or old scoundrels and ignored outright!" he said, his tone casual and light.

By implication, he had just categorized the old man in red as an old rascal or a scoundrel.

In Zhou Heng’s eyes, the Mao Family had nearly killed Zhou Dinghai, a grudge that could not be resolved. Since they didn’t value the lives of weaker martial artists, why should he regard the Mao Family as anything meaningful?

"What a sharp-tongued brat!" The old man in red’s expression turned angry, his eyebrows raised as he was about to strike.

"Hold on!" Zhou Heng suddenly shouted.

"Youngster, have you decided to beg for mercy?" The old man in red sneered with derision. This impudent brat was truly infuriating. If he was begging for mercy, then he would first give him a sliver of hope, before unmercifully crushing him without hesitation!

Zhou Heng laughed heartily and said, "What exactly does your Mao Family intend to do with so many people’s hearts that you’ve dug out?"

"Humph, with your life hanging by a thread, why do you care about so many concerns!" The old man in red snorted.

"Since I can’t escape death, might as well let me die in the know!" Zhou Heng laughed, and there was not a trace of fear in his demeanor.

The old man in red found it strange. This kid was clearly just at the Open Heaven Realm, strong in brute strength but only at the Mountains and Rivers Realm level. What gave him such composure? What was this boy relying on?

But no matter what, a mere Open Heaven Realm youngster, no matter how odd, had his limits. Unless the youngster possessed a peerless magical instrument, it was useless even if he had a Forbidden Artifact from a Nascent Soul Realm or Divine Infant Realm expert!

That’s because the limit of a Forbidden Artifact is the Spirit Sea Realm; stepping into the Nascent Soul Realm is the domain of peerless magical instruments!

Even if Zhou Heng had a Spirit Sea Realm Forbidden Artifact, so what? A Forbidden Artifact would have a limited number of uses; he just had to make a few more moves.

Capture this youngster!

His body’s vitality is so vigorous, using him for medication might even compare to a Spirit Sea Realm martial artist!

Confirming his decision, the old man in red no longer pondered whether Zhou Heng had any powerful backing. He slapped his right hand, and his spiritual power transformed into a large black hand that stretched a zhang and grabbed at Zhou Heng.

He was two levels above Zhou Heng in terms of spiritual power. Even a spiritual power hand formed at a distance far exceeded Zhou Heng’s limit.

The speed of this grab was astoundingly fast!

Zhou Heng twisted his body, pushing Swift Cloud Radiant Step to the limit as he counterattacked towards the old man in red. His spiritual power was far inferior to that of his opponent, and neither the Eight-Colored Lotus nor the Nine Nether Ice Heaven Jue could make any difference against him.

To cause harm or deal a blow to the old man in red, he needed to be up close, using his brute strength combined with the mutated Purple Flame bloodline for a direct strike!

"How brave!" The old man in red snorted coldly, retracting his right hand as the spiritual power hand also immediately reversed direction, chasing after Zhou Heng, while his left hand followed suit with a slap, creating a second spiritual power hand. Both moved to strike Zhou Heng from the front and back.

The two spiritual power hands filled the entire cave, leaving no place to hide, no place to escape!

Then he’d take it head on!

Zhou Heng shouted intensely, charging forward even more fiercely, like a spike driving towards the spiritual power hand.

"Walking right into the net!" The old man in red clenched his fingers. His intention was not to kill Zhou Heng, at least not yet. He intended to dig out his lively beating heart first, leaving him to gasp his last breath only afterwards.

The Spiritual Power Hand tightened, grasping Zhou Heng!

"Is that all there is to it!" The Old Man in Red showed a trace of arrogance. He originally thought that Zhou Heng’s fearlessness was due to some secret technique, but he didn’t expect him to be so easily defeated! "Huh?" His face suddenly changed, and a look of disbelief flashed in his eyes.

Boom!

The hand made of Spiritual Power gently trembled, and within the blackness flashed a purple flame, burning a human-sized hole straight through the back of the hand!

Zhou Heng stepped forward, his entire body radiating with blazing flames. The purple flame swirled like numerous ferocious Demon Beasts howling in a frenzied rage.

A monster, indeed!

The Old Man in Red almost stumbled and fell, taken aback by how monstrously talented the young man was!

Though he attacked with pure Spiritual Power from a distance, which could only unleash one-tenth or even less of a Martial Artist’s power, he was still two Great Realms above Zhou Heng. That was an absolute suppression; even if it were only a thousandth or even a ten-thousandth of his power, it shouldn’t be something Zhou Heng could contend with!

Even though Zhou Heng’s power was far inferior to his, the might of this flame was terrifying!

So terrifying that it could be compared to the Earth Fire outside!

What tier did Earth Fire belong to? Only the peerless Experts with Divine Deities formed inside them could step into it. Others, including an Expert of the Spiritual Sea Realm like himself, would find it a one-way path to death, instant incineration!

Of course, Zhou Heng’s flames were still far from that powerful, but in essence, they were the same! It was like even the smallest tiger was still the king of beasts; it just needed time to grow.

Zhou Heng possessed such potential!

Moreover, he wasn’t just a simple tiger cub, but at least already at the level of a ferocious wolf, equipped with sharp fangs and claws, not to be underestimated!

Just thinking that a junior from the Heaven-Opening Realm actually had the capacity to harm an Expert of the Spiritual Sea Realm made the Old Man in Red feel his worldview collapsing.

Unheard of, unseen!

And moreover... this Purple Flame, it seemed he had heard of a family possessing this kind of Bloodline Power before!

Zhou Heng closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then opened them again with Divine Light flashing, as if lightning crossed his gaze!

"You cannot be spared!" The Old Man in Red came back to his senses and struck another palm at Zhou Heng. No matter what, the kid was still at the Spiritual Power level of the Heaven-Opening Realm, with the Brutal Strength of the Mountains and Rivers Realm. Although the Purple Flame was somewhat eccentric, at most it was just a headache for him, nothing to dread.

Whoosh!

Zhou Heng strode swiftly, his technique Swift Cloud Radiant Step couldn’t release its full power in this confined space, so he had to face the difficulty head-on, breaking through everything with an unstoppable momentum.

If putting a halt to Zhou Heng was the goal for the Old Man in Red, it would have been utterly simple, no matter what his power overwhelmed Zhou Heng by how many times, but he wanted to capture Zhou Heng alive, to excavate his still-beating heart, which meant imposing a limitation on himself.

Still, he shaped his Spiritual Power into a large hand. Although Zhou Heng displayed an extraordinary prowess, he was still not worthy of the Old Man in Red’s full attention.

For a majestic Expert of the Spiritual Sea Realm to use his bare hands against a junior of the Heaven-Opening Realm wouldn’t that be an embarrassment, even to himself?

A Spiritual Power attack was enough, he could simply exhaust the young man to death!

"Bring it on!" Zhou Heng laughed heartily, his body surrounded by flames as he "walked right into the trap," facing off against the large Spiritual Power hand.

Boom!

The Spiritual Power palm grabbed Zhou Heng, but it quickly melted away forming a hole, with Zhou Heng standing tall and straight, his body enveloped in dancing flames, leaping above his head as if forming a certain shape.

"Kid, I am at the Spirit Sea Realm, with a sea of Spiritual Power formed within my body, my power is endless. To tangle with me is to seek your own death!" The Old Man in Red’s state of mind should have made him above emotions like anger, but he could hardly stand Zhou Heng, feeling uncomfortable without striking him down psychologically.

Jealousy!

Indeed, jealousy!

Zhou Heng was too young, with such vigorous vigor and blood he couldn’t be over fifty years old!

Fifty years old! What was his own Cultivation Level at fifty? He had just broken through to the Land Cleaving Realm, and for that, he received all sorts of praise from his Sect, crowned with the fame of a genius! But compared to this freak of nature, the title of genius was an enormous irony!

But no matter, there had been geniuses in history who were mere flashes in the pan. Those who did not grow up would soon be annihilated in the river of history, forgotten by people!

The Old Man in Red’s eyes blazed with a fierce light. If he could carve out the heart of an unharmed Martial Artist, that would be the best outcome, but since this young man was too detestable, he decided to inflict heavy damages first, then extract the heart!

He formed a Dharma Seal with both hands and pushed it towards Zhou Heng. It transformed into a black giant wolf that roared and charged.

Now it got serious!

This was one of the Old Man in Red’s Martial Arts Techniques, a Lower Grade Heaven Level technique called "Lone Wolf Howl," which could enhance his Battle Power by more than one minor Realm!

The black wolf roared and furiously charged at Zhou Heng.(To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to vote for it on Qidian (qidian.com) with recommendation tickets or monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to continue reading.)