Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 331 - 319 - Named Huo Tian (2/3)

Chapter 331: Chapter 319 - Named Huo Tian (2/3)

Black Donkey, despite being quite despicable, was definitely not one to suffer losses willingly. How could it possibly prostrate itself before someone, and twice at that? It must have had no choice!

There must be a great secret hidden within this Peerless Heavenly Maiden that could make Black Donkey prostrate without surprise, but why was Zhou Heng unaffected?

Black Sword!

Indeed, he had the Black Sword on him, and it seemed that the Peerless Heavenly Maiden had some connection with the Black Sword, which shielded him from being affected by the strange abilities of the Peerless Heavenly Maiden?

With an annoyed expression, Black Donkey climbed up but dared not approach within ten feet of the Peerless Heavenly Maiden. This was a safe distance; otherwise, it would inevitably prostrate itself without any ability to resist.

"Donkey, go and pluck the Crystal Peaches!" Zhou Heng said, but then his tone immediately grew stern, "And if you dare to keep them for yourself, heh heh!"

"You stinky boy, how dare you threaten your Donkey Master!" Black Donkey was even more upset but still trotted off towards the two Crystal Peaches, "Do I look like someone who’s greedy and stingy?"

"That’s exactly what you are!"

Black Donkey ground its teeth, but since the Peerless Heavenly Maiden was sitting right next to Zhou Heng, it didn’t dare rush over and bite Zhou Heng’s butt. Otherwise, if it had to prostrate itself again, Zhou Heng would laugh himself to death!

After picking the two Crystal Peaches and tossing one to Zhou Heng, it hurriedly ran far away with the other one and gobbled it down in one bite.

This cheap donkey was very realistic, believing in the principle that only when the good things are consumed do they truly belong to oneself.

Zhou Heng took the Crystal Peach and his gaze returned to the Peerless Heavenly Maiden who was sitting there, zoning out, and he felt a headache about not knowing what to do with her.

"I’ll teach you to speak!" he suddenly said.

"My name is Zhou Heng, Zhou Heng is my name!"

"Ya! Ya!"

"Zhou Heng!"

"Ya!"

...

It turned out that the Peerless Heavenly Maiden was definitely not foolish. Once she took an interest in Zhou Heng’s voice, she began to learn from him, absorbing knowledge like a sponge endlessly.

Her personality also began to reveal itself.

"Zhou Zhou Zhou, Heng!"

"Donkey, Donkey!"

From learning words to gradually becoming proficient, her learning ability was astonishingly powerful. In just two days, she had almost mastered the ability to communicate in normal language.

Zhou Heng had already taken out clothes for her from the Nine Mystic Trial Tower possessed by Ying Mengfan and the others, and he had carefully examined and kept the peach petals that had been wrapping her.

Indestructible, impervious to damage, eternal!

No matter how hard Zhou Heng tried, all the attacks he hit on it were absorbed— it was certainly a defensive treasure!

He quickly asked the Peerless Heavenly Maiden to wear the peach petals again. Although it was a bit odd, she could greatly increase her safety factor! Such a beauty should be cherished like a treasure by anyone, and never be allowed to suffer the slightest harm.

After Black Donkey discovered the miraculous effect of the peach petals, it immediately went with red eyes to pick flowers everywhere, but none of the petals had such effects. These past few days, it had been watching the Peerless Heavenly Maiden with a sly gaze, but dared not trick or deceive her; it was clearly frightened.

"Zhou Heng, what is my name?" Three days later, this Peerless Heavenly Maiden could perfectly use the human language. She looked at Zhou Heng, her face full of anticipation, shining brightly.

His heart stirred, Zhou Heng said, "You can give yourself a name!"

The Peerless Heavenly Maiden tilted her head in thought, her charm absolutely mesmerizing. As she thought, unbeknownst to her, blossoming peach flowers opened above her head, each bloom seeming like the renewal of the universe, giving off an indescribable aura of the Dao.

Thought-provoking, leading to clarity of understanding.

"My name is... Huo Tian!" she suddenly said, her eyes deep.

Boom!

Suddenly, lightning streaked across the sky and the earth trembled, with the continuous rumbling of thunder as if quaking or as though a divine punishment was about to descend.

This strange phenomenon came so abruptly that Zhou Heng wouldn’t believe it was unrelated to her even if he were killed!

Huo Tian?

A demon maiden who could even bewitch heaven and earth!

Zhou Heng smiled and said, "And your surname?"

"Coming from the void, without father or mother, I am simply Huo Tian," she said solemnly, with eyes that held the images of suns rising, moons setting, and changes in the cosmos, eliciting the endless sound of roaring in heaven and earth.

What kind of existence was she?!

Zhou Heng was filled with curiosity. To say she was an immortal, she didn’t have a trace of power—this much she had already proven herself. Before wearing the peach petals, she had an accidental fall and knocked her knee against a tree, breaking the skin.

—Even a person just beginning their cultivation wouldn’t be so fragile!

But to say she was an ordinary mortal? That was even more nonsensical! There were a million, a billion things about her that were different from mortals!

"Alright then, you are Huo Tian!"

...

Black Donkey quickly refined the Crystal Peach, and these past two days it had been hovering around Zhou Heng, obviously lusting after his uneaten Crystal Peach. However, Huo Tian was always by Zhou Heng’s side, catching up on knowledge, so it never had the chance to sneak up on him.

It heaved continuous sighs, its eyes brimming with deep resentment as if it would have loved to take a broom and sweep Huo Tian away!

— Although a beauty is pleasant, she is like a rock by the road when compared to a treasure—cold, hard, and utterly meaningless!

Huo Tian was rapidly growing, not physically but in her consciousness and character. If she were now thrown out into the wild, as long as her peerless beauty did not bring disaster upon her, she would certainly be able to live quite well.

"We should leave now!"

Zhou Heng called to Black Donkey, ready to take Huo Tian away from the mother tree and continue the search for the Three Yang Heavenly Venerate’s inheritance.

"Wait!" Huo Tian raised her delicate hand, stopping Zhou Heng and Black Donkey, "I think I know what to do!" She walked past a horizontal branch and came before the main trunk, then placed her slender hand upon it.

She closed her eyes, chanting something under her breath, like a song being sung.

Zhou Heng and Black Donkey did not understand what she was doing, and could only stand by and watch.

This Peerless Heavenly Maiden seemed frail, but she had already revealed an aura akin to that of a queen, at least in the eyes of Black Donkey, who absolutely regarded her with the respect due to a ferocious tiger.

Boom! Rumble!

The earth trembled, the entire mother tree vibrated intensely, and then Zhou Heng and Black Donkey found themselves rapidly descending!

They had not moved, so why were they descending?

It was the mother tree... shrinking at an incredibly rapid pace!

Not only that, the whole world was shrinking as if it were the inverse process of a Martial Artist cultivating an Inner World. In just half an hour, they could see the ground beneath them.

The mother tree was like the center of a whirlpool, the surrounding land contracting towards it, and the daughter trees were merging into the mother tree’s body as if they were merely branches extended from it.

Shrinking, shrinking, and shrinking!

The speed picked up, and in just five minutes, the once vast space had diminished to less than a mile in range, exposing three other figures.

Sang Qingshan, Ice Phoenix Lady, Yang Zhan!

They had no idea which corner of the world they had been wandering in, but with the dramatic contraction of the space, they naturally came into view.

All three wore expressions of utter confusion, having no clue what was happening.

In a blink, Zhou Heng and Black Donkey were on the ground because the mother tree was now no different than an ordinary peach tree, yet it continued to shrink until it became a mere branch.

A branch? Such a towering mother tree was reduced to a mere branch!

Huo Tian picked up the mother tree, and with a flash of pink light, it entered her chest and was seen no more.

A great miracle!

Only a Magic Artifact could so freely change in size, but even a Magic Artifact, could it enlarge to the size the mother tree was before? And moreover, bear actual, genuine fruit?

She indeed exuded mystery all over!

The entire space stabilized, the only thing that remained unchanged was the lake in the center, still its original size with a pink Gate of Light faintly rotating beneath it.

"Zhou Heng?" Sang Qingshan and the other two approached by flight, a mile’s distance merely a step away. Though they were uncertain about the situation, they had witnessed the entire process.

Huo Tian turned around and revealed her transcendent beauty to the three of them.

The trio was simultaneously dumbstruck, frozen like statues, as if even their breathing had ceased.

How could there be someone so beautiful in this world!

Even though Sang Qingshan and Yang Zhan had become deities, with temperaments and Cultivation Levels that had long since reached the state of desirelessness and non-attachment, seeing Huo Tian still caused their minds to tremble. Her stunning beauty made it impossible for them to harbor any thoughts of desecration; they only wished to serve as her subjects and stand guard over her magnificence for a lifetime!

The Ice Phoenix Lady, being female, was no exception!

Such beauty transcended gender, almost attaining the status of the Dao itself!

Had they not already become deities, they would forever sink into their consciousness, their hearts only containing the image of this woman, worshipping her as a deity, unable to break through in their cultivation for the rest of their lives!

But as deities, this represented a great leap in the realm of consciousness. After a long while, the three finally showed signs of struggle, turning their heads away one after another, daring not to take even one more glance at Huo Tian!

One more glance, and they might never be able to pull themselves away again!

"Zhou Heng, hand over the Three Yang Heavenly Venerate’s inheritance!" Yang Zhan bellowed.

Zhou Heng looked at him and laughed, "You’re really an odd one, how do you know I’ve obtained the Three Yang Heavenly Venerate’s inheritance? And even if I really did have it, why should I hand it over?"

"Humph, if you hadn’t obtained the Three Yang Heavenly Venerate’s inheritance, how could you control this ancient land?" Yang Zhan sneered, his expression one of ’don’t think I’m a fool.’

"Sometimes I truly admire the imagination of certain people!" Zhou Heng murmured to himself and then gestured with his finger, "Yang Zhan, I know you’ve hidden your strength. Let’s have a thrilling fight this time!"

"Seeking death!" Yang Zhan’s right hand vibrated, and a dark cyan gauntlet appeared on it, ancient to the extreme, and even damaged—revealing a third of the fist.

Zoom, he darted forward, charging at Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng showed no intention of dodging, nor did he punch or strike back, just smilingly watched Yang Zhan approaching.

Was the man training in the art of ’face meets fist’?

Sang Qingshan and Ice Phoenix Lady revealed expressions of bafflement; Yang Zhan’s strength was not to be underestimated, and that damaged gauntlet of his was a Nascent Soul Realm level Magic Artifact. Though broken and unable to activate on its own, it could still exert the power of the Nascent Soul Realm in the hands of an Expert on the verge of the Nascent Soul Realm!

Meeting a punch with his face was bordering on foolishness! (To be continued. If you like this work, you’re welcome to vote for it at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)