Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 431 - 415 Heavenly Venerate Rank Puppet (2/3)

Chapter 431: Chapter 415 Heavenly Venerate Rank Puppet (2/3)

If this giant puppet really was the great weapon that the Puppet Sect used to sweep across the world in the past, then it is a Divinity Transformation Realm Magic Artifact. Even without a supply of Spirit Stones to operate it, its material is still indestructible by those in the Divine Infant Realm.

—If it were that fragile, how could the Puppet Sect have become the top Sect in the world back then, almost beating the Great Eternal Emperor in unifying the continent!

The three great Experts of the Sea Clan and the Black Donkey carefully inspected the iron man from top to bottom but found no entrance. Features such as nostrils and ears, though similar to humans, were blocked as soon as one entered, not leading anywhere at all!

What to do?

Thinking of the treasures inside, the Black Donkey ran back and forth on the iron man’s shoulder, so anxious that it seemed on the verge of losing its fur.

"Zhou, quickly take out the Immortal Artifact and cut an opening!" it shouted.

Zhou Heng took out the Black Sword and slashed down, clanging loudly and sending sparks flying. A sword mark about half an inch deep appeared on the iron man’s body.

"It works, it really works!" The Black Donkey immediately beamed with joy.

Zhou Heng sighed and said, "Donkey, do you have any idea how thick this puppet is?"

The puppet was tens of thousands of feet tall, and even if it wasn’t solid, its outer layer had to be extremely thick to support such a terrifying weight. Not to mention, from the dull echo of his slash, he could tell that this "skin" was at least a hundred feet thick!

He had exerted all his strength in a slash that only made a half-inch deep sword mark. How long would it take to slash open an entrance big enough to pass through?

It would be years before it could be done!

Where did he have that much time to waste here!

"What are we going to do?" Upon hearing this, the Black Donkey instantly panicked and clung to Zhou Heng’s legs, "Zhou, you must think of something, my entire happiness depends on you!"

"Despicable donkey, let go of me! Can’t you have some shame!"

"What’s the use of shame? I just want the treasures!" The Black Donkey’s face was now shamelessly thick as it clung to Zhou Heng, "Zhou, just be a good laborer for a few years. You can live for thousands of years anyway, what’s a few years of hard labor!"

"Scram!" Zhou Heng kicked the despicable donkey away.

To cut open the puppet with the Black Sword was completely unrealistic. Even if he advanced to the Divinity Transformation Realm, slicing through this puppet was not something that could be achieved in just a few moves; otherwise, how could it have been considered invincible in ancient times?

However, he had another method because he possessed the physical constitution of the Gold Devouring Clan!

Just like how Wang Ke wouldn’t burst no matter how much he ate, Zhou Heng could also refine any metal providing its rank did not surpass that of the Gold Devouring Clan’s lineage.

The lineage of the Gold Devouring Clan was definitely of Immortal Level, and the puppet before him was merely of the Divinity Transformation Realm, so of course, he could devour it!

Once he had devoured the essence of the metal, the puppet would become a pile of useless scrap, and he could easily breakthrough. Of course, devouring a mountain-like puppet wasn’t something that could be done overnight; it would suffice to "eat" a pathway and enter the puppet’s interior.

Zhou Heng approached the giant’s mouth, which, if the giant had other internal spaces, the mouth would most likely be the entrance. In the past, as long as the giant opened its mouth, it could swallow anything, no matter the size.

With his current strength, there was no need to hide any secret. To speed up the devouring, he cut open his palm, revealing his gleaming golden bones, and pressed them against the metal plate.

Everyone watched his actions, puzzled, but even the Lobster People, who were of the same realm, were far too inferior in actual battle power. Without Zhou Heng’s explanation, they dared not ask and just watched from the side.

Little Foodie, however, had no such concerns and asked, "Master, what are you doing?"

"I get it now, Zhou’s blood is the strongest Corrosive Liquid in the world; just a touch could melt anything!" the Black Donkey said seriously.

"Big Mouth Donkey, your words are utterly unreliable!" Wang Ke immediately scoffed.

Zhou Heng smiled slightly and said, "Although the donkey isn’t reliable, sometimes it stumbles upon a bit of truth!" He was indeed planning to disintegrate the metal plate, but not with blood poison, rather through devouring!

The Gold Devouring Clan’s lineage surged wildly, frantically devouring the metal essence.

If the puppet had a supply of Spirit Stones available, it could have formed a Spiritual Power defense to prevent Zhou Heng’s devouring, or even easily squash him with a slap. Sadly, this was akin to a tiger that had fallen flat; without Spiritual Stones, the puppet had no more power than a Martial Artist without Spiritual Power, just awaiting slaughter!

Even if it was a puppet of the Divinity Transformation Realm, it was useless!

An endless stream of metal essence entered Zhou Heng’s body, spreading to every corner inside him and beginning to enhance his constitution. But after entering the half-step Immortal status, his constitution needed a terrifying amount of metal essence to improve, so his progression was not fast.

That was to be expected as when the Fairy Continent fell, Zhou Heng devoured metal from the Immortal Realm, yet he still stopped at the Nascent Soul Realm! Although it was used for a gate, the material obviously couldn’t be too valuable, but even the most common from the Immortal Realm surely surpassed the best Treasure Iron of the Mortal Realm!

As Zhou Heng’s constitution approached the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm, he suddenly stopped and withdrew his hand.

By then, three days had already passed.

"Come over!" Zhou Heng called out.

"Eh, that’s it?" Black Donkey came trotting over and saw that everything was as before, with no sign of change.

Zhou Heng smiled slightly, pointing to where he had placed his palm earlier, and said, "You try hitting it!"

Black Donkey did as told, and with a thump, his hoof crashed down, immediately causing fragments to fly. The entire body of the creature plunged forward. However, being in the Nascent Soul Realm meant it could tread on air, and Black Donkey swiftly floated his body to prevent a fall.

"Did it get through?" the Sea Clan’s three experts asked with surprise and delight.

"I truly am the strongest under heaven," boasted Black Donkey without a shred of shame, "A mere Divinity Transformation Realm puppet, and I’ve blasted it open with one hoof! It’s too bad, if I had been born in the ancient times, the Puppet Sect wouldn’t have had the chance to dominate the world!"

"Big Mouth Donkey, you really have no shame!" Wang Ke and the Little Crown Prince of the Sea Clan both couldn’t stand Black Donkey’s brazenness.

Unabashed, Black Donkey had already dived in, immediately proclaiming, "Haha, there really is a passage inside!"

Upon hearing Black Donkey, the three great experts of the Sea Clan also hurriedly protected Ao Kongshan as they entered, while Zhou Heng, carrying Little Foodie, went in last. He was in no hurry to devour the puppet—after all, no one else but him could assimilate it.

Indeed, the mouth turned out to be the puppet’s passage. Following the channel blasted open by Zhou Heng, it didn’t take long for the space to suddenly open up in front of them into a vast emptiness, as dark and empty as a night sky without moon or stars.

The size of the puppet was something everyone had seen before; its mouth could almost match the size of a small town—immensely spacious and enormous.

"Eh!"

"Ouch!"

Everyone exclaimed in surprise as their flying forms abruptly dropped down, landing on the ground with thuds.

"The gravity here is so strong!" Everyone revealed faces of astonishment; Little Foodie and the Little Crown Prince of the Sea Clan, having the lowest realms, had blood seeping from their noses and mouths, their skin looking as if it was about to burst.

The three experts of the Sea Clan instantly wanted to turn back, but Zhou Heng instead summoned the Nine Mystic Trial Tower and, after enlarging it, allowed Wang Ke and Ao Kongshan to go inside.

"Why is the gravity so immense?"

"It’s related to the materials of this puppet, which are extremely heavy, causing such tremendous gravity inside! In the past, the puppet must have been able to automatically generate power to counteract this gravity, but now—"

"Such powerful gravity truly makes this Divine Donkey very uncomfortable!" complained Black Donkey as its tail hung straight down as if weighted down by a lead weight. It had to unleash its own spiritual power to combat the intense gravity or else its bones would creak, seemingly on the verge of breaking.

Zhou Heng couldn’t help but smile; his physique was the strongest, his divine bones sturdy, nearly at the Divine Infant Realm, making this pressure trivial to him.

"Let’s go!"

The four, along with a donkey, continued their journey. Their group was peculiar to say the least, all odd in their own way; if they ran into a human city, they would certainly frighten a multitude of the mortal folk.

This immense gravity’s greatest impact was slowing down their speed significantly, making them hardly faster than an ordinary person.

After half an hour, they reached the throat area, where two paths appeared, one leading upwards and the other downwards.

The upward path likely led to the head, while the downward one to the belly and arms.

"Up or down?" The gaze of the Sea Clan’s three experts fell on Zhou Heng, as the world of martial artists was quite simple—everything was based on strength!

"Of course upwards," Black Donkey said without hesitation. "The head is so precious; surely, all the treasures are there!"

"That’s not necessarily true; some things are figured out with the rear end!" Zhou Heng looked at Black Donkey and laughed.

"Woof, Zhou, are you itching for a bite on the butt? It’s been a while, hasn’t it?" Black Donkey immediately picked up on Zhou Heng’s teasing.

"Let’s go up," declared Zhou Heng, choosing to ignore Black Donkey’s quip, "The head is relatively smaller; we can search through it quickly!"

"Hmm!" None of the Sea Clan’s three great experts had any objections.

They started climbing upward. In the past, the gravity here wasn’t so immense, making ascent quite easy. But now, climbing was a struggle against terrifying gravity, causing the Fishman, Snake Man, and Black Donkey to quickly become drenched in sweat.

"Zhou, let me into the tower too!" Black Donkey, always the laziest, quickly started complaining.

Zhou Heng darted a glare, retorting, "This is a rare opportunity to train. I used to pay to train in gravity rooms; now you’ve got a free one for your cultivation, and you’re complaining?"

The donkey sheepishly ceased, recognizing indeed the valuable training opportunity.

Normal gravity rooms were nothing special, found in the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion of any city. But beyond the level of a Half-Step Immortal, such gravity rooms were nowhere to be found, simply impossible to create!

Only here, inside a puppet of a Heavenly Venerate, could such powerful gravity be found! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it on Qidian. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)