Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 436 - 420: Physique Breaks Heavenly Venerate! (1/3)

Chapter 436: Chapter 420: Physique Breaks Heavenly Venerate! (1/3)

Zhou Heng sat alone in a corner, his right hand pressing against the floor; on the surface, it looked as though he were meditating in cultivation, incredibly calm, but actually, massive changes were occurring within his body.

He was frantically devouring the metal essence inside the body of this King Level Puppet, continuously using it to strengthen his physical body, enhancing his brutal strength, toughness, and solidity.

Inside his body, every bone was like glaze, emitting a dazzling golden light. If it weren’t for the outer shell blocking it, in this dark space, it would undoubtedly shine like a bright sun, releasing light that illuminated heaven and earth.

This King Level Puppet, although it had once swept across the regions undefeatable, the king among kings, the overlord among the Heavenly Venerates, now without the support of Spirit Stones, was no different from a pile of scrap metal.

If it were a Magic Artifact, even if it were broken or damaged, as long as it wasn’t completely destroyed, it would still manage to fight back if someone tried to devour it, because the Formation connected to heaven and earth could autonomously absorb Spiritual Energy, maintaining a breath of survival.

But Puppets were completely different; they relied entirely on Spirit Stones for power. Without a supply of Spirit Stones, they were indeed useless; otherwise, why would the Puppet Sect have fallen in the past?

Zhou Heng absorbed the essence of this King Level Puppet effortlessly because they were originally one entity. He could even start devouring from the puppet’s head and move downwards through its body along an unimaginably long path, ensuring that no part was missed.

The rare metals of the Mortal Realm indeed couldn’t compare with those of the Immortal Realm; even if Zhou Heng devoured all the metal essence in the puppet’s head, his physique still infinitely approached the Divine Infant Realm. It wasn’t like the metal essence in that piece of the door from the Fairy Continent, which was terrifyingly potent!

Jumping from the Nascent Soul Realm to the Divine Infant Realm was a threshold; Spiritual Power levels would increase at least five thousand times, and this was similarly reflected in the physique, demanding a massive amount of precious metal essence to make the leap.

By the time Zhou Heng reached the neck of the Puppet, he finally met a qualitative leap!

His figure trembled, a profound golden light swept across his body, vanishing in an instant. Even Black Donkey and Mo Keyan didn’t notice it, but inside his body, a thunderous rumbling issued, his Divine Bones snapping one by one!

It wasn’t that he had gone berserk, but his physique finally needed to be reformed, to be broken and then established anew!

— Without completely destroying the old bones, how could higher-level bones emerge? Simply enhancing the existing base was merely patching things up, a trivial fuss; only by completely, utterly tearing it down, as if building a skyscraper on an existing foundation, could it collapse at merely four or five stories!

It was essential to reinforce the foundation and solidify the base to build a high rise!

Zhou Heng was drenched in cold sweat, forcibly shattering the bones in his body and then reconstructing them, such intense pain? He closed off his Divine Sense, a golden figure huddled in the Sea of Consciousness, protecting the last sanctuary of his mind, otherwise, such intense pain consuming his body would surely drive him mad!

Though more than ninety percent of his bones were already crushed, Zhou Heng did not stop. He continued to grind each bone into finer particles, breaking them down into minuscule particles within particles!

The more thoroughly shattered now, the more tough the Divine Bones that would later form. This was the principle of breaking and re-establishing!

Ten minutes, half an hour, two hours... one day!

Zhou Heng was almost on the verge of collapse, something that should not and could not happen in an expert of the Divine Infant Realm, but if another expert of the Divine Infant Realm were to shatter every bone in their body repeatedly, who wouldn’t scream in agony, not knowing how many times they had fainted!

The bones inside his body had reached the strength of Nascent Soul Realm Magic Artifact, and refining them to the level of particles within particles was not an easy task at all.

Five days later, he didn’t know how much cold sweat he had shed, but it was immediately evaporated by his now scorching body temperature, imperceptible to outsiders. And after such tempering, his bones had become crystal clear, achieving the standard of a Divine Infant Realm Magic Artifact!

Done!

Zhou Heng breathed a sigh of relief, the golden figure forcefully emerged, beginning to reassemble his body.

Swish, swish, swish, the golden particles within his body circulated, all metal essence, pure and incomparable; the skeleton’s preliminary form quickly took shape, then solidified and materialized, a force emanating from inside him. However, Zhou Heng immediately spread out his Domain to neutralize this force, silently and effortlessly.

His physical strength had broken into the Divine Infant Realm!

This meant that he was now absolutely invincible within the Divine Infant Realm, his terrifying body now a Divine Infant Realm Magic Artifact, indestructible and unbreakable! Even if Li Wujie were to be resurrected, and they clashed head-on, it would take Li a long time to destroy him!

But what about the Poisonous Vast Heavenly Venerate?

Zhou Heng’s expression was serious, in front of that Ancient Heavenly Venerate, he was still insufficient!

Continue the absorption!

I can still become stronger!

Zhou Heng, maintaining his sitting posture, continued to devour the essence of the King Level Puppet like a perpetually hungry beast of greed, ceaselessly consuming!

Although Wang Ke is a Little Foodie, compared to the current Zhou Heng, he seemed rather insignificant; after all, Zhou Heng was actually swallowing a puppet as large as a mountain, made from Divinity Transformation Realm metal!

Of course, Little Foodie had not fully grown yet, and it might be capable of swallowing a Divinity Transformation Realm Demon Beast as big as a mountain in one gulp in the future. But devouring metal essence was just one of Zhou Heng’s abilities.

Fingers, palms, arms, shoulders — Zhou Heng quickly devoured the metal essence within the entire left arm of the King Level Puppet, then the right arm, followed by the chest, moving downwards.

Since this was a continuous process, although the precious metals inside the King Level Puppet had lost their original luster and turned into layers of stubborn iron, the terrifying weight was also gradually disappearing. But because this disappearance was slow, no one noticed it.

As the only one aware and involved, Zhou Heng obviously wouldn’t jump out to alert everyone, but instead, continued to devour madly. After about fifteen days of consuming, his physique had reached the pinnacle of the Divine Infant Realm!

One more step and he would reach the Divinity Transformation Realm!

Heavenly Venerate!

Zhou Heng took a deep breath, suppressing the slightly excited mood within him, and continued devouring the metal essence of the King Level Puppet.

Almost there... almost there... there!

Zhou Heng bitterly smiled within, it had been only twenty days since he had last shattered all his divine bones, yet such torturous ordeal was coming upon him again so soon!

There was no other way, for the sake of reaching the Divinity Transformation Realm, he endured!

Let it come!

Zhou Heng retracted his Divine Sense back into his Sea of Consciousness, leaving just a sliver of awareness to manage the massive transformation of his bones.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Several large bones shattered first, followed by the smaller ones. After one round, his whole skeleton was initially fractured.

This was also because he had reached the critical point of breakthrough, under the effect of the Gold Devouring Clan’s essence blood, his bones became relatively easier to shatter. Otherwise, even with his strength, it would be extremely difficult to destroy a Divine Infant Realm Magic Artifact, let alone shatter and pulverize them!

Come on! Come on! Come on!

It’s just a little pain, this young master can withstand it!

Zhou Heng’s forehead immediately beaded with sweat the size of soybeans, soaking his entire body in an instant, but due to the intense friction and breaking of bones inside his body, a huge amount of heat was generated, instantly steaming his body dry.

At this moment, he was like a furnace between heaven and earth, with all the bones in his body being the Magic Artifacts being refined, undergoing the final and most crucial polishing!

When finished, it would be the Divinity Transformation Realm!

Boom, boom, boom, this time, uncontrollable thunderous roars emitted from his body, as if the heavens and earth were imparting sacred doctrines.

Radiant light formed around Zhou Heng, continuously twining around him, elevating him as if an Immortal descending to the mortal world, sacred and solemn, invoking an endless awe from the depths of one’s soul.

Physically breaking through to the Divinity Transformation Realm was to forcefully shatter the shackles of heaven and earth with brutal strength, unrelated to the great Tao of heaven and earth, therefore, it did not earn the recognition of heaven and earth, causing vibrations that could shake the whole planet. However, the Divinity Transformation Realm was still the Divinity Transformation Realm, and at this moment, Zhou Heng was like a Magic Artifact of the Divinity Transformation Realm about to be completed, similarly manifesting anomalies.

"This is——"

Black Donkey and Mo Keyan, along with the others, all ran over. By this time, they naturally noticed Zhou Heng’s unusual state. Such scenes, not to say they had never seen before, they had never even heard of it!

"Is he breaking through to the Divinity Transformation Realm?"

"Yes, if not so, how could there be signs of the great Tao on him?"

"But if it’s a breakthrough to the Divinity Transformation Realm, why is there no Taoist Power fluctuation? This doesn’t make sense."

"Trying to explain the events occurring to this freakish being using reason?"

"This... indeed!"

But Black Donkey paid no heed to all this; instead, it was the most composed at this time, promptly expanding its own domain to control the anomalies emitted by Zhou Heng within a limited area.

Now was a critical period in Zhou Heng’s breakthrough. If Shui Dongliu and others were disturbed and came to investigate, even if Zhou Heng wouldn’t necessarily become deranged, he would definitely lose the critical opportunity for advancement.

However, Black Donkey, although serious for once, had underestimated Zhou Heng. Although physically reaching the Divinity Transformation Realm was not as supreme as the true King Level prowess in spiritual power, there wasn’t any danger of becoming deranged. He could stop when he wanted, start when he wished, as long as he had enough metal essence for Zhou Heng to devour.

In everything, there is gain and there is loss, but with a loss also comes gain!

Seven days later, every single bone in Zhou Heng’s body had shattered into slag, reaching a state of being irrevocably broken.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

His heart powerfully thumped, as if two armies were battling and striking war drums, earth-shattering, piercing straight to the heart!

Boom!

With every heartbeat, a large amount of fresh blood was sent to every corner of his body, rapidly reassembling the shattered bones.

Boom!

Thirty percent!

Boom!

Seventy percent!

Boom!

One hundred percent!

Zhou Heng suddenly opened his eyes, shooting out a fierce light, pfft pfft pfft, directly piercing through the body of this King Level Puppet, looking off into the infinite distance.

Divine Bones reset, ascension to Heavenly Venerate!

"My goodness!" Whether it was the three experts from the Sea Clan or Black Donkey, seeing this scene, they all opened their mouths wide, emitting an incredulous exclamation! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at QiDian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)