Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 498 - 482

Chapter 498: 482

Shameless! Utterly shameless!

Linghu Xuan had done his fair share of shameless things in his life, but compared to the treacherous donkey before him, he felt as pure and noble as a snow lotus on Heaven Mountain, utterly immaculate!

How could it be so shameless and, moreover, shameless with such brazen righteousness!

Linghu Xuan stared at Black Donkey, dumbfounded, while the Black Donkey’s face showed no embarrassment and his heart did not skip a beat, appearing completely innocent.

"You, you, you—" Linghu Xuan pointed at Black Donkey. Even though this young master was usually unreasonable, confronted with such a limitlessly shameless creature as Black Donkey, he was utterly defeated.

"Feeling guilty now! Hmph, just standby if you’ve lost the argument; don’t delay Donkey Master from making a fortune!" Black Donkey beamed with joy, then put his hind hooves on the ground, hugged the stone table with his front hooves, kicked up his butt, and tried to pry off the Azure Sky Stone with all his might.

But no matter how hard it tried, the stone table wouldn’t budge, and instead, the donkey was left sweating profusely from the effort.

"Hahaha!" After feeling aggrieved for a while, Mysterious Fox Xuan eventually burst into a triumphant laughter.

That’s right, this was the bedroom of an Immortal Realm Big Shot; how could anything here be so easily taken away! If the treasure had been a teapot or a jade cup on the table, then sure, it would be a breeze to collect.

But this was a table, and even if it hadn’t been personally crafted by the Creation King himself, it was crafted by some other expert in the Immortal Realm. How could it be moved by a Nascent Soul Realm nobody like Black Donkey?

"Zhou, you try!" After Black Donkey struggled futilely for a good ten minutes, it finally called for backup, unwilling to give up, "If you manage to take it out for me, Donkey Master will give you one-tenth!"

Upon hearing this, even Zhou Heng felt like giving the Black Donkey a good thrashing. He had never seen such a stingy donkey!

Greedy, stingy, shameless!

Zhou Heng gave it a try but then shook his head, saying, "No use!"

"What? How can a man say ’no use’? Try again!" Black Donkey’s face was full of anger.

"Black Donkey, are you really asking for a beating?" Zhou Heng cracked his knuckles, thinking that the Black Donkey was getting too arrogant, even trying to boss him around!

"Hehe, come on, we’re all friends here!" In Black Donkey’s view, dignity was certainly something that could be discarded at any time. It immediately plastered on a smile, "Try again, hehe, please!"

Zhou Heng walked away with his hands behind his back, while Black Donkey hurriedly followed, step by step, like a servile dog.

Linghu Xuan made a gesture to Liu Anqi, who got the hint and immediately went to pull on the Immortal table, but no matter how he summoned his strength, the stone table was immovable, as if grown from the ground.

Liu Anqi tried several more times, his face turning beet-red from effort, yet still, he could not budge the stone table even slightly.

He released his grip in defeat, a look of dejection on his face, and said to Linghu Xuan, "Young Master Xuan, I am useless!"

Linghu Xuan also sighed. What could they do when the Immortal Palace had fallen to the Mortal Realm? Even the power of Immortals was suppressed to the pinnacle of the Mortal Realm, there was simply no solution!

Without a doubt, the Creation King must have often sat at this stone table for tea and drinks, using the Azure Sky Stone to meditate on great Tao. That was the Creation King himself, even if each time it was only cups and decanters being placed down, there was a flow of Taoist power. Over time, the stone table must have integrated with the entire Immortal Palace.

The only way to extract the Azure Sky Stone was to pack up the entire Immortal Palace and send it to the Mortal Realm, then have the family’s Big Shots use all their power to dig out the Azure Sky Stone.

Still, whether it would be successful or not was another matter!

And to transport the entire Immortal Palace into the Mortal Realm... Linghu Xuan’s face darkened. Don’t let the size of the Immortal Palace fool you. Regardless of size or weight, it was unimaginably larger and heavier than a person!

Did the Linghu Family have enough Immortal Stones to support the operation of the Realm Gate?

Absolutely not!

If they forced the operation, only one result awaited: the family’s fortunes would be completely drained, and the Immortal Palace wouldn’t reach the Immortal Realm but would instead be lost in the void, possibly to emerge only after countless years!

This kind of situation was not unheard of; otherwise, why would the Mortal Realm have lost so many relics from the Immortal Realm and not seen the Immortal Realm’s Big Shots come down to fight over them?

—The stronger one’s own power, the more Immortal Stones needed to pass through the Realm Gate! This was also why only Linghu Xuan and Liu Anqi had come down, to save Immortal Stones!

Besides, Immortals in the Mortal Realm are subject to the suppression of the heavenly dao, and their power is actually quite similar, differing only in physical strength. So what if a Creation Emperor was sent down to the Mortal Realm?

Practically no different from the battle power of the Moonlight King!

What a pity, a treasure right in front of them and yet all they could do was sigh in vain!

Linghu Xuan was a decisive person, and immediately said, "Let’s go, we proceed onward!"

Though they hadn’t been able to obtain the Azure Sky Stone, it had made him see the value of the Immortal Palace. So there was no need to sigh over nothing here; it was better to quickly search for other treasures!

He had witnessed Black Donkey’s shamelessness first-hand and dared not call on Zhou Heng again; he promptly left while the pair was still bickering.

The happiest about this outcome were Heavenly Venerate Qingyang and his two companions.

They were originally the strongest figures in the Mortal Realm but kept losing their say after meeting the freakish Zhou Heng and the descended Immortal, Liu Anqi. What use was finding treasures when they had no share in them?

At most, after others had their fill of meat, they might get some broth to sip on.

However, seeing Zhou Heng and Linghu Xuan leave without success naturally filled them with a sense of schadenfreude. People are strange like that; it’s not the poverty that bothers them as much as the inequality—true fairness is when no one gets anything.

After exchanging glances, they too left, but unlike Linghu Xuan and the others, they entered another palace door—following Linghu Xuan, they would at most get broth, but by taking their own path, they might yet find meat!

How could a Two Tribulations Quasi-Immortal not understand such a simple concept!

"Zhou, no need to act anymore, everyone has left!" Black Donkey said to Zhou Heng with a sly glint in its eyes.

Zhou Heng was startled and asked, "How did you know I was acting?" He thought he had been pretty convincing, at least Linghu Xuan and the others hadn’t noticed.

"Pah, I am the ancestor of deceivers, do you really think you can fool me, Zhou?" Black Donkey said with disdain, spitting out dismissively.

Damn, even this wretched donkey is looking down on me!

Zhou Heng sighed and decided not to argue with Black Donkey. Instead, he took out the Black Sword and said, "I can try to see if I’m able to cut the Azure Sky Stone!"

"How come I feel this is totally unreliable!" Black Donkey said hesitantly. The Azure Sky Stone was a treasure of the Immortal Realm. Even if the Black Sword was sharp, what could Zhou Heng’s current level of strength do?

"It’s more reliable than you!" Zhou Heng glared at it and said, the most unreliable guy actually dared to say others were unreliable—it was just laughable!

"Then let’s give it a try, no loss anyway!" Black Donkey immediately became excited.

Both it and Zhou Heng were absolutely pragmatic, what use was a treasure if you couldn’t pocket it? So who cares if the Azure Sky Stone gets damaged in the process—if they couldn’t obtain the treasure, everything else was meaningless.

Zhou Heng walked up to the stone table. He hadn’t used it in front of Linghu Xuan and the others because he didn’t want to alert them prematurely—if the Black Sword could cut through the Azure Sky Stone, wouldn’t it be even easier to chop off their necks?

By then, Liu Anqi surely wouldn’t dare to fight with Zhou Heng and would immediately tear through the void to escape back to the Immortal Realm!

"Donkey, set up a restriction so the sound here doesn’t get out!" As Zhou Heng was gathering his power, he still instructed the Black Donkey. If the sound of him slashing was too loud, it might attract others back.

"Understood! Understood!" Black Donkey quickly nodded and set up a Spiritual Power restriction with its hoof to ensure that the sounds within the area couldn’t spread out.

"Hey!"

After gathering enough strength, Zhou Heng slashed with his sword, unleashing countless ink-black sword shadows that merged into one in an instant, cutting towards the Azure Sky Stone.

The final move of the Feiyu Seven Swords, Sword Breaking the Heavens!

This was also the most powerful move among the Feiyu Seven Swords!

Clang!

A crisp ringing sound echoed, and Zhou Heng was forced to retreat ten steps, a flash of pale white crossing his face as he almost couldn’t hold onto the Black Sword—the recoil was too intense!

"It worked! Haha, it worked!" Black Donkey exclaimed excitedly after a quick glance at the leg of the table, where a sword mark, deep enough to reach an inch, was now visible!

Although the leg of the table was almost as thick as a person’s thigh, after several hundred slashes, they should be able to break through.

The thought of the treasure within reach naturally excited Black Donkey.

Zhou Heng gathered his Sword Intent again and slashed with his sword once more.

Ting ting ting ting, the crisp sounds continued as he slashed one stroke after another, devoid of any other thought in his mind.

After a dozen or so slashes, he suddenly paused.

Because this slash had made a deeper mark—okay, it was just a tiny bit deeper, but deeper was deeper, wouldn’t someone of his expertise notice such a minute difference?

The question was, why did this happen?

Every slash he made was in his optimum state; the force of each sword strike was absolutely the same. How could there be such a difference?

Zhou Heng executed a few more slashes, but none could achieve the state of the one before, as if that slash was divinely inspired.

I must find out the reason!

Zhou Heng tried again and again, his battle power was too strong; there was almost nothing that could stop him, and he never had to slash so continuously at the same object. This kind of trial was new to him.

Ding!

After thirty more slashes, Zhou Heng paused again—a deeper indentation was left by this strike.

So that was it!

He suddenly realized that it wasn’t about the force of the strike, but the angle of the cut that was different!

Cutting in from different angles, the toughness of the Azure Sky Stone seemed to vary—though the difference was slight!

Weakness!

Zhou Heng had an epiphany. Take sword moves, for example; any sword move had its weaknesses. If one could pinpoint this and also possess sufficient strength, even the most formidable sword move could be broken.

The two deepest slashes he made were precisely aimed at the structural weaknesses of the Azure Sky Stone.

If it’s the same for stones, what about people? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)