Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 516 - 500 Ascending to Immortality (3/3)

Chapter 516: Chapter 500 Ascending to Immortality (3/3)

For every martial artist, advancing to the Three Tribulations Quasi-Immortal is not the end but merely a new beginning.

This stage is just a stepping stone!

Zhou Heng didn’t stand up; his inner world, having successfully completed the nourishment by deities, began to undergo drastic changes.

Boom!

A tremendous roar spread throughout the entire continent, deafening and powerful. This was the sound of the Dao, allowing everyone to become closer to the Dao during this time and comprehend mysteries that they could never grasp before.

As the saying goes, when one person attains the Dao, all those connected ascend with them; under Zhou Heng’s blessing, the entire Dragon River Continent reaped the benefits!

Zhou Heng, however, had no time to care about this as his inner world was experiencing entirely new changes.

Just as with advancing from the Spirit Sea Realm to the Nascent Soul Realm, the difficulty does not lie in moving from Spirit Sea to Nascent Soul; the key lies in the formation of a deity. Once the deity is formed, everything else naturally falls into place with time; there is no need to do anything to form the Divine Fetus.

The same applies from the Divinity Transformation Realm to the Immortal Realm; as long as one comprehends the path of creation, with each step deeper, the deity naturally overcomes three divine tribulations. That way, with sufficient spiritual energy, the road to becoming immortal is unobstructed.

Zhou Heng’s consciousness sank into his inner world; the golden figurine opened its eyes to peer far into the distance, only to see that on the continent within his Dantian World, everything was evaporating.

It wasn’t water vapor evaporating, but spiritual power!

Rising continuously straight towards the sky, like nine plumes of wolf smoke, but made of spiritual power.

What was going on?

Although Zhou Heng had heard about the general process of becoming immortal from the Old Madman, the Old Madman couldn’t possibly tell him every single detail of each step—at least he didn’t know this one!

Whether he liked it or not, at this point, he no longer had control; the spiritual power bubbled up from the ground like a fountain, gathering in the sky to form nine white spots!

This was far from over!

From the Spirit Gathering Realm all the way up, Open Heaven, Land Cleaving, forming mountains and rivers, Zhou Heng’s inner world might only have one continent, but this continent was complete, albeit small—lacking only the most basic lifeforms, much like the Fairy Continent that was sent flying: it had everything but life.

In Zhou Heng’s own continent, every mountain range, every lake, every sea was his storage room—the storage of, naturally, spiritual power.

His Dantian space was ten thousand times larger than that of a Heavenly Venerate of the same realm, essentially because the mainland of this inner world was much larger.

How terrifying is a Heavenly Venerate?

With a lift of their hands and a flick of their feet, they could split mountains and seas, annihilating entire cities!

So, how terrifying was the spiritual power contained within Zhou Heng’s inner world? Now, all that spiritual power was continuously being siphoned away, gathering in the sky to form nine dots!

What level of concentration was this?

Zhou Heng felt his body seemed about to expand to the point of bursting. Yet, on the outside, there was no change in his physique; the sensation was maddening, having strength without an outlet, an unbearable discomfort!

Since Huo Tian made no move, it meant that the current process was quite normal.

Zhou Heng calmed his mind; his greatest weakness was the lack of a teacher—not someone to teach him how to cultivate, but to explain the situation of each Martial Realm, so he wouldn’t be feeling his way forward in the dark as he was now, not knowing where was deep and where was shallow!

Even worse, he was like a blind man, not even knowing how far away the other side of the river was!

This feeling was really frustrating!

Zhou Heng was considering whether to join a sect and find a convenient master to understand the basics once he entered the Immortal Realm.

He couldn’t do anything right now, so he could only engage in such muddled thoughts.

One day, two days, three days; the spiritual power on the inner world’s mainland was almost completely drained!

If someone attacked Zhou Heng now, all he could mobilize was his brutal strength and deity, as his terrifying spiritual power was no longer under his command but had instead become nine small dots. He truly didn’t know what they were for!

Hum!

The nine dots released their power at the same time, attracting the golden figurine. It settled amidst the nine white spots, radiating golden divine luminosity, corresponding to the nine beams of white light, forming a pattern beyond verbal description, filled with an air of nobility and majesty.

Supreme and inviolable!

Yet Zhou Heng was almost jumping with frustration; he could no longer utilize his spiritual power, and now even his deity was being hijacked. Was this the path to immortality or a plundering raid?

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. The golden figurine’s body overflowed with golden light, constantly pouring into those nine white spots!

–– These nine white spots, having absorbed so much of Zhou Heng’s spiritual power, were still not satisfied and were even extracting power from his deity!

Robbers, hoodlums!

Zhou Heng shouted in his heart, but he could feel that the nine white spots bore no malice towards him. Instead, the more power these nine white spots absorbed, the more benefits he reaped!

He didn’t know why he had such a thought, but he had an intuition that it was correct.

The nine white spots, unashamed and unapologetic, crazily absorbed the power of the golden figurine. No matter how powerful Zhou Heng’s deity was, it couldn’t withstand such a voracious consumption, and even worse, it was carried out by nine hoodlums at once. The divine radiance even began to dim!

Zhou Heng panicked; they better not drain his deity completely!

Heart racing, the golden figurine hurriedly brought out the Star Core, as if to argue, "Nine big brothers, stop sucking from me, take this little guy instead. Don’t underestimate its size; it’s brimming with power. As long as you’re not afraid of bursting from it, just keep sucking, to your heart’s content."

But the nine white spots completely disregarded the Star Core, focusing only on ravenously absorbing from the golden figurine.

Although the golden figurine appeared to be a person, it was actually Zhou Heng’s consciousness. Having his own consciousness continuously drained—though it was just the power—felt like having fat forcibly extracted from a fat person’s body; who could bear that?

Zhou Heng was instantly covered in cold sweat; the golden figurine was in an extremely weakened state, no longer shining with divine radiance, resembling a candle flickering in the wind, possibly extinguishing at any moment.

This couldn’t continue; if it did, his deity would vanish!

As if hearing his words, the nine white dots greedily absorbing energy suddenly stopped!

Zhou Heng was pleased, but nearly spat out a mouthful of blood immediately after, because the golden figure was almost completely drained of its power, the remaining bit of strength possibly not even enough to lift a cup!

They really were quite impolite!

Zhou Heng felt like crying without tears, as the key point was that after all this effort, he still had no idea what the purpose of the nine white dots was.

Hum! Hum! Hum!

The nine white dots suddenly emitted a magnificent light, with soft white beams tinged with gold, radiating a sense of sanctity and nobility.

Thieves!

Zhou Heng lamented in his heart, the white light naturally was his Spiritual Power, while the gold was his force of Deities.

The nine white dots hovered above the continent in his Dantian Space, releasing dazzling rays of light, growing stronger and more intense, turning into nine suns, so bright that even Zhou Heng couldn’t helped but close his eyes.

This was the Dantian Space, and the eyes Zhou Heng closed were naturally not his physical eyes, but rather his consciousness pausing for a moment. When he regained his senses, he felt his Inner World start shaking once again.

In the Dantian Space, that continent which had been opened up during the Land Cleaving Realm began to transform.

Bending and continuously bending, it was astonishingly evolving from a flat expanse of land into a spherical shape!

This was...the evolution from a continent into a planet!

Zhou Heng was profoundly shaken. There was an essential difference between continents and planets.

Only a planet could nurture life, evolve myriad things, possessing endless possibilities! Whereas a continent... was just an expanse of land.

Boom, boom, boom, massive sounds thundered inside Zhou Heng’s body, the formation of a planet naturally filled with earth-shattering noise.

This sound spread throughout the Dragon River Continent.

For a moment, flowers blossomed in unison, flocks of birds sang, and rainbow lights streaked across the sky, as if witnessing a miracle!

"Someone is becoming an Immortal!" Across various places on the continent, there were always ancient beings who, upon seeing this spectacle, trembled and spoke, then dug out ancient books passed down from times long past, comparing with the descriptions within them.

"So the legends of the Immortal are true!"

"I, Huang Mao, swear that I must become an Immortal!"

"Dad, Mom, your child will go seek a master, and after becoming Immortal, I will take both of you to the Immortal Realm, to enjoy eternal bliss!"

Across different places of the continent, numerous youths, upon hearing the legend of becoming Immortal, resolutely set out on the Cultivation path with becoming Immortal as their goal, undeterred unto death.

One can only say, the power of an example is boundless!

Returning to Zhou Heng.

The evolution of a planet naturally took an extremely long time, even if it exhausted Zhou Heng’s lifespan, it would be unlikely to witness its completion. Thankfully, all of this was happening in the Inner World, where the speed was naturally countless times faster.

Just three days later, the continent within Zhou Heng’s body transformed into a planet; whoosh, the golden figure flashed, entering the core of the planet, clasping onto the Star Core with both hands, a force was invoked, and the planet actually began to rotate!

Then, the golden figure hugged the Star Core tightly, greedily absorbing energy to replenish the drained power.

Hum, hum, hum!

The nine white dots once again radiated blinding light, and boom, above Zhou Heng’s head, the void cracked open, revealing a completely foreign world. Terrifying streams of Spiritual Energy surged wildly, entering Zhou Heng’s body.

Refreshing!

Spiritual Energy flowed through his body as if he was receiving a massage, so comfortable that Zhou Heng truly wanted to moan in pleasure. But before he could delight in it, he realized that most of the Spiritual Energy was absorbed by the nine white dots, leaving only a tiny portion to nourish the golden figure at the core of the planet.

Rascals, thieves, will this ever end!

The nine white dots, however, paid no heed to Zhou Heng’s lamentations and simply continued to draw in the Spiritual Energy, far surpassing the energy level of the Mortal Realm!

This was... the Spiritual Energy of the Immortal Realm!

Zhou Heng suddenly had an epiphany, he had passed the Three Tribulations of Deities, in fact, he had already become an Immortal!

But despite being an Immortal, why had his strength not massively increased, but instead weakened by tens of thousands of times? To whom could he even complain about this?

Hum—

After absorbing a vast amount of Spiritual Energy, the nine white dots finally began their metamorphosis, trembling and elongating at both ends. Under Zhou Heng’s astonished gaze, they transformed into nine crescent moons!

Moonlight in the First Layer Heaven, forming the Waning Moon!

Had he achieved the status of Moonlight King?

Boom!

Just then, the nine crescents moons exploded with terrifying power, filling Zhou Heng’s body, not only fully restoring his strength but also unknowably multiplying it by how many times!

Clang!

A dark crack in the void appeared with a loud noise!

—Zhou Heng’s power had reached the Immortal Level, no longer fitting for the Mortal Realm!

(End of the Mortal Realm Chapter)

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