Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 550 - 529: The Strange Pill Furnace (1/5)

Chapter 550: Chapter 529: The Strange Pill Furnace (1/5)

"Don’t forget, you are my subordinate!" Yang Lanxin decided to assert her position as the master and sternly said to Zhou Heng, "Now, hurry up and figure out a way to lift the restrictions on me!"

Zhou Heng scratched his head and said, "I’m good at undressing, but as for lifting restrictions... that’s tough!"

What kind of answer was that!

Yang Lanxin really wanted to smack Zhou Heng, seeing his carefree demeanor stirred some burgeoning queenly traits inside her.

"Scram, if you don’t lift the restrictions for me, don’t even dream about getting in my bed for the rest of your life!" She erupted, beating and kicking Zhou Heng out of her room.

After Zhou Heng stepped out of the room, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Damn charm poison, had it not been for it, would he have been so eager to get with Yang Lanxin earlier! Now that he had kissed her and touched her chest, the only thing left was to follow through, but if he were to just walk away now, even Zhou Heng would despise himself.

A man has his inescapable responsibilities!

Staying in the inn clearly wouldn’t solve any problem, so Zhou Heng walked out leisurely.

Actually, lifting the restrictions on Yang Lanxin was quite simple; all he needed was to find a Moonlight Emperor. But he was a stranger in a strange land; where was he to find a Moonlight Emperor?

This was North Hai City, where the Moonlight Emperor was powerful enough to reign supreme. If he were to carelessly ask someone for help, being kicked out was the least of his problems; if he encountered someone with a bad temper, they might even kill him!

—In the Immortal Realm, the barriers between realms are clear-cut; how can a mere Moonlight King have the qualifications to speak to a Moonlight Emperor?

Just like in the Mortal Realm, what would happen if an ordinary citizen brazenly asked a high official to do something for them?

For the Moonlight Emperor, lifting the restrictions on Yang Lanxin’s body was a mere trifle, but the crucial point was that they wouldn’t just lend a hand so easily!

Hum!

As he was thinking, the Black Sword inside his Dantian suddenly vibrated, pointing in a specific direction.

A treasure!

After arriving in the Immortal Realm, the Black Sword, now a very picky fellow, had reacted only once when it discovered the Heavenly Mysterious Spirit Crystal. Facts had proven that it was indeed a treasure!

It could stabilize a Bone Talisman, possibly exceeding the category of an Immortal Object and reaching the level of a Heavenly Dao Treasure!

It was a treasure accessible only to beings of the Huo Tian rank!

—Without the Rune on the top of his head, could Zhou Heng absorb the Heavenly Mysterious Spirit Crystal? Obviously, the answer was no.

Now, the Black Sword was reacting again; could it be that it had discovered another Heavenly Mysterious Spirit Crystal?

If he could complete the Bone Talisman, even though he might not reach the heights of Huo Tian, with a single sacrifice of the Bone Talisman, he could annihilate beings in the Creation Realm as if in play! What he was most short of now was strength, otherwise he wouldn’t have been imprisoned like a dog by the Mo Family for months!

Zhou Heng followed the direction indicated by the Black Sword and soon arrived at a Blacksmith Shop.

There were all sorts of messy items here; a small part of them were weapons, but the majority were items like pots and hoes. However, most of these metals, materials of the Nascent Soul and Divine Infant realm, would be treasures in the Mortal Realm but were regarded as the most trivial goods in the Immortal Realm.

Zhou Heng, already possessing a Moonlight King level body yielded from Cultivation, found these metals of no use to him anymore.

The Black Sword was pointing right at this place!

This meant that among these pots and hoes, there was a treasure that could even make the Black Sword react!

"Good day, sir. What do you need?" As a customer approached, the owner of the Blacksmith Shop came out to greet him, a robust man in his thirties with muscles coiling like dragons and a brutal strength that even reached the Divine Infant level, a practitioner of Body Cultivation.

No, not Body Cultivation, rather his physique had become incredibly strong through years of physical labor, approximately reaching the level of the Divine Infant Realm.

This was the Immortal Realm; under the nourishment of dense Spiritual Energy, even an ordinary blacksmith could possess the brutal strength of the Divine Infant level! If he could go to the Mortal Realm, he could absolutely dominate a region!

Zhou Heng smiled and said, "I’m just looking around!"

The muscular man sensed the vast, boundless power emanating from Zhou Heng, so he didn’t dare to rush or evict him, smiling as he said, "Feel free to browse and let me know if you find anything you like!"

Zhou Heng nodded and started to sift through the items, one at a time, in no hurry at all.

After all, the treasure wasn’t going anywhere.

After he had gone through about a third of the iron implements, the Black Sword suddenly trembled again.

Could this be it?

Zhou Heng examined the furnace in his hand, which was entirely turquoise and looked exceedingly ordinary on the outside. The furnace was only slightly larger than a teapot and from its shape... it closely resembled a pill furnace.

But as a pill furnace, wasn’t it a bit small?

Moreover... Zhou Heng flicked the furnace, producing a crisp yet very solid sound, indicating it was made of metal. However, his Gold Devouring Clan bloodline showed no reaction whatsoever.

No matter the grade of the metal, his Gold Devouring Clan bloodline should have been able to sense it, with only the strength of the reaction varying. Extremely precious metals would make him feel as though he had been starving for days and nights, making him eager to devour it immediately.

Ordinary metals were like food he’d grown tired of, utterly uninteresting to him.

Yet this pill furnace, his Gold Devouring Clan bloodline completely ignored it as if it didn’t sense it at all.

If it could cause even the Black Sword to react, this pill furnace was definitely a treasure. Now that it had even bypassed the Gold Devouring Clan’s bloodline, even a fool like Zhou Heng would realize the extraordinariness of this pill furnace!

"Boss, where did this pill furnace come from?" Zhou Heng asked the muscular man.

"Let me think..." The muscular man scratched his head and thought for a while before finally slapping his forehead, saying, "I remember now, I obtained this more than thirty years ago. I tried to sell it for several years but couldn’t, and I was originally planning to melt it down to make iron pots. But no matter what, I wasn’t able to melt it!"

"So it’s been sitting here ever since!"

This treasure would have been utterly disappointing if a mundane fire could melt it!

Zhou Heng smiled and said, "Name your price, I’ll take it!"

The muscular man’s face brightened immediately, saying, "Customer, what do you think... how about three lower-grade Immortal Stones?"

He had been unable to sell this furnace for a long time, and seeing that Zhou Heng seemed interested, he opened his mouth wide with his pricing, knowing well that one standard lower-grade Immortal Stone could buy any of a hundred items in his shop.

Zhou Heng knew that this fellow was trying to fleece him, but in truth, given the real value of this treasure, three lower-grade Immortal Stones was indeed a bargain! He quickly took out three Immortal Stones and tossed them over, then collected the pill furnace.

He would take it back and study it slowly.

Seeing how readily Zhou Heng agreed, the muscular man couldn’t help but show a hint of regret, wishing he had asked for a higher price.

Zhou Heng smiled slightly and said, "Buddy, one shouldn’t be too greedy, right?"

The muscular man was startled, as three lower-grade Immortal Stones were already a considerable fortune for him! And since the customer didn’t even haggle but just threw out three Immortal Stones, how could he afford to offend such a person?

If he became too greedy, it could potentially lead to fatal trouble!

With this thought, he suddenly broke out into a cold sweat.

After Zhou Heng left the blacksmith shop, he no longer felt like wandering around and immediately headed back to his residence. He wanted to return to the inn to carefully study this pill furnace and figure out why the Black Sword had reacted to it.

"Hmm?" After walking a distance, a very strange sensation suddenly surged in his heart, prompting him to pause and try to sense it carefully, but the feeling was already gone.

What was that about?

Zhou Heng paused for a while and then started off again.

...

In the sky above the marketplace, a figure flew swiftly past, nine white suns blazing fiercely behind him.

In the Sunshine Realm’s three Minor Layer Heavens, the Red Sun is the king, the Purple Sun is the emperor, and the White Sun is the supreme! Advancing one level every seven, this person’s White Sun was exceptionally pure, and he also possessed Nine Wheels Sun, indicating not only was he a Sunshine Emperor, but also a person of extraordinary talent to have formed Nine Wheels Sun!

It was a stocky muscular man moving at high speed as if capable of ignoring the frightful gravity of the Immortal Realm. As he swept past the marketplace, his figure suddenly paused, muttering to himself, "Strange, why do I sense the bloodline power of my clan?"

"There shouldn’t be any of my kinsmen here!"

"Ah, I’d better kill that villain first. I have been chasing him for years, and I must not let him escape this time! After I kill that villain, I’ll come back and search. The strength of that bloodline power is not strong, at most only at the Moonlight King’s cultivation level, so it will be easy to find him!"

"That’s settled then!"

The muscular man resumed his motion and disappeared in an instant.

(This is modified filler content because the word count was already determined, and any changes had to exceed the original word count. Apologies for any inconvenience!)