Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 563 - 542

Chapter 563: 542

Zhou Heng stepped forward, advancing towards the four Moonlight Sovereigns with a murderous look in his eyes that overflowed and converted into icy chills, freezing the air and turning it into descending ice crystals.

"Die!"

He wielded the Black Sword, sweeping towards the four Moonlight Sovereigns all at once.

Sword Breaking the Heavens!

At this point, his battle power had already exceeded that of a Seven Wheels Moonlight Sovereign, so why would he need to use the Sky-soaring Nine Forms to slaughter several Four Wheels and Three Wheels Moonlight Sovereigns?

Black light filled the sky, like an immensely evil behemoth erupting from the void, set on a murderous spree.

"Break!" The four Moonlight Sovereigns joined forces, with their Fourteen Wheels Half Moon shining bright enough to move heaven and earth.

Regrettably, strength isn’t simply the sum of the brightness of the moons, and even though their combined force could easily shatter that of a Five Wheels Moonlight Sovereign, what to say of the current Zhou Heng?

As the Black Sword swept by, everything instantly froze in stillness.

Zhou Heng sheathed the Black Sword, glanced around into the distance, and saw the Moonlight Emperor from the Meng Family rushing over rapidly. He burst into laughter and said, "For today that’s enough, I’ll come back tomorrow!"

He executed the Swift Cloud Radiant Step and disappeared in an instant.

Only then did the four Moonlight Sovereigns collapse onto the ground, blood gushing from their hearts, each of them devoid of life.

Struck at the vital spot by the Black Sword, death was certain!

Whoosh, not even ten seconds after Zhou Heng had left, a figure descended, an old man appearing to be about seventy years of age with snow-white hair and even white beard and eyebrows.

He was Meng Ye, one of the two great Moonlight Emperors of the Meng Family, who had entered the Third Layer Heaven of the Moonlight Realm more than ten thousand years ago and had now achieved Five Wheels Full Moon!

However, he wasn’t the foremost expert of the Meng Family. Another Moonlight Emperor, Meng Tianjun, was over thirty thousand years old and nearing the end of his lifespan, yet he was still confined to the Seven Wheels Moonlight Emperor level.

Every breakthrough in the Moonlight Realm grants an additional ten thousand years to one’s lifespan, and a breakthrough into the Sunshine Realm would add twenty thousand years for each minor realm!

If Meng Tianjun could take that crucial step, not only would he enter the Sunshine Realm and gain an extra twenty thousand years of life, but the entire family would also rise to a new height.

Alas, in Hai Immortal City, those capable of taking this crucial step were pitifully few.

As Meng Ye landed, his expression turned extremely dark upon seeing the nine corpses on the ground.

"What the hell happened here?" he turned his fiery gaze, like flaming daggers, towards the Qi Shengguang couple and the third person.

How many years had it been? How many years since their family had faced such a blatant provocation? Not only had the perpetrator killed Fan Tong, but now he had directly challenged the dignity of the Meng Family. A true death wish!

Under the oppressive might of the Moonlight Emperor, the Qi Shengguang couple, despite hating the Meng Family to the core, dared not act out; they recounted everything that had happened earlier in full.

With their roots here and their loved ones as well, how could they muster the courage to resist the Meng Family?

Meng Ye’s eyebrows twitched as an idea suddenly struck him.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh, more experts from the Meng Family were rapidly arriving.

"Take these three prisoners, hang them at the market entrance tomorrow!" Meng Ye said coldly, ruthless and unfeeling, placing the family’s interests above all else, indifferent to everything else.

"Yes!"

Even though the rest didn’t understand Meng Ye’s intention, they dare not defy the orders of the Moonlight Emperor Old Ancestor.

"No——" the screams and curses of the Qi Shengguang family rose, but to no avail; they were immediately taken away.

"Kid, you think you’re so righteous? I’ll dig a pit for you and see if you’ll jump in," Meng Ye muttered to himself, his eyes gleaming with murderous intent.

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Zhou Heng hurried away. He now possessed peak-level Moonlight Emperor strength, and the speed of his Swift Cloud Radiant Step had greatly increased. However, he didn’t return to where Yang Lanxin and the two other women were; despite his strong confidence, it wasn’t necessary to expose their whereabouts.

He intended to become an Asura, forcing the Meng Family to experience the sensation of a blade hanging over their necks.

After replenishing his Spiritual Power, Zhou Heng began the Refinement of the Life Essence Qi within the Black Sword.

Despite having slaughtered four Moonlight Sovereigns, his current strength was too mighty, and the Black Sword had absorbed only Life Essence Qi, not direct Spiritual Power, which wasn’t enough to help Zhou Heng break through to the Second Layer Heaven of the Moonlight Realm.

From a King to an Emperor, that barrier was incomparably solid, and throughout history, countless Immortals had perished against it.

Yet, Zhou Heng didn’t care in the slightest. Even if his comprehension was extremely poor, there was still the Fire Divine Furnace. As long as he had the right materials, that thing could concoct any Pill, including those that could help one break through realms.

Of course, it was better to consume as few Pills that forcefully helped one to break through as possible, because that insight didn’t belong to oneself. If one could gradually integrate and comprehend after advancing, it might be okay; otherwise, it’s very likely one wouldn’t be able to control their own power, and that would be a sure path to death.

Complete annihilation of both body and spirit!

Typically, such Pills are only used when close to death and unable to break through—after all, if not breaking through meant death, what else was there to choose?

Luckily for Zhou Heng, although his physical aptitude was not the best, his talent for comprehension was astoundingly high! Originally, when he was just at the Body Refinement First Layer, he was already capable of learning and mastering the Sky-soaring Nine Forms—which goes beyond the scope of Immortal Techniques, representing the supreme truth of the Heavenly Dao!

The fact that a completely ordinary mortal could learn and master an Immortal Technique indicated the fearsome level of Zhou Heng’s comprehension.

Going from the Moonlight First Layer Heaven to the Second Layer Heaven represented a monumental change. Fusing seven Wheels of the Waning Moon with one and a half Wheels of the Bright Moon involved significant alterations within the Dantian Space and marked a tremendous leap in understanding.

The greatest disadvantage for Zhou Heng was the lack of a master to guide him in the overall direction, leaving him to feel his way through on his own. As a result, he could potentially head in the wrong direction.

He did not rise from his seat but sat silently, waiting for the sky to brighten and then darken once more.

However, he was not resting, instead, he was contemplating the Sky-soaring Nine Forms, the most powerful technique currently at his disposal.

After advancing to the Moonlight Realm and becoming an Immortal, he was finally capable of executing the last of the Sky-soaring Nine Forms, the Nine Forms as One, with immense power! Considering Zhou Heng’s frightening accumulation of Spiritual Power, the Sky-soaring Nine Forms allowed him to merge nine blades into one, unleashing all that Spiritual Power in an instant!

This burst of explosive force could definitely pose a deadly threat even to the Moonlight Imperial Capital!

If Mo Yuyan had not died back then, it was simply because Zhou Heng was not strong enough! Had she faced his current Twenty-One Wheels Moon combined with the advantageous timing and location of that time, Mo Yuyan would have undoubtedly been pierced through the heart by a single sword thrust!

Being struck by the Black Sword’s critical blow meant certain death!

Just what level did this Sky-soaring Nine Forms belong to?

Zhou Heng had a feeling that it even surpassed the level of Immortal Techniques, placing it on a higher plane like Huo Tian’s Bone Talisman, belonging to a more advanced set of techniques!

It could potentially be a technique that controlled the Heavenly Dao, or at the very least, one capable of contesting the Heavenly Dao!

As Zhou Heng watched and meditated on such a high-level technique, his Deity-like presence continued to grow, enhancing his comprehension of the primordial universe by leaps and bounds, greatly benefiting him.

Soon, daylight came, and just as quickly, night returned.

Zhou Heng stood up. Once again under the cover of night, he would transform into a god of death, brandishing the Blade of Death.

An hour later, he found himself back at the marketplace.

Hm?

His gaze sharpened as he saw a scaffold set up at the eastern entrance of the market, with three people hanging from it—a man and two women, namely Qi Shengguang and his family of three.

What did this mean?

Were they using these three as bait to lure him into attempting a rescue, then spring a trap to ensnare and annihilate him?

Zhou Heng sneered; he was no gentleman.

He had no desire to save the world or a heart to rescue the masses.

If he encountered injustice, he would intervene; if he met villains, he’d unleash his slaughtering blade. Everything followed his heart’s desire, never to yield or compromise for anything.

Today, he would kill many!

Like a ghost, Zhou Heng entered the marketplace, executing the Swift Cloud Radiant Step, his movements secretive, his battle power unleashed. Unless facing a peak-level Moonlight Sovereign, none would be a match for him; they would be cut down by the Black Sword without even a chance to sound an alarm.

The Meng Family knew Zhou Heng had arrived, and they knew he was killing, yet even with two Moonlight Emperors, they could not locate him.

—The marketplace was too vast, with a population of at least several million. It was an impossible task to find Zhou Heng among so many people!

Zhou Heng’s slaughter continued until the sky began to lighten, and only then did he put away his blade.

Before leaving the marketplace, he proclaimed aloud, "Listen up, you Meng Family curs, don’t involve unrelated people in our grudges, or tomorrow I will kill twice as many!"

Although Meng Ye and Meng Tianjun heard him and chased after him urgently, Zhou Heng had already executed the Swift Cloud Radiant Step, disappearing a hundred li away in an instant. They gave chase briefly, but with Zhou Heng’s speed not the least bit inferior to theirs, after half an hour, they lost him.

When the two Old Ancestors returned to their clan to tally up the losses, their expressions were dark and sullen.

For the Meng Family had lost a staggering one hundred thirty-six members to Zhou Heng the previous day, including forty-seven Immortals and even a Six Wheels Moonlight Sovereign!

The casualties were severe!

After this battle, the entire Meng Family was filled with fear and trepidation, previously thinking that Zhou Heng was just a minor irritant, just how much could a flea leap in the face of their clan’s power?

But now, even a Six Wheels Moonlight Sovereign had perished at Zhou Heng’s hand, almost instantaneously, as there was no time to send any message!

So, it seemed even a Seven Wheels Moonlight Sovereign would be no match for Zhou Heng, and only the two Old Ancestors could suppress him.

Yet Zhou Heng was slippery, never engaging the two Moonlight Emperors directly. What were they to do? Their lives mattered as well!

This youngster, just what kind of monster was he, being only a Moonlight King yet able to take down Seven Wheels Moonlight Sovereigns?

On the third day, Zhou Heng appeared again, and this time he took away the lives of two hundred eighty-four members of the Meng Family—inclusive of both clan members and those others who had pledged allegiance to the Meng Family.

On the fourth day, another three hundred twenty-seven were killed.

The fourth day... the fifth day...

After seven days, the entire Meng Family was in complete disarray. At night, they dared not set foot outside to patrol, for only by staying inside could the two Moonlight Emperor Old Ancestors keep them safe.

Who would have thought, before this, that the Meng Family, with its Moonlight Emperor Old Ancestors to awe the region, would be thrown into such chaos by a lone Moonlight King?

"Elders, there’s a group at the gate requesting an audience; they claim to be from the Mo Family and wish to discuss something important with the Old Ancestors!" (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian.com to vote and support me. Readers on mobile, please go to m.qidian.com to continue reading.)