Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 758 - 735: Forced Retreat (1/3)

Chapter 758: Chapter 735: Forced Retreat (1/3)

Kong Aokun was simply too strong!

He was already a peerless genius of the Kong Family. After picking up a bit of the Blood River Heavenly Scripture, he turned himself into a frenzy resembling madness, yet this did not impact his strength. Upon his return to the Immortal Realm, he had mastered another Heavenly Scripture!

This was fate, something others could envy but never obtain.

In the mastery of Heavenly Scripture, he could be considered an expert plus some. Coupled with his peak level Sublimation Emperor power, it was tough for anyone within this realm to confront him.

Without unleashing the Sky-soaring Nine Forms, Zhou Heng not only had no chance of winning, but he didn’t stand a sliver of a chance of surviving!

Kong Aokun, a person of decisive killing, would never speak of past affections—he had already made it clear that he wanted Zhou Heng and Bing Xinzhu to hand over the Heavenly Scripture, something that was obviously impossible for either of them to agree to.

Therefore, given Kong Aokun’s temperament, he had already placed Zhou Heng and Bing Xinzhu on the list of people to be eradicated. Against enemies, he would never show mercy, only killing, only bloodshed.

Zhou Heng had no way out. Flee? How could he possibly escape in the presence of Kong Aokun, who also mastered the Swift Cloud Radiant Step?

Fight!

Zhou Heng drove the Black Sword, his movements peculiarly slow, as if he was not wielding a Broken Sword, but pushing the entire universe!

Kong Aokun finally showed a look of caution; he sensed the terrifying nature of Zhou Heng’s sword!

It was as if the entire universe collapsed and was reborn in an instant, evolving into extreme mysteries, so enchanting that even he felt like immersing in it! But he absolutely could not, otherwise, he would be slain!

"Black Iron Fury!" he bellowed, his fists thundering out, driving a vast expanse of black light that turned into innumerable black fists, wildly bombarding towards Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng’s form was as solid as a mountain, the Sword Intent of Sky-soaring Nine Forms inside him reaching its pinnacle; he struck with his sword!

The heavens and earth turned pitch black in an instant, as if a sword had extinguished the stars!

Black Sword unleashed!

No words could describe the might of this sword stroke, even Bing Xinzhu found herself breathless, her eyes filled with nothing but darkness, yet a shadow darker than night itself cleaved through the silence in the dark!

Sky-soaring Nine Forms could deplete Zhou Heng’s Spiritual Power in an instant!

Zhou Heng’s strength might only be comparable to a Low-Tier Sublimation Sovereign, but if all of these energies were unleashed at once, it was definitely something that would even make the Creation King take notice!

What was more terrifying was that the Black Sword had broken through the laws of the Huo Tian’s seal and was not restrained by the power of the highest Sublimation Emperor!

The might of this sword was enough to rival the Battle Power of the Creation King!

If this had taken place elsewhere, Kong Aokun could have ended it with a single punch, for he was the Creation King, and dissolving this sword strike would have been as easy as flipping his palm! But now it was different, he was subject to the laws imposed by Huo Tian and only possessed the power of a peak Sublimation Emperor.

From Sublimation Emperor to Creation King was an insurmountable gap!

He suddenly paled, could only operate the Swift Cloud Radiant Step to his maximum capability, and launched his strongest two punches!

Boom!

As the Black Sword passed by, the heavens and earth returned to their original form, and the valley flames boiled and burned once again; this was their world.

Kong Aokun staggered back a hundred steps, one hand pressed to his chest, fresh blood flowing unceasingly between his fingers, his face showing intense shock, his steps faltering as if he could fall at any moment.

In this strike, he had been gravely injured, the Black Sword having sliced open his chest, nearly shredding his heart!

But he was after all a hero of his generation, his strength was much higher than Zhou Heng, and with the profound mysteries of the Heavenly Scripture he had mastered, he managed to avoid his vital parts. Otherwise, had the Black Sword struck his heart, no matter how powerful he was as the Creation King, there wouldn’t have been any opportunity for his true body or Divine Aspect to transform, resulting in certain death!

Zhou Heng was also gasping for breath. After this sword stroke, his Spiritual Power was completely depleted. Had it not been for his physique reaching the level of a Sublimation King, he wouldn’t even be able to stand steadily now.

"Hmph!" Kong Aokun moved swiftly, actually rushing towards the three Extreme Flaming Earth Fruits.

"Over my dead body!" Bing Xinzhu drew her sword and slashed furiously, ting ting ting, the clash of sword against fist rang out, crisp yet full of penetrating force that shattered rocks.

Having sustained severe injuries, Kong Aokun failed to force Bing Xinzhu back. With a shout, he punched out, black light spreading like an ocean, its might soaring, shaking Bing Xinzhu back a bit, then seizing an Extreme Flaming Earth Fruit, he fled without looking back, blood spraying wildly as he went.

"Don’t chase, hurry and pluck the other two fruits, and let’s get out of here!" Zhou Heng stopped Bing Xinzhu’s pursuit. A cornered dog would jump the wall, and an injured Martial Artist was the most dangerous.

And now, with all his Spiritual Power gone, he was at his weakest. If the Flame People launched a counterattack then, he would be in deep trouble!

Bing Xinzhu nodded, plucked the remaining two Extreme Flaming Earth Fruits, then grabbed Zhou Heng and hastily shot upward.

—She could sense that Zhou Heng’s body was utterly empty, not a bit of Spiritual Power remained!

No wonder he was able to grievously wound Kong Aokun with a single strike; it came at the cost of consuming all of his Spiritual Power within his body, so naturally, the lethality was terrifying beyond compare.

The two of them ran swiftly, vanishing in the blink of an eye. After sometime, the Creation King of the Flame People quietly returned. Seeing the harvested Extreme Flaming Vine, he couldn’t help but let out an enraged roar that rippled through the air.

After running nonstop with Zhou Heng for half a day, Bing Xinzhu finally came to a halt. The two decided to burrow into a flow of quicksand. This place greatly obstructed the detection of Divine Sense, and with vision obscured as well, it was nearly impossible for them to be discovered.

"Who would have thought that Kong Aokun would return in such a manner!" Zhou Heng exclaimed.

"Kong Aokun!" Bing Xinzhu murmured. She hadn’t been in the Immortal Realm for long and only occasionally heard of this genius of the Kong Family. After all, he was a figure from tens of thousands of years ago.

"Not only has he returned, but he has also obtained a Heavenly Scripture. What luck!" Zhou Heng shook his head repeatedly, envious of some people’s fortune that could make others die of jealousy!

"Wasn’t he scared away?" Bing Xinzhu asked, somewhat admiringly. If it weren’t for Zhou Heng’s astounding performance earlier, the two of them definitely wouldn’t be sitting here talking.

"Are you so taken by me that you are eager to throw yourself into my arms?" Zhou Heng laughed heartily.

"Get lost!"

Both of them took out Immortal Stones and began absorbing energy to recover as quickly as possible.

While Bing Xinzhu quickly regained her perfect condition, Zhou Heng’s Spiritual Power was completely drained, and his recovery was much slower. It took him a full three days to complete his recuperation, leaving Bing Xinzhu on tenterhooks the entire time out of fear that Kong Aokun, the Creation King of the Flame People, or the Thousand Python Immortal Monarch might suddenly attack.

"Here—" Bing Xinzhu handed Zhou Heng an Extreme Flaming Earth Fruit, but just as he reached out to take it, she suddenly pulled back her hand, saying, "Don’t forget, you still owe me half!"

Previously, they had agreed to split the three Extreme Flaming Earth Fruits equally, but due to Kong Aokun’s unexpected arrival, they ended up with one each.

Zhou Heng chuckled and took the Extreme Flaming Earth Fruit, pointing to his mouth, "Actually, I don’t mind if you take the deposit back!"

"I mind!" Bing Xinzhu glared at Zhou Heng with resentment and began to eat another Extreme Flaming Earth Fruit.

A beauty doing anything is always a pleasure to behold, including eating. Especially when the tip of her agile tongue gave a gentle lick, her lips slightly parted—it was a sight so captivating it was lethal!

Not until Bing Xinzhu finished eating and started to meditate did Zhou Heng put his own Extreme Flaming Earth Fruit into his mouth and start to chew voraciously.

An astonishing surge of fiery essence instantly spread from his esophagus to his abdomen. Similar to the Fire Elemental Fruit he had eaten before, but this fruit’s potency was much richer, and it even evoked a myriad of mysteries about flames in Zhou Heng’s Sea of Consciousness.

If he had mastered a Heavenly Scripture of the Fire Series, he could have gleaned great enlightenment from these mysteries. Still, for now, it offered him little benefit. What Zhou Heng valued was the nature’s spiritual energy contained within the fruit.

An abundant fiery Spiritual Energy raged and roared within his body!

With each Circulation Cycle, countless strands of Spiritual Energy were absorbed by Zhou Heng, transformed into a reserve for his own Spiritual Power.

Boom!

A strong wave of energy burst forth. Bing Xinzhu was the first to achieve a breakthrough, advancing to the Sublimation Sovereign Realm. Even so, she remained motionless in her meditative posture because the full potency of the Extreme Flaming Earth Fruit was far from being exploited.

Zhou Heng’s Dharma Aspects were also rapidly increasing—seventeen, eighteen, nineteen... twenty-one!

He began his assault on the Sublimation Sovereign Realm!

The leap from Sublimation King to Sublimation Sovereign was a jump in the Dharma Aspects category. The so-called Copper Aspect and Silver Aspect were just terms—and in reality, they couldn’t be viewed in isolation. For the transformation from Dharma Aspect to Divine Aspect involved a process of creating life.

Naturally, this life was quite limited, merely an extension of a Martial Artist’s own life, allowing Martial Artists to have the chance of coming back from fatal blows.

Zhou Heng reflected on life’s true meaning. The Black Sword epitomized killing—a harvester of death. Yet, life and death were separated by a thin line, from the extremity of life comes death, from the thoroughness of death springs life, just like new sprouts from withered grass.

His aura was extremely unstable. Having just reached the peak of the Sublimation King Realm, he immediately began the assault on the Sublimation Sovereign Realm without sufficient accumulation.

For an ordinary person, this process would take at least several hundred years, and even a prodigy like Bing Xinzhu would require several years. But Zhou Heng couldn’t wait that long; he intended to surge through in one go.

He exhaustively evolved the concept of life’s prosperity and decline in his mind, from birth to death, from death back to life, suddenly gaining a flash of insight that life was, in essence, a microcosm of the universe’s birth and destruction. Compared to the entire universe, any life appeared so insignificant and transient.

Huff! Huff! Huff!

An invisible force lifted the sands around him, as they revolved continuously, one Dharma Aspect after another walking towards annihilation, shattering one by one. Yet, in the next moment, a new Dharma Aspect formed, emanating an even more potent force, with a faint breath of life within it.

Sublimation Sovereign!

Zhou Heng sat still, and new Dharma Aspects successively took shape, his power climbing swiftly.

After the eighth Aspect, the momentum of this rapid increase faltered, but the medicinal potency of the Extreme Flaming Earth Fruit was far from depleted. Upon stimulating the medicinal power, his Cultivation Level continued to rise steadily. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, please come to Qidian to cast your recommendation votes and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)