Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword-Chapter 668 - 645 Bone Joining Technique (1/3)

Everyone agrees, this is not an injustice at all!

A Sublimation King’s Dharma Aspect perished here before! If that Sublimation King had personally descended, he would have definitely died here too!

If even a Sublimation King can die, what does the death of a mere Sunshine Emperor count for?

"I said it before—if anyone lays a hand on me, I’ll annihilate them all!" Zhou Heng said coldly, his right hand already raising the Black Sword. In the Sunshine King Realm, he could claim invincibility, with a single sword stroke enough to eliminate all, no need to use any Immortal Techniques.

Ma Qianying’s gaze flickered rapidly, as he finally realized he had kicked an iron plate!

Zhou Heng was definitely not one of the supremely respected Five Great Sunshine Kings, including One Sword Breaks the Heavens, Tian Gangyue. Ma Qianying remembered their auras and appearances vividly—how could he not? To enter the Imperial Dragon Hall and seize the treasure, who wouldn’t consider these five as key targets for vigilance?

Could Zhou Heng be a Sunshine Sovereign, a Sunshine Emperor, or even a being from the Sublimation Realm?

But the aura didn’t match; here, only power was suppressed, not auras or appearances! When Sunshine Sovereigns revealed themselves, it was still the Purple Sun, Sunshine Emperors it was the White Sun, just that their power was restricted to the level of a Peak Sunshine King.

Ma Qianying couldn’t make sense of it, but Zhou Heng was already radiating murderous intent like a sharp blade. What he needed to worry about now wasn’t why Zhou Heng was so formidable, but how to deal with such a difficult situation!

"Sir, it’s wise to leave room for maneuver—so that we may meet again!" He was already scared in his heart, but under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he couldn’t lose face, for he was a noble Sunshine Emperor who could easily crush Zhou Heng outside!

A Sunshine Emperor bowing to a Sunshine King? What a joke!

"Hahaha, when did you ever show restraint? The moment you opened your mouth, you wanted me to leave behind a hand!" Zhou Heng strode forward, the Black Sword in his hand sensing the boiling rage within him, surging with black flames on its blade, akin to demonic fire!

Ma Qianying was at a loss for words. In his view, wasn’t a Sunshine Emperor absolutely dominant over a Sunshine King? For Zhou Heng to just lose an arm and not his life was already a great mercy! But now, with the situation reversed, this place was the Imperial Dragon Hall, the dominion of the Sunshine King experts!

"I was wrong!" He gritted his teeth and finally bowed his head.

Between life and dignity, he chose life.

"It’s good you realize your mistake. Remember well on the road to the yellow springs, and don’t be so tyrannical in your next life!" Zhou Heng didn’t stop his advance, his murderous aura growing more solid, swirling around him like an unparalleled demon god!

"You—you still refuse to stop? Boy, aren’t you going too far?" Ma Qianying exclaimed in anger and shock. He had already admitted his mistake! A noble Sunshine Emperor had conceded to a Sunshine King, his face lost, what more did Zhou Heng want?

"When did I ever promise to spare your miserable lives?" Zhou Heng spoke coldly, "Don’t delude yourself! People like you, it’s better to die sooner and be reborn sooner, for staying in this world will only harm others!"

"Rascal!" Ma Qianying’s eyes bulged in rage, his whole body’s aura surging, realizing that Zhou Heng was not just playing around, he meant to kill!

He would not just sit and wait for death!

His face twisted ferociously, and amidst the contorting flesh, a pale purple vertebral column burst out from his back, blood dripping from the bone as veins throbbed on his forehead, ultimately unleashing a far-from-stifled scream.

What bizarre Cultivation Technique was this?

Zhou Heng’s eyes narrowed, sensing an extremely malevolent aura emanating from the opponent’s purple bone, which made him very uncomfortable.

"Eh, could this be the Bone Joining Technique?"

From a distance, an observer exclaimed, an elderly Sunshine Emperor whose strength wasn’t too formidable and close to senility yet hadn’t broken through to the Sublimation King, but his breadth of knowledge was immense.

"Elder Chi, what is the Bone Joining Technique?" a junior asked.

"The Bone Joining Technique is to sever one’s own bone and graft another’s onto it. After countless years of nurturing, the bone will eventually become one with the self!"

"Does it have any benefits?"

"Certainly, the bone selected for grafting must be countless times stronger than one’s own, perhaps from a more powerful martial artist or even a Demon Beast. Bones contain marrow that stores the martial comprehension of the powerful. Once this bone merges with oneself, those comprehensions can be made one’s own!"

"Then grafting a bone from the Creation Emperor means one could become the strongest in the Immortal Realm someday?"

"It’s not that exaggerated. If the grafted bone is too much stronger than oneself, it would directly shatter the individual! Also, the martial comprehension within the broken bone is limited. The more vital the grafted bone, the more comprehensive its insights naturally are!"

"So, this includes the skull, arm bone, vertebral column, leg bone?"

"Exactly! As these are the Divine Bones of the strong, given long nurturing, it can be wielded against enemies, able to unleash even greater battle power! However, this also interrupts the nurturing of the bone, a single use erases all prior progress, necessitating to start anew!"

"If one’s life isn’t preserved, retaining the Divine Bone serves no purpose!"

Ma Qianying’s face contorted with popping veins. What he had grafted was a fragment of a spinal bone from a Sublimation Realm Demon Beast, which originally measured three zhang. He spent tens of thousands of years refining it with painstaking effort, condensing it to its current length.

But this Divine Bone had yet to fully integrate with him, and now being forcibly ripped from his body, his soul screamed in agony!

He had been joining bones for over seven thousand years, and to offer up the Demonic Bone meant that all those years of nurturing and refinement were in vain! Others may not know, but he was acutely aware, for the ill fit of the Demonic Bone had caused him endless suffering, so many times it nearly drove him to abandon the struggle!

Yet, despite holding steadfast all this way, he was forced to interrupt the Bone Joining because of a Sunshine King!

He hated this! Deeply hated it!

So, only the fresh blood of Zhou Heng could somewhat quell his raging fury!

With a thought, the purple Demonic Bone emitted streaks of piercing cold light, suddenly blasting out a bolt of purple Divine Lightning towards Zhou Heng.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The purple lightning emitted a terrifying noise, wicked and filled with immense pressure.

Zhou Heng’s left fist tensed as he faced the approaching purple lightning.

Boom!

A loud explosion sounded, and Zhou Heng’s hand trembled, with a scorch mark even appearing on his fist. However, a Minor Healing Rune revolved, and the scorch mark immediately vanished—regardless of how terrifying the Demonic Bone had been in life, now it could only exert the power of a Sunshine King level!

It might be Eight Wheels, possibly Nine Wheels, or even Ten or Eleven Wheels, but it was still within the realm of a Sunshine King!

"Could that possibly be the Divine Bone of a Fiery-Eyed Thunder Frog? It’s said that such formidable Demon Beasts went extinct in prehistoric times. I can’t believe Ma Qianying has gotten hold of it!" exclaimed the knowledgeable Old Sunshine Emperor in astonishment.

"Legend has it that a fully matured Fiery-Eyed Thunder Frog could reach the level of a Sublimation Sovereign. Ma Qianying is really lucky, to obtain the remains of such a powerful Demonic Beast!"

"The strength of the Fiery-Eyed Thunder Frog doesn’t mean it was invincible as a Sunshine King. However, with the Battle Power of a Peak Sunshine King coupled with the Ultra-Ability of the Demonic Bone’s Purple Lightning, it should cause considerable trouble for Zhou Heng!"

Seeing his attack injuring Zhou Heng, Ma Qianying naturally grew more confident. Now, no longer content with just escaping alive and having been forced to interrupt his Bone Refinement, he intended to kill Zhou Heng!

"Die!" He let out a fierce shout, his figure soaring into the air, the purple Demonic Bone instantly expanding to three meters long. To fully utilize the Demonic Bone’s power, of course, it needed to revert to its original form.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Purple Divine Lightning flashed wildly, weaving a blanket of lightning across the sky, as vast as the ocean, terrifyingly boundless!

Zhou Heng wore a faint smile, estimating that the Fiery-Eyed Thunder Frog to which the purple Demonic Bone once belonged could have been an Eleven Wheels Sunshine King in the Sunshine King Realm. But a mere spine couldn’t represent the entire Fiery-Eyed Thunder Frog. Its strength lay in the art of wielding lightning, a technique natural to the frog!

The Thunder Frog was seemingly born with the ability to command lightning, which appeared to be a Bloodline Power inlaid within their beings, accessible once they matured sufficiently, and their power growing with their realms, unrestricted by the rank of Immortal Techniques.

The combination of an Eleven Wheels Sunshine King with lightning Immortal Techniques was what gave Zhou Heng his light wound.

But to think that would be enough to kill Zhou Heng was far too naive!

Zhou Heng extended his left fist, as his attacking Rune array operated. His fist shone with a dazzling light, Divine Radiance circulating, and wherever it passed, the purple lightning completely disintegrated, utterly unable to oppose it.

He advanced with firm steps, an intense killing intent in his eyes.

"What!"

Those around exclaimed in shock. Although they didn’t believe Ma Qianying could defeat or kill Zhou Heng with that Demonic Bone, the Fiery-Eyed Thunder Frog was an Ancient Demonic Beast of immense power; surely, it should cause Zhou Heng some trouble, right?

But the reality was that Zhou Heng’s strength far exceeded their imagination. He was a Supreme among Sunshine Kings, capable of sweeping away all Sunshine Kings!

"Suppress him!" Ma Qianying roared. He could not afford to lose; if he did, it meant death, and just as he wouldn’t leave Zhou Heng alive if he won, so too would it be the other way around!

With his shout, the broken end of the purple Demonic Bone began to gather a mass of lightning, quickly expanding from a small point to the size of a fist, then to the size of a head. The purple lightning turned fluidic, trembling and rippling continuously.

This mass of lightning contained a tremendous destructive force!

Everyone knew that if a Sunshine King were to release all his power in an instant, he could definitely kill a Sunshine Sovereign! The key issue was, aside from whether the body could withstand such a surge of power, even if it could, there exists no such Immortal Technique in the world!

This was always just a theoretical notion.

However, with the Bone Joining Technique, one could semi-realize this concept—using the Divine Bone’s far superior toughness to accumulate power. It wouldn’t be about releasing one’s entire power in one go, but amassing a hundredfold, even a thousandfold of strength for a single outburst was absolutely feasible.

With a thousandfold amplification of strength plus the destructive power of the purple lightning, this blow neared the Battle Power of a Sunshine Sovereign!

Ma Qianying sprang into action with a ferocious yell, and the Demonic Bone, like a scorpion’s tail, shot out, stabbing swiftly towards Zhou Heng!

Zhou Heng’s fighting spirit blazed like a fierce fire. He gripped his left fist tightly, the ninety-two Broken Runes completely converged on his fist, forming an attack Minor Rune. He was prepared to meet Ma Qianying’s blow head-on. (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to continue reading.)