Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword-Chapter 671 - 648: Flame Monster (1/3)

"Damn, it’s not like we’re sharing baths here, we’re absorbing the celestial essence from the Fire Spring for Body Refining. Do you have a cleanliness obsession or what?"

Moreover, once one becomes an Immortal, isn’t everyone spotless, embodying purity itself?"

This guy clearly wants to monopolize the Fire Spring!

Among the six, five are Peak Sunshine Kings and there’s even one Sunshine Sovereign. Although they were intimidated by Zhou Heng’s imposing manner, the combined battle power of six Peak Sunshine Kings should not be underestimated, should it?

In this world, there are only five Supreme Sunshine Kings, and this fellow right here is definitely not one of them!

Zhou Heng gave a slight smile, reached out to grab them and whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, he effortlessly captured all six, throwing them out one by one. Having no particular grudge against them, he did not kill them outright; this was merely a demonstration of his strength to make them retreat in the face of difficulty.

"Thud!"

Black Donkey was the first to jump in, and its black face instantly turned red. It leapt out abruptly, crying out with its butt up in the air:"I’m burning up! I’m burning up! My butt is about to burn off!"

"Kid!" Intimidated by Zhou Heng’s actions, three of the six who were thrown away backed off, no longer daring to compete with Zhou. However, three others, particularly the Sunshine Sovereign, were still unwilling to give up.

Had it not been such a special environment, would he have ever considered a minor Sunshine King worth his attention?

In the Immortal Realm, the gap between each minor realm is absolute, and the higher the realm, the more solid the barriers. To break through the realm of a Sunshine Sovereign, one would need to be at least an Eleven Wheels Sunshine King!

Such monstrous talents are not available yet!

— Thorn Blood Rose, One Sword Breaks the Heavens, and other five Supreme Sunshine Kings might have the potential to reach it, but they are said to only be at Ten Wheels now, whether they’ll leap directly to Sunshine Sovereign or add another Sun Wheel next, who knows?

"You’re going too far!" the three yelled at Zhou Heng, "This Fire Spring was nurtured by nature, everyone has a share. Yet you want to monopolize it, thinking we’re easily bullied?"

That easy sentence included everyone present, not considering how their demeanor while soaking in the Fire Spring just moments ago had been completely different, as they had blasted anyone trying to enter!

Of course, they’ve chosen to be amnesiac, completely forgetting that episode.

Admittedly, some people’s emotions are very easy to stir up. Many could not enter the Fire Spring previously, but weren’t they all fighting and pushing? Now it’s different, the Fire Spring apparently could accommodate ten people, but only two, plus a donkey, were inside.

What infuriated them even more was that these two didn’t even get down, and just the stinky donkey dominated the spring!

Too much!

In an instant, public sentiment boiled over, with at least a third of them glaring angrily at Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng sighed, extended a finger and drew a line on the ground, the Vigorous Qi leaving a deep mark that extended a hundred yards immediately.

With a faint smile, he turned back and stepped into the Fire Spring.

Seeing the mark on the ground, everyone was speechless. They had been around here for a while and had fought fiercely, well aware of the exceptional hardness of the local rocks.

The destructive capacity of a single touch, a single mark... truly, brushing against it would bring injury, touching it would bring death!

In the Immortal Realm, it’s not the rationale that prevails but strength!

Zhou Heng had proven his superiority, thus naturally everyone had to comply with his reasoning.

After a crowd hovered for a while, they all dispersed, apparently giving up on this Spring, better to look for other springs; after all, Flame Mountain wasn’t limited to just one spring.

Zhou Heng looked at Xiulan, "Aren’t you coming in?"

"Pah, I am a lady!" Xiulan spat.

"Ladies do not say ’pah’," Zhou Heng laughed, but he said no more, this eccentric young girl simply had no interest in increasing her cultivation level. Previously, she had eaten the Silver Dragon Fish because it was tasty, never with the intention to enhance her cultivation.

"Now you’ve met one!" Xiulan retorted haughtily.

At this moment, Black Donkey had adapted to the heat of the Fire Spring and began harnessing the Power of Flame to refine its body. Meanwhile, Zhou Heng dove deeper, wanting to uncover the origin of this Fire Spring.

After diving about thirty feet, he reached the bottom only to see that the spring’s base was a layer of rocks, already heated to a red-hot state. Touching it, the rock turned out to be fluid!

It disintegrated upon contact, with minuscule particles evaporating and merging into the fiery spring water.

Zhou Heng immediately understood that these tiny particles are what contributed to Body Refining, but they had to be melted by the Earth Fire to a degree that they could be absorbed into the body; otherwise, they were useless.

The key indeed was the unique environment here.

Zhou Heng, moved by a thought, summoned the Black Sword and struck down at the rocky base, creating a gap that allowed him to move deeper into the mountain. However, after only around thirty feet, he stopped as the rock layers became harder and his progress increasingly difficult.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t move further down, but the pace might slow down to a snail’s pace.

He didn’t have that much time to waste here!

"There must be a vein of Exotic Fire within this mountain!" the Fire Divine Furnace suddenly spoke up.

Zhou Heng thought the same, otherwise it wouldn’t have been possible to turn the entire mountain into a sea of flames. He said, "Even if there was a way, it wouldn’t be of any use, as we simply cannot get through here!"

"This spring is too small; find a bigger one and it should get you closer to the Exotic Fire!" The Fire Divine Furnace said eagerly, its desire for the Exotic Fire burning intensely.

Zhou Heng nodded and stepped back onto the spring’s edge, having observed that the rocks capable of producing Body Refining substances were few and only formed a thin layer.

He also joined in the Body Refining process.

In terms of Body Cultivation, hardly anyone in the Creation Realm could compare to him, given that only a few races in the Immortal Realm specialized in it, and some of them had even been eradicated!

Although advancing through the path of Body Cultivation was relatively fast, the combat strength was definitely weak, with a growth limit that inevitably prevented reaching the top ranks of the world’s experts.

Therefore, it was normal for the number of Body Cultivators to decline.

Zhou Heng wasn’t a true Body Cultivator, but as the saying goes, ’in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king’; he could still be considered a top-tier expert in Body Cultivation.

Circulating his Spiritual Power, he frantically absorbed the Body Refining substances from the Fire Spring, like a grinding wheel that propelled the fortification of his physique. He soon realized that this was quite beneficial for him.

His body was like cast iron, many times tougher than the flesh and blood of other cultivators, yet it contained many ’impurities’. Now, with the spring acting like a furnace, it was set to forge him into purified steel!

Removing the impurities, both toughness and hardness rapidly improved.

However, his starting point was too high. Along the way, he had devoured countless metal essences to forge his Divine Bones, and ’reforging’ on this basis required far more resources than others.

He became like a massive vortex, ceaselessly drawing in the Body Refining substances from the water, making Black Donkey seem like a mere firefly by comparison.

The Divine Bones within him glowed individually as impurities were expelled, becoming denser and smoother.

Just three hours later, Zhou Heng and Black Donkey stopped simultaneously.

It wasn’t that they wanted to take a break, but the Fire Spring had been exhausted, and it was impossible to continue.

"Zhou, you’ve taken all my Treasure Fluid!" Black Donkey wailed, knowing exactly what had occurred while in the spring.

Zhou Heng laughed heartily, regretting that although his Divine Bones had become more robust, he still fell short of leaping from the Moonlight Emperor Realm to the Sunshine King Realm. He would need to drain six or seven more Fire Springs to make that step.

"Hey, you seem a bit shorter and thinner!" Black Donkey exclaimed in surprise.

Indeed, the improvement in Zhou Heng’s physique had been achieved by expelling impurities from his Divine Bones, a process of ’extraction without intake’ that naturally reduced his size. As he continued Body Refining, his size would shrink even more!

But that was not an issue, as long as he swallowed more metal, ’filling’ it back later would naturally restore his stature.

"Hey, really!" Bing Xiulan, after scrutinizing Zhou Heng for a while, also nodded her head then burst into laughter, "If you soak few more times, won’t you turn into a little kid?"

After a burst of laughter, she became worried, "If you turn into a kid, sister definitely won’t want you!"

"Hey, your skin seems paler, and it’s finer and glossier too!" Bing Xiulan stared at Zhou Heng’s face, her eyes gleaming, which made Zhou Heng easily think of Black Donkey.

—That bastard donkey would act just like this whenever he heard the word ’Treasure’.

"Wow, next time I definitely have to soak too!" She grew excited.

Love of beauty is indeed every woman’s nature, even though she looks so plain.

They continued on because the mountain was extremely steep and gravity was abnormally strong, so their progress was slow. A whole day passed, and they hadn’t traveled far.

"Run for your lives!"

Suddenly, about a dozen figures rushed down from the mountain. Some collided with rocks due to their haste, but they fell fast and climbed up even faster, as if a ghost was chasing them!

"What is that?" Bing Xiulan pointed at the mountain, where a mass of leaping flames was visible.

Zhou Heng watched intently, revealing a trace of mild astonishment.

It was a creature formed purely of flames!

Standing ten yards tall and massive in size, resembling a wild bear, it was leaping down the mountain. Being a fiery entity, it was barely affected by gravity and moved incredibly fast. It soon caught up with one person, grabbed him in three moves, and tossed him directly into its mouth.

A blaze swept over, and the person it swallowed turned instantly to ashes, his Divine Soul utterly extinguished.

This fiery monster sped down, extremely fast, and had already caught up with seven or eight people, swallowing them with its flames effortlessly.

"My goodness, this monster is incredibly powerful!" Black Donkey exclaimed.

"So ugly!" Bing Xiulan commented disdainfully.

"At least a Peak Sunshine King!" Zhou Heng concluded definitively, as otherwise, this monster could not have annihilated Sunshine Kings so effortlessly.

As they spoke, the fiery monster approached and reached out with a massive fiery hand towards Zhou Heng.