Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword

The Comet Realm allows one to initially come into contact with the Heaven and Earth Laws of the Bright Realm, also known as runes, which are the embodiment of these laws.

This level only allows for the application of these laws, not full comprehension, which can only start at the Black Cave Realm. This is what Hongyue referred to with the five steps, ten steps, and a thousand steps.

In the Black Cave Realm, each branch of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth can be stabilized with just five steps, allowing one to open a second black hole, a third, a fourth, until reaching the extreme number of nine. Then one can turn back and elevate each black hole to ten steps, preparing to impact the Chaos Realm.

It only means preparation, not a guaranteed success.

Zhou Heng's physique advanced into the Comet Realm, meaning he finally qualified to utilize the runes of the Bright Realm!

However, this time it was not his spiritual power breaking through, but his physique. Therefore, it required no comprehension or learning; a rune naturally surged from his bloodline, which he could manipulate freely.

With a thought, a clump of purple flame danced and flickered on his right hand.

This flame was composed of countless "thin lines," forming a marvelous pattern, containing endless mysteries.

A rune, the embodiment of the Heaven and Earth Laws!

Zhou Heng pressed his hand to the ground, and like snow meeting a flame, the ground instantly melted away. Everything the flame touched ceased to exist!

Complete annihilation!

What terrifying destructive power!

Freezing, burning, shattering—all these Zhou Heng could accept, but annihilation... it was too incredible!

This ability should belong to the Black Cave level, where only a black hole can devour and annihilate everything!

Why did his rune possess the power of annihilation?

Curiosity welled up within him, and he touched a series of objects, annihilating everything under his palm!

Unfortunately, all treasure artifacts had been confiscated by Hongyue. Otherwise, he could have tested the limits of this rune to see if it could easily annihilate even Comet-level treasure artifacts!

There was a downside, which was that he had to dragonify his arm to use this rune, otherwise, he could not activate it.

Come to think of it, it was only natural because this rune belonged to his bloodline and naturally could only be displayed in dragon form.

In tomorrow's competition, should he use this rune?

If he dragonified his fist, activated the Tyrant Dragon Fist, and added this rune, what kind of terrifying destructive power would result?

Hmm, he should name this rune!

To keep it simple, let's just call it Annihilation Rune, since he wasn't interested in telling others about his rune and didn't need a very imposing name.

But... he was hungry again!

Zhou Heng sighed, his bloodline limit had significantly increased, and he had definitely stepped into the Black Cave level. As long as he ate, drank, and slept, his physique would naturally advance into the Black Cave Realm!

Correspondingly, his appetite had increased several-fold, and he felt hunger more easily, which would only disappear once his physique reached the bloodline limit.

He searched around in the Dragon Temple, but since they worshiped major figures from the Dragon Clan who were mostly still alive, there were no offerings to eat, leaving Zhou Heng hungry through the night.

He needed to finish quickly; he was famished!

Thus, early the next morning, while the priest was still announcing the competition rules, Zhou Heng stepped forward and said, "All of you come at once; I'm starving. After dealing with you, I still need to find food!"

In fact, if not for the ten Dragon Crystals, he wouldn't bother participating in this competition. But with a hundred Dragon Crystals as the reward, he didn't want to waste the opportunity.

Dragon Coins had strong purchasing power, but Dragon Crystals were impossible to buy with money. They could only be formed by the Essence Blood of Black Cave-level dragons and were incredibly precious!

Upon seeing Zhou Heng's arrogance, everyone showed expressions of anger and cold laughter—except for Tou Lan, who initially received a full lesson from a good thrashing and, besides, Zhou Heng was his creditor!

"No need for rules; whoever remains standing at the end is the winner!" the crowd said unanimously.

Most participants in the competition were adults, with only a few youngsters showing signs of retreat when seeing the others' ferocious appearances.

"Since everyone agrees, let the battle begin!" The presiding priest was straightforward, readily complying, and after a wave of the hand, he retreated, leaving the field for the contestants.

The two strongest individuals were of course Zhou Heng and Shui Yuqi; both had broken through to the Comet Realm with their physiques. From the surface, though, the more powerful one seemed to be Shui Yuqi, since her spiritual power had also reached the Comet Realm, making her a genuine Dual-material Comet King!

The advantage of a brawl was gathering collective strength, taking down the strongest to create opportunities for the weak!

Since Zhou Heng arrogantly declared a challenge to all, they decided to first solve him before dealing with Shui Yuqi, at which point any alliance would naturally dissolve, leaving anyone a potential victor.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

All except Shui Yuqi, who stood with arms crossed, attacked Zhou Heng, totaling seventeen people, some with Comet-level strength! Clearly, Zhou Heng wasn't the only one who had completed a physique breakthrough during the baptism!

"Hahahahaha!" Zhou Heng laughed heartily, his fists shaking; the Tyrant Dragon Fist was unleashed. Bang, bang, bang, bang; with each punch, another was knocked flying, entirely losing the will to continue fighting.

In the realm of the Tyrant Dragon Fist, he vaguely experienced a transition from great achievement to perfection, naturally attributed to his physique's improvement.

Although this fist technique is the Dragon Clan's basic martial art, in terms of power, it surpasses all other cultivation techniques since it was painstakingly developed by the Old Azure Dragon! This created two extremes within the Dragon Clan—the weakest used the Tyrant Dragon Fist, and the strongest also used the Tyrant Dragon Fist, while everyone in between utilized a variety of other cultivation techniques.

"Tyrant, Tyrant Dragon Fist!"

"How is this possible? He is just at the Comet Realm, and moreover, the lowest-level Purple Dragon, how could he use the Tyrant Dragon Fist to such a degree!"

"Could it be that the lower position bloodline is about to have a comeback?"

Amidst the spectators' exclamations, only five people were still standing in the field: Zhou Heng, Shui Yuqi, Tou Lan, and that pair of twin brothers.

"All of you, get out of here!" Shui Yuqi's gaze was fixed solely on Zhou Heng, as if no one else could enter her eyes besides him. This guy stayed in the Ancestral Pond longer than she did, although it was due to the "low-level" bloodline of the Purple Dragon, causing his absorption of the Dragon Crystals to be extremely slow!

But in terms of absolute time, Zhou Heng did exceed her, with the longest record being eleven and a half days, not her limit of eleven days!

So infuriating!

Thus, Shui Yuqi hated Zhou Heng; she wanted to fiercely beat Zhou Heng! And since she was already standing here, who else was qualified to stand alongside her?

Tou Lan couldn't, and the twin brothers Zhu Gu and Zhu Li couldn't either!

"Shui Yuqi, don't be so arrogant, you're nothing but—"

Bam!

The Zhu brothers didn't even finish their words before Shui Yuqi knocked them both flying with a swipe, without any chance to transform into their dragon forms! Shui Yuqi's strength was evident!

At this moment, Shui Yuqi's gaze turned towards Tou Lan.

"Haha, hehe, hee, I, myself am leaving!" Tou Lan awkwardly laughed and quickly turned to run.

Neither Zhou Heng nor Shui Yuqi was someone he could afford to provoke!

It's infuriating, first Zhou Heng emerged in this Ancestral Pond baptism, and then Shui Yuqi suddenly decided to participate, otherwise the top name of this city would definitely have been his!

Such bad luck, it seems I have to go back and pay homage to the Old Ancestor's likeness more often.

Now, only Zhou Heng and Shui Yuqi were left standing face to face in the field.

"So hungry!" Zhou Heng's stomach growled loudly, he was unbearably hungry! He shot towards Shui Yuqi in an attack.

"Overestimating yourself!" Shui Yuqi snorted coldly, swinging her right claw to strike at Zhou Heng.

Her arms were in dragon form, possessing true Divine Beast-level power, an unstoppable force with a single sweep!

Bam!

Zhou Heng met her with a punch, his body staggered back seven steps, but Shui Yuqi was also not well off, forced back seven steps by the vigorous power of the Tyrant Dragon Fist.

This blow seemed evenly matched!

No!

Everyone clearly saw that Shui Yuqi's dragon claw had a nearly invincible, unbreakable quality, while Zhou Heng's hand was human-shaped. The result of this direct clash was Shui Yuqi unharmed, but Zhou Heng's fist was a bloody mess.

This is the difference between a Divine Beast and a human!

Especially the Dragon Clan, one of the Four Divine Beasts of Heaven and Earth in terms of physique, only the other three Divine Beasts could match them, even Saints had to be inferior in this aspect.

"A lower position bloodline is just a lower position bloodline!" Shui Yuqi said disdainfully, her golden hair flowing, as if to emphasize her noble Golden Dragon bloodline.

"Is that so?" Zhou Heng smiled faintly, he wasn't a Dragon Clan member, just acquired a Dragon Clan bloodline, naturally he didn't care about the upper position or lower position bloodline, but Shui Yuqi was really getting on his nerves!

With such an ugly dragon head, just looking at it makes one want to hit!

"Then let's try again!" Zhou Heng charged forward again, delivering another punch.

"I'll beat you until you comply!" Shui Yuqi also swung her claw to strike.

Bam!

The vigorous force rolled, both retreated seven steps again, but this time, Zhou Heng was unscathed, whereas Shui Yuqi's dragon claw was bleeding!

Impossible!

This was a perfect dragon-shaped arm, to injure such a dragon claw, it needed power far beyond, or the activation of some powerful rune, or a higher bloodline level to break through hard with hard!

Zhou Heng couldn't possibly surpass Shui Yuqi in strength, this was certain. Moreover, he didn't activate any rune, this was clearly seen by everyone. Thus, the last possibility was left, that Zhou Heng's bloodline quality was above Shui Yuqi's!

Is it possible?

Everyone looked at Zhou Heng's right hand, the entire arm had suddenly transformed into a dragon claw!

Earlier, it was dragon claw against dragon claw, Zhou Heng used hard to break hard, slicing through Shui Yuqi's hand!

Hiss!

This mere lower position Purple Dragon bloodline, actually able to partially dragonify? It's known that any degree of partial dragonification signifies atavism in bloodline, which has always been a prerogative of the Five Great Superior Bloodlines, how could it appear in someone with a lower position bloodline?

Yet, Zhou Heng not only dragonified his arm, but its hardness was even greater than Shui Yuqi's, signifying a surpassing bloodline level!

No, no, no, it seems something was overlooked! (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, feel free to vote for it on Qidian (qidian.com) with recommendation tickets, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)