I Cheated While Cultivating

Chapter 433: Chapter 152: Why don’t you come out and meet me?

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This outcome was somewhat unexpected for Zhou Heng.

He hadn’t anticipated that the mention of Yan Shouyi’s name would turn this fierce-looking Sharkman countryman so amiable all of a sudden, even offering to take him to meet his sister.

“It wouldn’t be my senior fellow apprentice’s romantic debt from the past, would it?” Zhou Heng lightly pressed his temples, suspecting that the situation might not be as simple as it appeared.

Still, with a trump card up his sleeve, nothing in the Sharkman country could threaten him, not even the incarnation of a Tao Lord. So, he followed the man.

En route, the man introduced himself as “Liu Shun,” younger brother to the current ruler of the Sharkman country, Liu Ying. At just three hundred years of age, he already possessed the cultivation of an Absolute Fourth Rank, making him extraordinarily powerful.

——Sharkmen belonged to the so-called “Long-lived Species,” and even ordinary members of their tribe could live for seven to eight hundred years. Upon maturity, they would have the cultivation of a Secret Six Rank. Stepping into the Sect Fifth Rank would extend their lifespan by a thousand years, and reaching Absolute Fourth Rank would grant them more than five thousand years of life.

Given Liu Shun’s friendly demeanor, Zhou Heng tried to probe, “May I know what relation your country’s ruler has with my senior fellow apprentice?”

“Hasn’t Yan Shouyi told you about it?” Liu Shun raised an eyebrow, his tone suddenly turning colder, then he shook his head, saying, “These matters are not for me to discuss; once you meet my sister, you will naturally get the answers.”

“…” Zhou Heng lapsed into silence, his heart feeling somewhat panicked.

He wasn’t worried about being blamed; he was more concerned that all his efforts to come here and get a whiff of secrets from the Ancient Era could be delayed due to some old affairs, which would be absurd.

A moment later, the two arrived at a palace built entirely of water-blue gemstone.

The palace shone with a brilliant aqua hue, majestic and dignified, emanating an indescribable spiritual pressure from the outside, compelling submission from those who beheld it.

Of course, such pressure was as good as non-existent to Zhou Heng, unable to affect him in the slightest.

“The palace ahead is where my sister resides and conducts her daily affairs,” Liu Shun stopped, pointing at the edifice ahead, and said, “Daoist, you may go in now.”

“Aren’t you coming with me?” Zhou Heng frowned slightly.

“I…” Liu Shun glanced at the palace ahead, hurriedly shook his head, and said with a wry smile, “I don’t really want to see my sister; she’s quite strict.”

“Is that so?” Zhou Heng laughed softly upon hearing that, “Then how should I reveal my identity? You don’t seem to have informed her of who I am.”

“The mana of the Pure Yang Palace is proof enough,” Liu Shun said. “She will recognize it.”

“If that’s the case, then I shall proceed,” Zhou Heng nodded lightly.

He was not concerned whether Liu Shun was plotting something against him.

Even if it were a trap, it didn’t really matter to him. Unless the Sharkman country had arranged to kill a Divine First Rank, there wasn’t any threat to him.

Zhou Heng’s trump card was too strong.

That was precisely why he had dared to come to the Eastern Sea alone to investigate.

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“Who goes there?” A delicate and soft female voice rang out from the water-blue grand palace.

The voice was exceedingly pleasant to the ear, yet it seemed devoid of any emotional fluctuations, chilling to the extreme, calm to the extreme, almost like a cold, unfeeling machine.

“Zhou Heng of the Pure Yang Palace, the sixth-generation direct disciple, here to pay respects to the Sharkman Queen,” Zhou Heng responded with a smile, and as Liu Shun had mentioned earlier, he flicked his right hand and conjured a thread of Pure Yang mana.

“A disciple of the Pure Yang Palace! The sixth-generation direct disciple! Yan Shouyi!!” The voice came again, no longer calm as before, but now filled with rage and indignation.

In the next instant, the water-blue palace seemed to suddenly melt away, transforming into a vast expanse of sea suspended in the air, which then raised a sky-high tsunami, crashing down towards Zhou Heng.

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The wave towered over ten thousand feet, seemingly reaching straight for the heavens.

In but an instant, the world turned dark before Zhou Heng’s eyes, and all he could see was the immensely gigantic wave.

If such a wave were truly to crash down, I fear that more than half of the Jiao Ren Kingdom would suffer calamity.

Yet the angry voice seemed not to care at all, still squandering its formidable mana, commanding the huge wave, aiming to engulf Zhou Heng in the water.

“Is this the manifestation of Tao power?”

Zhou Heng’s eyes narrowed slightly as he watched the wave descend from the sky. He didn’t dodge but stood his ground, appearing to brace for a direct hit.

In the next moment, the wave crashed down.

Finally, as the wave neared the top of Zhou Heng’s head, he suddenly flipped his palm upward, his five fingers loosely gripping as though holding an invisible Jade Ruyi.

Then, with fingers clasping tightly, he formed a fist seal.

Above this fist seal, purple, gold, black, and white colors shone brightly, solidifying into an unblemished, solemn, pure Jade Ruyi.

Immediately after, petals of golden flowers scattered around the Jade Ruyi, tinkering with the void’s laws and the natural melodies of all things, naturally including the Tao power that had evolved into this huge wave.

Buzz!

With Zhou Heng’s punch thrust forward, the Jade Ruyi naturally collided with the sky-high wave, suppressing it in an instant, halting all its surging movements as if time itself had stopped flowing.

Right after that, Zhou Heng struck out with his other hand, and he gathered a dark, sinister power of Destruction as if intending to shatter the heavens and the earth, to bury all laws and paths!

Overturning Heaven Three Palms!

Heavens and Earth Shattered!

Boom!

The deafening roar echoed throughout the Jiao Ren Kingdom, and nearly all the Jiao Ren felt the ground beneath them shake, sensing that the source of this terrifying power seemed to be in the direction of the palace.

What’s going on, is it possible that an outsider is battling with the king?

Liu Shun, who had just left the palace not long ago, looked towards the palace with a shocked expression, confusedly saying, “What’s happening, isn’t my sister always talking about Yan Shouyi over these years? Shouldn’t she be happy to see Yan Shouyi’s disciple this time?

“How did they start fighting?”

Meanwhile, in front of the Jiao Ren Kingdom’s palace, the Tao-powered giant wave had already been shattered by Zhou Heng’s successive attacks, turning into pure Tao power that scattered.

And the palace of the Jiao Ren Kingdom, which had already become seawater, rapidly reverted back to its original state.

“A Sect Fifth Rank Human Race martial artist, merely being able to withstand my Celestial Man’s strike, is indeed unimaginable,” the cool female voice spoke again, stating solemnly, “Since you are the sixth-generation true successor of the Pure Yang Palace, you must be Yan Shouyi’s junior brother, and your strength has also gained my acknowledgment; you may come in to meet me now.”

“Gained your acknowledgment?” Zhou Heng, however, did not step forward; he even stopped circulating the mana within his body, chuckling lightly, “What a grandeur attitude.”

Following that, with just a thought, his Divine Soul manifested in the form of a Dharma Phase clad in five-colored Taoist robes and shouted sternly, “Now it is I who doesn’t wish to see you!

“Instead, you come out to meet me!!”