Chapter 68: Awakening

Within Zhou Heng's Tanzhong Acupoint, that vortex of soul power had already shrunk by half under the compression of his own mental power.

And at the center of the soul power vortex, a tiny, crystalline glimmer appeared; this glimmer was not large, merely the size of a sesame seed, but once it appeared, it began to absorb the soul power within the vortex on its own.

This crystalline glimmer absorbed the soul power to strengthen itself, and soon, the soul power vortex was sucked dry by this glimmer, growing from the size of a sesame seed to the size of a mung bean.

After absorbing the soul power vortex, this crystalline glimmer began to absorb the energy of the five Immortal Herbs.

Just as Zhou Heng continued to condense his Soul Core, the Storage Soul Guidance Device Zhou Heng had left on the shore exploded with a "Bang!"

The items inside scattered all over the ground, among which the Dragon Pill from the Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon flew out, crashing straight toward Zhou Heng's Tanzhong Acupoint.

Dugu Bo was watching from the side, and the moment the Storage Soul Guidance Device exploded, Dugu Bo reached out to intercept the Dragon Pill.

However, the Dragon Pill merely swayed, bypassed Dugu Bo's palm, and crashed into Zhou Heng's Tanzhong Acupoint, smashing that crystalline glimmer into pieces; the Dragon Pill trembled slightly, and those fragments were directly absorbed by the Dragon Pill.

Zhou Heng looked at the suddenly appearing Dragon Pill with an incredibly strange expression.

He did not understand why this Dragon Pill would suddenly appear inside his body, smash the Soul Core he was about to condense into pieces, and then absorb it.

Just as Zhou Heng was puzzled, two Dragon Spirits, one red and one blue, rushed out from the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and surged into Zhou Heng's body.

Within Zhou Huan's Sea of Consciousness, two Dragon Spirits appeared out of thin air, and two loud voices spoke in unison, echoing in the Sea of Consciousness: "Revenge!... Dragon God!... Hatred!... Revenge! Help us take revenge!"

After just a few sounds, the Dragon Spirits shattered into infinite fragments, gathering from the Sea of Consciousness toward that Dragon Pill.

Soon, these Dragon Spirit fragments reached the location of the Dragon Pill, entered the Dragon Pill on their own, washed away the power belonging to the Dragon race within the Dragon Pill, remodeled the Dragon Pill, and simultaneously carried Zhou Heng's mental power into the Dragon Pill.

Under the remodeling of the Dragon Spirit fragments, this Dragon Pill connected closely with Zhou Heng's meridians, and the soul power within Zhou Heng's body was attracted by the Dragon Pill, spontaneously circulating through his meridians.

Zhou Heng's cultivation also increased as the Dragon Pill circulated the soul power on its own: level fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-six... level sixty.

The bottleneck blocking the soul power from continuing to break through hindered the rise of Zhou Heng's cultivation, but the five Immortal Herbs, plus the energy of the cold and hot qi, were still gathering in Zhou Heng's body, increasing Zhou Huan's cultivation.

These newly added soul powers were blocked by the bottleneck and could not continue to break through, yet they remained in Zhou Heng's body; these constantly increasing soul powers made Zhou Heng's body swell, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

At this moment, five colors—gold, green, blue, red, and yellow—appeared on the Dragon Pill, and patterns of the Five Elements appeared; the Five Elements gathered by the five Spirit Beasts rushed toward Zhou Heng's body the instant the Five Elements patterns appeared.

This increased Zhou Heng's cultivation once more and made Zhou Heng's body swell even more severely.

Zhou Heng hurriedly mobilized his mental power to control this soul power, wanting to release it, but Zhou Heng had already consumed over seventy percent of his mental power earlier, and the remaining mental power could not control this massive amount of soul power at all.

Just as Zhou Heng was about to be swollen to the point of bursting by the soul power converted from the Immortal Herbs and the Five Elements, a figure appeared in Zhou Heng's Sea of Consciousness.

That figure had two sharp horns and a pair of glowing eyes; Zhou Heng's attention was drawn to this figure, and as soon as he saw it, he realized it was the figure of a Reiburaondo Star Person.

Aside from seeing a Reiburaondo Star Person once when he awakened his martial soul, Zhou Heng had never seen the figure of a Reiburaondo Star Person again.

This time, the figure of the Reiburaondo Star Person appeared suddenly, and he did not know what the other party's intentions were.

Zhou Heng did not believe that the Reiburaondo Star Person would come to help him; the other party was certainly not a good person.

Just as Zhou Heng was pondering the reason for the Reiburaondo Star Person's appearance, the figure of the Reiburaondo Star Person collapsed, turning into a golden light, and the appearance of the Super Battlenizer appeared in Zhou Heng's hand.

The moment the primary Battle Instrument appeared, this golden light rushed toward the primary Battle Instrument.

In an instant, the golden light merged into the primary Battle Instrument, the image of the primary Battle Instrument shattered with a boom, and a new Battle Instrument appeared before Zhou Heng's eyes.

It was the Awakening Battle Instrument seen in the Star Dou Great Forest, a Battle Instrument crafted with gold as the main body to resemble the horns of a Reiburaondo Star Person, with red as an accent, decorating some of the edges in red.

Looking at this Awakening Battle Instrument, Zhou Heng suddenly felt a power of evolution spreading onto his body.

Outside, a golden light enveloped Zhou Heng's body; Dugu Bo watched Zhou Heng's body wrapped in golden light—the Dragon Pill had violently crashed into Zhou Heng's body just a few breaths of time ago, and then this golden light appeared.

It made Dugu Bo worry whether there was something wrong with the object that had crashed into Zhou Heng's body.

However, as Dugu Bo felt the aura belonging to Zhou Heng growing increasingly rich within the golden light, Dugu Bo did not know whether he should seek help from the Spirit Hall.

Within the golden light, on Zhou Heng's body, the form of a Reionics from the Ultraman world flickered, wanting to emerge.

However, this form was unstable, changing into a human form one moment and into a Reionics form the next.

In Zhou Heng's Sea of Consciousness, a figure appeared; the figure appearing this time was not a Reiburaondo Star Person, but the image of a water-blue planet.

Zhou Heng stared dumbfounded at the water-blue planet where he had lived in his previous life, which had suddenly appeared before him; he did not know what was happening, or why there were so many strange things inside his body.

Just as Zhou Heng was wondering, the planet flashed and turned into a blurry human figure filled with the aura of nature and creation, standing before Zhou Heng.

No matter how Zhou Heng scrutinized it, he could not see the other party's gender or what they looked like.

This made Zhou Heng look at the other party with involuntary vigilance.

"Child, you need not worry that I will strike at you; after all, you are a child I have nurtured."

Just as Zhou Heng was looking at the other party with vigilance, a soft and warm voice entered Zhou Heng's ears.

This voice made Zhou Heng's vigilant heart calm down, and the look in his eyes as he watched the other party also softened.

"Who are you, and why do you say you nurtured me?" Zhou Heng looked at the other party and asked curiously.

"Your soul was nurtured by me; have you forgotten?"

That soft and warm voice sounded once again.

Zhou Heng could not help but think of the planet consciousness mentioned in the novels he had read in his previous life; thinking of this, Zhou Heng asked the doubt in his heart.

"Could it be that you are the planet consciousness of Shuilanxing?"

"That is correct, I am the planet consciousness of Shuilanxing; Shuilanxing is actually a very peculiar planet.

It possesses no transcendent power, yet it has traces left behind by the transcendent.

Do you know why?" The planet consciousness posed a question to Zhou Heng.

"I do not know, I ask that you please inform this youngster."

"It is very simple; there are always some existences who create various accidental events on my body, wanting to take away the children I have nurtured; I have stopped many such things.

However, there are always some things I am unable to stop in time, for example: a large transport truck flew to the seventh floor, and aside from hitting and killing a college student in his twenties, it caused no other casualties.

I was doing other things at the time and only had time to protect the other children; I did not have time to save you, which is why you came here.

However, after I followed the aura and the True Spirit Imprint to this place, I completely obliterated that fellow who brought you here.

It is just that, by then, you had already been branded with the mark of this world, and I had no choice but to settle you here.

I also converted the tokusatsu you were interested in from Shuilanxing into your martial soul, and left behind this True Spirit Divided Soul, waiting for you to awaken; I have waited for you for five years before I finally waited for your awakening."