Nine Heavenly Bell Rings—the ultimate standard for Burning Core Breakthrough, the hallmark of a heaven-chosen prodigy—and Shi Tie Zhu achieved it with effortless ease.
It could be said that when others rang the bell nine times, it might be because nine rings were all they could manage. But when Shi Tie Zhu rang it nine times, it was absolutely because there were only nine rings.
His nine rings had come far too easily, too effortlessly, in a single stroke. Shi Tiexin knew full well that the accumulated experience of himself, Scholar Stone, and Black A'zun had played no small part in it. Yet compared to the hardships of the past, the contrast was so immense that Shi Tiexin felt Big Brother's image rising without limit, while he and the others had abruptly become "the three little ones."
Shi Tie Zhu drew in and released his breath, then let out a long exhalation. The sharp qi throughout his body spun and circulated at high speed.
The essence of their unity allowed Shi Tiexin to immediately sense Shi Tie Zhu's condition. The ninth ring had illuminated the inside of his body completely, revealing every last detail of his natural meridians. From the main trunks to the branching streams, even reaching the tiniest extremities, Shi Tie Zhu was like a pristine, untrained, uncarved being born with ultimate hardness.
Moreover, Shi Tie Zhu's fine control over sharp qi surpassed that of the eight-ring Scholar Stone by a great deal.
Moreover, his sharp qi grew naturally, at a rate faster than ordinary Breakthrough martial artists cultivating with all their might. In other words, the teaching assistants of Tumubao First Academy, charging ahead with fierce diligence, still could not progress as quickly as Shi Tie Zhu simply lying there. They truly were two entirely different species.