King of Creation-Chapter 687 - 678: Battle of Destiny?

"It’s been quite a while since I absorbed Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi. I’ve absorbed a bit... too much!" Perhaps because he had been under Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense observation for too long, it was only then that Purple Spirit, the purple light deep within the First Sword Vein, stuttered a bit as it explained.

However, before Ye Zhen could react, Purple Spirit, under the gaze of Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense, went berserk.

"Was it just because I absorbed a bit of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi? What’s the fuss about? Is it necessary?"

"I’ve come to your aid so many times, and you won’t even let me absorb a bit of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi to replenish myself?"

"When you needed me, I didn’t utter a word. Now I’ve absorbed a bit of your Spiritual Power, and you can’t handle it? Who acts like this..."

Listening to Purple Spirit’s rapid-fire attack, Ye Zhen rolled his eyes exaggeratedly.

"Please, I just figured out the source of my Spiritual Power consumption. When did I ever blame you?"

"Then why are you looking at me with that expression?" Purple Spirit felt somewhat aggrieved.

"Can’t I even look?"

As he spoke, Ye Zhen held out two fingers towards Purple Spirit, "Twenty percent, do you understand?"

"Only twenty percent? That’s too little! Don’t talk about twenty percent; even your entire Spiritual Power isn’t enough for me to take a single bite!" Purple Spirit was very dissatisfied.

"It can accumulate bit by bit. If I’m done for, I reckon you won’t be any better off. I need to rapidly increase my Cultivation, twenty percent at most!" Ye Zhen stated.

"Alright..."

With Purple Spirit’s nod, the Spiritual Power that originally surged into Ye Zhen’s body and headed straight for the First Sword Vein suddenly became much more scattered, beginning to accumulate in the dantian.

The sentient Sword Light, Purple Spirit, obtained by Ye Zhen within the Spirit Sword Grave Mountain of the Black Dragon Domain, was precisely the reason Ye Zhen had madly absorbed Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi without any increase in his Spiritual Power.

Earlier, over ninety percent of the Spiritual Power had been absorbed by it, no wonder Ye Zhen’s Cultivation had seen no increase.

Ye Zhen reckoned it was probably due to his complete enlightenment of Sword Heart within the First Sword Vein that allowed Purple Spirit to directly absorb the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi within his body.

Ye Zhen felt that he could cut off Purple Spirit’s absorption of his Spiritual Power at any moment. The First Sword Vein existed within his body just like flesh and blood, and despite Purple Spirit’s strong capabilities, it had to abide by Ye Zhen’s restrictions, after all, it had no physical form.

However, Ye Zhen hadn’t done so. Purple Spirit was quite sentient and it wasn’t necessary to make the situation tense; besides, Purple Spirit was genuinely assisting him and did not resist him imprinting the Divine Soul Seal on it. It’s just that Ye Zhen currently lacked the capability to do it quickly.

Having found the cause, Ye Zhen’s Cultivation began to rapidly improve, and the speed of improvement was even faster than before his breakthrough to the Vein Forging Realm.

Cultivation is a monotonous affair. Since the breakthrough to the Early-stage of Vein Forging Realm, Ye Zhen spent most of his days absorbing Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi to enhance his Cultivation.

Every day, Ye Zhen would spend some time studying the Earth Primordial Divine Palm, a Heavenly-level High-grade Divine Power Martial Skill.

Although he was missing one Heavenly Material, the Gen Earth Spirit Pearl, temporary unready for Vein Forging Cultivation, that did not prevent Ye Zhen from comprehending the Earth Primordial Divine Palm.

After all, Divine Power Martial Skills are still a type of Martial Skill; at the end of the day, they are still Martial Skills, just spiritualized.

Only by fully understanding and practicing them to the point of perfection and clarity of mind can they be used for Vein Forging.

For now, Ye Zhen was merely preparing for Vein Forging.

Ye Zhen believed that with the vast resources of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, as long as they mobilized, finding an extremely pure Earth Element Demon Beast would not be difficult.

Thus passed a monotonous month, and Ye Zhen’s Cultivation had advanced from the Early-stage to the Mid-stage of the Vein Forging Realm First Stage.

This speed was definitely miraculous.

But the reason for this miraculous speed was multifaceted.

The primary reason was Cultivating within the Immortal Realm Spiritual Veins. If it had been in the High-grade Spirit Veins, it might have taken several months, and in the Mid-grade Spirit Veins, it might have taken several years.

Of course, this was Ye Zhen’s speed. For other Martial Artists to advance from the Early-stage to Mid-stage of the Vein Forging Realm First Stage, even in the Supreme Spirit Veins, it would be impossible without two to three months; in the High-grade Spirit Veins, it might even take more than a year.

The reason for Ye Zhen’s quick advancement was related to his powerful Innate Bloodline compared to ordinary Martial Artists; the fluctuations of the Innate Bloodline could rival or even surpass those of Martial Artists with the Eight Vein Innate Bloodline.

Moreover, Ye Zhen’s rapid advancement was aided by the pills, Spirit Plants, and Spirit Wines used for cultivation.

As a Vice Sect Hierarch of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, Ye Zhen enjoys a Monthly Allowance that supplies quantities of pills, Spirit Plants, and Spirit Wines that are ten to twenty times more than before.

In the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, there are only two Vice Sect Hierarchs, and less than ten Martial Artists enjoy the privileges of a Vice Sect Hierarch.

Not to mention anything else, just consider the Nine-Transition Rejuvenation Pill used for the cultivation of Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists. Previously, when Ye Zhen was in Moonlight Hall, such pills were provided only once a month.

But now, twenty pills are provided a month, and with the privileges of a Vice Sect Hierarch, Ye Zhen could borrow up to half a year’s Monthly Allowance at once.

Swallowing one Nine-Transition Rejuvenation Pill equates to ten days of intensive cultivation for an ordinary Vein Forging Realm Martial Artist, or a day of cultivation for Ye Zhen in the Supreme Spirit Veins.

Other ordinary Martial Artists get only one to five Nine-Transition Rejuvenation Pills per month, not to mention other cumulative growth aids like Spirit Plants and Spirit Wines.

In such a case, it was quite normal for Ye Zhen to have advanced his Cultivation from the early stage of the Vein Forging Realm First Stage to the middle stage of the Vein Forging Realm First Stage within a month.

However, Ye Zhen still found it too slow.

Because at this rate, to advance his Cultivation to the peak of the Vein Forging Realm First Stage, he would need at least another two months of rigorous cultivation. As a result, he would have spent more than half of this year’s cultivation time within the Immortal Realm Spiritual Veins.

Ye Zhen didn’t know if his second Black Dragon Bloodline could communicate with heaven and earth, and if it could, by the time he finished using half a year’s worth of cultivation time, he was afraid his Cultivation wouldn’t even reach the peak of the Second Stage of Vein Forging Realm.

Moreover, the Nine-Transition Rejuvenation Pills he brought were only sufficient for four months. After the fourth month, the speed of cultivation would inevitably decrease. Let alone reaching the peak of the Second Stage of Vein Forging Realm, even reaching the late second stage was highly uncertain.

But this speed of cultivation was not something that could be hurriedly enhanced.

One day, while internally viewing and cultivating the four Innate Bloodlines within his body, an idea suddenly struck Ye Zhen. It seemed that his second Black Dragon Bloodline might have completed forging.

If he could connect it to "heaven and earth," could Ye Zhen’s cultivation speed rise sharply again?

Normally, only after reaching the peak of the First Stage of Vein Forging Realm could one reforge the second Divine Power Martial Vein and achieve a breakthrough.

But it was different with Ye Zhen.

While others had to methodically proceed step by step, Ye Zhen, since the Soul Sea Realm, had already forged two Divine Power Martial Skills, though his second Black Dragon Bloodline had always been inactive.

But that was still a Divine Power Martial Vein. Next, he only needed to connect with "heaven and earth" to bring his Cultivation up to the Second Stage of the Vein Forging Realm.

Even...

Suddenly, Ye Zhen’s throat moved, and he gulped down a mouthful of saliva eagerly. What if, after connecting the Black Dragon Bloodline to "heaven and earth", it was activated?

This thought abruptly excited Ye Zhen.

Centering his thoughts, Ye Zhen decisively interrupted his cultivation and prepared to try out this idea.

Following the path of others would never allow one to surpass them; only walking one’s own path can lead to transcendence.

With a thought of his Divine Sense, the Black Dragon Bloodline immediately radiated a vast black light and, under the control of Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense, began to shrink slowly and move. The five internal organs and six hollow organs started to tremble again due to the movement of the Innate Bloodline.

Moving the Black Dragon Bloodline proved even more strenuous than the First Sword Vein. Perhaps it was because the Black Dragon Bloodline hadn’t been activated, or perhaps because it was inherently more powerful.

Ye Zhen took a full two hours just to move the bottom of the Black Dragon Bloodline to above his Dantian, whereas with the First Sword Vein, it had only taken him 15 minutes.

With a push of his Divine Sense, the Black Dragon Bloodline suddenly sank into the Dantian. Seeing numerous root-like light strands extending from the bottom of the Black Dragon Bloodline and penetrating into the Dantian, Ye Zhen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

So far, so good!

Keep going!

Driven by his Divine Sense, the top end of the Black Dragon Bloodline slowly moved towards the Soul Sea. Approaching the Soul Sea, it almost consumed another two hours before completely moving the top end of the Black Dragon Bloodline into the Soul Sea.

Just like the First Sword Vein, the instant the tip of the Black Dragon Bloodline entered the realm of the Soul Sea, a black light pillar above the Soul Sea suddenly burst forth with radiance, its growth wild and swift, instantly fusing with the black light pillar in a moment.

Instantly, Ye Zhen’s Soul Sea stabilized somewhat.

However, in Ye Zhen’s perception, the aura and sensation emitted by the black light pillar, now merged with the Black Dragon Bloodline, were different from the golden pillar of Sword Heart Enlightenment. The golden pillar expended nearly all its energy suppressing the Soul Sea, while the black dragon pillar’s role in suppressing the Soul Sea was minimal, a very small part only, its other effects unknown to Ye Zhen.

"It worked!"

Seeing the successful connection of the Black Dragon Bloodline with heaven and earth, instinctively, a vast amount of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi gushed in like a deluge from the Black Dragon Bloodline.

The speed at which Ye Zhen absorbed the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi increased by at least more than 30%.

But what Ye Zhen expected was not just this, he had anticipated it all.

Ye Zhen anticipated whether, after connecting the Black Dragon Bloodline with heaven and earth, it would be activated?

Almost immediately after Ye Zhen connected the Black Dragon Bloodline with heaven and earth, in a silent chamber atop a remote Outer Domain mountain, a Martial Artist wearing a black Dragon Embroidered Robe suddenly opened his eyes, the eyes bursting forth a hundred feet of brilliant light, shooting towards the sky.

As if trying to see through something, to discover something!

"That aura, it’s come again...."

"And this time, it even allowed this king to sense the approximate location! It seems, the destined battle of this king is about to begin...."

The next moment, the Martial Artist in the black Dragon Embroidered Robe abruptly stood up, stepping into the sky, looking towards the sensed direction....

In a flash of brilliance, several Jade Talismans flew out from the hands of the Martial Artist in black Dragon Embroidered Robe, each carved with a dragon clawing fiercely....(To be continued. If you like this series, you are welcome to vote and support on Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)