King of Creation-Chapter 694 - 685: Great Value

The moment Ye Zhen’s palm touched the forehead of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King, the majestic power of its essence blood, the earth spiritual power surrounding its body, the power within its Demon Core, Divine Soul Power, Killing Qi, Evil Qi, and various accumulated negative energies surged through Ye Zhen’s palm like a tide, rushing into the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

Inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl, lights flowed as if the pearl could differentiate the nature of each type of power. The freshly entered essence blood, earth spiritual power, and Divine Soul Power were guided aside, while the Killing Qi, Evil Qi, and various negative energies were directly guided towards the barriers of the Fourth Stage Spatial Seal within the Mirage Dragon Pearl and bombarded it!

Boom!

The Fourth Stage Spatial Seal suddenly burst forth with dazzling light, destroying all the negative energies in that instant.

The accumulated negative energies of a King-level Demon Beast of Heavenly Level High Grade over hundreds of years were enormous, even several times greater than the spiritual power inside Ye Zhen.

Yet such a vast amount of negative energy seemed to cause little change to the Fourth Stage Spatial Seal of the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

Compared to the previous seals, the Fourth Stage Spatial Seal of the Mirage Dragon Pearl appeared even more robust.

The essence blood, earth spiritual power, and Divine Soul Power that were guided aside by the light within the Mirage Dragon Pearl began to condense under the mysterious effects of the pearl, forming the Essence Spirit Pearl of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King.

It seemed that only the most pure and fundamental power of a Demon Beast was needed to form the Essence Spirit Pearl, as great amounts of essence blood and earth spiritual power were diverted to the side. After being naturally purified by the Mirage Dragon Pearl, they transformed into the purest spiritual power and were transferred into Ye Zhen’s body.

Last time, while forming the Essence Spirit Pearl of the Goldback Stone Beast King, Ye Zhen, in order to save his life, had to waste these purest energies on the spatial seal. This time, however, they were directly guided towards his Dantian.

This portion of energy was immensely vast, and after being purified by the Mirage Dragon Pearl, perhaps only about two to three-tenths remained, but for Ye Zhen, it was still extremely substantial.

As all the powers within the body of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King continued to be absorbed by the Mirage Dragon Pearl, Ye Zhen’s cultivation also soared ceaselessly.

Before long, Ye Zhen’s cultivation had reached the Peak of the Second Stage of Perfection in the Vein Forging Realm. Originally, by Ye Zhen’s estimation, reaching this peak state perfection would have required about three months of hard cultivation within High Grade Spirit Veins.

Boom, boom, boom!

The space Ye Zhen had just opened up underwent a massive collapse, due to changes in the corpse of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King.

Originally, the body of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King was two hundred meters long, five to six meters tall, and over ten meters wide. Its body was immensely huge. However, as all the power within its body was absorbed by Ye Zhen’s Mirage Dragon Pearl, the massive flesh began to collapse, turning to ash, forming a huge hollow space, causing the naturally supported cavern to collapse again.

At the same time, Ye Zhen was buried alive once more.

However, this time, Ye Zhen was not the slightest bit panicked, even though the broken ribs that had just been dislocated by the falling soil were displaced again, even piercing into his flesh, Ye Zhen’s palm remained tightly attached to the forehead of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King’s corpse.

It was worth it!

Extremely worth it!

This brush with death, and even the wasted Demon Cloud Fruit, were all worth it with the increasingly perfect Essence Spirit Pearl of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

As for Ye Zhen’s recent advancement to the peak state perfection of the Second Stage of the Vein Forging Realm, it paled in comparison to the newly formed Essence Spirit Pearl in front of him.

By now, Ye Zhen had long understood the value of the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

What is the Essence Spirit Pearl inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl?

Each King-level Essence Spirit Pearl could grant Ye Zhen an ability similar to Divine Power Martial Skills. The abilities brought by some powerful King-level Demon Beasts could even surpass those of Heavenly Level High Grade Divine Power Martial Skills in strength and rarity.

For example, the ability to control earth spiritual power brought by the Goldback Stone Beast King, although it was the lowest level of control, even this lowest level of control was an ability that only a few Kings in the Establishment Realm possessed.

In some sense, each Essence Spirit Pearl absorbed and formed by the Mirage Dragon Pearl brought Ye Zhen a new ability.

The limitations of Ye Zhen’s innate bloodline, besides those on his cultivation, had greatly reduced.

As for those Martial Artists with Seven Veins or Eight Veins who possessed many Divine Power Martial Skills, they had secret techniques that could save lives and kill enemies in critical moments, but in front of Ye Zhen, they meant nothing.

You have Seven Veins or Eight Veins, Ye Zhen has only Four Veins, do you possess three or four more Divine Power Martial Skill killing moves than Ye Zhen?

Well, Ye Zhen’s Mirage Dragon Pearl contains six or seven Essence Spirit Pearls, and the number is still increasing!

Ye Zhen was very eager to find out what kind of ability the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King would bring him.

Earth Escape?

At this thought, Ye Zhen’s heart couldn’t help but race wildly!

Earth Escape, that was a true Divine Power, something even an Establishment King couldn’t possibly possess!

Buried alive, Ye Zhen listened as the sound of collapsing earth and rocks slowly continued, and the Essence Spirit Pearl of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King in the Mirage Dragon Pearl was also becoming more perfect.

Rumble!

Fifteen minutes later, when the earth and rocks collapsed on a large scale again, Ye Zhen felt a looseness in the palm of his hand, and the Scale Armor of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King attached to his palm had turned into powder.

The Essence Spirit Pearl of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl had formed!

"Could it be Earth Escape?"

With high hopes, Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense slowly landed on the newly formed Essence Spirit Pearl of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King in the Mirage Dragon Pearl; a very strange sensation immediately arose in Ye Zhen’s mind, and simultaneously, Ye Zhen’s body also experienced a weird feeling.

Especially while being buried alive in the soil, it gave Ye Zhen a feeling akin to being in the water, and that feeling was just like a fish returning to the water.

It was as if Ye Zhen was a fish and the mud was water.

The many memories from the bloodline inheritance of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King also flooded into Ye Zhen’s mind at that moment, like an instinct, just as naturally as a fish can swim in water and a person can breathe from birth.

With a thought of his Divine Sense, Ye Zhen’s body disappeared from the spot.

Four or five miles away in the tunnel, a head extremely awkwardly protruded from the ground, with half of the neck still buried in the earth, but the expression was distinctly that of a living person, eyes brimming with ecstasy!

It really was Earth Escape!

Worth it!

It was ridiculously worthwhile!

Not to mention a single Demon Cloud Fruit, even wasting two or three Demon Cloud Fruits in exchange for an ability like Earth Escape was completely worth it!

With another flash, the head quickly sank back into the mud and disappeared.

Ye Zhen was like a mischievous child, seemingly returning to his childhood days, popping up here one moment and disappearing there the next, having the time of his life.

About fifteen minutes later, the ground suddenly rippled and trembled a few times, and just like a drowning person who had just surfaced, Ye Zhen’s head barely emerged from the ground before he started breathing heavily, his face turned deathly pale at that moment!

After gasping for breath, Ye Zhen, with extreme effort, drilled out of the ground, swallowed a Three Treasures Returning Spirit Pill, and then quickly squeezed several High Grade Spirit Crystals to swiftly recover his spiritual power.

While escaping underground just now, he unintentionally used up all his spiritual power and almost suffocated underground.

With the last bit of his spiritual power, he finally managed to burrow out of the ground.

It must be said that the Earth Escape Skill is a very powerful ability, helpful not only in combat and escaping but also in other activities, though it also consumes a great deal of spiritual power.

After reaching the Peak of the Second Stage of the Vein Forging Realm, Ye Zhen’s overall spiritual power was quite robust; still, after just 15 minutes of using the Earth Escape, he had exhausted all the spiritual power in his body.

Of course, this was partly because Ye Zhen delved too deeply.

Ye Zhen discovered that the deeper he used Earth Escape, the faster the consumption of spiritual power. Going a hundred meters under the earth, the consumption rate was almost ten times greater compared to just ten meters underground.

Utilizing the Earth Escape Skill with the Essence Spirit Pearl of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King, as per Ye Zhen’s estimation, he could stay within ten meters underground for up to two hours with no problem, and he was exceedingly agile, just like a fish in water.

But once he went a hundred meters deep, the consumption rate of his spiritual power skyrocketed by dozens of times. Even in his peak state, he could only stay at that depth for about a hundred breaths.

If Ye Zhen didn’t emerge within that time, he feared he’d be buried underneath forever.

Two hours later, Ye Zhen’s dried-up dantian was refilled; his eyes opened, bursting with sharp light and exhilaration.

This time, while searching for the Gen Earth Spirit Pearl and encountering danger, Ye Zhen was certain that he had been beguiled by someone—most likely among the three, Hou Ba, Ful Lang, or Yu Xian. Within a five-li radius of the collapse, there were no corpses of these three nor any traces of a battle as he had imagined.

These three must have made a narrow escape.

However, so much time had passed, and these three showed no intention of rescuing him.

Given Ye Zhen’s current status within the Divine Sect, his death would surely cause a huge uproar; there definitely was a manipulator behind the scenes.

Although Ye Zhen didn’t yet know who this manipulator targeting him was, he felt immensely grateful to him, extremely thankful.

Because if it weren’t for his scheme, Ye Zhen never would’ve encountered the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King, let alone possess an actual Divine Power like Earth Escape!

Nevertheless, this time, Ye Zhen had indeed been somewhat careless. When he noticed that the informer martial artist had hinted at something unusual, Ye Zhen did not investigate further.

Perhaps because he had achieved much success recently, with his status elevated and cultivation sharply increased, gaining many benefits, he became somewhat arrogant and overly confident, leading to this calculated trap.

Recalling this, Ye Zhen once again cautioned himself!

"Who could it be?"

In contemplation, Ye Zhen used the Earth Escape Skill again, returning to the spot where the corpses of the twelve Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beasts lay and extracted the remaining nine Demon Cores from inside the beasts.

Each Demon Core could be burned into a Gen Earth Spirit Pearl, which was extremely precious, just like the Earth Spirit Pearls.

"This hunting squad belongs to the Inner Affairs Hall; all its affairs are managed by the Inner Affairs Hall which specializes in intelligence. This, no one else can interfere with. That information-selling martial artist’s slip-up certainly implicates the Inner Affairs Hall in this matter!"

"Could it be the Inner Affairs Hall that wants to strike against me? But why would the Inner Affairs Hall want to move against me?"

"Could it be Zhu Ling... discovered something?" Ye Zhen suddenly felt alarmed.

"It shouldn’t be, there shouldn’t have been any slip-ups left behind..."

Ye Zhen furrowed his brows in deep thought for a moment, then suddenly his expression relaxed, "Hmph, even if Zhu Ling wants to come after me, what do I have to be afraid of!"

If it really is him who wants to come after me, good, I’ll just take care of him ahead of time!

I only killed his son before and not him, which was already letting him off easy! Thinking about it, most of the bad things his son did were probably condoned by him!"

The next instant, Ye Zhen suddenly stood up, and started walking out step by step along the extensive network of tunnels. The marks left by Ghost Shadow Ful Lang were still there, so Ye Zhen was not at risk of getting lost.

This time, Ye Zhen became very cautious, not only did he deploy his Spirit Perception to scout ahead, but he also submerged his Divine Sense into the Essence Spirit Pearl of the Goldback Stone Beast King, attaching his sense beneath the Earth Spiritual Power, and extended his probing distance from about a kilometer to ten miles.

This was a moderately exhausting yet comparatively safe distance.

After over one hour, Ye Zhen’s steps suddenly halted.

The Divine Sense Perception that extended along the Earth Spiritual Power felt three figures casually seated above a large cave entrance, chatting intermittently.

Among them, Ghost Shadow Ful Lang and Hou Ba each held a jar of wine, occasionally savoring a hearty bowl of it without the slightest appearance of injury, while the middle-aged beautiful woman Yu Xian sat a bit further away, enveloped in a fine cloak, seemingly cautious of dirt!

"You two, if your drinking attracts the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King, don’t blame me for not warning you! There are twelve Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beasts here; they could drown us!" Yu Xian coldly snorted.

"Rest assured, that place has collapsed to such a state that for a short while, the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beasts will choose another place to rebuild their den. They definitely won’t come out, and besides, I’ve set up a Spiritual Power Trap near the entrance. Anything stirs, and we’ll know immediately!"

Having said that, Ghost Shadow slyly smiled at Yu Xian, "Xian’er, tonight we should set up a tent, let Hou Ba stand guard. This open-air camping, there’s a unique charm to it...."

Whiz!

A piercing whoosh sounded, and Ghost Shadow Ful Lang yelped, dodging a clump of mud thrown by Yu Xian.

"What’s the rush? Once this mission is complete, you’ll have plenty of time to relax!" Hou Ba lifted a bowl of wine and drained it, "The Hall Master said, Ye Zhen’s identity is quite sensitive. If all three of us return alive, it could lead to unexpected trouble. You two, might as well report missing!

Change your names and places and live leisurely for a couple of years; the Hall Master will arrange for your return. The Spirit Crystal Hall Master has prepared everything for you!" Hou Ba continued.

"Where are the goods?" The beautiful woman Yu Xian’s eyes lit up, and Ful Lang asked.

"Once we see Ye Zhen’s body, I will give it to you!" Hou Ba responded, "Wait for four or five days, then we will dig up his body. We need something to confirm his death, preferably his head!"

"Don’t worry, the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beasts aren’t interested in human flesh."

"Do you think there’s any chance this kid survived?" Yu Xian asked.

"Is it even possible? Not to mention Ye Zhen alone being thrown there, even if all three of us were thrown into that hole, surrounded by twelve Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beasts, there would only be one way out—death!" Ful Lang responded.

"Yeah, the force of that cave collapsing, I’m afraid even a terror from the Vein Forging Realm’s Eighth and Ninth Stage would be turned into meat sauce!" Hou Ba added.

"That’s true, just hope his head isn’t smashed, otherwise, it would be very troublesome!"

"It shouldn’t be, heads are generally more....."

Bang!

The just-lifted head of Hou Ba froze, his hand loosened, and the bowl of wine in his hand shattered, his voice abruptly stopped, his expression as if he had seen a ghost! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote at qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)