King of Creation-Chapter 695 - 686 It’s Just a Joke

"Old Hou, are you becoming more useless by the day? You can’t even hold your liquor cup steady..." Seeing Hou Ba shatter his liquor cup, Ghost Shadow Ful Lang pointed at him and burst into unrestrained laughter.

However, he only laughed halfway before he froze, realizing that something was off about Hou Ba’s expression.

Shattering a liquor cup wouldn’t normally elicit such a look of utter terror.

It wasn’t just Hou Ba; even Yu Xian, sitting diagonally across from him, suddenly straightened up, his expression turning extremely grave.

Turning his head slowly, Ful Lang’s eyeballs bulged out suddenly, his face mirroring the same horror!

"Ye... Hall Master Ye, when did you come out?" After the initial panic subsided, Hou Ba quickly calmed down, signaling with his eyes to Ful Lang and Yu Xian. Both were old hands in the Jianghu and immediately reacted, adjusting their expressions to appear normal.

But no matter how they tried to disguise it, the shock in their eyes was difficult to conceal.

The trap they had set earlier was supposed to be inescapable.

The difficulty of surviving attacks from demon beasts and the forces of nature was so high that even an Establishment King of the Establishment Realm might suffer severe injuries if ensnared; yet, Ye Zhen, a martial artist at the first-stage Vein Forging Realm, had escaped alive. How could they believe this?

"What, if I didn’t come out, were you planning to dig out my brain and claim credit?" Ye Zhen scoffed coldly.

He had overheard the entire conversation just now, and he could confirm that the person behind the plot against him was Zhu Ling, the Head of the Inner Affairs Hall.

As for why Zhu Ling would target him, Ye Zhen suspected that it was highly likely that Zhu Ling blamed the death of his son on him.

On this point, Ye Zhen was very clear.

Such matters did not require evidence; suspicion alone, perhaps stirred by the insinuation of one or two schemers, was enough to direct blame towards Ye Zhen.

Moreover, the Spiritual Power Trap that Ful Lang mentioned as having been set up inside the cave was indeed ingenious. It sealed off a main passageway making it fundamentally impossible to cross without triggering the trap.

However, while his trap sealed the passageway, it couldn’t seal the ground beneath it. For others, the unavoidable Spiritual Power Trap was, for Ye Zhen, merely a matter of using Earth Escape to cover a distance of several meters.

Ye Zhen’s words made Hou Ba, Ful Lang, and Yu Xian’s complexions change simultaneously.

"You heard everything?" Yu Xian’s face was one of shock!

"What do you think?" retorted Ye Zhen. "How much did Zhu Ling pay you to kill me?"

While Ye Zhen did not respond, his question implied the answer.

At his words, Middle-aged beauty Yu Xian and Hou Ba both glared at Ghost Shadow Ful Lang, the simple message being their questioning of why Ful Lang’s Spiritual Power Trap had failed. It had not only allowed Ye Zhen to overhear everything but also let him appear silently, undetected by them.

Originally, if there was even a one in ten thousand chance that Ye Zhen could survive, they still had follow-up plans.

Ghost Shadow Ful Lang looked at Ye Zhen, his heart too shocked for words.

He, the Ghost Shadow, was not famous for nothing—his Spiritual Power Traps could prevent even Establishment Kings from avoiding detection silently. If set up properly, anyone trying to forcefully pass through would be detected by him.

Yet now, he still had no sense of it; the Spiritual Power Trap was still intact.

"Tell me, where did Zhu Ling agree to meet with you? I might consider sparing your lives!" Ye Zhen suddenly pointed at the trio of Hou Ba, Ful Lang, and Yu Xian and said.

The complexions of the trio of Hou Ba, Ful Lang, and Yu Xian changed again, first registering confusion, and then, abruptly, expressions of utter disbelief.

"Hall Master Ye, I admit, you do have some tricks up your sleeve, some life-saving treasure that allowed you to survive that ordeal and even avoid Ghost Shadow’s Spiritual Power Trap.

We truly admire this feat. It’s no small feat to score first place in the Spirit Returning Assembly.

But you really shouldn’t have appeared before us again. This act of seeking death, there’s no difference between it and being a stupid moron!" said Hou Ba as he twisted his neck.

Suddenly, a flash of light appeared, and Ghost Shadow Ful Lang’s figure flickered like a phantom, instantly appearing behind Ye Zhen. The beautiful woman Yu Xian shifted sideways, and in an instant, she joined forces with Hou Ba and Ful Lang to form a triangle, surrounding Ye Zhen in the middle.

"What, do you really think you can kill me?" Ye Zhen suddenly started to chuckle.

"Do you, Hall Master Ye, think you can escape from the three of us?" Hou Ba said coldly.

"How do you compare to twelve Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beasts?"

As soon as Ye Zhen spoke, Hou Ba and Ful Lang’s faces changed, but the beautiful woman Yu Xian snorted coldly, "Demon Beasts, those stupid creatures, how can they compare to humans?"

"Even with your combat achievements at the Spirit Returning Assembly, the highest you’ve faced is a martial artist at the Fourth Stage of the Vein Forging Realm. Among us, the highest cultivation is at the Sixth Stage of the Vein Forging Realm, and there are three of us!

Hall Master Ye, if I were you, I would advise you to just surrender obediently and come with us to see Hall Master Zhu. Perhaps you’ll suffer less!"

"Moreover, this time we have a trump card bestowed by Hall Master Zhu. With this bead, even a strong fighter at the Eighth and Ninth Stage of the Vein Forging Realm could be blasted to death!" Yu Xian said with an extremely confident tone.

Ye Zhen knew what Yu Xian was doing. He turned his head to glance at the bead pinched between her fingers and the strange Divine Soul Waves emanating from Yu Qian, and he couldn’t help but sneer.

"You want to play Divine Soul Attacks, do you know? Yun Ce, the genius martial artist from Qingyun Castle, was turned into an idiot by my Divine Soul Attack! Still playing with your eyes, do you dare to look into mine?"

Suddenly, Ye Zhen’s eyes, staring into Yu Xian’s, ignited with hellfire, threatening to draw everything into the beautiful, hellish flames.

Phantom Soul Divine Eye.

"Ah...."

Merely glancing at Ye Zhen’s eyes for a moment, Yu Xian covered her own eyes and screamed in pain.

However, she was quick to react. She was also a cultivator of Divine Soul Attacks and had some techniques in that area. Otherwise, she might have fallen into Ye Zhen’s Phantom Soul Divine Eye.

"I’ll say this one last time, confess truthfully the meeting place you arranged with Zhu Ling, and I will spare your lives!" Ye Zhen shouted coldly.

"In your dreams!"

"Bragging without fear of biting your tongue! With your strength, do you think it’s possible?" Ghost Shadow Ful Lang sneered.

"What, you think my Late First Stage of the Vein Forging Realm cultivation is too low to be taken seriously?"

"Of course!"

While speaking, Ghost Shadow Ful Lang exchanged glances with Hou Ba and the recently recovered Yu Xian, preparing to attack Ye Zhen together.

It would be false to say they were not worried.

The ability of Ye Zhen to come out alive from the encirclement of twelve Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beasts was truly terrifying.

"Then have another look and see what my cultivation is now," Ye Zhen moved his Divine Sense and completely released the suppression of the Hidden Meridian Art!

Whoosh!

The aura emanating from Ye Zhen suddenly soared by a large margin in an instant!

"Peak of the Second Stage of the Vein Forging Realm?"

"Peak of the Second Stage of the Vein Forging Realm? How is that possible?"

Whether it was Hou Ba, Ful Lang, or Yu Xian, all three were shocked simultaneously. As the most prominent figure in the Sun and Moon Divine Sect recently, they knew his information all too well.

Half a year ago, he participated in the Spirit Returning Assembly with the Late Stage of the Fifth Stage of the Soul Sea Realm and won, obtaining numerous rewards.

But half a year ago, he only had the cultivation of the Fifth Stage of the Soul Sea Realm.

Even with the aid of the Immortal Realm Spiritual Veins, reaching the First Stage of the Vein Forging Realm would be an impressive achievement; how could one possibly reach the peak of the Second Stage of the Vein Forging Realm?

This was no longer a question of science, it was simply an impossibility.

Yet, it unfolded right before their eyes.

In the instant the three were shocked, a wild surge of killing qi burst forth from Ye Zhen!

"Since you’ve chosen the path to death, then die!"

The very instant the first word was uttered, the Soul Capturing Jade Skull in Ye Zhen’s palm emitted an ear-piercing sound akin to the wail of a ghost.

Yu Xian, who had just suffered a Divine Soul Attack, was slightly better off, while Hou Ba and Ghost Shadow Ful Lang showed expressions of extreme pain at the very first moment.

The Divine Soul Attack unleashed by the Mid-grade Spiritual Artifact, the Soul Capturing Jade Skull, caused severe tremors in their Soul Seas despite being suppressed by five or even six Heavenly Pillars.

They had no choice but to frantically mobilize their defenses against this Divine Soul Attack from the outset, let alone counterattack.

Whoosh!

The very instant the Soul Capturing Jade Skull sounded, a small earthy-yellow hammer suddenly flew out from Ye Zhen’s left palm, then rapidly enlarged and hammered down upon the middle-aged beauty, Yu Xian.

As the Great Momentum Hammer crashed down, the abundant Earth Spiritual Power from the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi gathered towards it like a tide, instantly causing the Great Momentum Hammer to swell in size.

"A Mid-grade Spiritual Artifact, another one....."

The middle-aged beauty Yu Xian let out a shrill cry, her voice laden with despair.

The Great Momentum Hammer brutally struck Yu Xian’s head. Even amid the disruption of the Soul Capturing Jade Skull, in a life-and-death moment, she fiercely raised both hands to shield herself with layer upon layer of ripple-shaped palm imprints above her head, likely a Divine Power Martial Skill she had cultivated!

Bang!

Under the onslaught of the Great Momentum Hammer, the ripple-shaped palm imprints Yu Xian shielded above her head instantly shattered, and the tremendous force crushed her palms and half her forearms into a pulp!

The Protective Spirit Armor on Yu Xian’s head, dense to the extreme, flickered madly a few times without shattering, but Yu Xian herself was hammered into the ground like a stake by the Great Momentum Hammer!

The next instant, the elevated Great Momentum Hammer struck down like lightning once again!

"No!"

Yu Xian let out a horrific scream!

"No....!"

But this second shout belonged to Ghost Shadow Ful Lang, whose Innate Divine Soul in the Soul Sea burst open a small cluster, spewing blood from all seven orifices.

However, the effect was tremendous, as a massive influx of pure Divine Soul Power instantly calmed the boiling Soul Sea that had been agitated by the attack of the Soul Capturing Jade Skull.

Almost the moment his Divine Soul broke free from the attack of the Soul Capturing Jade Skull, Ghost Shadow Ful Lang howled in pain, and with a flicker, he transformed into rings of insubstantial afterimages around Ye Zhen. In a blink of an eye, there were thousands of Ghost Shadow Ful Langs simultaneously thrusting at Ye Zhen.

This was Ghost Shadow Ful Lang’s strategy to relieve the siege.

It was also his ultimate trump card, the Ghost Shadow Flash!

With a deadly attack, he intended to force Ye Zhen to abandon the continued assault on Yu Xian.

But no one noticed the sneer that emerged at the corner of Ye Zhen’s mouth.

Ghost Shadow Ful Lang’s technique of creating hundreds of illusions in an instant would be a formidable weapon against an ordinary martial artist, a significant killing move indeed.

But in front of Ye Zhen, who possessed Sword Heart Enlightenment and could sense everything around him, it was nothing but a huge... joke!

Sssst!

A golden Heart Sword Sword Light suddenly stabbed out diagonally from behind Ye Zhen’s head.

In the next instant, a remnant shadow of Ghost Shadow Ful Lang, which was aimed at the vital spot in Ye Zhen’s back, jolted violently as it rushed toward the golden Heart Sword Sword Light. Then it was pierced through by the Sword Light, and bright red blood spurted out, instantly outlining the real body of Ghost Shadow Ful Lang.

Ghost Shadow Ful Lang looked like a confused goose, foolishly crashing head-on into Ye Zhen’s Heart Sword Sword Light, directly penetrated through the heart. His eyes bulged out in pain and disbelief.

"You... you... how could you... find me?"

"Pfft!"

The response to Ghost Shadow Ful Lang wasn’t Ye Zhen’s voice, but the sound of middle-aged beauty Yu Xian being smashed into a pulp by the Great Momentum Hammer.

"No..."

A shrill scream burst from Ghost Shadow Ful Lang’s mouth. Even as blood gushed from his chest, a terrifying aura emerged around his body, and his Spiritual Power fluctuated wildly and unstably.

This was Ghost Shadow Ful Lang’s desperate secret technique, a fight to the death.

Yu Xian was annihilated by Ye Zhen, and in his despair, he wanted to perish together with Ye Zhen!

Boom!

A Heavenly Thunder of Fright poured down directly from above Ghost Shadow Ful Lang’s head, not only charring Ful Lang black but also the powerful paralyzing force contained in the lightning cutting off all of Ghost Shadow Ful Lang’s Divine Soul Waves and Spiritual Power Waves.

The light in his eyes dimmed. As blood continued to spurt violently, he fell backward helplessly. In the moment of his fall, the last glimmer of light in his eyes was still fixed on Yu Xian, the middle-aged beauty who had been hammered into a pulp!

"Gurgle... gurgle..."

This scene, whether it was Yu Xian’s death or Ghost Shadow Ful Lang’s death, Hou Ba saw it all. But all he could do was watch them die one by one.

It wasn’t that Hou Ba didn’t want to save them; he couldn’t!

When Ye Zhen activated the Soul Capturing Jade Skull, the Soul Capturing Demon Sound could simultaneously attack Hou Ba, Ful Lang, and Yu Xian. If Ful Lang could escape the Soul Capturing Demon Sound in a state of desperation, why couldn’t Hou Ba?

The reason Hou Ba couldn’t was simple. When Ye Zhen activated the Soul Capturing Jade Skull, the two skull eyes of the Jade Skull were directly facing Hou Ba.

The two agony-filled ghosts in those skull eyes, ceaselessly struggling to crawl out only to be yanked back, were facing Hou Ba.

And Hou Ba happened to glance at them.

Under such circumstances, the demon screaming sound in Hou Ba’s mind immediately became dozens of times stronger, several times more intense than what Ful Lang and Yu Xian had to endure from the Soul Capturing Demon Sound!

The might of the mid-grade Spirit Artifact, the Soul Capturing Jade Skull, was almost entirely directed at Hou Ba.

Ye Zhen was certain that Hou Ba had not cultivated any auxiliary Divine Power Martial Skill. His gaze was immediately caught and trapped. At this moment, his Innate Divine Soul was still struggling frantically and could possibly fly out of his body with a slight slackening of effort.

It was fortunate that Hou Ba was a Six Veins Martial Artist, his Six Paths Divine Martial Vein Heavenly Pillar was shining brightly within his Soul Sea, firmly suppressing his Innate Divine Soul.

It wasn’t of high quality, but it was valuable due to its quantity.

Otherwise, Hou Ba’s Innate Divine Soul might have already left his body by now!

In a moment, in less than two breaths’ time, two were dead, and one was suppressed!

Hou Ba knew all this, but all he could do, besides being shocked and fearful, was that he didn’t even have the extra energy to let out a scream.

"Hou Ba, if you reveal the place where you met Zhu Ling now, my previous promise still stands," Ye Zhen’s voice sounded. (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)