King of Creation-Chapter 753 - 743: The Wealth of an Establishment King

Innate Soul Light is a product formed once martial artists in the Vein Forging Realm establish their foundation and after the Innate Divine Soul dispersed into the Divine Soul is completely solidified and strengthened.

The Innate Divine Soul of martial artists is extremely fragile, and once it loses the protection of Divine Soul Power and is subjected to any level of Divine Soul Attack, it will disperse.

The result of dispersion is the death and annihilation of the martial artist’s soul, a complete disappearance, with even the legendary cycle of reincarnation being impossible.

Therefore, before martial artists’ Cultivation breaks through to the Establishment Realm, everyone’s Innate Divine Soul is preciously concealed in the deepest part of the Soul Sea, not daring to reveal even a slight hint.

Even with such concealment, once exposed to a direct attack by Divine Soul Power, the Innate Divine Soul will disperse immediately, extremely fragile.

Furthermore, not to mention Divine Soul Attacks, once the Innate Divine Soul is exposed, even a wisp of Gale Wind, a slight fluctuation of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, can blow it away.

However, once Cultivation breaks through to the Establishment Realm and the foundation is established, martial artists can use secret techniques to strengthen their Innate Divine Soul, condensing Innate Soul Light.

Innate Soul Light acts like a personal armor for the Innate Divine Soul, greatly increasing the survival ability of the Innate Divine Soul, making it no longer so fragile, and continuously nourishing the Innate Divine Soul.

This increase in defensive capability doesn’t play a significant role during Divine Soul Attacks between martial artists; if subjected to a strong Divine Soul Attack, the Innate Divine Soul enveloped by Innate Soul Light will still shatter.

However, it has three critical functions.

The physical bodies of Establishment Kings at the least are Acquired Spiritual Bodies, with extremely powerful visceral functions. What limits the life span of martial artists is the Innate Divine Soul.

Once Innate Soul Light is condensed, the Innate Divine Soul will be nourished and strengthened, with the martial artist’s life span dramatically increasing. Depending on the strength of the Innate Soul Light, life expectancy can reach five to six hundred years, or even seven to eight hundred years, just like the Long-Armed Fire Monkey King, whose thousand-year lifespan is primarily due to its Cultivation breakthrough to the Establishment Realm.

That is the first function. The second function of Innate Soul Light is related to Divine Soul Attacks.

Innate Soul Light is immensely powerful, and at critical moments, utilizing a bit of it can significantly enhance the power of Divine Soul Attacks.

However, Innate Soul Light is quite precious, and its condensation requires immense effort. Therefore, very few use Innate Soul Light to bolster their Divine Soul Attacks.

The most important function is the third one, which is related to survival. If a martial artist’s life span is not yet over and they die unexpectedly, then their already condensed and strengthened Innate Divine Soul can escape under the protection of Innate Soul Light.

Depending on the strength of the Innate Soul Light, the martial artist’s Innate Divine Soul can be exposed in the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi for seven days or longer until the Innate Soul Light is completely consumed.

During this time, if luck is on their side and they encounter a body that has recently died, or with the help of comrades, they find a suitable body to possess and seize the soul, then they can be reborn!

After rebirth, although Cultivation is lost, all the Innate Divine Soul’s cultivation experiences and memories remain intact. As long as there is enough support from Cultivation resources, Cultivation can be restored.

Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul Light has escaped, seeking that potential sliver of life. If he finds a suitable body before the Innate Soul Light dissipates, he can reincarnate through possession.

But the problem is that the escape speed of Innate Soul Light is inherently not fast, and Gan Rusong, whose Cultivation has just reached the Late First Stage Establishment King, has a rather weak Innate Soul Light.

So, despite Gan Rusong’s desperate efforts, the flight speed of the Innate Soul Light remains very slow.

Ye Zhen’s eyes were fiercely bright as he watched Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul Light.

Previously, if Ye Zhen had seen such Innate Soul Light, he would have immediately blasted it into oblivion with the Heavenly Thunder of Fright, but that changed after obtaining the Puppet Spirit Record in the Ten Thousand Beast Valley.

Naturally, it wasn’t about turning the Innate Soul Light into a puppet, but refining and absorbing the Innate Soul Light to strengthen his own Innate Divine Soul, and even using it to condense a strand of Innate Soul Light ahead of time.

This Secret Technique is called the Soul Refining Spirit Theft Record Technique and the Puppet Spirit Record contains a complete set of secret techniques for capturing Innate Soul Light and detaining Innate Divine Souls.

Once captured, one can find a place to use secret techniques to refine and strengthen their own Innate Divine Soul.

The purpose of the Puppet Spirit Record containing the Soul Refining Spirit Theft Art is mainly due to the nature of the Puppetry Technique, where the success rate of the Technique’s application is related to the strength of the Divine Souls of both parties.

Among them, the Innate Divine Soul plays a critical role. The stronger the Innate Divine Soul, the harder it is to be controlled by others; when enslaving others, it is also significantly easier.

Therefore, there is the slightly insidious and Mysterious Technique of Soul Refining Spirit Theft, which is currently the only technique Ye Zhen knows of that can strengthen the Innate Divine Soul.

However, even with the Secret Technique, Innate Soul Light is hard to come by.

Every Establishment King in the world is a formidable being, difficult to kill, making their Innate Soul Light even harder to obtain, almost impossible.

Even Ye Zhen hadn’t expected that today he would be able to kill an Establishment King so effortlessly, and even though the Cultivation was only at the Late First Stage Establishment, that was still an Establishment King.

That’s how he unexpectedly discovered Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul Light.

It was Gan Rusong’s own bad luck, underestimating Ye Zhen and not taking him seriously, that led to this great disaster.

Moreover, the three Long-Armed Fire Monkey King Puppets that Ye Zhen threw out were extremely unexpected. Inanimate objects, they suddenly initiated an array.

Of course, Gan Rusong’s death was not unjust.

The three Long-Armed Fire Monkey King Puppets in themselves were of Spirit Beast Rank, and together with the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, a freakish Spirit Beast, the combined siege of four Spirit Beasts made it difficult for Gan Rusong not to die. Even if he had been prepared, it was only a matter of time.

With a movement of his body, Ye Zhen swiftly pursued Gan Rusong’s fleeing Innate Soul Light trying to escape the Spirit Academy. His fingertips pinched a mysterious Magic Formula, and immediately streams of grey airflows, invisible to the naked eye, began to intertwine layer by layer, restraining Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul Light.

At this moment, Gan Rusong no longer had the demeanor of an Establishment King. Realizing that even his Innate Soul Light was confined by Ye Zhen, a gas cluster vaguely resembling Gan Rusong appeared within the Innate Soul Light, continuously pleading and bowing to Ye Zhen with a pitiful expression.

However, Ye Zhen wasn’t so foolish as to release Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul Light, as it could immediately bring back forces to slay Ye Zhen.

With a movement of Divine Sense, Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul Light was immediately thrown by Ye Zhen into the storage ring, waiting for a leisure time to find a proper place for it to be refined by Secret Technique.

"Thousand Vine? A Mid-grade Spirit Artifact, this is indeed a good treasure for trapping enemies..."

Picking up the small umbrella-like Mid-grade Spirit Artifact, Thousand Vine, that Gan Rusong had dropped on the ground, and slightly stimulating it, hundreds and thousands of vine-like glimmers shot out, binding the target.

After trying it out for a bit, Ye Zhen found that the vine glimmers shot by Thousand Vine were extremely tough, containing within them thin strands of ink-jade-like vines, which even Ye Zhen could only cut through by using the Heart Sword Sword Gang.

However, once more than ten strands of Vine Spirit Light were intertwined, even Ye Zhen’s Heart Sword Sword Light, without the enhancement from Purple Spirit Power, couldn’t cut through it.

When more than fifty strands of Vine Spirit Light were twisted together, even if Ye Zhen drove the Purple Spirit’s power to the extreme and used the Supreme Treasure Sword to enhance it, he couldn’t sever the Vine Spirit Light.

What surprised Ye Zhen even more was the capability of the kitten.

The kitten could directly tear apart more than fifty strands of Vine Spirit Light, and as the number increased, the power the kitten expended to tear the Vine Spirit Light grew greater and greater.

When more than a hundred strands of Vine Spirit Light were intertwined and bound towards the kitten, the kitten couldn’t tear it apart instantly anymore.

The moment it couldn’t tear through, the Vine Spirit Light would continue to layer on non-stop, the more it was wrapped, the tighter and more formidable it became, until at the end, it directly bundled the kitten up, incapable of breaking free from the Vine Spirit Light’s binding no matter how fiercely it roared.

As long as the Spiritual Power input by Ye Zhen was sufficient, he could bind the kitten for as long as he wanted. However, when the kitten struggled violently, Ye Zhen’s consumption of Spiritual Power was extremely fast.

Moreover, no matter how it changed its size, either growing bigger or smaller, as long as the range was not too great, the Vine Spirit Light would adjust its tightness accordingly, fundamentally preventing escape.

Eventually, it was only when the kitten had a clever idea and instantly shrunk its twenty-plus meters maximum size down to the size of a palm that it narrowly escaped the bind.

By that time, the kitten, which had just broken through to the Spirit Tier and was full of confidence, looked at the dark green Thousand Vine with some apprehension.

As for the three Long-Armed Fire Monkey King Puppets, under Ye Zhen’s manipulation of the Thousand Vine, they were directly tied up like rice dumplings, yet, they broke free much easier than the kitten did.

An outburst of Fire Spirit Power surged out, and the Vine Spirit Light quickly melted away, though the rate of melting depended on the intensity of Ye Zhen’s Spiritual Power.

This was due to the reason of the Five Elements overcoming each other.

"A Spirit Artifact held by an Establishment King, it is indeed extraordinary!"

After testing the capabilities of the Thousand Vine, Ye Zhen sincerely admired it.

Ye Zhen currently had two Spiritual Artifacts on him, one was the Low Grade Spiritual Artifact, Divine Great Momentum Hammer, and the other was the Mid-grade Spiritual Artifact, Soul Capturing Jade Skull, but in terms of actual combat utility, neither was as good as the Thousand Vine he had acquired from the Establishment King Gan Rusong.

The binding effect was extremely powerful; it could bind Spirit Beasts, so binding Establishment Kings was also not a problem. Just binding an Establishment King for a second or two could perhaps yield a decisive opportunity.

The only pity was that Ye Zhen did not practice a Wood Spirit Power Cultivation Technique and couldn’t bring out the full power of the Thousand Vine.

At most, Ye Zhen could only activate seven or eight hundred strands of Vine Spirit Light with the Thousand Vine. Producing more than a thousand strands like Gan Rusong just did was impossible.

But it was enough.

With a movement of Divine Sense, Ye Zhen fetched a severed arm, removed the storage ring that belonged to Gan Rusong, and his Divine Sense rushed towards the Divine Soul Imprint on the storage ring like a tide.

Although Gan Rusong’s Innate Divine Soul hadn’t completely dissipated, at this moment, with no one in control of the storage ring, a continuous barrage of Divine Soul Power for more than ten breaths was enough to scatter the Divine Soul Imprint on the storage ring.

The moment Divine Sense probed inside, Ye Zhen’s expression froze, "The wealth of an Establishment King is indeed extraordinary..." (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com to read.)