King of Creation-Chapter 664 - 656 Longevity Sect Running Errands

Boom!

In the deafening sound of rolling thunder, a dark thunder light shot out from the palm of Ye Zhen’s hand swiftly towards White Bone Young Master.

Almost the instant he saw the dark thunder light, an inexplicable tightness gripped White Bone Young Master Lio Kechu’s expression, and a hint of panic flashed through his eyes.

That day in the Trial Secret Realm, he too had endured such a bolt of thunder light. In fact, it had played a major role in the loss of his arm to Ye Zhen that day.

But at that critical moment, he only knew the thunder light was immensely powerful and hadn’t thought much about it.

However, now, the power of the dark thunder light left him utterly dumbfounded.

As the dark thunder light passed through the White Bone Divine Claw overhead, it melted away his claw as rapidly as hot soup dissolves snow.

As surprise surfaced on Lio Kechu’s face, a shield made of pure, bone-white brilliance, the White Bone Spirit Shield, suddenly appeared on his arm, facing the oncoming thunder light.

Yet, the dark thunder light, seeming like the bane of his bone spirit power, poured down and dissolved the White Bone Spirit Shield once again.

After shattering two powerful martial skills consecutively, the dark thunder light appeared undiminished in power, having only reduced in size by half.

The next moment, the remaining dark thunder light fiercely bombarded down from atop White Bone Young Master Lio Kechu’s head, turning his extremely defensive White Bone Spirit Armor into debris as if it were mere tofu.

As a tingling sensation of paralysis spread through his body, an extremely terrifying realization finally dawned on White Bone Young Master Lio Kechu.

"Heavenly Thunder!"

"Could this be Heavenly Thunder?" White Bone Young Master Lio Kechu’s face was filled with terror.

The White Bone Divine Skill he cultivated was immensely powerful, but the general guide within it cautioned: White Bone Divine Skill, boundlessly powerful ... fears only Heavenly Thunder ...

Boom!

With a sneer spreading across Ye Zhen’s face, another bolt of Heavenly Thunder of Fright swiftly shot out from his palm, thunderclapping down onto the head of White Bone Young Master Lio Kechu.

Naturally, Lio Kechu wasn’t going to just wait for death.

The White Bone Spirit Shield continually condensed, and the White Bone Spirit Armor re-covered his body in an instant, but this time was even less effective than the last. A large amount of dark thunder light poured down, shaking the White Bone Young Master’s body like a sieve, uncontrollably!

This sight completely dumbfounded Yan Cong, who was highly expectant.

As for the Longevity Sect Master Yin Changsheng, he was frantically jumping around outside the arena, unable to offer guidance as Divine Soul Telecommunication was interfered with by Spirit Threads.

When they saw Lio Kechu’s White Bone Spirit Armor shattered by Ye Zhen again, Yin Changsheng couldn’t hold back anymore and roared out, "Use the Soul Capturing Jade Skull, use it now, if not now, when?"

Originally, the mid-grade Spirit Artifact Soul Capturing Jade Skull was White Bone Young Master Lio Kechu’s trump card, a secret weapon intended against foes like Shang Lingqi and Yan Yijun, not to be revealed lightly.

However, seeing that White Bone Young Master Lio Kechu was at a life and death juncture, he couldn’t help but shout loudly anymore.

Hearing this shout, a sneer reappeared on Ye Zhen’s lips, thinking about the Soul Capturing Jade Skull being used against him, how would it work?

Lio Kechu indeed heard the shout, but his face bore a smile uglier than crying, and before the smile fully formed, another bolt of Heavenly Thunder of Fright poured down, submerging Lio Kechu and his bitter smile completely.

Only the deep fear in his eyes blazed fiercely, involuntarily emitting a wretched scream!

This time, he hadn’t even managed to form his White Bone Spirit Shield or White Bone Spirit Armor before the Heavenly Thunder of Fright struck him directly.

When the Thunder Light struck his White Bone Battle Body, he felt as if a red-hot iron was seared into it, a pain that pierced deep into his marrow.

He wanted to struggle, but after the Heavenly Thunder entered his body, it felt as if his whole body was branded with iron blocks. Apart from screaming, he could do nothing else.

Outside the arena, both Yan Zong and Yin Changsheng were shocked by Lio Kechu’s screams.

Ye Zhen had shockingly managed to make Lio Kechu scream in pain with ease.

For a Martial Artist of the Vein Forging Realm, what kind of pain could make them scream out?

"Sect Leader, something seems wrong. Why do I feel like Kechu can’t hold on any longer? Should we concede the match?" Duan Yingnian, the Guardian Sect Commander beside Yin Changsheng, earnestly suggested.

Yin Changsheng’s brows furrowed into a deep frown, "This, it hasn’t reached that point yet...."

What a joke, Lio Kechu was the Martial Artist he had high hopes for, the only reliance for Longevity Sect to clinch victory, how could they possibly concede directly to Ye Zhen?

A thunderclap-like sound rang out again, and dark Thunder Light bombed down, directly exploding a burst of flames over Lio Kechu’s body surface. Lio Kechu was blasted into the air like a wooden stake and then crashed onto the ground, his body beginning to twitch involuntarily.

By then, even if Yin Changsheng was foolish, he understood Lio Kechu was finished.

"Concede, I, on behalf of Lio Kechu, concede...."

Boom!

The moment Yin Changsheng’s voice resounded, another thunderclap split the sky, striking Lio Kechu’s body before Yin Changsheng could finish his sentence.

A distinct smell of burning flesh suddenly pervaded the air, causing Yin Changsheng’s heart to sink repeatedly.

"Kechu...."

Almost at the same time, the figure of the Heavenly Net Sect Leader Wu Mengshan, who was presiding over the Martial Arena, flashed, rushing to Lio Kechu’s side, and with a single palm touch, a massive surge of Spiritual Power was transferred, his expression suddenly becoming incredibly astonished.

In that instant, Ye Zhen saw a flash of light, and Yin Changsheng’s figure appeared next to the almost charred-black Lio Kechu, taking out a porcelain bottle and frantically pouring the liquid inside it into him.

"Longevity Holy Water?" Ye Zhen’s pupils suddenly narrowed.

"Heh, well done, very well done!" The voice of Sect Leader Jian Qianxiong resounded next to Ye Zhen, who didn’t know when Jian Qianxiong had also jumped onto the Martial Arena, but he positioned himself behind Ye Zhen.

After pouring half a bottle of Longevity Holy Water, Lio Kechu’s body still did not move an inch, and with a light touch, Lio Kechu’s breastbone broke. The fracture showed that the breastbone had completely turned to charcoal.

A person devoid of any signs of life, even if soaked in Longevity Holy Water, would be useless.

Immense Spiritual Power waves abruptly rose from Yin Changsheng, and anyone could sense the brutality and fury contained within Yin Changsheng’s Spiritual Power fluctuations.

Jian Qianxiong took a step forward, shielding Ye Zhen proactively, while the aura of Wu Mengshan, the host of the Spirit Returning Assembly, also rose with an extremely solemn killing intent.

"Sect Master Yin, are you challenging the joint agreement of the Five Great Forces?"

Yin Changsheng abruptly raised his head, his reddened eyes ferociously fixated on Ye Zhen. In that moment, Ye Zhen felt an urge from Yin Changsheng to devour him alive.

As a Sect Leader, Yin Changsheng’s impulse was only temporary, mainly because the loss of Lio Kechu for the Longevity Sect was too significant.

Lio Kechu’s death meant that the Longevity Sect was merely a spectator in this Spirit Returning Assembly.

More importantly, the Longevity Sect lost a future Establishment King, as Lio Kechu was the only Martial Artist among the young generation of the Longevity Sect who was expected to reach the Establishment Realm within ten years.

And now, he had perished here.....

"Good, very good, excellent!"

After casting a fierce glare at Ye Zhen, Yin Changsheng carried the charred corpse of Lio Kechu away from the Martial Arena, his steps slightly unsteady.

"How could this happen?"

Stunned for a moment, Yan Cong finally squeezed out these words with a look of utter astonishment on his face.

He could never have imagined that just when it looked like Lio Kechu was about to kill Ye Zhen, Ye Zhen had instead blasted Lio Kechu to death in the blink of an eye?

"Lio Kechu’s Cultivation Technique must have been naturally restrained by Ye Zhen’s Thunder Technique," Yan Yijun added from the side.

As for the other observing martial artists, they were completely dumbfounded.

Including Shang Lingqi and Yun Ce, who were also shocked beyond measure.

They could certainly see that Ye Zhen’s Thunder Technique perfectly countered Lio Kechu’s Cultivation Technique, but to directly reduce a martial artist of the Fourth Stage of the Vein Forging Realm like Lio Kechu to charred remains?

And the executor was a martial artist at the Fifth Stage of the Soul Sea Realm.

Experiencing this scene firsthand, how must that have felt?

The second round ended, with Ye Zhen and Nian Xinghe of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect maintaining two consecutive victories. Zuo Xiong was less fortunate in the second round, drawing Yun Ce and directly admitting defeat, resulting in a total of fifty points for the Sun and Moon Divine Sect.

The Heavenly Net Sect and Qingyun Castle, still evenly matched, both had eight out of thirteen wins in two rounds, with total points close to that of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect.

As for the Longevity Sect, the moment Lio Kechu was blasted to death by Ye Zhen, they had already completely become mere bystanders.

Stars Tower had two people winning two out of four battles, scoring twenty points, the least among all but, should Yan Yijun manage to claim the first place in this Spirit Returning Ranking Contest, that would be a different story.

In the Spirit Returning Ranking Contest, the first martial artist to die in battle occurred in the second round.

Now that there was a death in battle, it’s time to talk about the rules of the Spirit Returning Ranking Contest in cases of combat fatalities.

As previously mentioned, having been held for dozens of editions, the contest rules were very well-established, including detailed regulations for combat fatalities.

Should a martial artist be killed in the Spirit Returning Ranking Contest, the person dies, but the draw does not.

This means that their draw number remains in the sequence of draws.

For instance, if the killed participant was number twelve, like Lio Kechu, that number twelve draw remains, and whoever draws the number twelve in the next round is deemed victorious, earning ten points.

The reason this is done is simple: if the tag of a slain martial artist were to disappear, it would prevent subsequent fighters from earning points. If one martial artist managed to kill three or more fighters, their chances of finishing first would become significantly higher.

However, these rules were also unfair to the slayer, so the Five Great Forces made an addition.

If the last two martial artists have the same score, but one of them has a record of killing while the other has not fought the slain martial artists and wins by default, then under such circumstances, the martial artist with the kill record is prioritized in the rankings.

So, in some ways, Ye Zhen’s slaying of Lio Kechu was beneficial for other forces’ martial artists, and certainly for those from the Sun and Moon Divine Sect as well.

The only ones who suffered were the Longevity Sect.

As foreseen, even by the third round of combat, Xie Zhi and Yun Xin, who had been severely injured previously, had still not recovered and hence three fights were defaulted.

And due to Ye Zhen’s impressive kill of Lio Kechu earlier, not only did martial artists facing Ye Zhen in the third round admit defeat right away, but the other martial artists also became much more cautious and vigilant.

Meeting powerhouses like Yan Yijun, Shang Lingqi, and Yun Ce, they directly admitted defeat.

All present were young people, each brimming with fiery vigor, not to mention the adage: "There are no firsts in literature, no seconds in martial arts." Had it not been for directives from the forces behind them, they would never have conceded defeat so readily!

This situation made the martial arts competitions incredibly dull.

Though it was called a competition, after two rounds, there were hardly any truly spectacular fights to witness.

This situation changed when the fights progressed to the fifth round.

The fifth round was the last round of the day, and after the fifth round, every martial artist would have a whole night to recover. With such ample time and a pile of elixirs, all but the most serious injuries could be healed.

Therefore, when the fifth round began, bloody combats were staged once again!

The first fight was between Young Master Demon Sound, Shang Lingqi, in a blood battle against Yun Feng from Qingyun Castle, wielding the Low-Grade Spirit Artifact, the Flowing Fire Fan.

Unfortunately, just like Yun Xin who wielded the Low Grade Spirit Artifact, the Green Blade Dart, against Yan Yijun, Yun Feng, despite masterfully manipulating the Flowing Fire Fan to a divine level and his Divine Power Body Technique was specially developed to complement the Flowing Fire Fan—it was adept at dodging and agility.

Unfortunately, he was up against Young Master Demon Sound, Shang Lingqi.

This time, Shang Lingqi’s Nine-Ringed Demon Sound Blade displayed terrifying combat power.

Amid the chaotic and piercing sound waves of nine blade rings, Yun Feng had a moment of distraction, and just that moment of distraction caused Yun Feng’s head to fly directly into the sky.

This also caused the face of Qingyun Castle Master, Yun Chongxiao, to turn ashen.

Not only were Heavenly Net Sect and Qingyun Castle locked in a fierce battle, but other martial artists in this round were also fighting ferociously, nearly risking their lives.

Battling with Nian Xinghe was the fourteenth martial artist from Heavenly Net Sect, Luo Xin. In terms of strength, Nian Xinghe at the Peak of Third Stage of the Vein Forging Realm had a slight advantage over Luo Xin at the Late Third Stage of the Vein Forging Realm.

Moreover, Nian Xinghe had a Low Grade Spirit Artifact, and his combat power was incredibly strong.

Even so, Nian Xinghe narrowly escaped defeat at Luo Xin’s hands, and in the end, it was only by wielding the Blazing Flame Light-Sealing Sword that he managed to blast Luo Xin off the Martial Arena with a mouthful of blood, winning the match with great difficulty.

And Nian Xinghe himself was also covered in wounds.

As for Ye Zhen, since he killed Lio Kechu, the martial artists he encountered subsequently all conceded defeat voluntarily, this round was no exception, especially since the martial artists he encountered were of mediocre strength.

Of course, when referring to mediocrity here, it is among these competing martial artists—each of these martial artists, if placed outside, would be considered top-tier geniuses.

A large number of serious injuries occurred in this round, but apart from Yun Feng’s beheading, there were few others killed.

"The fifth round, the seventh match, number ten versus number seven!"

"Number ten? Number seven?"

The moment he heard this voice, Ye Zhen’s expression suddenly changed, his gaze involuntarily turning towards the two martial artists walking towards the Martial Arena, excitement surging in his eyes.

Finally, a grand show to watch!

Number ten was Yan Yijun from Stars Tower, and number seven was Yun Ce from Qingyun Castle, who possessed a Mid-Grade Spirit Artifact!

Yan Yijun versus Yun Ce!

Almost the moment this was realized, the eyes of all the observing martial artists instantly filled with anticipation! (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit qidian.com to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)