King of Creation-Chapter 778 - 768 Soul Refining Divine Light

After the tragic incident at the Stars Tower in the True Spirit Domain where the Tower Master was tragically killed, the Treasure Vault was raided, and two Tributors and six Deacons were murdered, chaos immediately erupted throughout the Stars Tower in the True Spirit Domain.

However, not long after, Yuan Xiang, the usually very low-key Deputy Tower Master of Stars Tower in the True Spirit Domain, came out to calm everyone and preside over the affairs of the Stars Tower.

Being appointed as the Deputy Tower Master of Stars Tower in the True Spirit Domain, Yuan Xiang’s ability was beyond doubt, but the problem was that Yuan Xiang was previously passionate about power, which attracted the full, constant suppression from Tower Master Yan Cong.

This suppression was so severe that even the title of Deputy Tower Master Yuan Xiang did not hold much sway in the incredibly chaotic Stars Tower.

It thus took Yuan Xiang nearly two hours, with the help of the only two remaining Deacons, to stabilize the chaos in the Stars Tower.

At the first moment of stabilizing the chaos, Yuan Xiang issued an immediate lockdown order, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving. Afterward, he hurriedly tried to establish contact with the Main Building.

When they finally found a way to contact the Main Building, they discovered that the Main Building had already sent eighteen urgent orders, and the Main Building had long been informed of the situation through the Soul Hosting Jade Slip.

According to Stars Tower headquarters, they would dispatch reinforcements to support the Stars Tower in the True Spirit Domain as soon as possible, and the reinforcements would definitely include an Establishment King.

However, time was required!

Even at the speed of an Establishment King, traveling from the Xuanlong Domain to the True Spirit Domain would take a certain amount of time, at least a month at the fastest.

Stars Tower headquarters required Yuan Xiang, the Deputy Tower Master, to do his utmost to stabilize the situation at Stars Tower in the True Spirit Domain for a month. If he could maintain the current state of Stars Tower without severe damage, Yuan Xiang, the Deputy Tower Master, might even have a chance of being promoted officially.

Upon receiving this order, Yuan Xiang quickly deployed, but before he could finish his orders, he received an urgent talisman communication — the Branch Tower of Hulin Martial City was under attack, urgently requesting reinforcements!

Shortly after, talisman communications seeking reinforcements poured into Deputy Tower Master Yuan Xiang’s hands like a snowstorm.

However, this was not the most terrifying part because most of the Branch Towers that suffered attacks were not very important in location, and their losses were affordable.

The most frightening thing was, at dusk, there was a report from the guards saying a Shopkeeper of Stars Tower had gone missing, who was fine before.

With the disappearance of this Shopkeeper, the crisis of Stars Tower fully emerged.

About two hours after this Shopkeeper disappeared, he appeared in the Divine Sect Main Hall of the Longevity Sect, and shortly afterward, bursts of Talisman Light soared skyward from the Divine Sect Main Hall of the Longevity Sect.

A large number of Martial Artists departed from within the Longevity Sect, and the Sect-Guarding Great Formation of the Longevity Sect was activated immediately.

At the exact moment the Sect-Guarding Great Formation of the Longevity Sect was activated, the Sect-Guarding Great Formation of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect also simultaneously activated.

Two hours later, the same scene occurred in the Main Temple of the Heavenly Net Sect, as thousands of talisman communications were sent out, and a large force of Martial Artists swiftly departed from the Heavenly Net Sect in all directions after flying out, and the Sect-Guarding Formation of the Heavenly Net Sect was also activated simultaneously.

The slowest to act was Qingyun Castle, which received the message the next morning. After considering the situation for a long time, Qingyun Castle dispatched a few elite Martial Artists in several directions.

Since they received the message late and missed the opportunity, they could only take a selective quality approach.

At the same time, a large number of Independent Cultivators and small faction Martial Artists who received the accurate information or just snippets of information left Qinglan Martial City like sharks that smelled blood, heading off in all directions.

For a moment, the entire Qinglan Martial City became quite desolate, with over ninety percent of the Martial Artists gone from the streets, and the sky was filled with the emergency red-colored battle talisman communications.

Every day, tens of thousands of talisman communications flew back and forth, indicating that extremely fierce battles were occurring within nearly a million miles around Qinglan Martial City, and all major forces had begun skirmishing over the Stars Tower’s territory. Moreover, because of the intensity of the battles, the scale of the battles was constantly escalating.

In this skirmish, the number of Martial Artists from the Sun and Moon Divine Sect was noticeably smaller, and they were rarely involved.

The reason was simple: some places had already been plundered once by Martial Artists of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, and the looted supplies were already on the way to being transferred to the Main Temple of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect.

In terms of strategy for this war, Jian Qianxiong’s arrangement was extremely shrewd.

Jian Qianxiong was well aware that even though the Sun and Moon Divine Sect had seized the initiative in this Stars Tower turmoil, it was impossible to monopolize all benefits.

The consequence of attempting to take all for oneself would be to be devoured together with the resources on the spot by others.

Therefore, for most ordinary Martial Cities, Jian Qianxiong merely ordered the local Branch Temples to seize about thirty percent of the Stars Tower’s resources, leaving the rest available for others and then defended with all their might.

Jian Qianxiong’s real targets were the resource-rich cities around Qinglan Martial City like Red Fire Martial City. For each major resource city, Jian Qianxiong dispatched trusted confidants to take control, such as Tus De, Shen Cang, Jio Yuanxiu, etc.

While the battles were so intense around Qinglan Martial City, within Qinglan Martial City, it was rather peaceful, with no one attacking Stars Tower, no one harassing any property of Stars Tower. But even so, including Deputy Tower Master Yuan Xiang, everyone dared not take one step out of Stars Tower.

The endless incoming urgent talisman communications were real, and Deputy Tower Master Yuan Xiang and others were even more clearly aware of who was maneuvering behind the scenes. If they dared to go out and reinforce the Branch Towers, they might be killed before they could completely leave the range of Qinglan Martial City!

Without an Establishment King to oversee, not even the strongest Martial Artist can go beyond the Sixth Stage of the Vein Forging Realm—who dares to venture out?

As for diplomacy with the four major powers?

Despite Yuan Xiang sending out hundreds of talisman communications, there has been no response. At this time, everyone wants to devour a piece of the fat meat. Moreover, everyone knows that the treasure vault of Stars Tower was robbed—what can you offer for diplomacy?

For a moment, the air surrounding Qinglan Martial City seemed to be filled with a bloody stench.

In the midst of this sky full of blood light, Ye Zhen continued to cultivate hidden within the clouds in the Demon Soul Hall, outside of which there were at least four unfortunate souls lying dead.

Two of them died crashing into the Demon Soul Hall at high speed in the cloud layers, while the other two discovered the hall’s traces and were smashed to meat pulp by the little cat.

High in the sky, the little cat’s entire being, including its aura, was hidden within the endless clouds. Outside, there was no trace to be seen.

However, even the slightest movement within the clouds, even a mosquito flying in, would be detected by the little cat. But ever since it smashed a hurriedly flying person two days ago, there had been no more disturbances.

As a result, the little cat was a bit bored, fiddling with a storage ring that Ye Zhen had branded for it. Every half a quarter-hour, it would fish out a demon core the size of a fist, pop it into its mouth, and, with a crispy sound like chewing seeds, a Heavenly Level Lower Grade demon core would be swallowed down.

With spirit light flickering all over, every time it swallowed a demon core, the little cat’s fur would become smoother, its eyes brighter, and of course, it would let out a few stinky farts—waste from digesting and refining the core.

If it weren’t for the need to guard its master Ye Zhen during cultivation, the little cat would eat demon cores at a much faster rate, but to not affect handling emergencies, it digested and ate one at a time slowly.

If guarding Ye Zhen wasn’t necessary, the little cat could consume dozens of demon cores every quarter-hour, and perhaps its cultivation would have already broken through by now.

However, even so, after four consecutive days, the little cat had eaten hundreds of demon cores, growing stronger in size, with each hair seeming to flicker with spiritual light, appearing just a step away from breaking through to the Mid-grade Spirit Tier.

Inside the Demon Soul Hall, Ye Zhen, who was cultivating in seclusion, also reached a critical moment. A circle of talisman communications awaited Ye Zhen’s reception, among them including Sect Leader Jian Qianxiong and Vice Sect Hierarch Tian Guizhang, but Ye Zhen ignored them all.

The Soul Refining Divine Eyes of Ye Zhen had been throbbing violently for four days, his eyes bulging out as though walnuts were inside them, extremely puffy.

This was a sign of his Soul Sea’s divine soul power reaching its peak.

In front of Ye Zhen’s chest floated a large mass of Innate Soul Light, the strength of Qing Qi’s innate soul light was not to be underestimated. Ye Zhen had been refining it for a whole day and night yet still had almost half to go.

Of course, the primary reason was that after Ye Zhen’s divine soul power broke through to the Soul Casting Stage, the speed of refining innate soul light slowed significantly, but Ye Zhen’s divine soul power had also condensed more than four or five times over.

Speaking if the divine soul power just entering the Soul Casting Stage was like a sea of water, then Ye Zhen’s current divine soul power was like thick porridge, nearly solid!

More astonishingly, whenever his Soul Sea surged with waves upon cape waves, the glue-like divine soul power collided with one another, faint glimmers of light appeared.

This scene greatly delighted Ye Zhen and was why he persisted, because according to the Secret Record of Soul Refining, this was a precursor to condensing Innate Soul Light!

In that moment when another stream of divine soul power refined from Qing Qi’s innate soul light poured into Ye Zhen’s Soul Sea, the Soul Sea seemed to reach its limit, tumultuously surging, close to breaking free from its bonds.

Ye Zhen’s divine sense also frantically spurred at this moment, wildly activating the Daoist School for condensing innate soul light within his Soul Sea.

When the divine soul power filled to the brim in Ye Zhen’s Soul Sea was compressed to the extreme, under the guidance of Ye Zhen’s divine sense, a ring of three-colored luminous light unexpectedly burst out from the center of the Soul Sea.

Ye Zhen’s divine sense immediately poured frantically into this ring of three-colored luminous light, starting to transform more divine soul power into three-colored luminous light with its might.

That is, Innate Soul Light!

In an instant, the weak innate soul light within Ye Zhen’s Soul Sea rapidly expanded, meanwhile, the Soul Refining Spirit Theft Technique fully operated, completely refining the innate soul light of Qing Qi at Ye Zhen’s chest.

With each reduction in divine soul power, more divine soul power converted from innate soul light was injected into Ye Zhen’s Soul Sea, soon after which, more innate soul light would be condensed in Ye Zhen’s Soul Sea, condensing at an astonishing speed.

Half a day later, when the innate soul light of Qing Qi at Ye Zhen’s chest was thoroughly refined, the size of the Innate Soul Light within Ye Zhen had already surpassed that of the First Stage Establishment King, Gan Rusong.

When Ye Zhen’s continuously operating divine soul techniques stopped in an instant, instinctively, he felt an itching in his eyes and suddenly opened them.

Zzz!

At the moment his eyes opened, two strange lights shot out from Ye Zhen’s eyes, directly striking the opposite wall of the Demon Soul Hall, making a fierce crackle of fire stars all around!

An indescribable feeling suddenly emerged in Ye Zhen’s heart.

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