King of Creation
Chapter 153 - 151: Black Water Legacy Mansion

Chapter 153: Chapter 151: Black Water Legacy Mansion

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Bang! Bang! Bang!

As the Balang fell to the ground, its single palm flipped rapidly, Protective Gang Qi blazed brilliantly and Black Gold Pythons that pounced on it were struck away before they could bite.

But as one Black Gold Python was repelled, ten or even dozens of them hissed and flew towards it, their venomous breath nearly making the Balang faint.

In almost an instant of falling into the swarm of Black Gold Pythons, Balang was trapped in a dire situation.

With no way out, Balang no longer cared for anything else; it burst out with Spirit Light, shaking off the dozens of Black Gold Pythons and pounced toward the cave wall where Ye Zhen was, with ten more Black Gold Pythons hanging from its feet.

"Balang, what are you doing? Are you trying to get us all killed?" Han Shi cried out in alarm nearby.

"If I can’t live, then none of you will either...."

Whoosh!

Ye Zhen flicked his fingertips, and a two-zhang-long Sword Gang abruptly slashed out, directly dispersing the wavering Protective Gang Qi around Balang. The moment it heavily injured the pouncing Balang, it also blasted him back to the ground.

"Balang!"

"Ye Zhen, what are you doing?" From the front, Jiulie and Luv Congfei shouted in unison.

Ye Zhen completely disregarded the two’s shouting, turned back, and said to Han Shi and Ren Xihua, "Quick, with Balang attracting the Black Gold Pythons, it’s okay for us to use a small amount of Spiritual Power. Let’s get out of here fast!"

Almost at the same time, Ye Zhen’s palms rippled with faint Spiritual Power mixed with True Yuan. Once he utilized Spiritual Power, Ye Zhen immediately became agile like a spirited monkey, quickly scurrying along the top of the cave wall.

On the dark riverbank, the Balang, heavily injured by Ye Zhen’s sword, never had the chance to rise again.

The moment it fell again, it was tightly entwined to death by hundreds or even thousands of Black Gold Pythons weighing several hundred pounds, and smaller Black Gold Pythons burrowed straight into Balang’s wounds, making its screams particularly piercing.

"Save me!"

"Big brother... save... save me..."

The screams of Balang, along with the spreading scent of blood, stirred up tens of thousands of nearby Black Gold Pythons.

However, this also perfectly concealed the movements of Ye Zhen and the others.

What would have taken half an hour to climb under normal circumstances, they rushed through the stretch dense with Black Gold Grass in just dozens of breaths.

"Black Water Legacy Mansion?"

Clang!

The moment Ye Zhen made out the four characters on the stele, Luv Congfei’s long sword suddenly unsheathed and his Cultivation at the peak of the Spirit Summoning Realm instantly surged to its peak.

The overwhelming momentum struck at the very moment his Sword Momentum remotely locked onto Ye Zhen.

"Ye Zhen, you dare to kill my brother!"

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The sound of the sword being drawn echoed through the air.

In an instant, the five individuals with four swords split into two camps, facing off at a distance.

Jiulie did not use a sword, his skill seemed to lie entirely in a pair of fiery red palms. From a distance, he sent scorching air toward Ye Zhen, Han Shi, and Ren Xihua!

Ye Zhen focused his Sword Vein Divine Power, his own momentum also climbing wildly, not giving an inch.

"So you’re saying I should just accept death?"

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"Balang schemes against me; should I just sit back and wait for death?"

"If that’s the case, then just bring it on and let’s have a fight. I, Ye Zhen, am not someone who can be easily molded and squashed like soft persimmon!"

As soon as the words were out, the Sword Momentum around Ye Zhen grew even fiercer; Ye Zhen, bracing for the worst, had already activated the Wind Cloud Sword Art.

With the Wind Cloud Sword Art in motion, Sword Qi surged around him, astonishing even Luv Congfei.

"I say, if you two are going to clash, at least find a better place for it, right? Do you believe that if we don’t leave now, the surging Spiritual Power Sword Qi will attract tens of thousands of Black Gold Pythons, and when that happens, no one will be able to escape!" Jiulie said with a wry smile.

"Hmph, the matter of you killing Balang can’t be settled just like that!"

With a cold snort, Luv Congfei was the first to sheathe his sword and rush towards a distant stone door.

Ye Zhen, Han Shi, and Ren Xihua exchanged glances, then sheathed their swords and quickly followed Luv Congfei and Jiulie toward the stone door.

It was because those tens of thousands of Black Gold Pythons had already uniformly turned their heads toward Ye Zhen and the others.

Strangely, once Ye Zhen and the others stepped through the stone door, those tens of thousands of Black Gold Pythons acted as if nothing had happened, turning back to their own territories and burying their bodies back into the soil.

"Heavens, Five-leaf Blood Ganoderma, the legendary Blood Ganoderma that sprouts a leaf every hundred years actually exists!"

"Look quickly, what is this! It’s Nine-Jointed Grass, and it’s the three-hundred-year-old brown kind!"

"Heavens, just how many years has this Spirit Medicine Garden been in existence? Every single Spiritual Medicine here, once taken out, would be considered a rare treasure!"

Gazing at the full garden of Spiritual Medicine behind the stone door, Jiulie and Luv Congfei who had rushed in first couldn’t help but exclaim in amazement.

"Based on the agreement we had earlier, the first portion..."

"Roar!"

As Luv Congfei and Han Shi approached the Medicine Garden, a terrifying roar suddenly resonated, and more than ten Green Water Dragon Crocodiles, each over ten meters long and covered in dense scale armor, leaped up and lunged at Luv Congfei and Han Shi.

Luv Congfei, with his extreme Cultivation, reacted quickly; he slashed out with his sword, sending a stream of sparks flying that repelled three Green Water Dragon Crocodiles and swiftly retreated.

When he retreated, Han Shi immediately found himself surrounded by the attack of another ten Green Water Dragon Crocodiles and instantly fell into a critical situation.

"Junior Brother Ren, go!"

With a fierce shout, Ye Zhen executed the Chasing Star Step, instantly taking on three Green Water Dragon Crocodiles for Han Shi, while Ren Xihua timely leaped forward, rescuing Han Shi from the brink of life and death in an instant.

"Junior Brother Ye..."

At this moment, the gratitude in Han Shi’s eyes was beyond words; if it weren’t for Ye Zhen today, he might well have died several times over.

"In such a perilous situation, if we, as fellow sect disciples, don’t work together, how can we hope to make it back alive?"

Ye Zhen quietly commented, and then he turned and fiercely shouted at Guz Congfei and Jiulie, who were standing by with their arms folded.

"Guz Congfei, if you don’t take action now, we will immediately retreat through the stone door. If we are to be doomed, we’ll all be doomed together!"

These Green Water Dragon Crocodiles, although only Lower-grade Earth Level Demon Beasts, were extremely difficult to handle.

Especially their scale armor, impervious to sword and blade.

Even Ye Zhen’s Low Grade Artifact could only barely break through one layer of scale armor, after which it could no longer harm the Green Water Dragon Crocodiles.

Handling one was troublesome enough, let alone dealing with three or four simultaneously.

Guz Congfei and Jiulie’s expressions changed; after weighing their options, the two finally pounced on the Green Water Dragon Crocodiles together, vastly reducing the pressure on Ye Zhen and the others.

The Cloud Winged Tiger Cub, however, was ordered by Ye Zhen to stay aside and not reveal its strength.

From the start, Guz Congfei and his two companions harbored ill intentions when they sought out Ye Zhen and his group to join them. The recent death of the Balang meant Ye Zhen had to be more cautious and hold back.

Ultimately, the intelligence of Demon Beasts couldn’t match that of humans.

Seizing an opportunity, Ye Zhen thrust his sword like lightning, driving a sword Gang dozens of feet long deeply into the upper eye socket of the Green Water Dragon Crocodile. With a stir of the sword Gang, the beast was instantly slain!

Reversing his sword in a follow-up move, he sliced into the mouth of another Green Water Dragon Crocodile, cutting it in half right through its gaping jaws!

Jiulie’s method of attack was particularly eye-catching.

With a punch, a fierce Fire Dragon burst straight into the wide-open mouth of a Green Water Dragon Crocodile. In an instant, the smell of charred flesh spread as Jiulie cooked the beast from the inside out!

In less than 15 minutes, Ye Zhen and his four companions had slaughtered all thirteen Green Water Dragon Crocodiles!

This Medicine Garden was now thoroughly in the hands of Ye Zhen and the others.

"I’ll pick first; no objections, right?"

As he spoke, Guz Congfei swiftly pocketed the Five-leaf Blood Ganoderma worth thousands of Low Grade Spirit Crystals.

"The next one will be chosen by..."

Although reluctant to admit it, Guz Congfei still turned his gaze toward Ye Zhen, who, having killed four Green Water Dragon Crocodiles, made the largest contribution and matched Guz in the number slain, naturally deserved the second pick.

After careful consideration, Ye Zhen said, "I won’t choose any Medicinal Grass. The corpses of the other nine Green Water Dragon Crocodiles you’ve killed, should there be any Demon Cores, regardless of the number, must all belong to me!"

Normally, for Lower-grade Earth Level Demon Beasts, finding one Demon Core among ten would be quite lucky. Though a Lower-grade Earth Level Demon Core is rare, both its value and rarity are lower than the Medicinal Grasses here.

"I agree!"

"I agree!"

After some thought, Guz Congfei and Jiulie agreed one after another, and Han Shi and Ren Xihua naturally had no objections either.

While the others continued selecting Medicinal Grasses, Ye Zhen began to dismantle the Green Water Dragon Crocodiles’ corpses in search of Demon Cores.

One!

Two!

Three!

Four!

After searching only ten corpses, Ye Zhen already found four Lower-grade Earth Level Demon Cores, astounding Guz Congfei and Jiulie with their eyes popping out in disbelief.

Surely this luck defied the heavens, right?

Even Middle-grade Earth Level Demon Beasts couldn’t possibly yield so many Demon Cores, could they?

When a full six Demon Cores fell into the hands of Ye Zhen, Guz Congfei and Jiulie cried out in regret.

Only then did they realize that these Green Water Dragon Crocodiles had been dwelling in the Black Water Legacy Mansion for who knows how many years, naturally having a much higher chance to condense Demon Cores than the Demon Beasts outside.

Nevertheless, the choice was made and regret came too late.

Ye Zhen, of course, happily collected the Demon Cores. With six Lower-grade Earth Level Demon Cores as a foundation, this treasure-hunting expedition was already more than profitable.

After sharing the Spirit Medicine Garden amongst themselves, the group ventured forth together in search of more discoveries.

As they explored, it became evident that this area might have been a place of austere Cultivation for an ancestor, one who was also versed in Alchemy, and had even built a specific Alchemy Room.

But the Pill Room was spotlessly clean; not even a single Pill was left behind, let alone an Alchemy Furnace.

Searching through the Cultivation Quiet Room and the bedroom, they found nothing else, leaving the group quite disappointed.

In the end, they arrived at the deepest part of the Black Water Legacy Mansion, an enormous martial arts practice field.

The practice field was right next to a chilly pond, and at the edge of the field, there was a weapons rack with four weapons carelessly hung upon it.

From afar, the chilling aura and faint power fluctuations emanating from the four weapons left Ye Zhen and the rest dumbfounded.

"Artifacts, Low Grade Artifacts, and there are four of them!"

The moment the words were uttered, the five of them dashed toward the weapons rack like lightning, each pair of eyes glaring intensely at the rack, unwilling to back down.

Low Grade Artifacts, indeed!

Even Martial Artists in the Spirit Transformation Realm may not possess Low Grade Artifacts, but here, suddenly seeing four, who wouldn’t be excited?

The biggest dilemma was, there were only four!

How could the five of them divide up four Low Grade Artifacts, irrespective of their suitability?

This was the source of everyone’s tension.

It would be fair to say that only four people were tense.

Ye Zhen’s gaze, on the other hand, continued to search the surroundings.

Ye Zhen’s thoughts were somewhat different.

Certainly, the former owner of the Black Water Legacy Mansion must have been extremely powerful.

When leaving, it seemed it was a very ordinary departure; the eerily clean state of the Alchemy Room could explain this.

And these four Low Grade Artifacts left in the practice field were probably considered by the owner not worth taking along, and thus discarded here.

If even Low Grade Artifacts weren’t worth taking, just how powerful was the former owner of the Black Water Legacy Mansion?

And might he have left behind other treasures?

Truth be told, Ye Zhen’s Sky Crystal Sword, now extremely comfortable in his hand, made him look down on the four Low Grade Artifacts here.

After scanning the area, Ye Zhen’s gaze suddenly fixed on the chilly pond.

The moment he saw it clearly, Ye Zhen’s breath halted, and his eyes widened in astonishment.

In the pond, a pair of fists-sized eyes watched quietly as Ye Zhen and his companions, without a hint of fear.

What astounded Ye Zhen was the look in those eyes, which felt to him, like a human gaze.

Yet the owner of those eyes was an old turtle.

A large turtle with a shell on its back!

"Humph, Ye Zhen, look at your limited experience, it’s just an old turtle that lived too long, what’s there to scare you?"

Luv Congfei snorted disdainfully, pointing at the four Low Grade Artifacts, "If you ask me, we should start by splitting these four Low Grade Artifacts!"

Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Ye Zhen, intently listening, felt frustrated, as this old turtle didn’t make a single noise but just stared at them with its clear eyes, giving Ye Zhen a strange feeling and leaving him without a clue to any sounds.

Suddenly, as Ye Zhen’s gaze passed over the Cloud Winged Tiger Cub, a bizarre idea suddenly surged into his mind. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote with recommendation tickets, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)