King of Creation
Chapter 176 - 174 Water and Fire Golden Ape

Chapter 176: Chapter 174 Water and Fire Golden Ape

Bird wings covered the sky, and bear roars shook the heavens!

In the sky, two Winged Black Dragons whose wingspans exceeded three hundred meters descended slowly like dark clouds right into the center of the camp, their wings generating gusts of wind that instantly blew away the nearby tents of the Sword Origin Empire!

"Bastards!"

As a Sword Origin Sect disciple cursed, a golden giant ape, massive like a hill, had just descended from the Winged Black Dragon. It pounded its chest with fists like war hammers, suddenly stretched out its neck, and roared at the disciple with bared teeth!

"Roar!"

A wild wind howled, carrying with it the stench of raw blood!

The Sword Origin Sect disciple, actually reeled back continuously from the roar of the golden giant ape!

A Southern Barbarian youth, adorned with three jade hairpins in his hair and tattooed arms displaying a vivid roaring tiger’s head, leaped down from the Winged Black Dragon and shouted briefly, stopping the rampaging Water-Fire Golden Ape!

"A Water-Fire Golden Ape! It’s an Upper-grade Earth Level Demon Beast, the Water-Fire Golden Ape!" cried Elder Lik Shi in shock.

"God damn his granny, when it comes to shamelessness, the Southern Barbarians are absolutely number one!" said Zhongli Jing through gritted teeth, staring at the youth who controlled the Water-Fire Golden Ape.

"These bastards from the Southern Barbarian Tribe, for this Five Countries Conference, I don’t know what price they paid to make a youth with only the peak of Spirit Summoning Realm subdue this Upper-grade Earth Level Demon Beast, the Water-Fire Golden Ape, as a demon servant!"

"Remember, on the battlefield, unless it’s the final moment of seizing the War Soul Blood Flag, if you see this Southern Barbarian Tiger Head Spirit Practitioner who commands the Water-Fire Golden Ape, steer as clear as possible!"

Ye Zhen, Han Shi, and Gao Xinglie’s expressions had already turned extremely grim.

We hadn’t even stepped into the Battlefield of Demon Souls yet, and there were already so many formidable foes that we could only flee upon sight. Even before the conference had started, it was already suffocatingly oppressive.

But as grim as their expressions were, the strength of the Southern Barbarian Tribe was truly...

Ye Zhen couldn’t even describe the Southern Barbarian Tribe that had just arrived; they were like a small army, a mini demon beast legion.

Twelve Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioners, each surrounded by four demon beasts, and the youth with the Water-Fire Golden Ape even commanded five demon servants.

Among the four demon beasts with each Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioner, at least one was a Mid-grade Earth Level Demon Beast, the rest were all uniformly Lower-grade Earth Level Demon Beasts.

Twelve people, forty-nine Earth Rank demon servants; this lineup was more than enough to handle a Ten Thousand Man Army.

Especially that Upper-grade Earth Level Water-Fire Golden Ape; an Upper-grade Earth Level Demon Beast that even a peak Spirit Transformation Realm Martial Artist would flee from in panic was being commanded by a Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioner.

It was like when Chu Jun of Lishui Sect faced the Mid-grade Earth Level Silver Line Demon Eagle King; he would retreat by trimming its feathers, but facing a mutated Upper-grade Earth Level Cloud Winged Tiger King, he could only use the "Universe Blood Escape" to flee in panic.

No wonder the Southern Barbarian Tribe had succeeded in seizing the War Soul Blood Flag several times despite being besieged by the Four Countries, considering this strength, just the thought of it made one tremble!

"Hahahaha, our Five Countries Conference held every five years, and here we are again, may the Barbarian God bless us, this time, we will definitely snatch the War Soul Blood Flag!"

The twelve Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioners and their accompanying elder all displayed a praying gesture together.

Four Countries’ warriors’ expressions turned uncomfortable to varying degrees, even Luo Jingtian’s eyes narrowed, blinking and flickering with dangerous luminescence.

This situation made Elder Bu Ziqi of the Phantom Divine Sect somewhat worried; he made a few soft calls and then called over the other three countries’ elders aside from the Southern Barbarian Tribe.

The gist was simple: if they faced the Southern Barbarian Tribe in battle, the disciples of the Four Countries should help each other; anyone could take the War Soul Blood Flag, just not let the Southern Barbarian Tribe claim it.

With borders adjacent to the Southern Barbarian Tribe, who knows which country would suffer if they obtained the War Soul Blood Flag.

At that moment, Ye Zhen took the opportunity while all the Five Countries’ disciples had emerged to gauge the strength of the disciples from the Four Countries.

And believe it or not, based purely on cultivation, the Black Water Kingdom was at the bottom.

The twelve disciples from the Phantom Divine Empire’s Phantom Divine Sect were all at the peak of Spirit Summoning Realm, fierce in aura.

The twelve warriors from Gu’an Kingdom, only one was at the Late-stage Spirit Summoning Realm; the rest were all at the peak.

The Sword Origin Sect and the Phantom Divine Empire were the same, with twelve disciples, all at the cultivation of peak of Spirit Summoning Realm.

Only the Southern Barbarian Tribe; their twelve Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioners, each with three jade hairpins, were almost all at the peak of Spirit Summoning Realm, unlike Black Water Kingdom, where there were four Martial Artists at the Late-stage of Spirit Summoning Realm.

Boom!

Suddenly, another quake shook the mountains, and Demon Soul Mountain spewed blood light, turning the entire sky into a thick shade of blood!

"The time is near, get ready!"

Elder Bu Ziqi of the Phantom Divine Sect waved his hand, and the elders of the Five Countries led their respective disciples towards the area most saturated with blood light.

The Southern Barbarian Tribe’s team was incredibly large; the fifty-meter-tall Water-Fire Golden Ape moved through the mountains like a bulldozer, blazing a trail straight ahead, causing stones to scatter and making the Four Countries’ disciples panic!

The Four Countries had thought to unite and annihilate the warriors from the Southern Barbarian Tribe, but the Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioners sent by the tribe were all elite among elites.

The cost of killing them is, as you might guess, imaginable.

No sect would recklessly sacrifice its elite to engage in a bloodbath with the Southern Barbarian Tribe. Besides, the Sword Origin Empire and the Black Water Empire are sworn enemies, the Gu’an Kingdom and the Phantom Divine Empire are mortal foes; these groups could never truly cooperate.

Atop the mountain, a three-meter square vortex of blood was slowly spinning, resembling the gates of hell and emitting a terrifying aura.

Each time it spun, the blood vortex expanded slightly, and with every sudden quaking of the ground and surge of blood light, the vortex expanded rapidly.

Boom!

Another intense tremor occurred, and during a gush of blood light, the blood vortex abruptly expanded tenfold, forming a thirty-meter blood-colored light gate that fully materialized.

Just as everyone was about to approach, six figures suddenly burst from a hidden location within the Demon Soul Mountain, dashing towards the blood gate with the speed of lightning.

They were so fast that even the elders from various nations couldn’t intercept them in time.

"Spirit Transformation Realm powerhouses?" Ye Zhen’s eyebrows shot up sharply.

"Hahaha, success! Such a fine secret realm has been monopolized by the major sects of your five countries for so long, it’s time for us to explore it!"

As they spoke, the six figures leaped toward the blood gate.

Bang Bang Bang Bang!

The six figures did not pass through the blood gate as they anticipated. Instead, the gate burst into a wave of blood light, and in an instant, the six Spirit Transformation Realm beings were reduced to six pools of minced flesh.

"Hmph, the Battlefield of Demon Souls is not so easy to enter. A bunch of fools rushing to their death!" Elder Bu Ziqi of the Phantom Divine Sect sneered coldly.

It was then that Ye Zhen remembered what Elder Zhong had said: only martial artists below the Spirit Transformation Realm could enter the Battlefield of Demon Souls.

"Alright, let’s start entering...."

"Children, take your treasures, and charge!"

Following a loud shout from an elder of the Southern Barbarian Tribe, twelve Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioners with their forty-nine demon servants rushed towards the Vortex Blood Gate!

"Hehe, excuse us, gentlemen, my kids’ treasures are quite large. If anyone gets broken bones and tendons, it’s your own fault!"

Seeing the Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioners charge into the Battlefield of Demon Souls first, disciples from the four countries had no choice but to let them go first!

Oddly, the restriction on cultivation levels below Spirit Transformation Realm did not apply to Demon Beasts. Even the Water and Fire Golden Ape, a peak Spirit Transformation Realm creature that one would have to flee from upon encountering, also entered the Battlefield of Demon Souls smoothly!

Soon, it was the turn of the martial artists from Black Water Kingdom!

Looking at the blood vortex below, which resembled the gates of hell, Ye Zhen followed the method taught by Elder Zhong, tightly linking his Divine Soul with the Cloud Winged Tiger Cub. With a splash, he jumped down.

This was said to be the secret technique among Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioners for entering the Battlefield of Demon Souls without separating from their demon servants.

Whoosh!

Ye Zhen felt an inexplicable force tearing at him, and then a world made entirely of blood appeared before his eyes.

Blood-colored stones, blood-colored grass, blood-colored ground, blood-colored sky; even the green grass was coated with a layer of blood. Everything was bathed in blood, as if it had been poured with blood.

Assured after seeing the Cloud Winged Tiger Cub following closely, Ye Zhen relaxed.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

As Ye Zhen was looking around, a deep and soul-shaking drum sound suddenly erupted from afar.

At the limits of Ye Zhen’s sight, ten miles away, a hundred demon horses pulling a war drum carriage led the way, with a hundred soldiers beating furiously on the drums, bare-chested and shrouded in a layer of blood light, producing drum sounds that stirred the soul and boiled the blood.

In the midst of the drum sounds, troops of Demon Soul Soldiers dressed in white armor gathered from all directions, quietly joining the White Armor Legion.

An overwhelming, seemingly boundless White Armor Legion was swiftly advancing in Ye Zhen’s direction, leaving a trail of ashened vegetation and sky-high evil Qi.

In an instant, that almost tangible evil Qi surged up to Ye Zhen, and an extreme sense of danger caused all the hairs on his body to stand on end.

"Kitty, True Body!"

Ye Zhen roared, and without waiting for the Cloud Winged Tiger Cub’s True Body to fully materialise, he leapt onto it, spurring the tiger to fly up instantly, turning into a white streak as it flew away.

When it comes to flying speed, the Cloud Winged Tiger Cub is faster!

It’s not that Ye Zhen was a coward, but the speed of the White Armor Demon Soul Legion was too fast. In just a few breaths, the ten-mile distance had shrunk to eight miles. If he didn’t leave then, Ye Zhen feared he would be the first to be gloriously slain.

Ye Zhen rode on the Cloud Winged Tiger, flying wildly for a hundred miles before making a large turn into a forest. Just as he landed, a loud laugh distinct to the Southern Barbarians rang out.

"Ha, my first prey has delivered himself to my doorstep! My treasures, your feast has arrived!" (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to vote on Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)