King of Creation
Chapter 185 - 182: Southern Barbarians Have Treasure

Chapter 185: Chapter 182: Southern Barbarians Have Treasure

The Sky-soaring Thunder Hawk spread its wings and soared sharply like a bolt of lightning, piercing into the high clouds in an instant.

After darting into the clouds, Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioner Da Hai, with his expression filled with utmost dejection, finally managed to relax his tense nerves.

Though the Water and Fire Golden Ape had been killed, he had still managed to escape successfully.

Once inside the sea of clouds, even if the Hundred-man Generals or Thousand-man Generals who could fly from the Demon Soul Army pursued him, it would be very difficult to catch up. Moreover, these Hundred-man Demon Soul Commanders and Thousand-man Generals would never venture too far away from their troops alone.

"The Water and Fire Golden Ape is dead, how am I going to explain this to the Elders..."

Having successfully fled into the clouds, Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioner Da Hai painfully massaged his head.

Such demon servants of the Water and Fire Golden Ape’s grade were not only rare and precious for the Spirit Practitioners, but also in the hands of the Spirit Sovereigns, and even throughout the entire Southern Barbarian Tribe.

Many Southern Barbarian Spirit Masters might not even possess a single Upper-grade Earth Level demon servant.

Now that the Water and Fire Golden Ape was dead, out of his five powerful demon servants, only the Middle-grade Earth Level Sky-soaring Thunder Hawk remained.

He didn’t know how he would explain himself to the Elders once he got out, nor did he know, nor did he know how to accomplish the task the Elders had assigned him—to seize the War Soul Blood Flag!

For a moment, the newly hidden Da Hai felt extremely frantic.

Suddenly, Da Hai’s expression tensed sharply, a sense of extreme danger suddenly surfaced in his mind.

Whiz!

A hurricane of Sword Light, sweeping through the nearby sea of clouds like a sword unravelling the flowing clouds, furiously rolled towards him!

This blade of Sword Light appeared so abruptly and with such sharpness that, the moment it appeared, Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioner Da Hai’s coccyx tightened.

Beep!

An extremely short syllable burst forth from Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioner Da Hai’s mouth the instant his Protective Spirit Force burst forth with a flash.

The sword had appeared too suddenly, and coupled with the turmoil caused by the death of the Water and Fire Golden Ape, Da Hai only became alerted the moment the Sword Light appeared.

Instantly pushing his Protective Spirit Force to the extreme was an instinctual reaction to danger for him, and that was all he could manage!

The Sword Light swept over in an instant!

Whoosh!

As soon as the Sword Light passed, the Sky-soaring Thunder Hawk let out a painful cry, feathers hard as steel fell one after another, and Da Hai, who was riding on the back of the Sky-soaring Thunder Hawk, was sent flying by the blast of Sword Light.

His Protective Spirit Force was shattered in an instant, the remaining power of the Sword Light left more than a hundred wounds on Da Hai’s body, turning him into a blood-soaked man.

At that moment, the Sky-soaring Thunder Hawk finally responded to Da Hai’s peculiar syllable command, avoiding downward without paying any attention to its master who had been blasted away.

This was the limitation of the Southern Barbarians’ demon servants: all reactions required the master’s command.

Roar!

The Cloud Winged Tiger Cub burst out of the clouds with a claw strike, and the clouds in the sky gathered fiercely, with a tiger paw made purely of Cloud Qi bombing the body of the Sky-soaring Thunder Hawk that Ye Zhen had just slain, eliciting another tragic cry!

Immediately, the advancing Cloud Winged Tiger started attacking the underfoot Sky-soaring Thunder Hawk.

Ye Zhen, who had just slashed out from the clouds, stepped on the clouds as if treading on flowing water and pursued the Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioner Da Hai who had been sent flying backwards, his Sky Crystal Sword in hand continuously chopping down fiercely!

Swish swish swish swish!

Ye Zhen’s Sword Light was faster than the last, and an injured and terrified Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioner Da Hai was barely dodging and coping with Ye Zhen’s attacks, his movements growing increasingly disheveled.

A step behind was a step too slow, which was exactly the situation Da Hai found himself in!

Every strike from Ye Zhen inflicted a new wound on him.

Ye Zhen’s Sword Momentum was fast and furious, so rapid that Da Hai didn’t even have a chance to draw his weapon, and the more wounds he accumulated, the more chaotic his steps became!

Crack!

The sound of flesh tearing and bones breaking coincided with Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioner Da Hai’s anguished screams.

Da Hai’s left arm was directly severed by Ye Zhen’s strike, and after paying the price of one arm, Da Hai was also slashed from the clouds by Ye Zhen, finally getting a clear view of Ye Zhen’s figure!

"It’s you?"

"You can actually transfigure into a Demon Soul Soldier? How... how... how is this possible?"

Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioner Da Hai, upon seeing Ye Zhen clearly, was utterly astonished. All the confusion and unresolved questions he had earlier cleared up in that moment.

He didn’t understand how Ye Zhen managed to transfigure into a Demon Soul Soldier, but why the once brute and bloodthirsty Demon Soul Legion suddenly became so smart, even repeatedly seeing through his ’Heroic Amputation’ strategy, he now understood.

Even why a Demon Soul Legion would coincidentally corner him, he also understood.

All of this, it was because of Ye Zhen!

The very person he had been hunting for five or six days!

"All this, it’s all your doing..."

Whiz!

Ye Zhen, following closely behind, unleashed an eight-zhang-long Flowing Cloud Sword Gang, which rolled up and sent the heavily injured, left-arm-lost, torso covered with dozens of sword wounds Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioner Da Hai’s head flying into the sky.

The head that flew up into the sky had its eyes wide open, filled with shock and confusion.

After killing Da Hai, Ye Zhen’s figure did not stop. He flew forward, catching Da Hai’s corpse and stripped the storage bracelet from his right arm; searching through his bosom, he found nothing else of value. Releasing his grip, Da Hai’s body finally fell from the sky.

As for the Sky-soaring Thunder Hawk, the moment Da Hai was killed, it trembled due to the disappearance of its master’s Divine Soul Imprint and was finished off by the Cloud Winged Tiger cub.

Of course, even without that moment of trembling of the Divine Soul, it was only a matter of time before the Cloud Winged Tiger cub would have taken care of the Sky-soaring Thunder Hawk.

The Cloud Winged Tiger cub’s reactive ability was nothing to scoff at. Just now, it had taken advantage of the moment when Ye Zhen injured the Sky-soaring Thunder Hawk, charging out and using its lower-grade Earth Level Cultivation to suppress and beat the middle-grade Earth Level Sky-soaring Thunder Hawk.

Without waiting for Ye Zhen’s command, the Cloud Winged Tiger cub began feasting on the corpse of the Sky-soaring Thunder Hawk. The higher the grade and more powerful the Cultivation of the Demon Beast flesh, the more nourishing it was.

Ye Zhen, too, eagerly projected his Divine Sense into Da Hai’s storage bracelet to check its contents.

Good gracious, worthy of being a highly groomed tribal prodigy of the Southern Barbarian Tribe, his storage bracelet was also a mid-grade Treasure, and within its ten cubic meters of space, it was packed with Demon Soul Blood Crystals.

His powerful Divine Sense swept over, and the number of Demon Soul Blood Crystals was tallied.

"More than six thousand ordinary Demon Soul Blood Crystals, over six hundred Ten-man General’s Demon Soul Blood Crystals, fifty Hundred-man General’s Demon Soul Blood Crystals..."

"This guy is truly formidable, his personal loot is almost the same as what I gained following the Demon Soul Army into battle..."

The equivalent of more than 17,000 ordinary Demon Soul Blood Crystals, Ye Zhen was astonished.

Ye Zhen had fought alongside the army for five or six days and had only gathered nearly 30,000 Demon Soul Blood Crystals in total.

Had Da Hai and the Water and Fire Golden Ape not died, there was real possibility that the War Soul Blood Flag might have been seized by the Southern Barbarians this time.

Without any hesitation, Ye Zhen put on Da Hai’s mid-grade Treasure storage bracelet on his right wrist.

The Green Wing Divine Bow that previously caused Ye Zhen to flee upon sight also lay quietly in a corner of the storage bracelet.

The Green Wing Divine Bow felt incredibly heavy to the touch, with an all-green body. The entire bow was covered in mysterious Talisman Script, and both ends of the bow looked like the wings of a bird, ready to soar. The simple ancient characters "Qing Yii" were hidden amidst the bird wings, difficult to spot without close inspection.

In the resource-scarce Southern Barbarian Tribe, this Green Wing Divine Bow was most certainly a treasure!

With a strong pull of the arms, the sound of the bowstring being drawn resonated. As the Green Wing Divine Bow was fully drawn like a full moon, a faint suction force seemed to emanate from the bowstring.

Ye Zhen’s heart stirred, and he channeled his Spiritual Power into it.

After pouring in one tenth of his Spiritual Power, a green Spiritual Power Arrow finally took shape on the Green Wing Divine Bow, then he released his finger!

Swish!

The sharp whistling sound immediately tore through the sky.

In the sea of clouds, it was as if a green Flood Dragon had entered, cleaving a path through the clouds like parting the sea, disappearing at the edge of Ye Zhen’s field of vision!

"Mid-grade Treasure, truly extraordinary. It seems I need to properly practice archery from now on!"

The archery Ye Zhen referred to included special techniques like Rapid-Fire Arrows. At Ye Zhen’s level of Martial Artist Cultivation, even without training, he could use ordinary weapons to their full potential by Divine Transformation.

In archery, when shooting only one arrow, under the guidance of Ye Zhen’s powerful Divine Soul Power, it was effortless to hit the mark every time, even a thousand steps away.

Besides, there was also a low-grade Treasure spear in Da Hai’s storage bracelet, which Ye Zhen guessed must be a spoil of war after Da Hai had killed some Martial Artist. Now, it belonged to Ye Zhen as well.

Apart from that, the Southern Barbarian Spirit Practitioners were as poor as ever; there was nothing else of value in the storage bracelet.

However, just acquiring the ’Green Wing Divine Bow’, a mid-grade Treasure, was enough, not to mention more than ten thousand Demon Soul Blood Crystals.

Ye Zhen estimated that even the Sect Elders would be envious if they saw the mid-grade Treasure.

After tidying up, Ye Zhen transfigured to stabilize his appearance as a Hundred-Man Demon Soul Commander and then mounted the Cloud Winged Tiger, plunging down from the cloud layer.

Below, the Demon Soul Legion that had lost nearly a thousand men was regathering.

The leaders of the ordinary soldiers, now deceased, were directly incorporated into the Square-faced Commander’s Personal Guard. The squad that wasn’t full was being split up and replenished, reforming into battle formations.

There was no mournful air of death, not even a word of complaint about Ye Zhen’s misleading information, just the crisp sound of the troops reforming ranks.

An indescribable sense of solemn bravery suddenly rose in Ye Zhen’s heart.

Iron Blood Army Soul!

This was the Iron Blood Army Soul!

An Iron Blood Army Soul that was forever embroiled in battle through cycles of death and resurrection!

"Continue scouting!"

The Square-faced Commander only gave this command before focusing on directing the troops.

At that moment, a wave of shame suddenly arose in Ye Zhen’s heart!

He felt ashamed for having used these Iron Blood Army Souls to kill Da Hai.

Although they lacked emotions and even names, being merely Iron Blood Army Souls who knew only slaughter, as long as they were part of the army, they regarded Ye Zhen as a comrade-in-arms, a brother!

At this moment, a peculiar feeling surged within Ye Zhen’s heart!

"Roar!"

Suddenly, a delighted roar of the Cloud Winged Tiger cub came from not far away! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)