King of Creation
Chapter 218 - 215 Can’t Afford to Lose

Chapter 218: Chapter 215 Can’t Afford to Lose

In the pine forest of Fairy Peak, Ye Zhen sat cross-legged on a bluestone, with the sound of the wind in the pines by his ear, and the surrounding Spiritual Power seemed to fluctuate ceaselessly with the sound of the pines.

Suddenly, the Spirit Light flickering around Ye Zhen flashed intensely, and a mass of light and shadow suddenly rippled violently over his body.

It was like a droplet of water being pulled apart, struggling intensely. Even more astonishing was that Ye Zhen’s brow, much like the underbelly of a frog, kept bulging.

Waves of soul-stirring Divine Soul Waves emitted from Ye Zhen’s body, and with the continuation of these waves, the struggling circle of Spirit Light around him gradually began to stabilize.

Whenever there was a fluctuation, Ye Zhen’s brow would twitch, and a surge of Divine Soul Power would rush over to immediately stabilize it.

Ye Zhen seemed to be refining it, slowly sculpting that Spirit Light bit by bit, and gradually, a vague shadow of someone sitting cross-legged like Ye Zhen overlapped on his body.

If ordinary people saw this from a distance, they would definitely scream–they’ve seen a ghost!

Because if one looked closely, they indeed saw a ghost–it appeared as though someone was lying behind Ye Zhen.

Suddenly, that shadow stood up abruptly from behind Ye Zhen, took a step, and moved quickly toward the depths of the pine forest.

Pop!

When that shadow reached a thousand meters away, it burst like a bubble, dissipating into the purest Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi.

At the moment the shadow dispersed, another shadow emerged from Ye Zhen, and this time, anyone familiar with Ye Zhen would be astonished to find that this shadow looked exactly like Ye Zhen.

Moving to one thousand five hundred meters away, this shadow also dissipated.

After closing his eyes and focusing several times, Ye Zhen’s surrounding Spiritual Power once again emitted faint fluctuations. This time, two Ye Zhen simultaneously separated from the seated Ye Zhen, as if by an Avatar Technique, stepping out and heading in opposite directions.

More than a thousand meters away, Ye Zhen’s two Spirit Power avatars again burst apart!

"Two Shadow Transformations, a distance of four Li and two thousand meters, is this the limit of the first stage of Spirit Light Transformation into Shadows..."

After trying for over one hour, Ye Zhen slowly opened his eyes, his eyes full of surprise.

These past few days, Ye Zhen had been cultivating the Spirit Light Shadow Transformation Secret Technique he obtained from the Demon Soul Hall. Initially without a clue, but after days of quiet contemplation, Ye Zhen finally condensed what was called a Spirit Model, and cultivated the Spirit Light Shadow Transformation Secret Technique to the First Stage.

The Spirit Light Shadow Transformation Secret Technique was divided into three stages.

The First Stage could only split into two Spirit Light Shadows, creating confusion between real and fake! At the Second Stage, he could simultaneously separate into nine Spirit Light Shadows, and most importantly, within the range of Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense, all nine could be controlled at will.

The most astonishing was the Third Stage of Spirit Light Shadow Transformation.

If Ye Zhen could cultivate the Spirit Light Shadow Transformation Secret Technique to the Third Stage, the number of Spirit Shadows that he could separate into at the same moment was almost endless, as long as his Divine Soul Power and Spiritual Power could support it.

However, this was not the terrifying aspect of the Third Stage of Spirit Light Shadow Transformation.

The horror of the Third Stage lay in that all the separated Spirit Shadows could possess one-tenth of Ye Zhen’s combat power. Multiple Spirit Shadows suddenly turning into powerful enemies, just the thought of it was frightening.

However, Ye Zhen currently could only cultivate the Spirit Light Shadow Transformation Secret Technique to the First Stage. The reason being that the technique’s requirements for Divine Soul Power were quite high.

Just the First Stage of the Spirit Light Shadow Transformation Secret Technique required Divine Soul Cultivation to reach the Capturing Realm. For the Second Stage, one must have established a Soul Hall within their Divine Soul to succeed in cultivation.

And establishing a Soul Hall was something only powerhouses at the Soul Sea Realm could possibly achieve.

Luckily, Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation was exceptional, which is why he managed to cultivate the first stage of the Spirit Light Shadow Transformation Secret Technique.

Suddenly, Ye Zhen’s ears twitched as light footsteps reached his ears.

At this time, the only one who would come to see him in this pine forest was Caiyi.

Ye Zhen’s mouth curled up suddenly, and a naughty smile flashed across his face.

Almost simultaneously, two Spirit Shadows that looked almost exactly like Ye Zhen, enough to be mistaken for the real one, briskly emerged from Ye Zhen’s side and rushed towards Caiyi, who was entering the pine forest, one after the other.

"Ye..."

"What’s going on?"

When the first Spirit Shadow dashed by, Caiyi was initially delighted but then she was astonished, as she saw at a glance that this Spirit Shadow was not the real Ye Zhen.

"Caiyi, come hug me!"

Along with Ye Zhen’s voice, the second Spirit Shadow charged up to Caiyi and opened its arms.

Caiyi blushed with embarrassment, but she didn’t avoid the embrace of the Ye Zhen Spirit Shadow.

Pop!

Just as it was about to embrace Caiyi, the Spirit Shadow burst like a bubble, startling Caiyi, who immediately tensed up, only to then see Ye Zhen, smiling merrily as he walked out from the pines.

"So naughty, you gave me a fright; I almost spilled the Ning Shen Liquid I blended for you!" Caiyi complained with a hint of annoyance. "To think I hurriedly blended a bowl of Ning Shen Liquid for you because I sensed intense Divine Soul Waves here, and you still play tricks on me."

"How about it, what do you think about the Spirit Shadows I just cultivated?" Ye Zhen smiled.

"They’re not good. Anyway, I saw through the first Spirit Shadow in a glance! Although the Spirit Shadow looks exactly like you, the color of the clothes is still different from the real ones, so it probably won’t be very effective," Caiyi said bluntly, true to her nature.

Ye Zhen was not at all discouraged. "What if everyone had their Protective Spirit Force up during battle?"

True enough, Caiyi’s beautiful eyes lit up, "If that’s the case, it would be very difficult to distinguish, and in battle, the effect would be terribly frightening! Suddenly having such an additional Spirit Shadow, anyone would be affected."

"Do you want to learn?" Ye Zhen asked with a smile.

"It could be quite useful for saving one’s life at a critical moment...." Caiyi propped her chin with her delicate hand.

"So, that means you do want to learn. Give me a kiss, and I’ll teach you!" Ye Zhen grinned mischievously once more.

"In your dreams! Then I won’t learn it!" With a playful look in her bright eyes, Caiyi pretended to walk away.

"Alright, alright, I give up. Here’s the Jade Talisman for you!"

The moment Caiyi took the Jade Talisman, Ye Zhen pretended to go in for a kiss but was deftly avoided by her.

"Bad guy!"

Caiyi giggled, leaving Ye Zhen with a face full of disappointment.

"Hurry up and drink the Ning Shen Liquid, or it will lose its effectiveness once time passes."

His Divine Soul Power had been severely depleted, so Ye Zhen took the medicine bowl and drained it in one gulp. The moment he lifted his head, a faint fragrance wafted towards him, and a warm softness brushed his forehead. Caiyi’s lips grazed over Ye Zhen’s forehead as lightly as a dragonfly skimming water.

Ye Zhen wanted to pursue her, but Caiyi’s figure retreated as swiftly as a startled swan, leaving Ye Zhen, who wanted more, suddenly feeling very frustrated.

Truly a blow to one’s dignity!

....

Three days later, during his routine Cultivation session, the Spiritual Power within Ye Zhen’s body once again began to boil uncontrollably. Hesitant for a moment, Ye Zhen did not immediately suppress the boiling Spiritual Power inside him.

With a thought of his Divine Sense, Ye Zhen tried again to condense the Spiritual Power.

He ran the Five Transition Nourishing Yuan Technique to gather a Seed of Spiritual Power, and the boiling Spiritual Power suddenly started to pulsate at a strange frequency.

As it pulsated, the boiling Spiritual Power gradually condensed, compressed, then condensed again, and further compressed until a large sphere formed in the Dantian, like an oversized Seed of Spiritual Power.

The instant it formed, the Divine Soul Power dispersed throughout Ye Zhen’s veins surged!

Hum!

Stimulated by the Divine Soul Power, four Innate Bloodlines suddenly appeared within Ye Zhen’s body. Upon close observation, he could see threads of Innate Bloodline Spiritual Energy moving within these four Innate Bloodlines, clearly visible.

He counted roughly; in the four Innate Bloodlines, aside from the First Vein which granted him the Sword Vein Divine Power and was unclear, the other three veins each contained nearly a hundred threads of Innate Bloodline Blood Qi.

Now that the Innate Bloodlines had appeared, Ye Zhen knew clearly that all he needed to do was to follow the method of gathering the Seed of Spiritual Power and guide the Innate Bloodline Spiritual Energy in the four Innate Bloodlines to try and condense the Seed of Spiritual Power.

However, Ye Zhen hesitated and even felt very nervous.

The Innate Bloodline Spiritual Energy was too scarce; one failure would reduce it by at least twenty percent.

And according to what Liao Feibai said, if Ye Zhen was to blindly try his luck, the chance of successfully condensing the Seed of Spiritual Power on his first attempt was less than thirty percent.

After a first failure, due to the depletion of Innate Bloodline Spiritual Energy, the probability of successful condensation on the second attempt would plummet to twenty percent. Many Spirit Summoning Realm Martial Artists spent their lives failing in this way.

"Sigh!"

After pondering for a long time, Ye Zhen let his Divine Sense disperse, and the gathered Spiritual Power and emerging Innate Bloodlines in his Dantian dissipated instantly.

In the end, Ye Zhen didn’t dare to take the gamble, didn’t dare to try his luck!

A less than thirty percent chance was too small!

The most critical point was that Ye Zhen couldn’t afford to lose.

If he failed to condense on the first try, the subsequent attempts would become increasingly difficult. If he gambled and lost this time, he could be gambling away his entire lifetime of martial arts.

"I’m still young; there’s no need to gamble my entire life’s Martial Arts!"

"If only I could get some Spirit Storage Pills and Jade Spirit Grass, then...."

Just as Ye Zhen was deep in thought, four figures suddenly appeared in the skies above Qiyun Sect.

The moment the four figures appeared, one of them threw his arms into the air, and Spiritual Power surged out wildly. The sky above Qiyun Sect suddenly darkened as a gigantic Spiritual Power Eagle, accompanied by a startling cry, dove towards the Chaotic Cloud Peak within Qiyun Sect.

It threatened to obliterate Chaotic Cloud Peak and the hundreds of Inner Sect Disciples within it.

Almost simultaneously, Bu Changtian, who had arrived in the skies above Qiyun Sect, moved, and a fist shadow like a Meteor blasted towards Donglai Peak, where nearly ten thousand disciples were gathered.

The moment the fist shadow was thrown, the surrounding air rippled open like waves, and the terrifying sound explosion created as the fist shadow split the air caused the Outer Disciples on Donglai Peak to cover their ears and scream in pain.

Especially those Outer Disciples who had not yet broken through to the True Essence Realm were left with bleeding orifices and anguished screams due to the horrific sound explosion.

One could imagine that if the punch landed, even if Donglai Peak wasn’t leveled, the tens of thousands of Outer Sect Disciples there would be wiped out!

Qiyun Sect instantly fell into chaos!

"Who dares to commit such a heinous act!"

"Where did these brats come from to bully us like this!"

With an angry roar and a delicate rebuke, a Great Palm Seal and a Sword Light rushed towards the sky.

Almost at the same time, the alarm bell within Qiyun Sect rang loudly, as dazzling beams of light surged upwards from various peaks within the sect! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)