King of Creation
Chapter 262 - 259: Something Has Changed

Chapter 262: Chapter 259: Something Has Changed

As a child reading at home, the books often said that a gentleman is gentle and refined like jade. Now that he’s begun cultivating the Green Jade War Body, Ye Zhen truly understood what it feels like to be ’gentle and refined like jade.’

With a slight exertion of force from his palm, he activated the unique method of the Shattered Jade War Body to absorb the power contained within the Green Spirit Jade. The Jade Spirit Power entered Ye Zhen’s meridians, and an immediate sensation of gentleness washed over him.

Fundamentally speaking, the Spiritual Power of a Martial Artist’s body originates from the violent Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi. Even though it becomes Spiritual Power after undergoing various refining and nurturing processes, the violent nature of Spiritual Power does not change. Otherwise, how would Spiritual Power possess such formidable offensive capabilities?

Normally when cultivating, the slow circulation of Spiritual Power isn’t an issue, but during battle, when Spiritual Power surges wildly, the meridians feel as if they are being scraped by knives, causing persistent, tingling pain. Even with habituation, the meridians still feel somewhat uncomfortable.

However, the Jade Spirit Power from the Green Spirit Jade is different; when it flows through the meridians, it feels like warm oil, without a trace of discomfort.

Ye Zhen somewhat understood why the Shattered Jade War Body Secret Manual could allow Martial Artists to temper their Acquired Spiritual Bodies even before breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm.

The likely reason is that the energy contained within the Green Spirit Jade is gentle and refined like jade, not harming the internal organs or flesh at all.

According to the Shattered Jade War Body Secret Manual, a Martial Artist’s body is like a mountain containing countless caves—it can accommodate Spiritual Power everywhere, with the Dantian being just the most common, easiest, and largest ’cave,’ a method of storing Spiritual Power.

The Shattered Jade War Body utilizes other ’caves’ within the body to store a completely different kind of power, the Jade Spirit Power. It can form an independent system and then condense into a Green Jade Spirit Armor.

The first step in cultivating the Shattered Jade War Body is to use the Jade Spirit Power to temper the flesh, making it stronger, and in doing so, to create a number of small storage spaces for Jade Spirit Power within the flesh. Once the first step of tempering the flesh is complete, a thin layer of Green Jade Spirit Armor can be formed.

Of course, this initial layer of Green Jade Spirit Armor can’t compare in defensive strength to the Green Jade Spirit Armor that Zou Zhi has tempered over several trials.

As far as Ye Zhen knows, the first step in breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm for a Martial Artist is to transform the flesh into a spiritual body, which is exactly the same as this Shattered Jade War Body.

However, even if Ye Zhen uses Jade Spirit Power to finish tempering his flesh, that does not mean he has broken through to the Spirit Transformation Realm First Stage through another method, as the Spirit Transformation Realm is not just about cultivating an Acquired Spiritual Body.

Ye Zhen had tried to use his own body’s Spiritual Power to temper the flesh, but tempering requires a specific method to hammer the flesh with Spiritual Power.

Once Spiritual Power is fully activated for tempering, the flesh all over the body aches as if it’s being cut with knives. It’s as if you’re attacking yourself with your own Spiritual Power.

If you deliberately slow down the activation of Spiritual Power, the power is so soft and weak it hardly has any effect.

The flesh, no different from that of a normal person, will immediately be injured, forcing you to stop cultivating.

It is because of this attempt that Ye Zhen understood why it is necessary to gather a Spiritual Power Seed and connect with one’s Innate Bloodline before beginning to temper the Acquired Spiritual Body.

A Martial Artist’s Innate Bloodline acts as a converter, allowing Spiritual Power to become violent or gentle at will, protecting the body to the greatest extent possible.

Yet, even this transformation has its limits.

Although Ye Zhen had not cultivated it, Martial Artists in the Spirit Transformation Realm often temper their bodies only once every few days, and even then need to rely heavily on Pills to continue cultivating, making the progress extremely slow.

It’s imaginable, a Martial Artist using their own powerful enough to break rocks Spiritual Power on their own body—it would be strange if progress were fast.

But when cultivating the Green Jade War Body with Jade Spirit Power, there is no such issue.

The Jade Spirit Power contained within the Green Spirit Jade is gentle like water or oil. Each time the flesh is tempered, it is damaged, but the gentle Jade Spirit Power also enters the tempered flesh at the same time, nourishing every piece of flesh like spring rain.

The damaged flesh is able to recover in the shortest time, ready for the next round of tempering.

Soon, Ye Zhen became immersed in the process of cultivating the Green Jade War Body, finding the cultivation with the Green Spirit Jade’s Jade Spirit Power to be a pleasure.

Ye Zhen couldn’t help but admire the genius of the predecessor who created the Shattered Jade War Body.

The only downside is the rapid consumption rate of the Green Spirit Jade.

Practicing the Green Jade War Body is simply burning money, no, rather burning Spirit Crystals.

The value of a piece of Green Spirit Jade is about the same as that of a Low Grade Spirit Crystal, but within two hours, Ye Zhen consumed fifty pieces of Green Spirit Jade. Assuming three sessions of practice a day, the daily consumption would be at least one hundred and fifty pieces.

Moreover, this is just the beginning of his cultivation. Although the Spiritual Power contained within the Green Spirit Jade is gentle like jade, it is still foreign to the flesh, bones, and internal organs, making the progress rather slow.

Once several days of cultivation pass, and the body grows stronger and adapts to this stimulation, Ye Zhen estimated that four to five hundred pieces of Green Spirit Jade wouldn’t suffice for a single night.

For an average person, they would go bankrupt before even completing the Green Jade War Body, not to mention the even higher-level Red Jade War Body.

The more powerful Red Jade War Body, which can directly condense an Armor comparable to High Grade Treasure Armor, the Red Jade Spirit Armor, has not even been cultivated by Zou Zhi, an elder of the Sword Origin Sect.

Compared to Green Spirit Jade, Red Spirit Jade is more valuable, rarer, and harder to come by, naturally making the Red Jade War Body even harder to cultivate.

However, on the flip side, if Zou Zhi had cultivated the Red Jade War Body, then even if Ye Zhen exerted all his strength in the Poisonous Miasma Valley, he would probably have been unable to do anything to Zou Zhi.

"This kid’s cultivation method is indeed peculiar, actually using Green Spirit Jade to cultivate. Such a strange method can probably only belong to those hidden noble families..."

In another Silent Chamber of the Nameless Lesser Peak, True Person Bixin retracted the Divine Sense that had enveloped the Nameless Lesser Peak.

Once a Martial Artist of the Soul Sea Realm reaches a certain level of cultivation, their Divine Sense can extend outward within a certain range, akin to eyes. Although it is not as accurate as eyesight, the information perceived can sometimes be more precise than what the eyes see.

"Ah, if it weren’t for...."

With a soft sigh, True Person Bixin closed her eyes again.

Almost at the same time, Ye Zhen also let out a sigh of relief. That faint, looming sense of being spied upon had been present since before he began his cultivation. Mainly because Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Power was not weak, otherwise, he would not have been able to sense True Person Bixin’s Divine Sense Perception.

Ye Zhen surmised it must be True Person Bixin who was observing him, not the other Sect Elders of Qingluo Sect. After all, True Person Bixin was currently at the Nameless Peak, and others wouldn’t dare to blatantly use Divine Sense to probe this place.

Ye Zhen took out dozens more of Green Spirit Jade, closed his eyes, and focused on cultivating his Green Jade Battle Body.

...

The night passed without incident, and the next day, Luluo took Ye Zhen to visit the Medicine Garden of Qingluo Sect and the nearby peaks and scenic views, making full use of Ye Zhen as a shield and putting an end to the advances of those with designs on Luluo.

From Ye Zhen’s observations, Luluo and Liao Feibai were definitely cut from the same cloth; they were both women who preferred to make decisions for themselves without relying on men.

However, due to differences in strength, Liao Feibai was much more violent and direct, carving out a fearsome reputation that cut off all harassment and allowed her to do as she pleased.

On the other hand, Luluo did not possess the terrifying strength that Liao Feibai had, and was also more feminine, so she couldn’t deal with some matters as cleanly as Liao Feibai.

"I’m saying, your master wants you to get married within half a year; you really need to think of something. Half a year will pass by very quickly," Ye Zhen said to Luluo as they chatted idly atop Qianfeng’s sheer cliffs.

"It’s troubling, and I’ve got such a headache! I really can’t understand why my master wants me to marry so soon. When I ask for the specific reason, she’s reluctant to say more, only that it’s for my own good."

"Initially, I thought she was trying to match me with Wen Tianyu for some other reason, but now she’s pushing me to marry you, my big cousin. I just can’t figure it out."

"Ah, that’s right, why don’t you just help me with the marriage?" Luluo suddenly had a whimsical idea.

Ye Zhen was startled, "For real? Are you sure your head isn’t feverish?"

"No, the marriage is just a formality, and it doesn’t really mean anything. Do you think I actually want to marry you?" Luluo said with a pout, her face full of displeasure.

"After all, it’s just a ceremony. We people of Jianghu just go through the motions!"

"This, doesn’t seem appropriate...."

Ye Zhen felt that going through the motions as Luluo suggested might be feasible, but it still seemed strange.

"Ah, I’m really so vexed by this matter. Elder Sister Liao has the right idea, why does it have to be men who marry wives? Why can’t women marry husbands?"

"Hmph, once I have the same strength as Elder Sister Liao, I will definitely take a husband, and stand up for sisters everywhere!"

Listening to Luluo’s muttering, Ye Zhen was dripping with sweat.

Birds of a feather flock together indeed; Luluo had a certain innate disposition to mix with someone like Liao Feibai. But from the sounds of it, it seemed that Liao Feibai, the Demon-faced Rakshasa, was leading Luluo astray?

On the third day of Ye Zhen’s arrival at Qingluo Sect, according to the agreement, he was supposed to leave Qingluo Sect that morning with Luluo and head for the Divine Capital of Phantom Divine Empire.

In the morning, while waiting to depart, Luluo was called away by True Person Bixin. Ye Zhen had thought they were about to leave but, half a quarter-hour later, Luluo returned with a frosty expression on her beautiful face.

"What happened?" Ye Zhen had a bad premonition.

"That Wen Tianyu is such a despicable man!"

"What happened?"

"He actually had his master go to the Sect Leader and snatched away the spot for an accompanying member. This guy must have done it on purpose; why didn’t he ask before my master approached the Sect Leader?"

Luluo was so angry, her cheeks puffed up like she was about to bite through her silver teeth.

In every Great Sect, there is politics.

Quite coincidentally, True Person Bixin, Luluo’s master, was someone who stayed away from worldly affairs. She was very low-profile and did not interfere in the affairs of the Sect, ranking low among the Sect Elders of Qingluo Sect.

Wen Tianyu’s master, on the other hand, was said to be a left-hand man to the Sect Leader of Qingluo Sect.

"It doesn’t matter; if this path is blocked, we’ll just think of another way," Ye Zhen swiftly brushed off the displeasure on his face, instead comforting Luluo.

"Sister Luluo, I am truly sorry for this. I took your spot to accompany you, and I have specially come to offer you an apology."

A rather sharp voice sounded from outside the peak, belonging to Wen Tianyu. (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to continue reading.)