King of Creation
Chapter 333 - 330: Caiyi’s Gift

Chapter 333: Chapter 330: Caiyi’s Gift

"So cold!"

Ye Zhen shivered incessantly, a mysterious terror rising in his eyes, while his mind raced rapidly.

For martial artists, once their cultivation stepped into the True Essence Realm, the impact of the heat and cold became limited. When they entered the Spirit Summoning Realm, they could be considered impervious to the extremes of summer and winter.

Of course, this imperviousness referred to normal seasonal temperature changes, such as not feeling cold in snow and not feeling hot under the scorching sun. Extreme temperature changes still could not be resisted, such as being burned by fire would still be intolerable.

When a martial artist’s cultivation reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, and they began to temper their Acquired Spiritual Body, their resistance to the elements was once again strengthened; even extreme weather changes would no longer affect them.

For Ye Zhen to feel cold in such snowy weather was absolutely impossible, let alone shivering from the cold in an instant, feeling it deep in his bones.

"There’s something strange, definitely something strange!"

The instant shift from clear, sunny skies to snowy weather was bizarre in itself. "Could it be an illusory realm?"

In his deliberation, Ye Zhen chose the most direct approach— waking Caiyi up.

Since it was Caiyi who had specifically asked him to come here, she might know something.

"Hm, it’s snowing? Wait, that’s not right!"

The moment she awoke, Caiyi expressed confusion. A burst of five-colored light suddenly spread from Caiyi’s forehead, wherever the five-colored light passed, it felt as if the warmest sunlight was shining, and the cold sensation sharply disappeared, though the snow continued to fall.

"Brother Ye Zhen, we’ve entered a Divine Soul Illusion Realm, but this is exactly where we need to be." Suddenly, Caiyi flashed a playful smile at Ye Zhen, "Brother Ye Zhen, I’ll give you a gift later!"

"A gift? What gift?" Ye Zhen wondered, but then he had a sudden realization. It turned out that Caiyi had previously expended a great deal of Divine Soul Power, specifically to bring Ye Zhen here, to give him a gift.

"You’ll see soon. But for now, we need to be careful. That fellow is even stronger than I imagined. Right, your Sword Heart Enlightenment, although it can’t break this Divine Soul Illusion Realm, it can see through it and remain unaffected by the illusion," Caiyi reminded him.

Sword Heart Enlightenment indeed had the capability to see through illusions, which Ye Zhen had forgotten about.

With a movement of his Divine Sense, he immediately focused on the First Sword Vein.

Hum!

As the First Sword Vein hummed continuously, the familiar feeling did not spread as expected, and Ye Zhen understood that he had failed to enter the state of Sword Heart Enlightenment.

Fortunately, they had plenty of time. After waiting on the spot for half a quarter-hour, Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense concentrated again, and the huge golden Origin Sword Vein immediately extended into the void, pulsating at a strange frequency as if it merged with the void itself, the familiar feeling of seeing through everything resurfaced in his mind.

In an instant, an extremely bizarre visual disparity arose in Ye Zhen’s mind, making him feel almost nauseated enough to vomit blood.

In Ye Zhen’s perception, it was a sunny clear day, but his sight presented a heavily snowing winter day. It was fortunate that Ye Zhen had an exceptionally resolute will. Otherwise, just this immense disparity could have thrown his mind into utter chaos.

"Hmm, it’s alright now, Brother Ye Zhen, can you see the path?"

Ye Zhen was astonished that Caiyi could sense his entry into the state of Sword Heart Enlightenment, which greatly surprised him. How powerful was Caiyi now?

Under Caiyi’s lead, Ye Zhen and Caiyi held hands as they flew deep into the forest. As for the Cloud Winged Tiger Cub, it had long been trembling with cold and had burrowed into Caiyi’s arms.

Caiyi’s vicinity was like a natural shelter, unaffected by the Divine Soul Illusion Realm. As for Ye Zhen’s Sword Heart Enlightenment, it could only allow him to see through the Divine Soul Illusion Realm without being influenced by it, yet it couldn’t protect the Cloud Winged Tiger Cub from being affected.

"This is the entrance, let’s go down!"

The entrance Caiyi mentioned was below hundreds of towering ancient trees, their girth too large for a person to embrace. Beside this ancient forest, a creek flowed by, and among these trees, there was a small puddle about ten meters across.

The puddle’s water was murky, carrying a sinister hint of greenish tint, surrounded by various animal bones, presenting itself as a poison puddle that screamed ’keep out.’

The scenery before his eyes was such, yet what Ye Zhen’s Sword Heart Enlightenment perceived was entirely different.

"This is...."

Just as Ye Zhen was about to speak, he saw three middle-aged martial artists shivering beside the puddle. Judging by their appearance, all were over fifty years of age, possibly even older in reality.

Their cultivation was astonishing, all at the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm Fifth Stage, seemingly those martial artists who had been unable to breakthrough to the Soul Sea Realm for a long time.

At that moment, the three middle-aged martial artists were so cold that their bodies turned bluish, and their exposed fingers had taken on a dark, cyan hue. It could be foreseen that if this continued, they would be frozen to death.

Seeing this scene, Ye Zhen felt somewhat alarmed.

Actually, the current weather was sunny and clear, yet these three were nearly frozen to death.

The crux of this Divine Soul Illusion Realm was that, after all, it was still just an illusion. It didn’t have the capability to change the actual weather or temperature, but that’s what made the Divine Soul Illusion Realm terrifying.

It didn’t change anything but communicated through the illusion that it was extremely cold, so cold that it could make you shiver, crack your fingers, and freeze your blood...

Then, those who couldn’t see through the illusion believed it was frigid. As long as they believed it was cold, they would feel the cold, just like Ye Zhen when he first entered the illusion, until unable to endure the extreme cold, entering a state of self-freezing. Ultimately, they would freeze themselves to death.

As for the chief culprits, these people had actually frozen to death because of their own Divine Soul Power.

"Brother Ye Zhen, shall I save them? If we don’t save them now, they will really freeze to death!"

Looking at Caiyi’s pure eyes, Ye Zhen nodded gently. Caiyi was like that, kind as a blank sheet of paper, only thinking of saving others.

Of course, Ye Zhen would also save them. But, before doing so, he would definitely make some arrangements.

Three points of Five-colored Spiritual Light flew out from Caiyi’s fingertips, landing on the tops of the heads of the three middle-aged martial artists, and in an instant, all three shivered violently.

"I... how did I get frozen like this?"

"What happened to us?"

Spirit Light surged over the three of them, and in a few moments, their blue-black near-rotten fingers returned to normal, showing no signs that just moments before these three were gasping for life, about to freeze to death.

"Thank you both for your help, we three are deeply grateful!"

Realizing what happened, the three men bowed to Ye Zhen and Caiyi. "I am Long Ze, this is Liu Fei, and this is Luo Liu. May I ask for your esteemed names."

"There’s no need for thanks. The Spirit Light I added to you can only allow you to see through this illusion for half an hour. You’d better hurry out of here."

"Brother Ye Zhen, let’s go!"

While speaking, Caiyi pulled at Ye Zhen and headed toward the direction of the puddles among the towering ancient trees. "Brother Ye Zhen, let’s jump!"

At Caiyi’s call, both Ye Zhen and Caiyi leaped high up, jumping right into the middle of the puddle.

"Don’t, that puddle is poisonous!"

"Be careful!"

Long Ze, Liu Fei, and Luo Liu all cried out in surprise simultaneously.

The next moment, their mouths agape wide enough to fit a bull’s head, with that one leap, their saviors Ye Zhen and Caiyi had vanished into thin air.

In an instant, the three of them looked at each other with mixed expressions of light rising from their eyes, resembling a tragicomic scene of a mortal world. Through their trial and error in cultivation, they had discovered the anomaly here, speculated that there might be a secret realm, had been exploring it for half a year, and had almost died here.

But now, they suddenly realized that the poison puddle they had been unwilling to approach was actually the entrance.

Below the puddle, after Ye Zhen and Caiyi jumped into the poisonous puddle, they did not end up as filthy as imagined; instead, with their leap, a pathway to a hidden immortal realm dramatically appeared before Ye Zhen and Caiyi.

Everywhere there were green vines, flowers, murmuring streams, and a stone bridge covered in grass, with bright flowers blooming on either side of it.

"Here?"

"Whoo!"

A shrill scream, piercing enough to split metal and crack stone, suddenly rose from all around in this hidden fairyland. The scream reached their ears, suddenly bringing up an indescribable sense of nausea and oppression.

Amid the screams, Ye Zhen’s state of Sword Heart Enlightenment suddenly fluctuated intensely, nearly shattering.

A ray of Five-colored Spiritual Light timely merged into Ye Zhen’s forehead, like rain after a long drought, instantly erasing all the negative effects that the scream had brought on.

"Brother Ye Zhen, are you feeling better, are you all right?"

"I’m managing. Just now, that scream?" Ye Zhen asked with a somewhat pale face.

"That was the sound of the Phantom Soul Beast! Brother Ye Zhen, be careful. This creature is very cunning and extremely vicious..."

"Whoo!"

Before Caiyi could finish speaking, another shrill scream of the Phantom Soul Beast echoed, but this time the sound was different.

In the shrill scream, the immortal realm where they stood distorted and changed before the eyes of Ye Zhen and Caiyi. The green grass and trees changed into Ghost Monster Beasts, the flowing water into rising poisonous miasma, and the bright flowers into blazing flames.

In the screams of the Phantom Soul Beast, the Ghost Monster Beasts, poisonous miasma, and flames surged toward Ye Zhen and Caiyi like a flood.

"Brother Ye Zhen, it’s fine, these are all illusions, keep your Sword Heart clear..."

Suddenly, a Ghost Monster’s sharp claw fiercely struck Ye Zhen’s chest on his Red Jade Spirit Armor, sparking off metallic sparks, and a momentary flame nearly touched Caiyi’s hair, immediately giving off a burnt smell.

In an instant, Caiyi’s face drastically changed.

"No, it’s the Phantom Soul Beast King!" (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)