King of Creation
Chapter 427 - 421: A Bold Move by the Troops

Chapter 427: Chapter 421: A Bold Move by the Troops

Boom!

A flash of Thunder Light appeared in Ye Zhen’s palm; Huaa Yan, the elder of the Huaa Clan who had just caught up, let out a muffled groan, his radiant aura withdrew, and his figure uncontrollably plunged downwards again.

Behind him, relentless pursuers such as Sect leader Fuh Dongxing of the Phantom Divine Sect, Huan Cang, Huaa Zhu, Qing Yii, Thousand Illusion Eagle King, and the General-Level Heavenly Spirit Boat from the Tiannan Huaa Family had turned into a faint, elongated black line, thrown far behind by Ye Zhen.

Seven or eight breaths later, Huaa Yan’s figure reappeared behind him; however, Huaa Yan did not immediately use his Divine Skills to launch Chasing Mountains and Moon.

Chasing Mountains and Moon was one of Huaa Yan’s Body Method Divine Abilities. When executed to the utmost, even the Flowing Light Butterfly King from their Tiannan Huaa Clan could be caught up with.

But when executed at its peak, it also consumed a great deal of energy.

What was more fatal was that within half an hour, Ye Zhen had harshly disrupted him seven times, causing slight tremblings in his Divine Skills and bloodline. He could only temporarily refrain from using his abilities and allow the tremblings in his Divine Skills and bloodline to subside.

With that, Huaa Yan’s speed in pursuing Ye Zhen significantly reduced.

Looking at Huaa Yan’s sharply reduced speed, Ye Zhen ultimately discarded the idea of escaping relying solely on the speed of the Cloud Winged Tiger King kitten.

It is easy to outrun the monk, but not the temple. Even if Ye Zhen could manage to barely escape now, what if the Tiannan Huaa Clan attacked the Qiyun Sect or even invaded the Ye Family?

Then, could Ye Zhen still escape?

Where could he escape to?

Therefore, Ye Zhen gave up this sole chance to escape and prepared to follow the high-risk plan he had previously thought out. If Ye Zhen’s plan succeeded, perhaps he could resolve the critical threat of the Tiannan Huaa Clan once and for all.

At the very least, it could severely wound the Tiannan Huaa Clan and buy Ye Zhen a considerable amount of precious time.

With this thought, Ye Zhen instructed the Cloud Winged Tiger King kitten to slow down, maintaining a safe distance from Huaa Yan.

Moreover, Ye Zhen also tried to adjust the Cloud Winged Tiger King kitten’s body size to the most suitable state—fast, yet low in consumption!

After trying for a distance, Ye Zhen found that by maintaining a body size of three meters, at the same speed, the consumption was the least, and the endurance was much longer.

No choice, if Ye Zhen wanted to execute his risky plan successfully, it was crucial to lure the enemy to the predetermined battlefield; the endurance of the Cloud Winged Tiger played a vital role.

Fortunately, Huaa Yan’s state of Body Method Divine Ability also could not last too long; otherwise, it would indeed be Ye Zhen’s nightmare.

"Kitten, if he speeds up, you speed up; if he slows down, you also slow down, maintain a distance of twenty li," Ye Zhen instructed.

After giving the command, Ye Zhen sat cross-legged on the back of the Cloud Winged Tiger King kitten, forming a sword with his fingers, chopping out Wind Cloud Sword Qi in all directions. Along with the Wind Cloud Sword Qi was sword momentum-generated Thunder Light.

However, the moment the Thunder Light burst out, Ye Zhen drew it back with a single gesture of his palm, and amidst the surging ripples of his Divine Soul Power, the Thunder Light discharged along with the Wind Cloud Sword Qi was surprisingly drawn back by Ye Zhen.

With a sizzle, it burrowed in between Ye Zhen’s fingers.

For a moment, Wind Cloud Sword Qi sprawled out like rain, while the Thunder Light, like stream water, was collected within Ye Zhen’s body.

Ye Zhen was refining the Thunder Light of Fright.

Previously, armed with the bases of both Thunder Light and Divine Soul Power, Ye Zhen had easily completed the initial forging of the true Thunder Light of Fright while en route to gather intelligence at the Phantom Divine Sect.

Compared to the crash course version of the Thunder of Fright taught to Ye Zhen by that mysterious predecessor, the true power of the Thunder Light of Fright was astonishing, a fact that had already been verified on Huaa Yan.

However, refining it was no easy task.

The first step in cultivating the Thunder Light of Fright was to use a secret technique to attract the Thunder Light and carve out a Thunder Aperture within the body to refine and store the Thunder Light.

This Thunder Aperture could be a specific space carved out inside the Dantian or one of the major acupoints throughout the body.

According to that mysterious predecessor, the best Thunder Apertures were naturally major acupoints such as Danzhong, Shoulder Well, and Guan Yuan. However, carving them out was quite troublesome.

The most convenient method was to use Divine Sense to carve out a space in the Dantian to achieve a Thunder Aperture, which was the quickest way.

Ye Zhen chose naturally to create the Thunder Aperture within his Dantian. Compared to several months required for other major acupoints, it took only half a day to form the Thunder Aperture in the Dantian, which could be described as incredibly fast.

The main function of the Thunder Aperture was to refine and store the Thunder Light of Fright.

The true Thunder Light of Fright could not be formed instantaneously.

Instead, it required gathering several or even dozens of ordinary Thunder Lights and using a secret technique with the power of the Divine Soul to refine it dozens of times before achieving a single Thunder Light of Fright.

Once formed, the Thunder Light of Fright was stored entirely within the Thunder Aperture and could be released instantly when needed; its speed and power were comparable to Divine Skills.

However, this was just the most basic, First Stage of the Thunder Light of Fright.

The First Stage of the Thunder Light of Fright involved using Collective Common Thunder and Divine Soul Power with a secret technique to refine and condense the Thunder Light of Fright; thus, its power was extremely limited, magnifying the attributes of lightning damage by only several dozen times at most.

The Thunder Light triggered by Ye Zhen’s Wind Cloud Sword Qi also belonged to the category of Mortal Thunder.

But, to cultivate the Second Stage of the Thunder Light of Fright, Heavenly Thunder must be employed.

Collecting Heavenly Thunder and refining it with a secret technique to achieve Thunder Light of Fright.

According to that predecessor, the power of the Heavenly Thunder of Fright was utterly astonishing, its power was no longer merely comparable to Divine Power Martial Skills, but could match the power of most Divine Power Martial Skills.

Practitioners at the Vein Forging Realm, struck by the Heavenly Thunder of Fright, would suffer greatly.

However, the Heavenly Thunder of Fright was quite difficult to cultivate.

Merely collecting the Heavenly Thunder was extremely challenging.

Had it not been for the very detailed methods of collecting Heavenly Thunder given by that mysterious predecessor from the Stars Tower, Ye Zhen would have had no confidence in successfully cultivating the Thunder Light of Fright.

As for the Third Stage of the Divine Thunder of Fright, which that mysterious predecessor did not impart, its capabilities remained unknown, and currently, Ye Zhen could only contemplate it.

Ye Zhen had already decided that after concluding the current matters, he would seek a location where Heavenly Thunder was abundant to collect Heavenly Thunder and cultivate the Heavenly Thunder of Fright.

According to that mysterious predecessor, to utterly annihilate a Blood Demon Guardian of the Blood God Sect’s caliber, the Heavenly Thunder of Fright was essential. The Thunder Light of Fright could severely injure a Blood Demon Guardian, but it could not kill.

This Thunder Light of Fright and the secret technique of Ice Fiend Qi that Ye Zhen had previously cultivated were similar in nature.

Both required prior refinement and storage for future use.

On his way to the Phantom Divine Sect earlier, Ye Zhen had refined and stored a total of ten Thunder Lights of Fright, and by now, he had already used up eight.

Therefore, Ye Zhen was now hurrying to refine Thunder Lights of Fright.

Otherwise, if his plan of dangerous maneuvers were to fail before it succeeded due to running out of Thunder Lights of Fright, that would truly be Ye Zhen’s nightmare.

Fortunately, the Mortal Thunder required for refining Thunder is something Ye Zhen could create at will, making the refinement process rather easy. In just 15 minutes, he had already refined and stored three Thunder Lights of Fright.

Behind him, the elder of the Huaa Clan was still doggedly pursuing Ye Zhen, but he did not utilize his Body Method Divine Ability to chase after Ye Zhen again.

Gradually, because of the full-speed efforts of Huaa Yan, Sect Leader Fuh Dongxing, who was initially left far behind by the Phantom Divine Sect, gradually caught up to Huaa Yan, and their speeds also gradually decreased.

Huaa Yan, the old fox, noticed something odd: when they slowed down, so did the speed of the Cloud Winged Tiger King.

After realizing this, Huaa Yan and Fuh Dongxing exchanged glances.

Suddenly, Fuh Dongxing’s figure blurred anomalously a few times and, in an instant, seemed to merge into one with the Thousand Illusion Spirit Sword.

Whoosh!

The Thousand Illusion Spirit Sword trembled slightly and its speed suddenly increased several folds, shooting towards Ye Zhen, twenty li away, like a meteor, along with Fuh Dongxing, who had merged with the Thousand Illusion Spirit Sword.

Almost simultaneously, spiritual light emanated all around Huaa Yan, and a profound and mysterious feeling abruptly emerged.

With one step, he covered a distance of four or five li!

Huaa Yan once again used his Body Skill.

In the blink of an eye, Fuh Jiangxing and Huaa Yan had closed the distance to about ten li away from Ye Zhen and were rapidly closing in even further.

Seeing this, Ye Zhen let out a cold laugh.

Such petty tricks could not trouble him.

Without needing Ye Zhen’s commands, Wang Xiaomao, the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, had already increased its speed to the maximum.

At the same time, Fuh Dongxing and Huaa Yan had already closed the distance to about five li.

Without even looking, Ye Zhen bombarded one Thunder Light of Fright after another, hitting Huaa Yan, who was chasing him at meteoric speed.

There was no choice.

Under such extreme speeds, Huaa Yan couldn’t maintain the agility of his Body Skill and could only be struck solidly by Ye Zhen, like a target.

With a muffled grunt, Huaa Yan fell helplessly again. Just before falling, Huaa Yan glanced at Fuh Dongxing, "The opportunity is wrested, Sect Leader Fuh, it’s all on you now!"

"Alright!"

Fuh Dongxing excitedly responded and prepared to make a move.

However, this excitement lasted for less than half a breath’s time, as Fuh Dongxing’s expression turned incredibly awkward.

Because Ye Zhen ignored him!

He didn’t even spare him a single Thunder Light of Fright!

He could only watch helplessly as the Cloud Winged Tiger King carried Ye Zhen further and further away.

Huaa Yan could catch up to the ultimate speed of the Cloud Winged Tiger King with his Body Method Divine Ability, but Fuh Dongxing couldn’t. Once Wang Xiaomao entered its ultimate speed, he could only get further thrown behind!

"Hmph, Ye Zhen, this little bastard, to think he has such an extraordinary beast!" Huaa Yan cried out angrily as he caught up again.

"Indeed, this Cloud Winged Tiger King of Ye Zhen’s is quite extraordinary; when it was still a Mid-grade Earth Level Cloud Winged Tiger, it killed my sect’s top disciple Bu Changtian’s Upper-grade Earth Level Demon Beast, the Wind Winged Thunder Hawk!"

"What do we do, should we just let this little bastard lead us around in circles like this?"

"Elder Huaa, can the monk flee the temple? By exhausting him, can Ye Zhen outlast us?"

"In that case, we won’t chase anymore. We will just bite down hard and keep it up; seeing this kid bounce around for a day or two more just makes me unbearably angry, it benefits this lad too much!"

"Sect Leader Fuh, let’s agree on this, when the time comes, including Ye Zhen’s entire family, they must be handed over to me to deal with!" Huaa Yan said.

"Alright!"

....

"Are you done now?"

"Is this what it takes to wear me out? Luckily, I had already planned ahead, otherwise, I’d really be finished!"

After pondering for a moment, Ye Zhen once again executed the Wind Cloud Sword Qi and began to refine and prepare the Thunder Light of Fright for his plans!

However, the group behind him, relentlessly pursuing, failed to notice that, inadvertently, Ye Zhen had changed course, leading them deep into the westernmost parts of the Monster-dense Rainbow Forest.

Or perhaps, they simply didn’t care where Ye Zhen was leading them.

With their setup of four Vein Forging Realm powers along with a General-Level Celestial Spirit Boat and several top Soul Sea Realm experts, what place couldn’t they go?

Why would they even care?

Three hours later, Ye Zhen, who was sitting astride Wang Xiaomao, suddenly opened his eyes and looked at a patch in the distant forest that appeared as though it were a scar, a barren patch devoid of life, a cold light flashing through Ye Zhen’s eyes suddenly.

"A Land of Dangerous Maneuvers... We’ve arrived!" (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, please visit qidian.com to vote and support me. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)