King of Creation
Chapter 500 - 494: The Marvel of the Demon Soul Hall

Chapter 500: Chapter 494: The Marvel of the Demon Soul Hall

"About one percent!"

When the refreshing aura that merged with his Divine Soul completely vanished, Ye Zhen had accurately estimated the growth of his Divine Soul Power.

An increase of one percent in Divine Soul Power wasn’t much, but that was just the boost provided by a single most common Demon Spirit Phantom to Ye Zhen.

Inside the Demon Soul Hall, there were thousands of such Demon Spirit Phantoms, a vast number. Besides them, there were also several dozens of even more powerful Demon Spirit Phantoms, the Soul Generals, and the kings among the Demon Spirit Phantoms, the Soul Marshals, whose sizes were ten times that of a regular Demon Spirit Phantom.

If all were refined, the increase in Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Power might even astonish Ye Zhen himself.

Overjoyed, Ye Zhen was already ceaselessly drawing Demon Spirit Phantoms into the Mirage Dragon Pearl from the Demon Soul Hall to enhance his Divine Soul Power.

Soon, Ye Zhen had even more accurate data.

Three of the most common Demon Spirit Phantoms could increase Ye Zhen’s current Divine Soul Power by more than two percent. In just two hours, after consuming more than thirty Demon Spirit Phantoms, the increase in Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Power exceeded twenty percent.

However, that was already the limit for a day’s increase.

With such a swift surge of Divine Soul Power by twenty percent in a short time, even Ye Zhen’s head began to throb, his temples pulsing, as if any more Divine Soul Power might make his head explode.

This feeling reminded Ye Zhen of Caiyi.

Back when Ye Zhen took the Soul Saliva Fruit, his Divine Soul Power shot up directly from Divine Soul Second Stage to Divine Soul Third Stage, but he didn’t experience the current feeling of his head nearly bursting apart. At that time, Ye Zhen hadn’t thought about this issue.

Thinking back now, he was probably assisted by Caiyi’s unique Five-colored Soul Light, otherwise, such a violent surge in Divine Soul Power would’ve either killed Ye Zhen or left him an idiot.

With this thought, Ye Zhen’s yearning became even more intense.

I wonder if Caiyi has returned?

If Caiyi has returned, to find Ye Zhen missing, how distraught would she be?

Thinking this, Ye Zhen grew even more anxious, but what made him feel both urgent and helpless was that the Ten Thousand Stars Plate, his only method of contact, remained silent.

Ever since leaving the Secret Realm of Demon Souls, Ye Zhen had been holding the Ten Thousand Stars Plate in his hand, not daring to put it into his storage ring for fear of missing any message, but there was no movement at all.

"Once my cultivation is complete, if I still can’t make contact, then I’ll go to the Stars Tower in the True Spirit Domain and send a domain letter, no matter the cost!" Ye Zhen made up his mind.

Hai Luoshuang had said that Stars Tower has a branch in every domain on the True Profound Continent, and the branch towers usually communicate with the Main Building through small teleports to transport letters and tokens, which they call domain letters.

However, starting a small teleport is very resource-intensive and not commonly used.

Since increasing Divine Soul Power by twenty percent in a day was already at the utmost limit, Ye Zhen made no further demands and decisively stopped cultivating his Divine Soul Power, turning to cultivate his Spiritual Power instead.

Bitter training began!

For a Martial Artist in the Spirit Transformation Realm, their five internal organs and six hollow organs have been strengthened, and their body functions are extremely robust; under normal circumstances, they only need to rest for two hours a day to be full of vigor and vitality.

Moreover, this two-hour rest is mainly for the recovery of their consumed Divine Soul Power. Ye Zhen, who hasn’t broken through to the Soul Sea Realm and doesn’t practice Divine Soul Techniques, still relies on sleep as the most basic means of recovering Divine Soul Power.

Other than resting for two hours, Ye Zhen spent most of his time cultivating his Spiritual Power, and his cultivation improved by leaps and bounds.

Every three to four days, Ye Zhen would utilize the Mirage Dragon Pearl to devour Demon Spirit Phantoms and increase his Divine Soul Power by about twenty percent each time. It took about three days to fully stabilize this newly increased Divine Soul Power.

The rest of the time, Ye Zhen took breaks to practice the Black Dragon Tyrant of Heaven Style, trying to activate the second Innate Bloodline that had been occupied by the radiance from the Black Dragon’s left eye.

Unfortunately, even as Ye Zhen’s comprehension of the Black Dragon Tyrant of Heaven Style deepened, the most he could do was to make the bloodline occupied by the second Black Dragon’s radiance vibrate slightly while executing the style, and nothing else was discovered.

On the contrary, Ye Zhen made many discoveries in his exploration of the Demon Soul Hall and became increasingly proficient with it.

It has to be said that the Demon Soul Hall is indeed a true war fortress, exactly as described in ancient texts, with an extremely peculiar structure.

As long as the War Soul Blood Flag fully covers the Blood Crystal Platform, the war fortress, Demon Soul Hall, can be completely controlled. It could be manipulated almost at will to increase or decrease in size.

At its smallest, it can shrink to the size of a baby’s fist, as light as it is now hanging around Ye Zhen’s neck.

What’s even more miraculous is that Ye Zhen could manipulate the weight of the Demon Soul Hall at will through the formations inside it. If desired, the Demon Soul Hall could be as light as a feather, but likewise, if Ye Zhen wished, it could be as heavy as Mount Tai.

Of course, being as heavy as Mount Tai is just a figure of speech. According to the feedback from the Blood Crystal Platform, the Demon Soul Hall’s own weight is nearly a million jin. By activating the formation, the weight of the Demon Soul Hall could increase tenfold, reaching the level of ten million jin.

The weight of the Demon Soul Hall could sometimes become a trump card.

The Demon Soul Hall could expand to a maximum size of ten miles in radius, but the larger it became, the greater its energy consumption and the weaker its defense.

The largest Ye Zhen had dared to try was to expand the Demon Soul Hall to the size of a room; any larger and he didn’t dare to test it. Even the ability to vary its size between large and small made it a wondrous treasure. If any powerful beings chanced upon it accidentally, that would truly spell trouble.

Similarly, all functional changes of the Demon Soul Hall required Spirit Crystals for support, much like the Heavenly Spirit Ship from Ancient Times, resulting in enormous consumption.

Simply expanding the Demon Soul Hall from the size of a palm to that of a room had consumed ten thousand Low Grade Spirit Crystals from the Spirit Crystal Chamber.

What delighted Ye Zhen the most was that the surface of the Demon Soul Hall could cover a Guardian Spirit Light Screen, the strength of which was divided into three levels: first, second, and third.

Merely opening the Guardian Spirit Light Screen of the Demon Soul Hall, when expanded to the size of a room and maintaining it without any attacks, had already consumed another ten thousand Low Grade Spirit Crystals.

And that was just the lowest first-level Guardian Spirit Light Screen. It was said that the second and third levels would consume even more, possibly multiplicatively.

Furthermore, the Demon Soul Hall was equipped with four Spirit Energy Cannons, much like the ones on the Heavenly Spirit Ship. Each was twice as large as the Spirit Energy Cannons Ye Zhen had seen on the General-Level Celestial Spirit Boat and looked extremely formidable.

Regrettably, Ye Zhen had neither the opportunity nor the courage to test these Spirit Energy Cannons; the commotion they’d cause might startle the entirety of Xining Martial City.

Beyond that, the Demon Soul Hall had other features, like its huge storage room, which could slowly move with the drive of Spiritual Power.

Nevertheless, every feature involved the consumption of a profuse amount of Spirit Crystals, practically a monstrosity that devoured them.

Fortunately, there was a Spirit Storage Grand Formation inside the Demon Soul Hall that automatically absorbed Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi for storage, then supplied it for the Demon Soul Hall’s consumption.

However, the Primordial Qi absorbed by this Spirit Storage Grand Formation could only support the Demon Soul Hall’s daily usage, like maintaining its size down to that of an infant’s fist hanging on Ye Zhen’s chest, utilizing the energy from within the formation.

Any slightly bigger action required Ye Zhen to consume Low Grade Spirit Crystals.

After a little over a month, Ye Zhen had mostly figured out the functions of this war stronghold, the Demon Soul Hall, missing only one detail!

When the Demon Soul Hall was shrunk to the size of an adult, whether it could contain a living person!

While formations are magical, Ye Zhen had not attempted to experiment with the Demon Soul Hall or the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten. If it wasn’t feasible, the power of the formation could instantaneously squash a living person into a pulp.

Ye Zhen planned to go out after a while and throw a large Demon Beast into the Demon Soul Hall to test this feature.

It’s worth mentioning that during the time Ye Zhen was diligently cultivating, the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten wasn’t idle either.

Every day, when there was nothing to do, it would completely relax its hundred-meter-long body and lie down in the Silent Chamber, squinting and napping. Though it appeared to be napping, Ye Zhen, with his rapidly growing Divine Soul Power, could clearly sense a huge vortex of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi surrounding the Cloud Winged Tiger King.

This was caused by the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten absorbing a massive amount of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi. Thanks to its huge size, the Primordial Qi vortex wasn’t conspicuous. If it were like Ye Zhen, the Shopkeeper’s eyes probably would have bulged out in astonishment.

Ye Zhen could sense that the Cultivation of the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten was increasing, its fur becoming shinier and the black "King" character on its forehead more distinct. However, there were no signs of breakthroughs.

Nevertheless, Ye Zhen understood that due to the limitations of its Innate Bloodline, for the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten’s Cultivation to break through to the Upper-grade Earth Level and become a Tiger King was already quite an achievement.

If it were to further break through to Heaven Rank, that would be defying the heavens—something extremely difficult to achieve, only possible with the right opportunity.

Two months later, with Ye Zhen’s Cultivation reaching the peak of the Fifth Stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm and hitting a bottleneck, his period of arduous cultivation came to an end.

The number of captured Demon Spirit Phantoms within the Demon Soul Hall had been halved. As for Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation, it had broken through to the Divine Soul Fourth Realm on the twentieth day of his intense cultivation after entering the Spirit Academy.

By the fifty-third day, Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation had broken through from the Divine Soul Fourth Realm to the Divine Soul Fifth Realm.

In terms of Divine Soul Cultivation alone, Ye Zhen was equivalent to a Fifth Stage powerhouse of the Soul Sea Realm. Of course, this was just an equivalence, and there were still gaps. Ye Zhen hadn’t yet opened his Soul Sea, and even though his Divine Soul Cultivation was roughly the same as theirs, he still couldn’t compare to their Soul Power.

Furthermore, this was also a reason why Ye Zhen ended his seclusion—once a Martial Artist’s Cultivation breaks through to the Soul Sea Realm, they urgently need a Divine Soul Technique.

However, Ye Zhen did not have such a technique, and without a good Divine Soul Technique, his formidable Soul Power would be nearly wasted.

"Young Master Ye, the rental period for the second month has ended. May I ask if you wish to renew the lease?" Having interacted a few times over the two months, the Shopkeeper of the Sky Martial Spirit Hall had grown somewhat familiar with Ye Zhen.

"I won’t be renewing it for now, I’ll come back later!" Ye Zhen took one last longing look at the Spirit Academy and strode out resolutely.

"Take care, Young Master Ye!"

Watching Ye Zhen leave the Spirit Pavilion, the Shopkeeper’s finger twitched slightly. More than a dozen Token Communications flew from his fingertips, a hint of a smile curling on his lips.

"News of a Heavenly Pulse Warrior at the peak of the Fifth Stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm coming out of seclusion, huh? One hundred Low Grade Spirit Crystals per message, that’s nearly two thousand extra Low Grade Spirit Crystals in my pocket..." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets at Qidian. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)