King of Creation
Chapter 829 - 818 Black Demon Transformation

Chapter 829: Chapter 818 Black Demon Transformation

When the last trace of remnant soul from Yua Du on Black Fiend Island silently turned to ashes, Ye Zhen rubbed his swollen temples with some discomfort.

Ye Zhen never imagined that this Yua Du was already two hundred years old. His mind was filled with bits and pieces of Yua Du’s life over these two centuries, and the sheer volume of information almost exploded Ye Zhen’s brain.

Fortunately, Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation had broken through and already condensed the Innate Soul Light; otherwise, he would have been blown apart by now.

Under normal circumstances, if a Vein Forging Realm martial artist dared to perform a soul search on an Establishment King, death would be certain!

Steadying himself, Ye Zhen began to utilize his divine soul power to organize the memories obtained from Yua Du, starting to actively clear out those useless pieces of information.

Thanks to Ye Zhen’s current Divine Soul Cultivation already reaching the Innate Soul Light Second Stage, this soul search acquired up to sixty percent of Yua Du’s memories, giving Ye Zhen, for the first time, an accurate understanding of the Outer Domain Dead Sea.

The Outer Domain Dead Sea does not mean the sea is lifeless, but that it is a sea of death—a maritime area where ordinary people, even those below the Vein Forging Realm, would die if they set foot there!

The Outer Domain Dead Sea is the ocean on the True Profound Continent, connecting various domains with a vast area. For example, the stretch of the sea between the Black Dragon Domain and the Sky Light Domain spans tens of millions of miles.

The true area of the True Profound Continent not only includes continuous lands like the True Spirit Domain and Black Dragon Domain but also the Outer Domain Dead Sea, which expands outward with massive expanse.

According to some memories in Yua Du’s mind, it is said that the Outer Domain Dead Sea occupies ninety percent or more of the True Profound Continent’s area, while the combined total area of the nine continental domains does not even reach ten percent of the True Profound Continent.

The natural conditions above the Outer Domain Dead Sea are extremely harsh, with storms raging all day long. And these are real storms that cut like knives—in the face of such storms, even the outermost ones can shred Soul Sea Realm or those below it into pieces.

Besides the storms, the Dead Sea’s interior and the sky above are densely packed with demon beasts. Spirit Tier Beasts become very common, and in the deep sea, there exist terrifying entities a hundred times stronger than Spirit Tier Beasts; even the rarely seen Demon Race within the True Spirit Domain appears frequently.

In Yua Du’s memories, 1.8 million miles from Black Fiend Island, there is a Heavenly Wing Island, where the martial artists are all demons that have shapeshifted. The demon race on the island is remarkably powerful, and even Black Fiend Island fears it enormously, deserving the title of the surrounding overlord.

As for Black Fiend Island, it is just an ordinary small island within the Outer Domain Dead Sea, with an area of only thirty thousand miles.

In the Outer Domain Dead Sea, such small islands are numerous; because of the vastness of the Outer Domain Dead Sea, most islands are formed by adhering to Earth Veins, often gathering dozens or hundreds of subterranean spirit veins, including some Supreme Spirit Veins.

With such high-quality spirit veins converging on small islands within the Outer Domain Dead Sea, these small islands often become blessed lands, where the cultivation speed is often several to dozens or even hundreds of times that of various land domains.

This is also the source of cultivators in the Outer Domain Dead Sea.

Mostly, powerful cultivators, finding slow progress in the land domains, begin to search for cultivation blessed lands and gradually gather.

Of course, the reasons aren’t limited to this.

Due to the gathering of subterranean spirit veins, these Outer Domain islands have abundant Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Over thousands of years in the land domains, innumerable martial artists have diminished the supply of high-year Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

For example, a thousand-year-old Spiritual Medicine has become extremely rare!

But on these Outer Domain islands, they are very common.

Especially in the boundless Outer Domain Dead Sea, there are many undiscovered Outer Domain islands. Once one or two savage wilderness islands are found, not to mention thousand-year-old Spiritual Medicine, but even ten-thousand-year-old or tens of thousands-year-old Spiritual Medicine can be effortlessly obtained.

Moreover, the seabed of the Outer Domain Dead Sea is teeming with unimaginable amounts of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. The Dead Sea is extraordinarily dangerous, making it difficult for martial artists to reach. Over tens of thousands of years of accumulation, countless treasures are amassed.

In Yua Du’s mind is a legend that if you can successfully dive into the depths of the Dead Sea, the harvest is enough to make you rich overnight.

While the opportunity for overnight wealth exists, out of a hundred powerful martial artists diving into the sea, often only a dozen can successfully reach the seabed and gather substantial Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

However, even after successfully gathering, only one in ten of these martial artists can return alive to the surface, with even lower survival rates.

Because the Outer Domain Dead Sea is entirely a den of demon beasts.

On a mountaintop in the land domain, a demon beast tribe of a few hundred beasts is considered numerous; however, in the Outer Domain Dead Sea, such entire tribe gatherings of demon beasts are numbered in the thousands.

Under these conditions, the Outer Domain Dead Sea has earned its infamous reputation, with countless martial artists from various continental domains disappearing each year within the Outer Domain Dead Sea. Yet there remains a massive number of martial artists who repeatedly venture forth, continuing on their martial path.

Over hundreds or thousands of years of accumulation, some martial artists have successfully established a foundation on small islands in the Outer Domain Dead Sea, and Black Fiend Island is one such island.

Black Fiend Island spans thirty thousand miles and has a population of sixty million. These ordinary populace mostly consists of the descendants left behind by the martial artist predecessors who founded these bases, growing over hundreds or thousands of years into such a massive population base!

Due to the abundance of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, the residents on Black Fiend Island, once born with a talent for cultivation, naturally reach the Spirit Summoning Realm. With little cultivation, they can easily break through to the Soul Sea Realm; unless their talent is exceedingly poor, they can reach the Vein Forging Realm.

According to Yua Du’s memory, the number of martial artists above the Fourth Stage of Vein Forging Realm on Black Fiend Island exceeds a thousand! Those below the Fourth Stage are even more.

However, these Vein Forging martial artists seldom leave the island because the surroundings of Black Fiend Island are too dangerous.

The entire sky over Black Fiend Island is home to more than twenty Spirit Tier avian predators.

What shocked Ye Zhen the most was the number of Establishment Kings on Black Fiend Island in Yua Du’s memory.

More than forty!

Yua Du knew that there were over thirty Black Crown Messengers on the island with cultivation below the Fifth Stage of Establishment, like him.

And for Silver Crown Envoys in the Fifth to Eighth Stages of Establishment, there are about ten.

The island also has two Golden Crown Envoys with cultivation reaching the Ninth Stage of Establishment, who rarely show themselves. As for the cultivation of the Island Lord of Black Fiend Island, it’s said to have surpassed the Peak Ninth Stage of Establishment and is awaiting a pivotal opportunity.

The specifics are not in Yua Du’s memory, perhaps lost during the soul search or simply unknown due to Yua Du’s limited status.

The strength of Black Fiend Island appears terrifying—fifty Establishment Kings! If they joined forces, they could easily sweep through the True Spirit Domain. However, reality isn’t so simple.

Black Fiend Island is surrounded by constant threats, with human martial artists being the most favored and delicious blood food for demon beasts. Powerful demon beasts always have their eyes on Black Fiend Island, requiring strong martial artists to guard its perimeter constantly!

Therefore, a significant portion of the Establishment Kings is constrained by the surrounding forces’ threats!

Moreover, threats come not only from demon beasts but also from various large and small islands nearby. Due to differing earth veins, each Outer Domain island produces unique specialties of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, some of which are unique.

Every offshore island constantly faces covetous glances from surrounding islands, and it’s this situation that maintains the balance of power within the Outer Domain Dead Sea.

Otherwise, each land domain could be in trouble.

Unfortunately for Ye Zhen, the crucial information about the Island Lord of Black Fiend Island was lost during the soul search, revealing only a bit of trivial detail.

The Island Lord of Black Fiend Island is an evil cultivator, among the island lords of the surrounding sea islands, whose cultivation is quite ordinary, ranking beyond the top hundred, yet able to overpower and control the forty to fifty Establishment Kings on the island, leaving no one daring to rebel!

The secret technique previously used by Yun Pochuan and his wife, named Black Demon Transformation, is a notably famous secret technique of the Island Lord of Black Fiend Island and greatly feared by the surrounding islands.

By consuming a pill called the Black Demon Burning Spirit Pill, combined with the Black Demon Transformation cultivation technique, a martial artist’s cultivation can be enhanced hundreds to thousands of times in a very short period.

Just like Yun Pochuan and his wife rapidly rising from the Fourth Stage of Vein Forging Realm to the Peak Ninth Stage Establishment.

However, the side effects are significant, and there are special requirements for using the Black Demon Burning Spirit Pill.

Only martial artists with intense grudges or filled with hatred can consume the Black Demon Burning Spirit Pill to achieve effectiveness.

The final effect of using the Black Demon Transformation cultivation technique is related to the intensity of the grudge or hatred in the martial artist’s heart. Instances like Yun Pochuan and his wife skyrocketing their cultivation to the Peak Ninth Stage Establishment King are extremely rare.

Such circumstances almost occur only when martial artists are filled with hatred and disregard death or have become indifferent to life and death.

According to Yua Du’s memories, in nearly sixty years, over a hundred Black Demon Burning Spirit Pills were sent out, but only one succeeded in enhancing cultivation to the Peak Ninth Stage Establishment King!

To rapidly boost cultivation to the Ninth Stage Establishment King comes at the cost of completely losing one’s mind, becoming a creature that can only act on instinct.

However, the strong grudge from life can influence the actions of these martial artists after they transform into Black Demon Creatures.

Even as Black Demon Creatures losing their mind, Yun Pochuan and his wife relentlessly focused on Ye Zhen, charging towards Ye Zhen!

Another side effect is that once these martial artists become Black Demon Creatures, their bodies cannot withstand the massive surge in power and explode within ten breaths!

This effect is terrifying, akin to an Establishment King self-destructing!

The only advantage is that after self-destructing, a spirit fruit called the Black Soul Spirit Fruit is formed, which can greatly enhance the divine soul.

This Black Soul Spirit Fruit is a necessary spirit fruit for the cultivation technique practiced by the Island Lord of Black Fiend Island; without it, their cultivation cannot be further advanced.

Over the past sixty years, Yua Du has been responsible for this matter, and Yun Pochuan and his wife approached him, exchanging all their wealth for the Black Demon Transformation technique and Black Demon Spirit Pill from Yua Du, obtaining a chance to avenge their son!

Yua Du never expected that he, an Establishment King at the Fourth Stage, would fall into Ye Zhen’s hands.

Under normal circumstances, with various secret techniques inherited from Black Fiend Island, he could survive against even an Establishment King at the Sixth Stage.

Additionally, most Establishment Kings are aware of the reputation of Black Fiend Island in the Outer Sea, and once he reveals his identity, few dare to confront him!

But he did not anticipate encountering an anomaly like Ye Zhen.

Aside from these, Ye Zhen also found from Yua Du’s divine soul memory several sea routes Yua Du had traversed. These routes were explored with life by predecessors who pioneered the Outer Domain Islands over the past few millennia, marking the safest sea routes.

The routes have various supply lines and safe islands to avoid, allowing one to steer clear of fearsome encounters with deadly groups of demon beasts.

Sometimes, possessing knowledge of more Outer Domain sea routes signifies the strength of an Outer Domain Island!

Yua Du’s divine soul memory contained a total of five such Outer Domain sea routes!

Regarding the information about the Black Soul Spirit Fruit, Ye Zhen also found some basic details in Yua Du’s memory, but nothing on its usage, as Yua Du did not have the qualifications to know such things.

As Ye Zhen sensed, the Black Soul Spirit Fruit contains a vast amount of Innate Soul Light, but it also harbors various negative energies extremely lethal to typical martial artists: resentment, evil Qi, intense Qi!

Under normal circumstances, aside from the Island Lord of Black Fiend Island, no one else can use the Black Soul Spirit Fruit; using it means certain death!

Especially the Black Soul Spirit Fruit with an aura at the Ninth Stage Establishment King level formed after Yun Pochuan and his wife’s self-destruct, the negative aura inside would drive even a true Ninth Stage Establishment King insane!

At this moment, Ye Zhen was staring at the head-sized Black Soul Spirit Fruit in his hand, deep in thought!

Indeed, this thing is like a deadly poison-laced candy for any martial artist besides the Island Lord of Black Fiend Island!

If one wants to eat it, one might be dead before tasting its sweetness.

However, at this moment, Ye Zhen felt the urge to give it a try.

Ye Zhen believed that relying on the Mirage Dragon Pearl within him, he might be able to attempt it.

The purifying and refining abilities of the Mirage Dragon Pearl have always been formidable.

Previously, Ye Zhen was poisoned; as long as it wasn’t an immediate lethal poison, circulating blood and spiritual power through the Mirage Dragon Pearl completely neutralized the toxins.

The same applies to the demon core, which also harbors vast negative energies like slaughter, brutality, blood Qi, evil Qi, etc., but the Mirage Dragon Pearl can purify them thoroughly.

With such prior experience, Ye Zhen believes the Mirage Dragon Pearl might have the same effect on the Black Soul Spirit Fruit.

If the Mirage Dragon Pearl can purify the Black Soul Spirit Fruit, the benefits would be exceedingly thrilling for Ye Zhen.

Equivalent to the Innate Soul Light of a Ninth Stage Establishment King, if absorbed and refined, to what extent could Ye Zhen’s divine soul cultivation elevate?

"Walking the path of martial arts always requires taking some risks..." In an instant, Ye Zhen’s gaze became resolute, his divine sense moved, and his fingertips became attached with a layer of Innate Soul Light, cautiously pressing towards the head-sized Black Soul Spirit Fruit in front of him!

Slowly, the fingertip lightly touched the surface of the Black Soul Spirit Fruit, conveying an extremely cold sensation.

With a divine sense move, the Innate Soul Light at Ye Zhen’s fingertip gently stirred, extracting a thread of power from within the Black Soul Spirit Fruit!

Almost at the moment the power from the Black Soul Spirit Fruit entered Ye Zhen’s body, a feeling of plunging into a frozen abyss enveloped Ye Zhen’s entire being, including his organs!

In an instant, Ye Zhen’s complexion underwent successive changes! (To be continued. If you like this work, please vote for recommendations, monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)