King of Creation
Chapter 831 - 820 Supreme Elder Senior Grand Elder Injured

Chapter 831: Chapter 820 Supreme Elder Senior Grand Elder Injured

About two hours later, the Black Soul Spirit Fruit stuck to Ye Zhen’s fingertips turned into a clump of dried skin sticking together. As the last trace of Black Soul Spirit Liquid was absorbed, the layer of dried skin of unknown material silently turned to ash.

This also announced that Ye Zhen had completely refined a Black Soul Spirit Fruit, which had Divine Soul Power equivalent to that of a Ninth Stage Establishment King.

And it only took two hours!

The reason for the quick pace was related to the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

The power within this Black Soul Spirit Fruit was ultimately directly refined by the Mirage Dragon Pearl. It’s different from the innate soul light of the Establishment Kings that Ye Zhen captured. Those innate soul lights had the strong imprint of their respective Establishment Kings’ aura, requiring Ye Zhen to use the Soul Refining Spirit Theft Art to gradually absorb them.

Furthermore, the Black Soul Spirit Fruit could only be refined using the Mirage Dragon Pearl once it solidified into a substance, unlike the innate soul lights of the Establishment Kings that couldn’t be directly refined by the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

The Black Soul Spirit Fruit was refined directly by the Mirage Dragon Pearl, allowing the process to be completed in two hours.

Although two hours is a short time, Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation did not advance as rapidly as expected.

Within those two hours, Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation only advanced from Innate Soul Light Second Stage to Third Stage, and from Third Stage to Fourth Stage, stopping there.

Previously, Ye Zhen absorbed the divine soul power of an Establishment King of the Ninth Stage.

Under normal circumstances, with such direct refining and tempering from the Mirage Dragon Pearl, even with considerable loss, Ye Zhen should have retained five to six-tenths of the pure divine soul power, which would be much less loss than using the Soul Refining Spirit Theft Art.

Therefore, after refining this Black Soul Spirit Fruit, Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation should have at least been able to break through to the Innate Soul Light Fifth Stage or even Sixth Stage, comparable to the Divine Soul Cultivation of a Fifth or Sixth Stage Establishment King.

But in reality, Ye Zhen’s current Divine Soul Cultivation had just broken through to the Innate Soul Light Fourth Stage!

The reason is simple: most of the innate soul light in Ye Zhen’s Soul Sea is four-colored Innate Soul Light!

According to Ye Zhen’s observation of the compression and tempering process of the Mirage Dragon Pearl, approximately ten parts of three-colored Innate Soul Light are needed to refine into one part of four-colored Innate Soul Light!

This is why Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation only reached the Innate Soul Light Fourth Stage, but Ye Zhen has a feeling that the power of this fourth stage of innate soul light is definitely stronger than the usual fifth stage of innate soul light, possibly even comparable to the sixth or seventh stage.

Grade!

The disparity between grades is enormous!

No matter how many iron swords, they cannot cut through a sword forged of refined steel. Though the gap in the grade of divine soul cultivation is not as exaggerated, it is definitely significant.

Therefore, although Ye Zhen’s Innate Soul Light advancement seems modest, his combat power has definitively increased by multiple times.

Previously, Ye Zhen discovered the ability of the Mirage Dragon Pearl once its third stage was unlocked, which is refining and tempering divine soul power!

Before Ye Zhen condensed the divine soul power into Innate Soul Light, he was indeed using the Mirage Dragon Pearl to refine divine soul power, but at that time, it did not enhance Ye Zhen’s grade.

Possibly, the quality of the divine soul power provided by Ye Zhen was too poor, unable to be refined.

But ever since Ye Zhen forcibly drew innate soul light from other Establishment Kings using the Soul Refining Spirit Theft Art to strengthen himself, he never used the Mirage Dragon Pearl to refine his innate soul light again.

If he did, Ye Zhen’s three-colored Innate Soul Light might have early advanced to four-colored Innate Soul Light.

Of course, if Ye Zhen had been using the Mirage Dragon Pearl to refine Innate Soul Light earlier, his Divine Soul Cultivation might have dropped to the Innate Soul Light First Stage!

Due to the compression and refining being nearly tenfold.

At this moment, Ye Zhen just experienced this enormous disparity!

After absorbing and refining the Black Soul Spirit Fruit, most of Ye Zhen’s Innate Soul Light in his Soul Sea had turned into four-colored Innate Soul Light, but there was still a significant portion of three-colored Innate Soul Light comparable in volume to the four-colored ones.

So Ye Zhen attempted to send these Innate Soul Lights into the Mirage Dragon Pearl for compression and refinement.

Then, Ye Zhen’s Innate Soul Light, which just broke through to the fourth stage, glamorously fell back to the third stage!

After compression and refinement by the Mirage Dragon Pearl, the volume of three-colored Innate Soul Light drastically shrank tenfold, making it difficult for Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation not to drop!

However, no worries, Ye Zhen still had another Black Soul Spirit Fruit on hand!

It’s unlikely that the Black Fiend Island Lord ever imagined that his painstakingly acquired treasure would be wholly taken advantage of by Ye Zhen; even Yun Pochuan and his wife couldn’t have anticipated this.

Very quickly, Ye Zhen began refining another Black Soul Spirit Fruit.

This time, there was not even the slightest danger.

The extremely pure four-colored Innate Soul Light within Ye Zhen’s Soul Sea could completely control the harmful effects of the cold and sinister Black Soul Spirit Liquid in the Black Soul Spirit Fruit, allowing Ye Zhen to rapidly refine it away!

This time it was even faster, taking only one and a half hours for Ye Zhen to refine the Black Soul Spirit Fruit, and after Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation recovered to the Innate Soul Light Fourth Stage, it managed to break through to the Fifth Stage before having no further advance left.

This surprised Ye Zhen somewhat. Two Black Soul Spirit Fruits, each equivalent to having the Divine Soul Power of a Ninth Stage Establishment King, yet after complete refinement, they only advanced Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation to the Innate Soul Light Fifth Stage!

Under normal circumstances, with the Mirage Dragon Pearl consuming fifty percent during purification and refinement, fully refining two Black Soul Spirit Fruits would mean completely absorbing the Divine Soul Power of a Ninth Stage Establishment King.

If it were Three-colored Soul Light, Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation at this moment should have been at the Innate Soul Light Ninth Stage!

Yet in reality, it was just the Innate Soul Light Fifth Realm!

No doubt, its power is terrifying, but Ye Zhen is anxious!

Worried about the future pace of Innate Soul Light cultivation!

Two Innate Soul Lights equivalent to a Ninth Stage Establishment King only pushed Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation to the Innate Soul Light Fifth Stage; This means advancing Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation further will be an exceedingly daunting task!

The Divine Soul Power and Cultivation of an Establishment King, each increment is double that of the previous Establishment King’s stage.

Moreover, ten portions of Three-colored Innate Soul Light are required to refine and advance into one portion of Four-colored Innate Soul Light.

In other words, for Ye Zhen to enhance the Innate Soul Light by one stage, he would need to exert ten times the effort compared to other Kings in the same realm!

The difference here could be akin to ten years of arduous effort and a hundred years of toil!

If Ye Zhen seeks to continue enhancing his Divine Soul Cultivation using Black Soul Spirit Fruits, to advance to the Innate Soul Light Sixth Stage would require four fruits of equivalent grade. For Seventh Stage, eight fruits; for Eighth Stage, sixteen fruits!

According to Yua Du’s memory, in a span of sixty years, over a hundred Black Demon Burning Spirit Pills were distributed, yet less than fifty Black Soul Spirit Fruits were successfully yielded.

Among those fifty Black Soul Spirit Fruits, over eighty percent had Divine Soul Aura below the Fourth Stage Establishment King, with the remainder mostly having aura between the Fifth and Sixth Stage Establishment Kings.

Above Seventh Stage Establishment King, exceedingly rare; only one had a Divine Soul Aura at Ninth Stage Establishment King, and Ye Zhen was fortunate to get those two.

"Effort and reward are certainly proportional; without effort, where would the reward come from!"

With eyes closed, Ye Zhen once again began the refined grinding of the Four-colored Innate Soul Light within his soul, aiming for fluid control, just like an extension of his limbs!

Fortunate to advance the Three-colored Innate Soul Light into Four-colored Innate Soul Light, Ye Zhen has no complaints, right?

Others, most don’t even have the chance to advance!

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Within Tiger Mouth Gorge, the number of erupting magma from the huge pit is dwindling, and the magma at the edge of the pit shows signs of cooling. Meanwhile, the Five-colored Treasure Light rising alongside the magma is ever more abundant and climbing higher, reaching nearly a hundred meters!

Almost a hundred meters tall, the Five-colored Treasure Light acts like an enormous flag that cannot be concealed, spreading the news of a treasure emerging here like a winged bird, reaching far and wide.

In just three days, more than twenty-four Establishment Kings have gathered within Tiger Mouth Gorge, as scouts have detected, surpassing Ye Zhen’s initial expectations.

Converging here from all over, the Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists have at times surpassed five hundred individuals.

Yet just half a day ago, over ninety percent of the Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists wisely chose to leave the Tiger Mouth Gorge.

Because within these brief three days, Tiger Mouth Gorge has transformed into a massive slaughterhouse.

One day ago, five Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists ventured to investigate near Tiger Mouth Gorge and accidentally encountered the famed Establishment King, known as Blood Palm King You Ningfeng.

Perhaps they displeased him, or offended the group of Establishment Kings, Blood Palm King You Ningfeng annihilated the five Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists within just ten breaths.

The five Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists had their lowest cultivation at the Fifth Stage of Vein Forging Realm and the highest at the Seventh Stage!

Moreover, these were the sixty-first Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists killed by an Establishment King within Tiger Mouth Gorge during this period.

At least two rival Establishment Kings encountered each other in Tiger Mouth Gorge, fought fiercely, and collateral damage led to twenty or more injured or killed Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists!

Hence, those wise enough, simply withdrew from Tiger Mouth Gorge. The struggle for the treasure below Tiger Mouth Gorge is not something Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists can partake in.

The remaining forty to fifty Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists are none other than those whose cultivation is at the peak of Seventh or Eighth Stage in Vein Forging Realm, with combat power comparable to the one or two stage Establishment Kings.

In these circumstances, the convergence of these top powerhouses placed immense pressure on Red Fire Martial City, especially on the newly unified Red Fire Subdivision of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, a pressure that is virtually unimaginable!

Were it not for the Supreme Elder of the Divine Sect Nian Sijing arriving at Red Fire Martial City two days ago, accompanied by two Demon-Annihilating Generals’ deterrence, it would have been probable for the newly suggested City Lord’s Mansion of Red Fire Martial City to be demolished by those Establishment Kings!

Yet even so, troubles persist, especially after some unscrupulous Evil Cultivators arrived.

"Altar master, trouble arose, the Supreme Elder is injured!" An urgent message awoke the refining Innate Soul Light Ye Zhen from cultivation. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to cast recommendation votes, monthly tickets on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)