King of Creation
Chapter 1326: Chapter 1311: Soul Demon Sovereign
"O king of our clan, after all these years, you have finally appeared! Please accept the devotion of your clansmen, have mercy on your people, and protect us. We will become your most humble and loyal servants!"
Over two thousand Soul Demons charged out of the battle formation, led by three Soul Demons exuding an aura of age, prostrating themselves to the ground, seemingly only able to relieve their excitement by continuously kowtowing.
This scene not only stunned Ye Zhen but also caught Longnu, who led the main battle legion, by surprise; even Princess Changle gave an unexpected look at Ye Zhen’s Demon Marshal avatar.
Four-Armed Naga Tuo first glanced at Ye Zhen’s Demon Marshal avatar, Di Kuohai, and then looked at Ye Zhen with an expression full of shock, elation, and disbelief.
He hadn’t expected that this master of his, by casually summoning a Soul Demon, had actually called forth a Royal Family member among the Soul Demons!
A Royal Family member among the Soul Demons!
Soul Demons within the Demon Clan have always been a particularly unique lineage in existence.
While the combat power of Soul Demons is generally average, they are innately skilled in various auxiliary secret techniques, especially those affecting a wide area.
For instance, techniques such as Divine Soul Protection, which shields soldiers’ divine souls, Demon Roar, which drives soldiers into a fervor to exponentially boost combat power, and even Soul Suppressing Technique, which helps soldiers swiftly regain calm and composure from chaos.
Moreover, they can inflict widespread techniques such as Nightmare Impact and Grand Fear Technique on enemy soldiers, significantly weakening their strength.
In essence, a powerful Soul Demon can, at times, overturn the outcome of a war.
Simultaneously, the Soul Demons are among the Demon Clan members that the Great Zhou Empire finds most troublesome; killing a Demon Clan member with a cultivation surpassing the Divine Communication Realm yields double merit.
In this context, Soul Demons have become the standard auxiliary in the main Legion of the Demon Clan.
However, the Soul Demon clan has a fatal flaw, which is that their cultivation progresses extremely slowly, barely reaching one-tenth the speed of typical Demon Clans.
Under normal circumstances, a regular Demon Clan member like the Multi-armed Demon Clan, even with minimal cultivation post-birth, can achieve the Peak of Ninth Stage of the Dao Entrance Realm.
With minimal effort, advancing to the Divine Communication Realm is no issue; around five hundred years may allow breaching towards the Dark Palace Realm.
Yet, for Soul Demons, achieving the Dao Entrance Realm within five hundred years of cultivation is considered luxury.
This is precisely why, despite their formidable auxiliary combat abilities, Soul Demons experience an extremely slow cultivation enhancement; their auxiliary combat capabilities remain highly constrained due to their cultivation limitations.
Consequently, the status of Soul Demons within the Demon Clan has increasingly diminished, ultimately reducing them to a subordinate military type, only above slave troops.
The over two thousand Soul Demons before us, with all of them in the Middle Late Stage of the Vein Forging Realm, appear quite insignificant among the mainline battle troops predominantly of the Establishment Realm.
Only the foremost three wizened Soul Demons exude an aura of the Dao Entrance Realm.
Simultaneously, upon noticing the appearance of the Demon Marshal’s avatar, it is these three wizened Soul Demons who exhibit the most reverence and excitement!
Thanks to the Primordial Era and Ancient Times, they, the Soul Demons, once also belonged to the Royal Family within the Demon Clan back then, for they had a king to lead them!
The king among the Soul Demons possessed a miraculous talent ability: the freedom to absorb the innate divine souls of slain demons or humans to bolster itself.
Simultaneously, the king within the Soul Demons, akin to a crow nurturing its young, could return the absorbed innate divine souls to its people, expeditiously enhancing their strength.
Thus, during the Primordial and Ancient Eras, wherever warfare existed, Soul Demons were present.
Wherever warfare occurred, their strength burgeoned tremendously; where there were Soul Demons, an army of Establishment Realm Martial Artists could effortlessly vanquish an equally sized army of Dao Entrance Realm Martial Artists.
At that time, one-fifth of the Demon Gods worshiped in the Demon God Hall of the Demon Clan belonged to the Soul Demon clan.
However, the glorious era of the Soul Demon clan inexplicably came to an end hundreds of thousands of years ago; for tens of thousands of years thereafter, no new Soul Demon King emerged to stir the creation of countless marvels!
The elder generation of Soul Demon Kings either perished or fell into perpetual slumber, and over these many years with no new Soul Demon King born, the Soul Demon clan began its decline.
Legend has it that, aside from very few ancient Soul Demon Kings who chose to slumber and eschew worldly affairs from the ancient era, no Soul Demon King exists capable of leading them back to prosperity.
Yet, the memories inherited within their bloodlines continue to have each Soul Demon yearning for that era belonging to the Soul Demons, when every Soul Demon was a Royal Family member.
Today, with a living Soul Demon King appearing before them, how could they not be excited, not elated?
Compared to the Soul Demons themselves, Longnu, the Bull Demon, gained his understanding of Soul Demons from his family and the war history of the Demon Clan.
In the war history of the Demon Clan, particularly during that era where the Demon Clan came extramundane to secure territory and hold ground on the Primordial Continent, every Soul Demon was a hero!
That era’s war history brims with records about the Soul Demons everywhere.
The most important thing is, for the Demon Clan, every member of the royal family within the Demon Clan has an innate deterrent effect on the ordinary demons.
Eighteen thousand years ago, numerous Ancient Demon Gods concurrently delivered divine decrees, restructuring the bloodline of the Demon Clan, and cleared out ninety percent of the original Demon Clan royal family from the royal lineage.
The demons remaining in the royal lineage of the Demon Clan are those whose bloodline carries formidable power.
However, the kings of the Soul Demon Clan, even though none have been born anew all these years, are still the kind of top-tier demons that are born with royal status within the Demon Clan.
These matters are all inscribed on the Alliance Pillar of the Demon God Hall, and no one can dispute them.
Longnu did not expect that a chance encounter would lead him to meet a king from the Soul Demon Clan.
In that instant, Longnu considered many possibilities—whether the other party was also after the woman mentioned in the divine decree, whether the other party had already succeeded.
In front of this scene, Ye Zhen hesitated for a moment, struggling to recall memories related to the Soul Demon royal family, finally understanding.
After all, this sudden change was too hard to accept.
The initially fifty thousand strong main battle army of demons approached fiercely, but with the Demon Marshal’s avatar making a move, over two thousand Soul Demons immediately defected.
Let alone those ordinary main battle demons, even their commander Longnu was dazed because of the Demon Marshal’s avatar being a Soul Demon Sovereign, not to mention these ordinary main battle demons.
Particularly for ordinary main battle demons, seeing a demon from the royal family is akin to ordinary citizens of the Great Zhou Dynasty encountering the aristocrats and dukes above them.
It is an instinctive fear embedded deep within their bones!
Witnessing this scene, a bold idea suddenly arose in Ye Zhen’s mind; perhaps today’s plan could be even more audacious!
Ye Zhen did not know what kind of presence the formidable demon royals had within the Demon Clan, but he knew how to flaunt with the Demon Marshal’s avatar!
"Kneel!"
"You lowly beings, upon encountering a Soul Demon Sovereign, if you do not kneel and greet, are you seeking death?" The Demon Marshal’s avatar shouted, surrounded by blood light, his roar spreading with endless authority in all directions like rolling thunder.
With just a roar, half of the fifty thousand main battle legion brought by Longnu kneeled towards the Demon Marshal’s avatar.
Their fear of the royal family of the Demon Clan was deeply imprinted within their bones.
The demons who did not kneel belonged to the intermediate demon category, possessing some status within the Demon Clan; their fear of the royal family wasn’t as deeply ingrained as the former. Most importantly, many demons hadn’t heard of a Soul Demon Sovereign.
This scene caused Ye Zhen to furrow his brows, pondering intently on how to posture in order to subdue those demons, when an unexpected scene occurred.
Previously, three elderly Soul Demons, who had led over two thousand Soul Demons out of Longnu’s ranks, sprang from the ground as though energized by their own Soul Demon Sovereign’s roar, then began berating those who hadn’t knelt.
"Anyone daring to disdain the royal family should be sent to the Demon God Hall to have their heart gouged and their liver offered as a sacrifice to the great Demon God! Upon seeing the great Soul Demon Sovereign, if you do not kneel, you shall be sent to the Demon God Hall for heart gouging and liver sacrifices!"
"According to the Alliance of Demon Gods, the Soul Demon Sovereign ranks seventh among the royal family of the Demon Clan, belonging to the upper royal family, and any disrespectful person, their entire family should be sent to the Demon God Hall for sacrifice!"
"God, our clan has finally been blessed with a new king, and you dare to be disrespectful? You should all be punished!"
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With a roar, the third elderly Soul Demon suddenly unleashed a dazzling cultivation; he had long been stuck at the Peak of Ninth-Stageed Dao Entrance, yet in this critical moment, he broke through.
Suddenly, a blood-red shockwave covered the fifty thousand troops on the opposite side.
Grand Fear Technique!
A Grand Fear Technique that can only be exhibited by Soul Demons who break through to the Dao Entrance Realm.
Where the blood-red shockwave passed, those main battle demons who hadn’t knelt previously, trembled with fear, collapsing to the ground, kneeling towards the Demon Marshal’s avatar; these were demons with stronger Divine Souls.
Those demons with weaker Divine Souls trembled all over under the impact of the Grand Fear Technique, helplessly adopting the humblest posture as they knelt there, unable to perform any surplus actions.
As for those main battle demons with poorer Divine Soul cultivation, under the assault of the Grand Fear Technique released by the mysteriously breakthrough Divine Communication Realm Soul Demon, their eyes rolled back as they fainted, immediately emitting repulsive stenches.
The demons that fainted lost control over their bowels due to fear!
Perhaps due to the newfound breakthrough, or maybe because of the excessive consumption from his first application of the Grand Fear Technique, the elderly Soul Demon collapsed softly onto the ground after casting the technique.
Witnessing this scene, Ye Zhen was moved, and with a thought, the War Soul Blood Flag on the Demon Marshal’s avatar erupted with a stream of blood-colored radiance, accurately enveloping the elderly Soul Demon.

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