King of Creation
Chapter 259: Chapter 256: This Is a Man’s Job
"You finally arrived, Big Cousin!"
When Luluo, still dressed in a green gown but with a more voluptuous figure, stood in front of Ye Zhen like a lotus emerging from the water, Ye Zhen was slightly taken aback, reminiscing about the life-and-death battle from over a year ago.
In the year and a half since they had parted, Luluo had grown even more beautiful. Despite deliberately wearing a slightly loose, teal dress, it could not conceal her curvaceous figure.
More shocking to Ye Zhen than her figure, however, was Luluo’s cultivation.
"Luluo, you’ve broken through to the Spirit Transformation Realm?"
With a small smirk, pride radiated from Luluo’s beautiful face, "I broke through half a year ago. It was so close, I almost failed."
"Let’s go, we’ll talk more once we return to the sect."
Ye Zhen hesitated, "Can an outsider like me just walk in?"
"Ordinarily no, but as a True Disciple, I can bring someone inside, and besides, you’re not really an outsider!"
Ye Zhen initially understood, aware that many sect rules indeed couldn’t restrain True Disciples, but then he grew confused again. Not an outsider, what did that mean?
"I’ll explain it to you later, it’s not quite convenient to talk now..." Luluo hesitated a moment.
Indeed, at that moment inside the Qingluo Sect, numerous Inner Disciples were bustling about, making it difficult to converse.
In the Black Dragon Domain, the overall treatment of sects was quite similar. Upon breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, one would become a True Disciple and receive an independent mountain peak as a cultivation site.
However, the cultivation site for Luluo, as a True Disciple, was merely an unnamed minor peak, just over ten miles long, which was nothing compared to the treatment of Qiyun Sect’s True Disciples who received entire hills.
Of course, there was a reason for this.
As the Qingluo Sect had many True Disciples, amounting to over twenty, and through the years accumulated a substantial number of outer elders, Luluo, being new, only received such a small, unnamed peak.
What puzzled Ye Zhen was that, despite it being his first visit to the Qingluo Sect, almost every disciple he encountered along the way gave him significant attention, staring and pointing at him with intense scrutiny.
Some of the younger male martial artists looked at Ye Zhen with eyes full of displeasure and hostility, which puzzled Ye Zhen even further.
Even if Luluo was beautiful, causing the young disciples of the Qingluo Sect to be captivated, the sect’s martial artists should not be so petty as to view every man who approached Luluo as a rival, right?
"Luluo, why are they all looking at me with such murderous eyes?" Ye Zhen asked.
"Heh, it’s been over a year since we last met. If it weren’t for Elder Sister Liao informing me by letter, I wouldn’t have known that your cultivation had actually reached the peak of the Spirit Summoning Realm. Wasn’t it just the True Essence Fourth Realm a year and a half ago?"
Instead of directly answering Ye Zhen’s question, Luluo deflected.
"Compared with your cultivation speed, all those geniuses of our Qingluo Sect might as well smash their heads against tofu and die."
Ye Zhen, with his keen perception, noticed a hint of unease in Luluo’s demeanor. Instinctively, he felt there was definitely a problem, or perhaps something had happened that he was not aware of.
"We’ll talk more when we return to the peak!"
Realizing the unfriendly glances from her fellow disciples towards Ye Zhen, Luluo subconsciously quickened her pace and even gently tugged at Ye Zhen’s hand.
The slightly cool touch of her fingers brushed against Ye Zhen’s palm, producing a tingling sensation like an electric shock.
"We’re almost there. Ahead, those small mountains covered with bamboo are my location, hmm, there’s also a pool of clear water with lotuses planted in it. They just started blooming these days, very beautiful."
Luluo chatted with Ye Zhen in a homey manner. Ye Zhen listened and smiled along, not pressing the issue further. Aside from being completely trusted by Liao Feibai, Ye Zhen and Luluo also shared a life-saving bond.
Facing death together in the Yin Mountain Range, when Ye Zhen first collapsed from exhausting his Divine Soul Power of the Origin Sword Vein, if not for Luluo’s desperate rescue, carrying both Ye Zhen and Meng Xiaoyue on a frantic run all night nearly at the cost of her life, Ye Zhen’s life might have ended there.
That was also when Ye Zhen received Meng Chuan’s legacy, forging the Half-vein Divine Power Sword Heart Enlightenment which equipped him to traverse the world dominantly. Thinking about it, Ye Zhen still felt somewhat guilty.
The three of them had ventured together, yet Luluo had gained nothing in the end.
With such a friendship prior, even if Luluo were to betray Ye Zhen, he wouldn’t be upset in the slightest.
"Hmm, here we are..."
Suddenly, Luluo’s gaze fell on several Qingluo Sect disciples at the foot of her mountain peak, and her expression shifted as she reached out and grabbed Ye Zhen’s hand.
"Come, let’s not return to the peak just yet, I’ll take you to meet my master first!"
"Junior Sister Luluo, weren’t you going to take your guest to your peak to sit for a while? Why are you taking him away again?"
In a flash, several Qingluo Sect disciples blocked Ye Zhen and Luluo’s path, looking for trouble. Meanwhile, Wu Shan, standing still and not moving away, stared intensely at Ye Zhen and Luluo’s joined hands, his face turning livid.
Ye Zhen inwardly smirked, having almost guessed the situation—it seemed he was being perceived as a romantic rival by these Qingluo Sect Disciples.
"Wu, where I go is none of your business, move aside!"
Luluo’s pretty face hardened as she sharply rebuked.
"Junior Sister Luluo, this must be that big cousin you often speak of, right? Doesn’t seem all that impressive, huh? Only at the Late-stage Spirit Summoning Realm, so frail a single slap could knock him down, right?"
While ostensibly speaking to Luluo, Wu Shan raised his palm, creating a swooshing sound, and lightning-fast aimed a slap at Ye Zhen’s shoulder, intent on humiliating him by forcing him to the ground.
"Get lost!"
Suddenly, Ye Zhen’s eyes widened, he lightly channeled his Divine Sense, and with a fierce tone as sharp as thunder, he spoke.
This roar was immensely loud, not only causing the two disciples by Wu Shan’s side to stumble back in horror, but also making Wu Shan himself shiver. His slap heading toward Ye Zhen wavered, and thus came to nothing.
The scene instantly turned cold.
These disciples of the Qingluo Sect had originally planned to seize the opportunity to humiliate Ye Zhen, but they were unexpectedly frightened into trembling by his shout. The face of Wen Tianyu, already livid, turned even uglier.
This tactic was actually a minor Daoist method Ye Zhen had invented himself, incorporating Divine Soul Power into his roar.
By slightly mixing some Divine Soul Power into his shout, the effect turned out to be surprisingly effective; even low-grade Earth Level Demon Beasts in the mountains sometimes fled from such a roar by Ye Zhen.
The main reason was that Ye Zhen mixed in Divine Soul Power, and his Divine Soul Power was much stronger than that of Martial Artists of the same realm, which is why he could achieve such miraculous effects!
"Luluo, I’m thirsty, let’s sit at your peak first!" Ye Zhen’s expression turned fierce, and he suddenly said this. During his speech, he grabbed Luluo’s hand and headed toward her nameless peak.
Luluo was initially startled, but then a strange brilliance burst forth in her beautiful eyes, and she lightly responded before letting Ye Zhen lead her toward the nameless peak.
"Damn, a guy in the late-stage Spirit Summoning Realm actually dares to run wild in our Qingluo Sect!"
At this time, a disciple at the peak of the Spirit Summoning Realm by Wu Shan’s side reacted under Ye Zhen’s fierce shout.
With a loud shout, his feet stomped on the ground, and his legs, spinning like wheels, twisted towards Ye Zhen. The Spiritual Power that exploded forth from his legs immediately formed a tornado-like swirl, encasing Ye Zhen’s front, rear, left, and right.
"Tornado Dragon Leg!"
Clang!
A sound like a dragon’s chant rang as a precious sword was unsheathed, and a startling rainbow-like Sword Light flashed by.
Crack!
A scream rang out as the Qingluo Sect disciple at the peak of the Spirit Summoning Realm who attacked Ye Zhen from behind was sent flying backward, wailing miserably.
Staggering several steps, he fell backwards onto the ground. Just as he stood up, not yet stable, he fell back to the ground, grimacing in pain. In just that instant, his thigh had swollen significantly, looking as obvious as a camel’s hump.
"Bastard, you come to our Qingluo Sect as a guest and still dare to hurt someone?" Wu Shan instantly gritted his teeth with rage.
"Hurt someone? Are you blind? I was merciful; I only used the flat of the blade. If I had used the edge, his legs might have been cut off at the root!"
Hissss!
The disciples of the Qingluo Sect sucked in a breath of cold air; their faces changed dramatically, given their sharp eyesight, they could tell that Ye Zhen really did use the flat of the blade.
As Wu Shan hesitated, Wen Tianyu across from him suddenly shot a look at Wu Shan, changing his expression to one of ferocity instantly.
"Hmph, no matter what you use, it’s wrong to hurt someone in our Qingluo Sect! Come over here and apologize with a kowtow!"
With a roar, a golden spear suddenly appeared in Wu Shan’s hand, the point of the spear shooting out a golden Spear Light several dozens of feet long, snapping towards Ye Zhen like a venomous snake.
"Wu, have you no shame? A martial artist from the Spirit Transformation Realm bullying someone from the Spirit Summoning Realm? Looking for a fight, are you? I’ll fight you!"
Reaching to her waist, a dark long whip appeared in Luluo’s hand.
Luluo was fast, but Ye Zhen was even faster!
"I’ll do it; this is a man’s job!"
Spinning around like a whirlwind, he took a step forward, and his Profound Yang Sword suddenly spit out a Sword Gang ten feet long, chopping towards Wu Shan.
Boom!
With the sword strike, there was a faint sound of wind and thunder.
Wind Cloud Like Thunder!
Bang!
The Sword Light and Spear Light viciously collided, and the explosion forced the Qingluo Sect disciples by Wu Shan’s side to awkwardly get out of the way. The two immediately engaged in battle.
Boom!
The initial clash of Sword Light and Spear Light ended in a draw, mainly because Wu Shan had the advantage of striking first.
The second, the third... In the following moves, Wu Shan’s Spear Light was already at a disadvantage, turning the situation to Ye Zhen actively attacking.
Every time Ye Zhen hacked with his sword, Wu Shan had to retreat three or four steps. Suddenly, a streak of Sword Light fiercely chopped onto Wu Shan’s Protective Spirit Force above him.
Pop!
A light sound, Wu Shan’s Protective Spirit Force was instantly shattered by Ye Zhen’s Sword Light, sending Wu Shan staggering back, nearly falling!
Whoosh!
Almost at the same moment, Ye Zhen’s Sword Gang once again pierced through the air, chopping down at Wu Shan’s head!
"Don’t!"
"You dare!"
Screams erupted all at once, and even Luluo’s pretty face turned deathly pale in that instant. Because if Ye Zhen’s sword truly cut down, Wu Shan would surely be split in half!
If a Sect disciple was killed by a foreigner inside the Sect, the consequences.... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it on Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)

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