King of Creation
Chapter 265: Chapter 262: Blood Spirit Bead
Hiss!
Wherever the streak of blood-colored flames passed, even the air emitted a hissing sound of combustion, as if it could burn everything.
Ye Zhen took a deep breath, and spiritual power surged out of his Dantian like a raging river. The guardian spirit light of his Black Wind Armor, his own protective spiritual gang Qi, and even the nascent form of the Green Jade Spirit Armor that he had just condensed started to emerge on the surface of his body.
Ye Zhen’s expression turned slightly grim. He had been caught off guard by the Blood Wolf Envoy, and the Blood Wolf Envoy’s methods were indeed bizarre and unpredictable, able to release such a killing move silently even while fighting with all his might.
However, the main reason was that Ye Zhen’s Sword Vein Divine Power, Sword Heart Enlightenment, had not reached great accomplishment; when he activated the First Sword Vein, there was only a sixty-five percent chance of entering the state of Sword Heart Enlightenment.
Unfortunately, Ye Zhen had not entered the state of Sword Heart Enlightenment just now. Otherwise, how could he have been taken by surprise by the Blood Wolf Envoy?
"Protective spiritual gang Qi?"
The Blood Wolf Envoy burst into laughter, "Our Divine Sect’s Blood God Transcendence Flame specializes in breaking all protective spiritual gang Qi. Under the Blood God Transcendence Flame, even the protective spiritual gang Qi of a Spirit Transformation Realm martial artist can be incinerated, let alone a mere little Spirit Summoning..."
Suddenly, the Blood Wolf Envoy’s eyes bulged, his gaze becoming extremely stiff, as if he had seen a ghost.
The almighty Blood God Transcendence Flame, which he claimed could incinerate everything, was extinguished like a natural enemy the moment it came into contact with the Green Jade Spirit Armor on Ye Zhen’s body, snuffing out more than half of it instantly.
Although it shattered Ye Zhen’s Green Jade Spirit Armor, the flame light of the Blood God Transcendence Flame was nearly extinguished after incinerating Ye Zhen’s protective gang spirit. The remainder of its power was almost depleted and was blocked by the guardian spirit light of Ye Zhen’s Black Wind Armor.
"Impossible..."
Hiss!
Ye Zhen lightly tapped his index finger, and a jade-colored fingertip suddenly pierced out of the void like a meteor, targeting the forehead of the Blood Wolf Envoy.
Thud!
The head of the Blood Wolf Envoy burst open like a rotten watermelon, and his corpse fell from the sky toward the ground.
"Brother Zheng, don’t let the Blood Demon escape!" Han Tai shouted loudly.
"Blood Demon? Where?" Ye Zhen was startled.
At that instant, a mass of blood light fiercely split from the corpse of the Blood Wolf Envoy and, with a flash, sped away into the void like a meteor.
"It’s that..."
The speed of that blood light was so fast that the moment Ye Zhen sprang forward to pursue, it had already vanished from sight.
"Forget it, the escaping speed of that Blood Demon is comparable to the speed of a Soul Sea Realm martial artist; it can’t be caught..."
Han Tai’s eyes were wide open, and his Green Winged Spirit Bow was continuously drawing, each arrow causing another blood-clothed martial artist to explode. Had he not been in the midst of battle, he would have been startled dumbfounded by the scene unfolding before him.
The Blood Wolf Envoy who had forced him to retreat was killed by Ye Zhen with a single finger.
And Ye Zhen was only at the peak of the Spirit Summoning Realm in terms of cultivation.
What was most astounding was that Ye Zhen’s protective spiritual gang, had actually blocked the Blood God Demon Flame. Had he not witnessed it with his own eyes, if someone had told him about it, he would surely have thought it to be a legend concocted by people...
Because of the death of the Blood Wolf Envoy, those blood-clothed martial artists immediately scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing in all directions.
"These people have lost all sense of morality; don’t let any of them escape!"
With an angry shout, Ye Zhen’s figure flashed, swooping toward those fleeing blood-clothed martial artists like a shadow. A sweep of his sword gang flew out, sending the head of one blood-clothed martial artist into the sky.
Luluo’s movements were fluid as clouds, her whip like lightning, each crack taking the life of a blood-clothed martial artist; Han Tai, with his Green Winged Spirit Bow, shot down the farthest blood-clothed martial artists from the air.
After half a quarter-hour, having slaughtered those blood-clothed martial artists clean, the trio regathered together.
"The Blood Demon that possessed the Blood Wolf Envoy has escaped. We might have trouble in the future. Be extremely careful when traveling outside!"
Han Tai gave a wry smile, then looked at Ye Zhen with amazement, "Brother Zheng, is the protective gang Qi you practice really so extraordinary? It can even block the Blood God Demon Flame?
I once personally witnessed a Blood Wolf Envoy’s Blood God Demon Flame completely incinerate the protective spiritual gang Qi of a Soul Sea Realm powerhouse, causing that mighty Soul Sea Realm fighter a great loss, nearly leading to his downfall!"
"I’m not sure myself, maybe it was luck?"
In fact, when the Blood God Transcendence Flame, also known as the Blood God Demon Flame, was burning towards him, Ye Zhen had already prepared for the worst. Since there was no escaping, he was ready to take advantage of the moment to kill the Blood Wolf Envoy, even if it meant the destruction of his Black Wind Armor.
That led to the Floating Cloud Finger which burst the Blood Wolf Envoy’s head.
But to Ye Zhen’s surprise, the mere embryonic Green Jade Spirit Armor had actually caused the Blood God Demon Flame to be extinguished by a significant margin.
Ye Zhen had only cultivated the Green Jade Battle Armor for a couple of days and had merely formed an embryonic version of the Green Jade Spirit Armor. He estimated that the current layer of Green Jade Spirit Armor he had formed might not even possess twenty percent of the true power of the legitimate Green Jade Spirit Armor.
Yet, it had withstood the Blood God Demon Flame that even the protective spiritual gang Qi of a Soul Sea Realm martial artist couldn’t withstand.
In Ye Zhen’s mind, there was only one explanation: mutual antagonism!
His Green Jade Spirit Armor was precisely the natural nemesis of the Blood God Demon Flame.
However, this was not surprising to him.
The Blood God Demon Flame looked like an object steeped in dark and malevolent energy, whereas the Green Jade Spirit Armor that Ye Zhen wore was formed from the purest energies extracted from Green Spirit Jade, and jade by its very nature was a substance of extreme purity and nobility, capable of restraining things like the Blood God Demon Flame, which was indeed very normal.
Ye Zhen was quite excited by this discovery, having not anticipated that the Green Jade Battle Body he’d coalesced into the Green Jade Spirit Armor would have such a special effect. It was still only a nascent form, so what could its effects be when fully cultivated?
"Your precious bow!"
Han Tai returned the Green Wing Divine Bow to Ye Zhen, but his eyes betrayed an unusual expression, "Brother Zheng, I’m afraid this bow of yours is a mid-grade treasure. You just casually threw it to me, weren’t you afraid I wouldn’t return it?"
"I never thought about it!"
Ye Zhen chuckled. He truly hadn’t considered that issue at the time.
"This guy, sometimes he’s just crazy, acting without care for the consequences! But, I like that..." Luluo complimented Ye Zhen but immediately felt she misspoke and her face turned beet red.
However, Han Tai found nothing amiss with the comment; in his eyes, Ye Zhen and Luluo were about to be married, and sweet nothings were perfectly normal.
"What is this?" Ye Zhen retrieved a blood-bright pearl from the storage ring of the Blood Wolf Envoy.
"Blood Spirit Bead."
"They slaughter the city, making the scene look this terrifying, just to condense these Blood Spirit Beads," Han Tai explained.
"What use is this thing?"
"Well, that’s a long story..."
"Let’s save people first, talk while we help!" The little city was filled with thick smoke at this time; the injured and weak were wailing terribly, their cries full of sorrow.
One could truly understand the cruelty of the Blood Wolf Envoy only by going deep into the city.
Many people were not killed outright.
Normally, murder involved decapitation with a single slice or piercing the heart and other vitals, but these blood-clothed martial artists mostly bisected their victims at the waist, cutting them in two below that point.
After being bisected at the waist, one wouldn’t die immediately; the horrendous struggle and wailing ensued, and in the course of that agony, all the blood would drain out of their body. This allowed the members of the Blood God Sect to collect even more blood, and more than eighty percent of the victims died in this manner.
While passing by numerous corpses and treating a number of sufferers, Ye Zhen’s revulsion for the Blood God Sect had reached its peak.
Such a sect shouldn’t exist in the world at all. It should be utterly obliterated.
But as Han Tai, who had a considerable understanding of the Blood God Sect, mentioned, this sect already had a history of three thousand years, which was longer than most of the current sects in the Black Dragon Domain and even predated the foundation of the Phantom Divine Empire.
During these documented three thousand years, the Blood God Sect experienced many rises and falls, becoming the enemy of the entire world in almost every era. At the height of their power, they even controlled most of the empires within the Black Dragon Domain and swept across the land.
There had been several instances when they were eradicated completely, but without exception, after being rooted out and nearly extinguished, the sect would revive after a hundred or two hundred years of silence.
The most recent occasion was three hundred years ago, when the Blood God Sect, which boasted fifty Soul Sea Realm powerhouses, was uprooted by a person known as the Dragon King, Jie Tianhe, who destroyed thirty-seven of their nests in the Black Dragon Domain and slaughtered tens of thousands of Blood Cultists.
Three hundred years had since passed, and starting from a hundred years ago, traces of the Blood God Sect began to re-emerge, their activities becoming more and more rampant with each year.
Nearly every year, one to several small cities would be completely annihilated by envoys of the Blood God Sect. The Phantom Divine Sect had sent experts to pursue and kill them, but none were successful in capturing them.
The many ups and downs over three thousand years made the Blood God Sect’s members exceedingly adept at evading pursuit and capture.
In the last few decades, many martial artists became pale at the mere mention of the Blood God Sect.
The reason was simple: the Blood God Sect acted without any moral limitations.
Once, a Soul Sea Realm powerhouse happened upon an envoy of the Blood God Sect slaughtering civilians to condense beads and naturally intervened. However, the Blood God Messenger managed to escape.
Later, the city where the family of that Soul Sea Realm expert resided was turned into a ghost town overnight, and the incident became widely known. Since then, few have dared to meddle in the affairs of the Blood God Sect.
And the fundamental reason for the Blood God Sect’s massacres was the Blood Spirit Beads.
Blood Spirit Beads were also the foundation of the sect.
It is said that within the Blood God Sect, there was a secret technique that could extract extremely diluted Innate Spirit Blood from the bloodstream and condense it into Blood Spirit Beads.
With the aid of this secret technique, these Blood Spirit Beads could allow martial artists, who were stuck at bottlenecks in their various realms of cultivation, to break through these bottlenecks. There were countless martial artists unable to advance past their current levels, and that is how Blood Cultists are formed within the Blood God Sect.
The most mysterious and unpredictable aspect of the Blood God Sect was the Blood Demons that dwelled within the envoys. The people within the sect referred to them as Blood Gods, supposedly undying and unkillable beings, which was the key to the Blood God Sect’s survival for several thousand years.
That was all Han Tai knew.
What Han Tai explained, he had read in the secret archives of Qingluo Sect.
After nearly a night of activity, only in the early morning of the next day did Ye Zhen and the two others almost finish treating the wounded in the small city. The city was filled with cries of mourning, with more than half of the population slaughtered.
Just as the day began to dawn, Ye Zhen and the others mounted the Green-faced Ghost Flame Steed and sped off towards the Imperial Capital, Divine Capital, of the Phantom Divine Empire.
The small city that suffered the Blood God Sect’s massacre could only slowly lick its wounds as time passed by.
Half a month later, from among the citizens slowly recovering from their grief, arose a temple in the small city. In the temple, three young figures were enshrined, each holding a precious sword, a bronze cudgel, and a jade whip, their fierce eyes gazing into the distance, standing majestic as Heavenly Gods! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)

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