King of Creation
Chapter 847: Chapter 834: The True Demon Clan
Regarding the first test of the Heart Fire Commander, in a sense, Ye Zhen is not making a choice about the emotional dilemma of the Earth Core Fire Commander.
Instead, he is considering his own situation, assuming he faced the same dilemma as the Earth Core Fire Commander, what would he do?
Ye Zhen currently has several female confidants, and he believes that one day, he will face the same difficult choice as the Heart Fire Commander.
When that time comes, how will Ye Zhen decide?
However, to ask Ye Zhen to choose only one, abandoning the other two like the Earth Core Fire Commander, Ye Zhen cannot do it.
Every time he thinks like this, Ye Zhen feels as if his heart is being cut with a knife.
Ye Zhen does not want to and will not give up any of his female confidants.
As a man who is gradually becoming stronger, having multiple wives is a normal thing.
Most importantly, Ye Zhen truly loves each one of them.
So, if Ye Zhen encounters the same problem, he will definitely domineeringly gather all three women by his side, rather than letting them leave.
Ye Zhen feels that the Heart Fire Commander seems to lack dominance in matters of emotion!
Of course, this is just Ye Zhen’s own choice.
Specific to this test, when Ye Zhen put himself in the Heart Fire Commander’s shoes, it seemed that no matter which one he chose, he couldn’t prevent the tragedy from happening, and no matter who he chose, the Heart Fire Commander would not be happy, but only forced to smile, feeling only pain.
Trying to keep all three by his side seems to be the best choice!
Moreover, Ye Zhen feels that if only one was to be chosen, the Earth Core Fire Commander wouldn’t have needed to make this the first question of his martial inheritance test.
Considering everything, Ye Zhen sticked to his heart and gave the answer to find a way to keep all three women, even being prepared for elimination with this answer.
But unexpectedly, the previously vanished phantom of the Earth Core Fire Commander reappeared!
"Young man, congratulations, in matters of the heart, you are braver and bolder than this old man, and you probably won’t encounter the same tragedy as I did, so you will have the opportunity to receive my martial arts inheritance, provided you can pass the subsequent martial arts tests!"
"Next, I will send you to the second martial arts test: Survival!"
As this voice echoed, Ye Zhen felt his surroundings tighten again, his vision shifting, and suddenly he found himself in a vast world.
Only, this world was blood-red!
It bore some resemblance to the Secret Realm of Demon Souls Ye Zhen had entered before!
"There are many dangers in this world. As my martial arts inheritor, if you don’t have a certain survival ability, it will interrupt and lose my martial arts inheritance.
Survival is essential!
This is a Demon Clan fortress space I collected and refined on the Human Demon Battlefield, filled with various traps and dangers, almost death for an average martial artist!
If you can obtain the Demon Clan battle flag from this fortress space, it will count as a passed test!
Of course, I am looking for an inheritor, not just a martial arts expert, so there are some aids left by me in here, such as talisman scrolls personally refined by me, to help you survive the dangers more easily!" After saying this, the phantom of the Heart Fire Commander disappeared.
Ye Zhen was somewhat stunned; had the test started just like that?
From a dead tree in front, a fist-sized blood-colored light suddenly drifted down, rapidly pouncing toward Ye Zhen.
This fist-sized blood-colored light was somewhat familiar to Ye Zhen, resembling the Demon Spirit Phantom in his Demon Soul Hall.
However, the strongest Demon Spirit Phantom in Ye Zhen’s Demon Soul Hall was only the size of an egg.
Yet, the blood-colored light before him was as large as an adult’s fist.
As Ye Zhen was puzzled, the fist-sized blood-colored light suddenly transformed into a large blood-colored phantom, attacking Ye Zhen. A beam of blood-colored light, as thick as an arm, shot out from the mouth of the blood-colored phantom, ferociously striking Ye Zhen, emanating a Divine Soul wave even Ye Zhen found alarming.
This was a Divine Soul attack!
The characteristic of a Divine Soul attack is its incredibly fast speed!
Moreover, this blood-colored phantom was incredibly strong, its soul was powerful, comparable to an Establishment King. Under these circumstances, Ye Zhen couldn’t dodge and could only endure!
Boom!
The blood-colored light crashed into Ye Zhen’s Soul Sea, making him feel as if he had been hit by a vast blood ocean, causing even his Four-colored Innate Soul Light to tremble violently.
He swiftly cast a Heavenly Thunder of Fright.
In the past, Ye Zhen’s Heavenly Thunder of Fright could directly obliterate Soul General-level Demon Soul Phantoms, and even severely injure Soul Marshal-level Demon Soul Phantoms. But against this Demon Soul Phantom, Ye Zhen’s Heavenly Thunder of Fright seemed to have little effect.
However, Heavenly Thunder of Fright still managed to slow it down momentarily.
Taking this chance, Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense entered the Demon Soul Hall on his chest, instinctively activating the hall to emit a special suction force, directly absorbing the enormous Demon Soul Phantom into the Demon Soul Hall.
This was mainly because when Ye Zhen first came to the True Spirit Domain, he fell into the Secret Realm of Demon Souls, encountering many Demon Soul Phantoms, then captured over a thousand Demon Soul Phantoms into the Demon Soul Hall, becoming proficient in handling them.
Once he had imprisoned this Demon Soul Phantom, Ye Zhen let out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, his Divine Soul Cultivation was strong, and it was Four-colored Innate Soul Light; any ordinary Third Stage of Vein Forging Realm Martial Artist, or even general Seventh or Eighth Stage Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists, under the massive blood-colored light beam of this Demon Soul Phantom would suffer serious soul injuries, possibly death.
"This test seems somewhat brutal. In such circumstances, it’s dangerous for not only Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists but also Establishment Realm Martial Artists..... huh...."
At a glance downward, Ye Zhen suddenly noticed a faint fire-red light at his toes. He picked it up and couldn’t help but smile ruefully.
Inside were five crimson fire talismans stored together, but Ye Zhen couldn’t recognize their grade.
Neither in the Black Dragon Domain nor in the True Spirit Domain, nor in the ancient records Ye Zhen had studied, was there any record of such fire talismans.
However, his Divine Sense could vaguely sense the terrifying energy contained within these fire talismans.
Ye Zhen estimated that the terrifying energy within the Fire Talisman could possibly compare to a full-strength strike from a First Stage King of the Establishment Realm!
Without a map, target, or direction, everything became somewhat strange. After exploring nearly a hundred miles out, Ye Zhen encountered five fist-sized Demon Spirit Phantoms and one head-sized Demon Spirit Phantom.
The head-sized Demon Spirit Phantom attacked Ye Zhen once again, lightly injuring Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul. However, it still couldn’t escape the collection of the Demon Soul Hall.
The Demon Soul Hall on Ye Zhen’s chest is an ancient war fortress of the Demon Clan, and it seems there is some connection to the Demon Clan Fortress before him. The aura it emits can directly collect the Demon Spirit Phantoms currently discovered.
The increasingly powerful Demon Spirit Phantoms made Ye Zhen somewhat uneasy. Resolutely, Ye Zhen quickly refined one fist-sized Demon Spirit Phantom and used the Soul Searching Technique to find some fragmented memories.
This discovery surprised Ye Zhen greatly because previously, when refining those Demon Spirit Phantoms, there were hardly any memories. Even when some memories were found, they were not useful.
However, in the memories of this fist-sized Demon Spirit Phantom, there is a portion regarding the Demon Spirit Phantom clan of the Demon Clan.
After continuously refining and devouring seven fist-sized Demon Spirit Phantoms and retrieving their memories, Ye Zhen finally completely understood the situation concerning the Demon Spirit Phantom clan.
Previously referring to those Demon Spirit Phantoms captured from the Secret Realm of Demon Souls as Soul Generals and Soul Marshals made Ye Zhen feel somewhat embarrassed.
Compared to the true Demon Spirit Phantoms, the insight of the martial artists of the True Spirit Domain is truly.....
According to the information Ye Zhen obtained about the Demon Spirit Phantom clan, in reality, the nearly thousand Demon Spirit Phantoms he obtained near Gu Hun Mountain in the Secret Realm of Demon Souls were merely newborn Ghost Souls of the Demon Spirit Phantom clan!
Just born for less than ten years, akin to infants among the Human Clan who don’t even qualify as children.
Turned into blood-colored light spots the size of thumbnails, Ye Zhen called them Demon Spirit Phantoms as Soul Generals, but in the Secret Realm of Demon Souls, they only correspond to children among Human Clan martial artists!
Only the Demon Spirit Phantoms that Ye Zhen referred to as Soul Marshals, blood-colored light spots the size of eggs, can only be considered teenagers, barely approaching adulthood within the Demon Spirit Phantom clan!
And today, the fist-sized Demon Spirit Phantoms Ye Zhen first encountered are merely the newly adult Ghost Souls within the Demon Spirit Phantom clan. Their numbers are enormous, yet they are merely the lowest tier within the Demon Spirit Phantom clan — Soul Soldiers!
The head-sized Demon Spirit Phantom, which could lightly injure Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul with a single strike, belongs to the category of Soul Guards within the Demon Spirit Phantom clan!
Basically, a Soul Guard can command a thousand Soul Soldiers, and above them are the Soul Generals, Soul Marshals, and Soul Kings!
Even after Soul King, it’s not yet the pinnacle of existence within the Demon Spirit Phantom clan. After breakthrough, Soul Kings become the most terrifying existence within the Demon Clan — Demon Masters!
Although among tens of millions of Soul Soldiers, it’s uncertain whether a Demon Master would appear, Demon Masters are what makes the Ghosts of Demon Souls shake the Human Demon Battlefield!
Every Demon Master is a terrifying existence within the Demon Clan!
Yet this Earth Core Fire Commander took out three of them!
Ye Zhen can no longer calculate the cultivation level of Demon Masters, which already exceeds Ye Zhen’s knowledge.
However, just a single Soul Guard possesses the power to injure Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul, while under normal circumstances, even a Divine Soul attack from a Fifth or Sixth Stage King of the Establishment Realm wouldn’t necessarily be able to injure Ye Zhen.
Moreover, within Soul Guards, there also exists strong and weak differences.
From this deduction, Soul Guards within the Demon Spirit Phantom clan already correspond to the current existence of Kings within the Establishment Realm, and Soul Generals should be the legendary beings who, after breaking through the Peak Ninth Stage Establishment, enter the Dao Realm.
As for those Soul Marshals, Soul Kings, and Demon Masters beyond that, Ye Zhen can no longer comprehend!
But what shocked Ye Zhen was discovering from the memories within these Demon Spirit Phantoms that the Demon Clan Fortress collected by the Earth Core Fire Commander actually contains several true Soul Generals.
These aren’t the casually named thumbnail-sized Soul Generals from the True Spirit Domain martial artists, but real Soul Generals within the Demon Spirit Phantom clan, with cultivation comparable to the existence of the Dao Realm within Human Clan martial arts, captured by the Earth Core Fire Commander from the Human Demon Battlefield, ferociously skilled Soul General-level beings!
"Dao Realm? Establishment Realm is already tough? And beings comparable to the Dao Realm? Isn’t this trial too severe? No wonder all the martial artists previously participating in the trial failed, and there were one hundred and one deaths......"
Looking at the blood-colored desolate heaven and earth, Ye Zhen smiled bitterly.
A battle death rate exceeding eighty percent, a complete failure rate.....
This Earth Core Fire Commander hasn’t had a successor in ten thousand years, there is indeed a reason!
Ye Zhen even thinks that perhaps the Earth Core Fire Commander’s requirements might be too high?
Actually, on this point, Ye Zhen misunderstood.
The Earth Core Fire Commander’s requirements for selecting a Martial Arts Inheritor are really not high.
However, the Earth Core Fire Commander’s three trials for selecting a Martial Arts Inheritor were specially crafted and set nine thousand years ago when he sensed his death approaching, using extraordinary techniques.
Yet even the Earth Core Fire Commander himself didn’t foresee that his Ground Fire Heart Palace would, due to certain reasons, remain buried underground for thousands of years before re-emerging.
Among his three trials, except for the first one, the other two were set based on the level of the Human Clan martial artists from the ancient Human Demon Battlefield ten thousand years ago.
Back then, Human Clan martial artists were extremely formidable, and under equal cultivation, ancient Human Clan martial artists could defeat ten or eight martial artists of the same level today.
The Earth Core Fire Commander had no idea that after the ancient Human Demon War ended in tremendous upheaval, the area where his Ground Fire Heart Palace is located would fall in the True Profound Continent, where martial arts declined, leading to the inability to find a Martial Arts Inheritor!
If not for that tremendous upheaval, this Earth Core Fire Commander’s Martial Arts inheritance wouldn’t have fallen to Ye Zhen and others nearly ten thousand years later, but would have been inherited by those immensely talented individuals from the ancient Human Clan!
Although Ye Zhen finds it challenging, Ye Zhen quickly adjusted his mindset. Since he has come here, he must find a way to complete this trial, at the very least, he must survive and leave.
After the initial panic, Ye Zhen calmed his thoughts.
According to the remnants of the Earth Core Fire Commander, this second trial tests survival ability, not the martial strength of the martial artist.
In other words, this trial is not assessing martial strength but what’s within the mind of the martial artist.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have specifically provided those Fire Talismans Ye Zhen had never seen before!
Thus, whether the trial can be smoothly completed hinges critically on these Fire Talismans!
"It seems that before encountering extremely powerful Demon Clan beings, collecting a sufficient number of Fire Talismans is crucial! But what exactly is the power of these Fire Talismans?"
Suddenly, a stream of light emitting an extremely brutal aura appeared ahead, rapidly approaching Ye Zhen.

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