King of Creation Chapter 1630 - 1615: Mysterious Expert

Five hundred and thirty-one High Grade Thought Spirit Pills, more than three thousand Mid-grade Thought Spirit Pills, and over fifty thousand Low Grade Thought Spirit Pills. This is undoubtedly a staggering amount of wealth.

One Low Grade Thought Spirit Pill is equivalent to one High Grade Spiritual Stone; a Mid-grade Thought Spirit Pill equals one hundred High Grade Spiritual Stones; a High Grade Thought Spirit Pill equals ten thousand High Grade Spiritual Stones!

The value of over fifty thousand Low Grade Thought Spirit Pills and more than three thousand Mid-grade Thought Spirit Pills isn’t much, but the value of those five hundred and thirty-one High Grade Thought Spirit Pills is astonishing.

At the very least, it is worth five million three hundred and ten thousand High Grade Spiritual Stones!

This is already an astounding fortune in itself, but its greater value lies in the fact that Thought Spirit Pills, most of the time, cannot be bought even if you have Spiritual Stones.

In Great Zhou, an ordinary Martial Artist can purchase one Low Grade Thought Spirit Pill through official channels per year. If you want to buy more, sorry, you don’t have the qualification.

In Great Zhou, only nobles with military merits and titles can obtain different quantities of purchasing rights according to their merits and titles.

Besides, the officers and soldiers stationed at the border, generals within the Army of Great Zhou, all have different purchase limits according to military rank, with the quantity more inclined towards the officers and soldiers stationed at the border.

But simply put, it boils down to two words—purchase limit!

Even on the black market, not only are prices doubled, but even if you have a lot of Spiritual Stones, you can only buy a very small portion. This thing is an incredibly tough and inflexible solid currency in the Primordial Continent.

Moreover, given Ye Zhen’s current title and official position, he could buy the number of Thought Spirit Pills from Great Zhou’s official sources that would take about twenty years to accumulate such a quantity.

The preciousness of Thought Spirit Pills lies precisely in this.

However, Ye Zhen was very curious as to why the Branch Temple of the Heavenly Temple would have such a massive amount of Thought Spirit Pills.

Quite naturally, Ye Zhen brought out the Innate Divine Soul of Governor Yong Kun again. In this matter, questioning him was the simplest. After some inquiries, he soon knew the whole story.

Simultaneously, Ye Zhen also learned why the Heavenly Temple had so many Spirit Masters and Grand Spirit Masters.

The Heavenly Temple offers generous treatment to its Divine Envoys, Spirit Masters, and Grand Spirit Masters, basically providing the necessary Thought Spirit Pills for their individual cultivation needs according to their level of cultivation.

The Heavenly Temple also sells Thought Spirit Pills with restrictions on both quantity and purchase qualification—you must become a member of the Heavenly Temple as a Divine Envoy, Spirit Master, or Grand Spirit Master to have the right to purchase.

In simple terms, you must join the Heavenly Temple and become a member to have this qualification.

Within the Heavenly Temple, there are also reward rules, such as recruiting believers. When the number of followers reaches a certain extent, Thought Spirit Pills are rewarded.

Basically, most of the Thought Spirit Pills in the Temple Treasure Vault of the Shahe City Branch Temple are for the cultivation needs of nearly three thousand temple followers within three years, and the rest are for sale, awards, and social exchanges.

Ye Zhen discovered that both the Heavenly Temple and Great Zhou uniformly controlled the Thought Spirit Pills.

This indicates that the Thought Spirit Pills are indeed limited in number, either because they are difficult to refine or because the materials used in their refinement are hard to find.

Previously, Ye Zhen had left one hundred Low Grade Thought Spirit Pills with Shuili Dan King, asking him to investigate and study to see whether the materials and method of refining the Thought Spirit Pills could be deduced.

If they could be figured out, the value and impact would be unimaginable.

Moreover, on this point, Ye Zhen had immense confidence in Shuili Dan King. This time, Ye Zhen planned to leave ten thousand Low Grade Thought Spirit Pills with Shuili Dan King for his studies.

Ye Zhen’s confidence in Shuili Dan King mainly stemmed from his discovery.

The alchemists of the Primordial Continent had superior techniques, produced more effective pills, could refine more types of pills, and had a higher success rate compared to Shuili Dan King.

However, after Shuili Dan King reached the Primordial Continent, his success rate of alchemy soared from fifty percent in the True Profound Continent to above ninety percent.

The reason lay in the more refined Heavenly Dao of the Primordial Continent, more stable and powerful Earthly Primordial Spirits, and underground Spiritual Fires.

In the True Profound Continent, resources were scarce, and Shuili Dan King and others wished to extract the last ounce of medicinal power from Spiritual Medicine. In such circumstances, their pill-refining techniques were more meticulous and stable compared to the alchemists of the Primordial Continent.

Moreover, due to various inheritance interruptions in the True Profound Continent, Shuili Dan King and his peers studied pill formulas and even discovered residual pills in some Secret Realms of the True Profound Continent.

Therefore, Shuili Dan King and his colleagues were very experienced in researching pill compositions.

The biggest obstacle previously was the limited number of Thought Spirit Pills available for research. However, with the impressive quantity Ye Zhen obtained, Shuili Dan King could delve into his research unrestrained.

Once the research succeeds, it would be a lucrative monopoly business!

After half a quarter-hour, Ye Zhen had already left behind the chaotic scene of the Shahe City Branch Temple, appearing at the edge of the Ancient Teleportation Formation in Shahe City.

The entire Shahe City had been under martial law by the army of the Tianming Marquis Country. Ye Zhen had to use the Innate Five Elements Divine Escape to reach the Ancient Teleportation Formation in Shahe City.

When Ye Zhen arrived, Liang You, the Seventh Route Wind Patrol Envoy of the Southern Patrol, was confronting the garrison troops of Shahe City of the Tianming Marquis Country.

It looked intense, with the garrison at Shahe City of the Tianming Marquis Country appearing aggressive and ready for combat unless Liang You could hand over the control of the Ancient Teleportation Formation.

"What’s going on?" Ye Zhen used Divine Soul Telecommunication to question Liang You, "After the death of Marquis of Yellow Wind, Ming Tang, wasn’t the garrison at Shahe City of the Tianming Marquis Country already in chaos?"

"Lord Ye, I’m puzzled as well."

"After you assigned me the task, the garrison at Shahe City of the Tianming Marquis Country went into chaos when they discovered that Marquis of Yellow Wind, Ming Tang had died.

During the chaos, I arranged for trusted aides to assassinate more than thirty middle-level officers of the Shahe City’s garrison, two high-level officers, and incited small-scale skirmishes between two units of the garrison, spreading rumors to worsen the confusion.

But half an hour ago, suddenly, from top to bottom, the chaotic garrison quickly restored order.

Within fifteen minutes, the garrison at Shahe City returned to normal, initiating city-wide surveillance and repositioning all units, with heavy defenses especially inside and outside the city walls.

The forces outside the city also moved quickly into Shahe City, and these people were eager to wrest control of the Ancient Teleportation Formation from us. I am barely holding on." Liang You complained.

"Aren’t you the Wind Patrol Envoy of the Heavenly Patrol Department? Haven’t you found out the reason?" Ye Zhen asked sharply.

"Lord Ye, during the earlier chaos, dozens of elite spies arranged in Shahe City vanished without a trace. I only know that the Grand Marshal Gao Xiu, commanding the military forces outside the city, after receiving nine secret military orders from the Ming Capital of the Tianming Marquis Country, stabilized the situation layer by layer from top to bottom, as if the death of Marquis of Yellow Wind, Ming Tang, the Prince of Tianming Marquis Country, had nothing to do with them, which seemed quite bizarre." Liang You explained.

Ye Zhen also found it quite strange.

The death of Marquis of Yellow Wind, Ming Tang, the top candidate for Prince and Crown Prince of the Tianming Marquis Country, cannot simply be pinned on an assassin’s single-handed act.

Even if an assassin were the primary cause, accountability must follow.

Just like in Great Zhou, if a prince were unexpectedly killed, even if struck by Heavenly Thunder, all the personal army, eunuchs, palace maids protecting the prince would be punished and executed.

Key individuals would even face clan extermination!

Even if without blame, once a prince dies under your watch, you are considered negligent.

If extended, even the patrolling forces of the Heavenly Patrol Department on duty then, along with local officials, would face punishment by execution.

Similarly, with Ming Tang’s death, the first to be held accountable would be the Grand Marshal Gao Xiu of the Shahe City garrison. Even if his crimes were not death-worthy, some officers under his command would be scapegoated and punished.

The City Patrol Army and the trusted aides mobilized by Ming Tang, even if they aren’t all executed, their chief will surely face the blade.

Under such connections, it’s no surprise that chaos would erupt among the forces in Shahe City.

Any intelligent general would see running away as the best option at this moment. As for those with families, dying in battle might be their best choice, because only by dying in battle can their families be spared from being implicated.

But for now, things have strangely settled down.

Ye Zhen knew something was amiss, but it wasn’t something that could be investigated in a short period.

"Since they have calmed down from top to bottom, we should eliminate some of their higher-ranking officers, ideally taking out that Grand Marshal Gao Xiu," Ye Zhen said.

Upon hearing this, Liang You’s face immediately turned bitter.

"Lord Ye, their Grand Marshal Gao Xiu is a Sixth Stage Realm King expert, and he is protected at all times by two Realm King tributor from the Tianming Marquis Country’s Imperial Palace. Around the military tent, there are always a hundred Dark Palace Realm experts guarding him.

The best of my Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters are only at the Eighth Stage of the Dark Palace Realm. Let’s not even mention whether they can kill Marshal Gao Xiu; they would probably be doomed even before making a move."

"As for those high-ranking officers, after two were killed, they’ve become exceedingly cautious and remain in the center of the army, unwilling to leave easily.

Even if my Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters are determined to assassinate at the cost of certain death, the success rate wouldn’t exceed fifty percent, and that’s still under the premise of certain death."

Ye Zhen’s brows furrowed again, "What about the troops of the South River Marquisate, have they moved out?"

"They have already mobilized about two hundred thousand troops. Due to the loss of Shahe City, the forces of the South River Marquisate have been amassing ten thousand miles away from Shahe City.

In at most another hour, the army of the South River Marquisate will arrive," Liang You replied.

"What do you think the outcome will be? Can the South River Marquisate reclaim Shahe City?" Ye Zhen asked.

Considering for a moment, Liang You smiled bitterly again, "It’s difficult!"

"Given the circumstances, the South River Marquisate’s army doesn’t have much advantage in numbers. If it were in its previous chaotic state, the South River Marquisate could take advantage of the situation to capture Shahe City without a problem.

But now, the garrison of the Tianming Marquis Country has completed its deployment and defenses, making it a tough siege battle, and Shahe City’s protective grand formation is quite strong as well.

For the South River Marquisate to reclaim Shahe City, it’s difficult!"

"Difficult?" Ye Zhen’s lips curled into an incredibly sinister smile, "Give me the current location of the garrison commander, Grand Marshal Gao Xiu, of the Tianming Marquis Country."

Moments later, Liang You sent Ye Zhen a Jade Scroll, which marked an approximate location.

With a cold sneer, Ye Zhen, who had just appeared at the ancient teleportation formation in Shahe City, vanished into thin air.

A few breaths later, a ball of fiery light swallowed more than a hundred people in the vicinity of a Tianming Marquis Country general who was confronting Liang You and others, pressing forward step by step.

At the moment, Ye Zhen’s lethality toward martial artists below the Mid Stage Realm King is akin to that of an ordinary Dao Realm expert.

The damage from Ye Zhen’s means is extraordinarily high.

Within half a quarter-hour, in a temporary military camp inside Shahe City, where Marshal Gao Xiu was holding a military meeting in the commander’s tent, an eerie power fluctuation suddenly appeared.

Amidst the angry shouts of everyone, a burst of fire light exploded, and a terrifyingly brilliant sword light instantly shredded the entire commander’s tent into pieces.

Subsequently, a blood light unfurled, and numerous innate divine souls vanished with a mournful howl. By the time the experts and the army outside the command tent reacted and pressed forward, the mysterious figure had already disappeared into thin air.

In this battle, the garrison marshal Gao Xiu of the Tianming Marquis Country’s Shahe City was tragically killed on the spot, his soul dispersed.

Along with him, the six commanders and sixteen Great Commanders summoned by Marshal Gao Xiu for a military meeting were also killed!

In the span of a breath, the high-ranking officials of the Tianming Marquis Country’s Shahe City garrison were completely wiped out, leaving the garrison once again without leadership!

Meanwhile, reports of the South River Marquisate’s advancing army kept pouring in, one after the other.

Faced with this situation, the remaining intermediate generals of the garrison in Shahe City were utterly bewildered, and before long, the previous deployment turned into utter chaos.

"What, the garrison of the Tianming Marquis Country’s Shahe City is in disarray once again, and extremely so?"

"The garrison marshal Gao Xiu and a number of high-ranking officers of the Tianming Marquis Country’s Shahe City can all be assassinated within the midst of tens of thousands of troops? That might be the main reason for the garrison’s chaos."

Upon receiving this intelligence, Liang You, the Southern Patrol Wind Messenger, shivered at the sight of Ye Zhen, who had just appeared before him.

Without needing to think, he already knew who did it.

At this moment, Liang You had only one thought in his mind—beast!

The Ye Wind Messenger in front of him was undoubtedly a beast with explosive combat power!

That was a commander’s tent surrounded by experts in the midst of tens of thousands of soldiers!

Even a Dao Realm expert couldn’t easily break in, not even if that Dao Realm expert possessed formidable spatial teleportation divine power and escape skills.

Once entangled by a large army led by experts, even a Dao Realm expert would find it difficult to get away!

Looking at Ye Zhen, Liang You felt nothing but deep-seated fear.

In fact, Ye Zhen had an edge due to his Innate Five Elements Divine Escape.

With the Innate Five Elements Divine Escape, Ye Zhen could disregard the various intricate forbidden techniques around the commander’s tent and come and go without leaving a trace.

There wasn’t any expert who could shake the void among the garrison of the Tianming Marquis Country.

After all, it was just the army of a remote marquisate, with limited strength.

So, with the Innate Five Elements Divine Escape, Ye Zhen could appear and vanish without a trace and complete assassinations with his overwhelming lethality!

"You must report the intelligence regarding the Tianming Marquis Country and the changes within their nation to me regularly and without error!

Also, the assassination of the garrison marshal Gao Xiu of the Tianming Marquis Country just now, must be attributed to a mysterious expert, correct?" Ye Zhen stated, determinedly fixing his gaze on Liang You.

"Yes, yes, yes, I understand, it was the work of a mysterious expert! Even our Heavenly Patrol Department, despite all efforts, couldn’t trace his origins, and it’s very likely someone invited by the South River Marquisate." Liang You nodded eagerly.

"Very well, you won’t forget the task I’ve entrusted to you, will you?" Ye Zhen asked once more.

"No, I won’t forget, I remember clearly! I’ll do my utmost to cripple or even eliminate the Tianming Marquis Country as soon as possible."

Seeing Liang You nod frantically like a pecking chicken, Ye Zhen nodded with satisfaction, then stepped into the ancient teleportation formation and pulled out the control token for the ancient teleportation formation in Shahe City!

Subsequently, the ancient teleportation formation in Shahe City lit up brilliantly, and within a few breaths, Ye Zhen’s figure disappeared.

Only after Ye Zhen left did Liang You let out a long sigh of relief, slowly straightening his body. Unbeknownst to him, his back had already been soaked with cold sweat.