King of Creation Chapter 1802 - 1787: Acquired Spirit Treasure Wood Vein Divine Whiskers

The identity of Master Mu of the Heavenly Temple Wood Hall is esteemed, even in the Great Zhou Dynasty’s court, he is exempt from bowing before the sovereign, and Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long shows him considerable respect.

Now, Mu Xu boldly reveals his banner to meet Ye Zhen, even if Ye Zhen is preoccupied, he must attend to him.

Furthermore, Ye Zhen must open the main entrance and personally welcome Mu Xu as a matter of etiquette.

Mu Xu arrives with a grand entourage; previously, he came to see Ye Zhen discreetly, but this time he brings his followers openly, clearly unafraid of attracting attention.

Ye Zhen realizes that Mu Xu’s visit might not only be about continuing the unfinished transaction from last time.

As he prepares to welcome Mu Xu, Ye Zhen recalls.

Previously, Mu Xu expressed his desire for the latter half of the Yimu Divine Spirit Technique, and Ye Zhen requested a truly Acquired Spirit Treasure in return.

They agreed to trade after half a year, and now, it seems, Mu Xu has come to exchange for the latter half of the Yimu Divine Spirit Technique.

However, if he came just for trading the latter half of the Yimu Divine Spirit Technique, Mu Xu shouldn’t be displaying such pomp.

"Count Ye, after half a year, your charm has grown beyond what it was before."

After some pleasantries, Mu Xu directly says, "There are two matters to discuss with Count Ye this time.

The first is to continue the unfinished transaction from before."

As he speaks, Mu Xu hands over a storage ring, "Please, Count Ye, examine the goods first."

Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense moves, revealing an unusual object, palm-sized, brown, with roots covered in tendrils in Ye Zhen’s hand.

The object exudes a strong sense of vitality, not visually appealing but very comforting.

"This is?" Ye Zhen looks at Mu Xu.

"This is the Mid-grade Wood Element Acquired Spirit Treasure Wood Meridian Divine Whiskers which I prepared for Count Ye. It is an auxiliary Acquired Spirit Treasure; feel free to experience its effects personally," Mu Xu suggests.

Ye Zhen does not refine it immediately; instead, asking cautiously, "Could Master Mu elaborate on the specific powers of this treasure?"

"This treasure was crafted by our Heavenly Temple ancestors using the root essence of the Ancient Divine Tree, primarily for cultivation assistance.

The effect is quite straightforward; once the Wood Meridian Divine Whiskers are activated, its roots quickly penetrate the ground, continuously drawing Wood Spirit Power from the surrounding area into the holder’s body.

Each root behaves like a Wood Element Earth Vein, typically delivering an immense amount of spiritual energy.

Our Wood Hall records indicate that within ten breaths, this treasure can draw the equivalent of the entire spiritual energy of a Mid Dao Realm Wood Element expert, incredibly potent.

Moreover, it’s not just Wood Spirit Power. If Wood Spirit Power around is insufficient, but subterranean spirit veins exist, this treasure can penetrate into the veins and directly absorb their energy before converting it to Wood Spirit Power for the holder.

However, absorbing energy from subterranean spirit veins is only one-tenth the speed of extracting ambient Wood Spirit Power.

Even so, this rate is very impressive.

It can save considerable cultivation resources and accelerate cultivation speed."

Mu Xu explained in detail, but Ye Zhen feels a bit disappointed.

This Wood Meridian Divine Whiskers is undoubtedly a Mid-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure, though its function is rather mundane.

It only assists cultivation, helping cultivators save a substantial amount of Spirit Stones.

However, saving only benefits martial artists with limited cultivation resources.

Have you seen any expert who owns Acquired Spirit Treasures lacking cultivation resources?

Just like Ye Zhen, who lacks not cultivation resources but time.

As long as cultivation speed increases, even if resources multiply, Ye Zhen is willing.

Ye Zhen’s current cultivation approach is single-minded: enhance cultivation at any cost.

Ye Zhen now uses only Thought Spirit Pills, High Grade Thought Spirit Pills, and various pills to accelerate cultivation.

Using the Wood Meridian Divine Whiskers merely reduces High Grade Spirit Stone consumption, but currently, Ye Zhen doesn’t use Spirit Stones for cultivation, so what is there to save?

Thus, the Wood Meridian Divine Whiskers seems entirely useless to Ye Zhen now.

If there were any use, it might be stabilizing the Dark Palace.

Ye Zhen currently possesses the Purple Spirit Immortal Sword and Thunder Light Whip, both Acquired Spirit Treasures, adding another could further stabilize Ye Zhen’s Dark Palace.

Beyond that, Ye Zhen can’t think of any other uses.

Yet, it must be said that Ye Zhen initially negotiated a genuine Acquired Spirit Treasure, unlike the Moon Hall Master Baili Fei giving Ye Zhen an insubstantial Green Smoke Suanni Pearl.

In this aspect, Ye Zhen finds no flaw in the fulfillment of the conditions.

Despite its mundanity, Ye Zhen must accept it begrudgingly.

Moreover, while negotiating with Mu Xu, Ye Zhen already prepared mentally.

As long as Mu Xu offers a genuine Acquired Spirit Treasure, Ye Zhen is satisfied.

As for a truly valuable and powerful Acquired Spirit Treasure, it’s merely a fantasy.

Even Mu Xu himself utilizes only a Mid-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure, so asking for a powerful Acquired Spirit Treasure in trade is entirely implausible.

Bringing an utterly worthless Acquired Spirit Treasure to trade with Ye Zhen, now that’s normal.

But even though it was expected, when he actually received this useless item, Ye Zhen was still quite displeased.

However, an agreement is an agreement.

Ye Zhen still maintains this bit of trustworthiness.

A few moments later, Ye Zhen handed over the second half of the Yimu Divine Spirit Technique to Mu Xu without any expression.

Mu Xu, after comparing it with the first half of the Yimu Divine Spirit Technique and confirming it to be authentic, nodded with satisfaction.

"The first matter is settled. Now, I would like to discuss the second matter with Count Ye," Mu Xu said.

"Please, go ahead."

"It’s like this, presently in North Sea County, under Count Ye’s governance, we’ve seen increasing prosperity. Not only are the civilians living and working in peace, but commerce is thriving and the population is multiplying many times over, showing signs of a flourishing era.

Therefore, our Heavenly Temple Qingli Peak intends to establish a branch hall in North Sea County to gather more followers. We ask Count Ye to facilitate this," Mu Xu said.

"Establish a branch hall and expand follower recruitment?"

Ye Zhen was taken aback; six to seven years ago, North Sea County was impoverished and chaotic. The Heavenly Temple didn’t even bother building a branch altar, let alone a branch hall.

Now that North Sea County, under Ye Zhen’s governance, has exceeded a population of twenty million, they want to set up a branch hall here. Are they trying to reap the benefits?

After contemplating for a moment, Ye Zhen shook his head in refusal.

It’s a joke, his reputation currently was tagged with siding against Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long and the Heavenly Temple; in other words, Ye Zhen’s greatest backing was Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long.

Although this backing isn’t too reliable, without it, Ye Zhen’s current situation would become very difficult.

Under such circumstances, how could Ye Zhen flirt with the Heavenly Temple?

That’s asking for trouble, isn’t it?

Moreover, Ye Zhen himself is the Left Chief Priest of the Barbarian Spirit Hall, which makes it further impossible.

"Count Ye, don’t rush to refuse. Our Qingli Peak wants to set up a branch hall in North Sea County with two Vice Hall Masters below the Hall Master, one of whom is prepared for Count Ye.

Count Ye can act as this Vice Hall Master or appoint a trusted associate to the role.

Furthermore, a Vice Hall Master of each branch hall can command ten Realm King Realm experts and two hundred Dark Palace Realm Martial Artists as Palace Guards," Mu Xu offered enticing benefits.

To be honest, the benefits Mu Xu offered were quite tempting, both in the past and now.

Because Ye Zhen’s side is most lacking in experts who can hold down the fort—this is precisely what Mu Xu proposed to resolve.

After considering it, Ye Zhen ultimately still refused.

Accepting Mu Xu’s offer would mean Ye Zhen would become a turncoat among the Great Zhou Dynasty, Heavenly Temple, and Ancestor God Temple.

The Xio Family, where Xio Qiangu is from, is somewhat a turncoat.

They lean towards Heavenly Temple without fully committing, while remaining somewhat distant from Great Zhou, even involving the Demon Clan.

But that’s because Xio Qiangu has strength, and the Xio Family has a strong foundation.

In other words, they possess the strength and confidence that can intimidate major factions and thus are able to be turncoats.

If there’s no power or confidence that can intimidate these factions, and one still chooses to be a turncoat, they’ll only turn to ashes in the struggles of major factions.

Ye Zhen understands this well, so he refused outright.

Although Ye Zhen refused, Mu Xu wasn’t upset, "I understand Count Ye’s current thoughts, but the gates of our Qingli Peak are always open for Count Ye.

If one day Count Ye changes his mind, feel free to contact me directly.

One thing that Count Ye should know is that within our Heavenly Temple, Baili Fei’s Sun and Moon Heaven is Sun and Moon Heaven, but our Qingli Peak is Qingli Peak." With these words full of implications, Mu Xu left gracefully with his followers.

"What was that? A recruitment attempt or a bid for support?"

Muttering to himself, Ye Zhen led his troops directly toward Haiyuan State City.

Haiyuan State City is about three million miles away from North Sea County. If Ye Zhen and the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten traveled without regard for expense, they could arrive in ten hours.

But now, taking a large group, even using a General-Level Flying Boat, it still took Ye Zhen and his party five days to get there.

When Ye Zhen arrived at the capital city of Marquis Haiyuan Kingdom, Haiyuan City, there was only his appointed Deputy Envoy Liu Feng leading the welcoming party, with no officials from the Marquis Haiyuan Kingdom visible.

"What’s going on? After so many days, can’t the Ancient Teleportation Formation of Marquis Haiyuan Kingdom be taken over?" Ye Zhen asked Liu Feng who came to welcome him.

"Sir, the people of Marquis Haiyuan Kingdom are quite tough. They’ve gathered experts and heavily armed troops to guard the Ancient Teleportation Formation. I attempted to forcibly take over the Ancient Teleportation Formation, but they were even tougher and directly drew their weapons." Liu Feng said, looking grim.

"Did they resort to violence?" Ye Zhen asked.

"Reporting to Sir, there was a small-scale conflict, and over five hundred of our brothers had their legs broken..."

"What? They have guts!"

In anger, Ye Zhen sneered, "Daring to break the legs of our Heavenly Patrol Department’s people! Come, lead the way. I’ll personally see what kind of bold individuals they are!"