King of Creation Chapter 1838 - 1823: The True Calamity

"Half-step Creation Realm!"

The expression of the Three-eyed Demon Clan’s Second Elder, Jii Gongyue, became extremely conflicted in that instant.

He both wanted to kill Ye Zhen with thunderous methods to seize the invaluable Five Seed Lotus Fruit, yet was immensely fearful of the terrifying aura approaching swiftly from the Half-step Creation Realm.

Above the Dao Realm is the Creation Realm. Once one’s cultivation breaks through from the peak of the Dao Realm to enter the Creation Realm, they are dubbed as Creation Gods.

Such beings include the so-called Ancient Gods, as well as the various Divine Monarchs and Divine Kings worshipped in today’s Heavenly Temple, and even the Demon Gods worshipped in their Demon Clan’s Demon God Palace, all are Creation Gods.

A Half-step Creation Realm is considered the strongest existence below the Creation Realm.

The Half-step Creation existences that Jii Gongyue had witnessed were their Demon Clan’s Prophet Demon Master, Jiu Xi, and their Three-eyed Divine Clan’s forefather.

Jii Gongyue wasn’t sure how powerful Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi was, but he was very clear about their Three-eyed Divine Clan’s forefather.

With his mid Dao Realm cultivation, Jii Gongyue couldn’t withstand even three moves under the forefather’s hand.

Moreover, that was even when the forefather was holding back.

And now, this terrifying aura swiftly approaching is even more potent than the aura of that already Half-step Creation forefather of the Three-eyed Divine Clan.

This is why Jii Gongyue gasped.

The one approaching is an existence that’s several degrees mightier than their Three-eyed Divine Clan’s forefather of Half-step Creation.

Only such an existence could make the guardian outside, Jii Tongduan, issue just one warning before falling completely silent.

Having weathered many storms and challenging choices in his life, Jii Gongyue deliberated for just an instant before making the most rational and correct decision.

To live, is to have everything!

To live, is to have hope!

In a flash, Jii Gongyue’s Divine Sense moved away from Ye Zhen. The golden light in his forehead’s eyes receded, and spatial fluctuations arose intensely within the cave.

Ye Zhen’s Void-Slaughtering Radiance was extremely sensitive to spatial fluctuations, and in the distance, that terrifying aura suppressing even Ye Zhen’s four-colored primordial spirit was leaping forward, incessantly tearing through space to rapidly advance towards Quagmire Lake.

The speed of that aura’s advance was incredibly fast.

And at this moment, merely sensing that terrifying Half-step Creation aura for an instant, the Second Elder of the Three-eyed Demon Clan, Jii Gongyue, decisively abandoned his attack on Ye Zhen, even directly activating spatial divine ability to flee for his life.

These sequences of events instantly left Ye Zhen utterly astonished.

An existence terrifying enough to frighten a mid Dao Realm like Jii Gongyue to such an extent, how terrifying must it be?

Even Jii Gongyue would abandon everything to escape, even disregarding the Five Seed Lotus Fruit, such an earth and heaven spiritual object.

Ye Zhen instantly comprehended.

Like a startled rabbit, Ye Zhen rapidly swung his great sleeves, collecting the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, the Nine-Headed Beast, and the corpse of the most formidable Goldback Crocodile Dragon into the Mirage Dragon Pearl. With a thought, he performed the Innate Five Elements Divine Escape, burrowing into the ground.

As for the other four Goldback Crocodile Dragon corpses, Ye Zhen wanted to collect them as well. Not to mention, the defensive capability of the Goldback Crocodile Dragon Skin was exceedingly formidable—comparable to true Dragon Scales.

With slight refining, they could become supreme suppression artifacts.

However, the intense sense of crisis prevented Ye Zhen from any delay whatsoever!

Ye Zhen, transforming into a point of spirit light, tunneled underground in a flash, and his Demon Marshal’s Avatar instantly returned to his body in a blood light.

As soon as he tunneled into the Earth Spiritual Power, Ye Zhen frantically burrowed towards the deepest underground.

And at that very moment, the void suddenly fluctuated, and the Three-eyed Demon Clan’s Second Elder Jii Gongyue flashed, transforming into a golden light, disappearing into the void.

"Leave it to me!"

The sound that seemed both distant and close exploded angrily in the subterranean space of Quagmire Lake.

The rippling void suddenly stabilized, and a flaming giant hand extended from the void, swiftly grabbing at the Three-eyed Demon Clan’s Second Elder Jii Gongyue, who had just performed spatial divine ability to escape into the void.

Jii Gongyue’s physical body had clearly vanished into the space passage he had opened, and that passage had already closed.

Yet, as the flaming hand extended, the space passage Jii Gongyue had just escaped into was ripped open again.

The fingers of that flaming hand gracefully turned, enveloping Jii Gongyue’s figure in flowing light, rapidly manifesting within the space passage.

Then the flaming hand reached out again, slapping towards Jii Gongyue within the quickly traversing space passage, as if swatting a fly.

Feeling something amiss behind him, Jii Gongyue suddenly turned back, gazing at the terrifying flaming hand. The color drained from his face instantly, his eyes filled with horror.

In the blink of an eye, without hesitation.

Jii Gongyue, facing the flaming hand descending like Mount Tai, bit the tip of his tongue fiercely, spraying a golden Origin Essence Blood wildly from his mouth.

With every mouthful of Origin Essence Blood he sprayed, Jii Gongyue’s aura weakened a bit, but his speed swiftly traversing the space passage increased by severalfold.

A continuous spray of three mouthfuls of Origin Essence Blood, coupled with Jii Gongyue’s already injured state, made his aura even more languid. However, Jii Gongyue’s escape speed in the space channel was doubled compared to before.

At the instant Jii Gongyue spat out the fourth mouthful of Origin Essence Blood, the flame hand accelerated again, striking Jii Gongyue’s flesh.

Half of Jii Gongyue’s body turned to ashes almost instantaneously.

Yet at this moment, his fourth mouthful of Origin Essence Blood spurted out, propelling Jii Gongyue to a further rapid pace in the space channel.

Barely grazing the fingertips of that flame hand, he darted towards the depths of the void.

Just after that rapid acceleration, the flame hand seemingly exhausted its power, abruptly slowing down, and within moments, disintegrated into countless light points within the space channel.

The space channel, once again torn open before, began rapidly closing.

But as it closed, traces of blood, flesh ashes, and Jii Gongyue’s ear-piercing screams could be heard.

Jii Gongyue was truly out of luck today, not only did his long pursuit of the Spirit Void Orchard yield nothing, but the Five Spirits Fruit unexpectedly discovered at the expense of great effort against five Goldback Crocodile Dragons ended up benefiting Ye Zhen.

Moreover, a sudden appearance of a half-step Creation Realm entity scared him into fleeing frantically, and with a casual strike, half of his long-cultivated flesh was destroyed.

It’s simply....

Despite this, Jii Gongyue felt a greater sense of relief, thankful for his swift reaction.

If he hesitated for even a moment, the outcome would not have been his body partially destroyed, but his entire being left here, even his soul dissipated!

Before rapidly diving underground, Ye Zhen used the Yimu Spiritual Communication Technique to turn some moss creatures around the quagmire into his eyes.

Ye Zhen wanted to see what kind of terrifying presence could frighten the Second Elder of the Three-eyed Demon Clan, a Mid Dao Realm expert, into such a desperate and frantic reaction.

Ye Zhen hadn’t yet seen that terrifying presence, but he did see that horrifying flame hand and the ashes scattered after the flame hand broke open the space channel, accompanied by Jii Gongyue’s heart-wrenching scream.

This made Ye Zhen’s heart skip a beat.

The entity had yet to reveal itself, yet by merely an avatar-like flame hand, it spectacularly pierced the void channel and severely damaged Jii Gongyue, who had utilized his spatial divine skill to depart.

How terrifying must the owner of this flame hand be?

Immediately, Ye Zhen had only one thought.

Escape!

Escape as deep as possible.

Conceal as deeply as possible.

Almost instantly, the very moment Ye Zhen utilized the Innate Five Elements Divine Escape to burrow 3,000 meters beneath the earth, a terrifying aura like a whirlwind descended upon the area surrounding Quagmire Lake.

This must be the presence Jii Gongyue dreaded immensely, the half-step Creation Realm existence.

Upon its arrival, the divine sense of the half-step Creation Realm expert spread out like a tide in all directions.

Under normal circumstances, without any special secret technique, even the divine sense of a Dao Realm expert couldn’t probe a thousand meters underground.

Yet, this half-step Creation existence’s divine sense swept like a sieve over a hundred miles radius, discerning everything both above the sky and beneath the ground, in an instant.

What made Ye Zhen’s heart tremble was that when the divine sense swept over the Earth Spiritual Power where Ye Zhen had concealed himself, Ye Zhen’s primordial spirit involuntarily quivered.

It’s like amidst a battlefield full of motionless corpses, suddenly, one corpse’s head slightly shakes — it’s impossible not to draw attention.

This shocked Ye Zhen, and in his surprise, he swiftly slipped into the Mirage Dragon Pearl without hesitation.

The Mirage Dragon Pearl transformed, under the will of Mirage Dragon Primordial Spirit Achou, into a mere speck of ordinary dust deep underground.

Almost simultaneously, the mighty divine sense that had just swept over Ye Zhen’s location surged back, scanning the area where Ye Zhen disappeared multiple times.

In that instant, Ye Zhen’s heart almost leaped to his throat.

If the hidden Mirage Dragon Pearl were discovered, he would be caught like a turtle in a jar today.

Mirage Dragon Primordial Spirit Achou remained far calmer than Ye Zhen, "Don’t worry. Once not discovered initially, no matter how many times his divine sense sweeps over, he won’t find the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

Otherwise, when the Mirage Dragon Pearl first wandered within All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds, it would long have been discovered by its adversaries."

The vast ocean-like divine sense swept in sieve-like fashion through Ye Zhen’s hiding spot six or seven times before slowly retreating with a hint of suspicion.

Ye Zhen released a breath of relief and instantly realized that perhaps this sudden half-step Creation presence was indeed the great omen of calamity mentioned by the Grand Venerable of Tianyun Hall.

At the same time, within Quagmire Lake, two suddenly appearing flames transformed into two hazy silhouettes.

One of the silhouettes softly exclaimed, "Oh, what a strange thing?"