King of Creation Chapter 1852 - 1837: The Sha Clan Tragedy

In the Sea of Sand in the Great Desert, it is extremely difficult for an outsider to find the Sha Clan’s gathering place or an oasis.

Unless there is an Innate Spiritual Treasure like the Heavenly Domain Ten Thousand Sky Divine Mirror that can display all the details of the Yizhi Sand Sea, even a Dao Realm Expert flying through the air searching would have to spend significant effort to accurately locate an oasis.

However, for Ye Zhen, who is proficient in the Yimu Spiritual Communication Technique, it’s not too difficult.

Especially for the Little Demon; as long as its roots are deeply embedded in the desert, it can sense which direction the Wood Element Power and Water Element Power are stronger.

Whether it’s a gathering place or an oasis, they depend on water and vegetation. Finding the direction with wood and water naturally leads to either an oasis or the Sha Clan’s gathering place.

Initially, especially when the distance is far, the Little Demon can only provide a general direction to proceed.

Yet, as they keep moving forward, with the Little Demon’s occasional sensing, the direction continuously adjusts, becoming increasingly precise.

The only issue is that Ye Zhen cannot move too fast.

With an Innate Spiritual Treasure monitoring overhead, if Ye Zhen’s speed is too fast, it will definitely attract the attention of the observers.

Therefore, Ye Zhen can only cautiously maintain his speed at the level of a Martial Artist with Mid-stage Realm King Realm cultivation, which is around twenty to thirty thousand li per hour.

It should be noted that once Ye Zhen’s cultivation breakthrough to the Peak of Ninth Stage Dark Palace Realm, he can further unleash the power of the Strong Wind Spirit Essence Pearl.

The time for Wind Flash and Sweep remains unchanged, less than one-tenth of a moment, but the distance increases from ten li to fifteen li.

At the same time, his ordinary flying speed also improves. With the full power of the Strong Wind Spirit Essence Pearl, Ye Zhen’s speed can completely surpass that of a Ninth Stage Peak Realm King Realm Martial Artist, even faster than a Half-step Dao Realm warrior.

But now, Ye Zhen must be extremely cautious.

It can be imagined that after this incident, Xuan Sheng from the Heavenly Temple might mobilize even more power to deal with him.

Five days later, when the Little Demon once again extends its roots deep into the sand sea to sense, it suddenly exclaims excitedly, "Father, three thousand li ahead, there is very abundant Wood Spirit Power and Water Spiritual Power. Just go straight ahead."

After running wild in the Great Desert for five days, Ye Zhen has already become extremely battered and weary.

It must be said that traversing the Sea of Sand in the Great Desert for a long time would increase difficulty manifold, not just for ordinary people, but even for martial artists.

For Ye Zhen, a distance of three thousand li is only a little over half a quarter-hour of effort.

Cresting a gentle sand dune, suddenly, small patches of oasis appear in the distance, with a moist air enveloping it. In the center of the oasis, there’s a gathering place bustling with people.

After pondering for a moment, Ye Zhen uses the Innate Five Elements Divine Escape from underground towards that gathering place.

The Sha Clan people are extremely xenophobic and hostile to outsiders.

If Ye Zhen were to enter recklessly like this, he might invite unnecessary trouble.

Moreover, who knows if the Heavenly Temple has spies here.

If there are, Ye Zhen might be a prime suspect for the Heavenly Temple’s spies as an outsider like this.

With the Innate Five Elements Divine Escape, Ye Zhen turns around once under the ground, roughly understanding the situation of this gathering place.

It’s considered a small tribe of the Sha Clan.

According to the intelligence records of the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Heavenly Patrol Department, Sha Clan tribes are categorized into large, medium, and small tribes.

Small tribes typically have fewer than a hundred thousand people, and in the Yizhi Sand Sea, these small tribes are the most numerous.

Sha Clan tribes with a population exceeding a hundred thousand are considered medium tribes. Medium tribes are relatively powerful among the Sha Clan.

With populations ranging from a hundred thousand to a million, they occupy better living environments.

As for large Sha Clan tribes, they have populations exceeding a million, but such tribes are rare.

The harsh ecological conditions of the Yizhi Sand Sea make the appearance of tribes too populous unlikely.

However, it is precisely these extremely adverse ecological conditions in the Yizhi Sand Sea that make the bond between the tribes even tighter.

This has given rise to a place known as the Yizhi Temple.

In each tribe, the chief is in charge, but the chiefs of all the tribes are subordinate to the rule of the Yizhi Temple, which is also a reason why the Sha Clan tribes are difficult to conquer.

The Sha Clan tribe before him is called the Black Sand Tribe, with a population of approximately eighty to ninety thousand.

After using the Innate Five Elements Divine Escape to circle the grounds, Ye Zhen easily obtained two sets of clothing with Sha Clan characteristics.

With spiritual power activated, True Transformation Disguise Skill is deployed, coupled with the Mirage Dragon Pearl’s Mirage Energy from the Ancient Mirage Dragon, and a dark-skinned, muscular Sha Clan young man appears out of thin air.

Wearing that sand shirt woven from sand fibers that only covers the essential parts of the body, a genuine Sha Clan youth stands at the edge of the gathering place.

After just listening for a moment, Ye Zhen, with his incredibly powerful Divine Soul Power, began speaking with a perfectly authentic Sha Clan accent.

Then, Ye Zhen, carrying a large knife with several notches on its blade and gleaming with cold light on his shoulder, swaggered into the tribe.

Many Sha Clan people, their eyes hot with envy, glanced at the large knife gleaming with cold light on Ye Zhen’s shoulder, and then paid no further attention.

Everyone Ye Zhen saw along the way in the Sha Clan had one characteristic — chapped lips.

This was a sign of water scarcity.

This made Ye Zhen’s heart sink deeper and deeper. In this situation, could he buy food and water for a thousand people?

After some inquiries, Ye Zhen arrived at the largest water source within this Black Sand Tribe, the only place selling water — the Black Sand Well.

The entire perimeter of the Black Sand Well was guarded by hundreds of soldiers, and there was even a Sha Clan warrior at the Ninth Stage of the Realm King Realm exuding Killing Qi on guard, not to mention the entire underground surrounding the Black Sand Well was enveloped by a yellow, rolling aura, even Ye Zhen’s Primordial Spirit couldn’t penetrate it.

Very quickly, Ye Zhen understood the rules here. Every day, Sha Clan people could collect a small bucket of ten jin of water for free, but if they wanted more water, they would have to trade black sand, Spirit Stones, or other resources for it.

A bucket of mined black sand could be exchanged for a bucket of water, and ten Low Grade Spirit Stones could also be exchanged for a bucket of water.

Truth be told, a bucket of water weighing one hundred jin at the price of ten Low Grade Spirit Stones was beyond description by the word expensive.

However, for the current Ye Zhen, a problem that could be solved with Spirit Stones was not a problem at all.

But, when Ye Zhen spent a thousand Low Grade Spirit Stones to buy a hundred buckets of water, the look in the eyes of those guards turned strange.

In the Yizhi Sand Sea, there were not many wealthy individuals like Ye Zhen.

If not for the aura of the Peak of Ninth Stage Dark Palace Realm emanating from Ye Zhen, which made those Sha Clan people somewhat apprehensive, they may have surrounded him by now.

The fierceness of the Sha Clan people was not just talk.

Ye Zhen left decisively to purchase food.

The food here was still expensive, but Spirit Stones were hard currency.

Fortunately, compared to the preciousness of water, food was still relatively easy to obtain, with many Sha Clan people selling items like date noodles and sand rice. However, wheat cakes with a better taste and rare meats were extremely valuable.

After buying several dozen or even over a hundred jin from each seller, and spending over ten thousand Low Grade Spirit Stones, Ye Zhen, before getting successfully targeted by the Sha Clan people, learned the direction of another medium-sized tribe and prepared to leave.

However, upon stepping out of the tribe and passing by the oasis outside the tribe, something caught Ye Zhen’s attention.

A mother and daughter trio, dragging a dying man, were kneeling before a man in a yellow robe embroidered with green patterns, continually kowtowing.

Tears had long since dried up, and their lips were chapped. All that was left in the mother and daughters were hoarse pleas and cries, continuously kowtowing.

The man’s lips quivered, wanting to say something, but not a word came out.

Behind them, a field of yellowing wheat stood in stark contrast to the green, vibrant wheat in the surrounding oasis.

"Priest, we beg you, save my husband, save our wheat field. Once my husband recovers, we will surely bring you more tribute!"

"Please!"

"Priest, please grant mercy!" Saying this, the middle-aged woman crawled up to kiss the priest’s mouth, but was kicked away by the priest.

"Get lost!"

"No tribute to offer, yet you want me to use precious mana to save your entire family, dream on! Get out of my way, I’m busy."

As he spoke, the priest turned his eyes to the surrounding Sha Clan onlookers, "Anyone else wanting to fetch water for their fields today, bring tribute if you have any, otherwise don’t waste my time."

Without waiting for the other Sha Clan people to speak, the middle-aged woman lunged forward again, "Please, Priest, have mercy. As long as my husband recovers and our wheat field is revived, by autumn, we will bring enough tribute...."

This time, the Sha Clan priest hesitated for a moment before kicking the middle-aged woman again. "There’s no way you can make up for it by autumn. But don’t say I didn’t give you a chance. If you agree to my terms, I’ll save your man and your field right away."

Upon hearing this, the Sha Clan woman was overjoyed. Kneeling, she kowtowed and said, "Thank you, Priest, for your benevolence. Please tell us what to do. If it’s possible, we will surely do it."

"It’s simple. Your daughters here have caught my eye. Let them come with me, and I’ll save your field and your man. Moreover, as long as they serve me well, I can provide water to irrigate your field for free a few times in the future." The Sha Clan priest leered salaciously at the mother and her daughters.

Only then did Ye Zhen notice that this Sha Clan woman’s daughters, one older and one younger, were both quite beautiful. With a little grooming, they would definitely be appealing.

The Sha Clan woman was stupefied. The man, on the brink of death, became violently agitated upon hearing this, but the excitement left him unable to catch his breath.

The daughters frantically patted his back while crying.

The Sha Clan woman hesitated for a moment, a tear of bitterness and helplessness slid from her eye, and she said in a tearful voice, "Priest, let Shaana serve you, please? Sha Yina is still young, only fourteen."