King of Creation Chapter 1990 - 1975: Grand Saint Order

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Previously on King of Creation...
Ye Zhen absorbed the cultivation of seventeen Demon Commanders, dramatically increasing his power and physique. He then fled White Tiger City to avoid any potential traps. Meanwhile, Black Cloud Great Sage grew impatient when his trusted advisors, the Think Tank Fox ZiBo and his most trusted Demon Commanders, Pingman and Wanshi, went missing.

The Tiger Clan is a race that esteems strength.

In a regular tiger group, the status of an elderly Tiger King always faces challenges from younger tigers.

This factor is ingrained in the bones of the Tiger Clan.

Therefore, the Tiger Clan is a race that reveres the strong, but from top to bottom, it is also a race that is highly suspicious and constantly suppresses its members who threaten their status.

The Tiger Clan continually nurtures new strong individuals, yet simultaneously oppresses the emerging generation of strong ones.

This might sound contradictory, but it’s the truth.

Just like the current White Tiger Demon Emperor, who has been suppressing the most likely candidate to break through to the Creation Realm and become a Demon Emperor, the Black Tiger King, for tens of thousands of years.

Over tens of thousands of years, many life-extending elixirs have passed by the Black Tiger King.

This has resulted in the Black Tiger King’s current predicament; although he seems ready to break through any moment, it might take hundreds or even thousands of years, but his life span isn’t ample.

This is also why Ye Zhen can complete a transaction with the Black Tiger King.

Similarly, due to the Black Tiger King’s short life span, his several Great Saints under his command, especially his sons, compete fiercely.

Once Black Tiger King naturally passes away, one of them would become his successor.

Among the Demon Race, there’s a grand method of bloodline inheritance.

Some powerful beings, before they pass away, will embed all their strong power and Heavenly Dao insights into their successor to ensure the strength of their clan.

Thus, over the years, Black Tiger King’s most outstanding two sons, Zi Xu Great Saint and Black Cloud Great Saint, have been competing fiercely.

But similarly, given the traditions of the Tiger Clan, the two, while employing them, also suppress their Dao Realm Great Saints, fearing they might gain too much control and threaten their own power and status.

In this context, although Black Cloud Great Saint has more than thirty Dao Realm individuals and two Titled Great Saints, the ones he truly trusts and assigns command over the long term are those Demon Marshals yet to break into the Dao Realm.

On the other hand, Martial Artists in the Dao Realm prefer to cultivate and comprehend the Heavenly Dao, rarely engaging in mundane affairs.

Therefore, the key members handling affairs under Black Cloud Great Saint are all formed by Demon Marshals.

The importance of these Demon Marshals is thus evident.

Black Cloud Great Saint’s mood at this point can be understood.

Black Cloud Great Saint fiercely grasped the neck of the Guard Demon General he sent out to find people, lifting him high with a face filled with menace.

"Think Tank, all seventeen Deacon Demon Marshals have disappeared?"

"You dare tell me they have all vanished! Out of only twenty-four Deacon Demon Marshals under my command, seventeen have just vanished!"

"Am I stupid, or are you dumb, using disappearance as an excuse to fool me?" The black mist filled Black Cloud Great Saint’s face, wishing to kill the Demon Marshal before him with one palm.

"Great Saint, it is... true... you can ask... ask them!" The fear filled Guard Demon General’s eyes.

The eight Demon Marshals kneeling before him exchanged glances and pleaded, "Great Saint, this matter has peculiarities; please give us time to find out the truth!"

"Find out the truth!"

"Do you want me to lose face in front of my father?" Black Cloud Great Saint roared, "Seventeen Demon Marshals disappeared overnight; if father finds out, how should he view me?"

For a moment, the hall was left only with Black Cloud Great Saint’s roar, yet the roar diminished, eventually forming helpless commands.

"Investigate!"

"Take my token, invite several Dao Realm experts to help investigate!"

"Additionally, immediately find some suitable candidates and send out the list! Before they are found, someone must manage the matters the missing seventeen Deacon Demon Marshals were responsible for."

All of a sudden, Black Cloud Great Saint felt overwhelmed with frustration.

But more importantly, can those seventeen missing Deacon Demon Marshals be found?

Concerning this, Black Cloud Great Saint lacked confidence as well.

For an entire day, Black Cloud Great Saint did not rest; various news and the chaos caused by the disappearance of Deacon Demon Marshals kept him busy and dizzy all day long.

And the news from the investigation only made his heart sink further.

The vanished Think Tank and seventeen Deacon Demon Marshals all showed signs of returning to their residence or alternate dwelling before disappearing without a trace.

This feeling of powerlessness caused Black Cloud Great Saint to harbor anger inside.

That day, more than ten maids and servants were casually killed by Black Cloud Great Saint!

Night fell again.

Within the hidden dust of the mountain forest fifty thousand miles away, inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl Space, Ye Zhen stretched beautifully with crackling thunder.

Having cultivated for half a day inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl Temporal Sequence Space, it equated to five days of cultivation in the outside world.

In five days, Ye Zhen refined and absorbed the Spiritual Power that had flowed into his veins, bones, and bloodline, not only restoring his body to normal but also.

Ye Zhen’s cultivation also broke through from the Fifth Stage Peak to the Sixth Stage of Realm King Realm.

And the time taken for this process was merely one day and one night.

If this spreads, it’s absolutely shocking.

Even more shocking is Ye Zhen’s power.

Ye Zhen’s Dark Palace during the breakthrough to the First Stage of Realm King was ten times that of a normal First Stage Realm King expert. Afterwards, with each breakthrough, Ye Zhen’s Dark Palace size doubled normally, but the base value was ten times that of ordinary Realm King experts.

This is like the base value of an ordinary First Stage Realm King expert being one, while Ye Zhen’s base value at the First Stage is ten.

Then at the Second Stage, everyone doubles the base value; base value one becomes two, base value ten becomes twenty.

Continuing with the multiplication, when ordinary martial artists reach the Sixth Stage of Realm King, this value is thirty-two, but Ye Zhen, it is three hundred and twenty.

In other words, the cultivation of ordinary Sixth Stage Realm King martial artists is thirty-two times that of First Stage Realm King experts, but after Ye Zhen breaks through to the Sixth Stage, his cultivation is three hundred and twenty times that of ordinary First Stage Realm King experts!

Three hundred and twenty times!

Even the cultivation of experts at the Ninth Stage of Realm King is only two hundred and fifty-six times that of the ordinary First Stage Realm King experts.

In other words, compared to average Realm King experts, Ye Zhen’s current cultivation is already equivalent to experts at the Early to Middle Stage of Ninth Stage Realm King.

This multiplication breakthrough is truly astonishing.

Although this is merely an improvement in cultivation, Ye Zhen’s combat power hasn’t increased by three hundred and twenty times, yet tonight, Ye Zhen still wants to give Black Cloud Great Sage a surprise.

Rather than saying Ye Zhen is taking revenge, it’s more that Ye Zhen’s explosive increase in power has given him immense confidence.

If he doesn’t leave Black Cloud Great Sage with an unforgettable memory, Ye Zhen would feel embarrassed to leave White Tiger City.

Recalling the suffering of his woman, and his brother being imprisoned and injured, if Ye Zhen holds back on this strike, he cannot face himself.

Around the White Tiger Mountain Range, under the command of Black Cloud Great Sage, the Demon Marshals and several Dao Realm experts continue to painstakingly search each residence for suspicious clues, unwilling to leave even a single strand of hair from the residences before the disappearance of those Demon Marshals.

The entire White Tiger City is also filled with a tense atmosphere.

The matter of seventeen Demon Marshals disappearing into thin air cannot be concealed.

And for this reason, the Demon Marshals under Black Cloud Great Sage are acting more cautiously today.

At the very least, they work in pairs, or even in groups of three or four.

In the boundless cloud layers five hundred miles outside White Tiger City, Big Ears Nie Ting is riding on the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, his gigantic ears continuously moving, providing intelligence support to Ye Zhen.

"Master, ten miles east there are two Demon Marshals under the command of Black Cloud Great Sage interrogating several people who saw the missing Deacon Demon Marshals last night.

There are a total of seven people there, none are Dao Realm in strength! The nearest Dao Realm is a hundred miles away. If the master intends to act, there is one breath’s time!"

"Good!"

With a move of his Divine Sense, Ye Zhen moves like a ghost underground, quickly reaching his destination.

Two Demon Marshals under Black Cloud Great Sage were sternly questioning a Demon General who drank with the missing Demon Marshals.

"Speak, where did you go after drinking last night? And who have you seen these days?"

"You’d better be honest, or else..."

The questioning Demon Marshals suddenly became alert, quickly looking towards the ground.

But at the instant he looked over, piercing sword light shot up from underground.

As the sword light was thrust out, it split into two, swiftly piercing the groins of both men, almost simultaneously, the glaring purple sword light burst from their heads, large amounts of green vines like drills penetrated into these two Tiger Clan Demon Marshals’ bodies.

As the crowd’s exclamations rang out, the surging essence blood and spiritual power within the two Demon Marshals pierced through by the sword vanish completely, instantly turning them into two skin-covered skeletons.

As they fell to the ground, they crumbled into countless long-decayed white bones.

The sword light and green vines disappear completely in that instant.

Only then did the interrogated group of Demon Generals start to scream, countless warning talisman communications shooting skywards, suddenly enlivening the usually peaceful White Tiger City and White Tiger Mountain Range during countless nights.

Five breaths later, Black Cloud Great Sage descended from the sky with a group of people, his face so dark it could drip water.

Wood Demon and sword light, these are their only clues.

But before Black Cloud Great Sage could carefully examine the fragments of bone left by the tragically deceased Demon Marshals under his command, hundreds of warning talismans rose again in the distance.

Among them, most of the warning talismans fell into Black Cloud Great Sage’s hands.

Just at a glance, the corners of Black Cloud Great Sage’s eyes instantly burst with flying blood.

"Another three Demon Marshals!"

"Who is it, who is opposing me!"

In the next moment, a token engraved with black variegated cloud-patterned tiger shot skyward, "Announce the Grand Saint Order of this Saint, seal off the surroundings of White Tiger City, all personnel under this Saint’s command, immediately enter war mode!"