King of Creation Chapter 1992 - 1977: Burning Down the Grand Saint Mansion

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Previously on King of Creation...
The Black Cloud Great Sage's forces are being systematically eliminated by an unseen enemy. While he strategizes with his advisors on how to counter the attacks, the Purple Whisker Great Saint decides to observe the situation, positioning his forces for potential gain. Meanwhile, the Teeth Tiger Great Saint attempts to report the escalating events to the Black Tiger King, who remains in seclusion. As another two Demon Commanders are killed, the enemy, Ye Zhen, hidden using a new profound technique, faces encirclement by several Dao Realm experts.

Almost at the moment when Ye Zhen crushed both the Innate Divine Soul and the head of the Demon Commander, Black Cloud Great Sage arrived with a group of people.

"So after all this time, it turns out you’re the one causing trouble!" Tiger Mo, the Dao Realm strategist under the Black Cloud Great Sage, snorted coldly as a tiger-shaped shadow appeared behind him, intending to kill Ye Zhen.

"Hold on!"

Black Cloud Great Sage’s eyes showed a cruel and teasing expression akin to a cat playing with a mouse, "It’s come to this point, he won’t be able to run anymore. No rush, let’s have some fun!"

"Great Sage, this thief is cunning. It’s better to capture him and forcefully extract information..."

"No rush!" Black Cloud Great Sage twisted his fingers, producing frightening cracking sounds from the joints, "Besides, I want to personally handle this!"

As Black Cloud Great Sage was about to make his move, Ye Zhen suddenly let out a sinister laugh.

"Great Sage, don’t you want to know who I am? Why do I specifically oppose you? In two nights, I’ve killed twenty-four of your Demon Commanders... Oh, no, it should be twenty-five, counting this one!" Ye Zhen casually pushed the corpse aside.

"Who are you?"

Black Cloud Great Sage also sneered, "Who you are, I don’t care to know right now, because soon, I will know everything!

Falling into my hands, not just you, even a small Realm King Realm would confess everything!

I will make you regret going against me for life!"

"Regret?"

Ye Zhen’s lips suddenly curled with a sneer, "I probably won’t have that opportunity anymore, but you, Great Sage, may greatly regret it!"

As he said this, Black Cloud Great Sage’s expression changed, and just as his Divine Sense was about to move, Ye Zhen loosened his grip and voluntarily dropped the Low Grade Suppressing Artifact-level sword.

It was precisely because Ye Zhen had used only a Low Grade Suppressing Artifact-level sword earlier that he was only able to slay one of the two Demon Commanders he had locked in with his aura.

If Ye Zhen had used the Purple Spirit Immortal Sword, given his current cultivation that he could offer to Purple Spirit, he would have killed those two Demon Commanders in an instant, leaving no hassle.

Seeing Ye Zhen throw away the Suppressing Device, both Black Cloud Great Sage and Tiger Mo, as well as the surrounding Dao Realm experts encircling Ye Zhen, paused in surprise.

In this situation, Ye Zhen throwing away the Suppressing Device and giving up resistance seemed meaningless!

Then why would he give up resistance?

"Something’s wrong!" The strategist Tiger Mo reacted the fastest, and this time, he didn’t wait for Black Cloud Great Sage’s approval, instantly lunging toward Ye Zhen.

But just at that moment, a surge of Heavenly Thunder Spirit Fire burst out from Ye Zhen’s body, turning his figure into nothingness in an instant.

"Avatar!"

"Illusory Body!"

Seeing Ye Zhen burning himself to nothing, both Black Cloud Great Sage and Tiger Mo exclaimed, and Black Cloud Great Sage’s face instantly turned as dark as the bottom of a pot.

They finally discussed a plan to use the attack within the plan tactic, dividing his Demon Commanders into five groups as bait, each protected by various numbers of Dao Realm experts to lure the enemy.

Originally, they thought they had succeeded, having successfully hooked the assaulter and surrounded him.

But unexpectedly, the situation changed in an instant.

The enemy they lured turned out to be merely an Illusory Body, which left Black Cloud Great Sage upset to the point of wanting to spit blood.

While Black Cloud Great Sage was angry, his leading strategist Tiger Mo’s eyes flashed, his expression suddenly turning extremely serious, "Great Sage, your Grand Saint Mansion, did you leave anyone behind to guard it when you came?"

"Grand Saint Mansion?"

Black Cloud Great Sage was stunned, "Yes, I left five Demon Commanders there to guard and command."

Upon hearing this, strategist Tiger Mo’s expression changed drastically, "You didn’t leave any Dao Realm experts on guard?"

"I sent all the Dao Realm experts outside!"

"This is bad!"

Strategist Tiger Mo suddenly yelled, "Quickly, everyone return to the Grand Saint Mansion!"

"Why?" Black Cloud Great Sage was momentarily unresponsive.

"Great Sage, for him to appear here with an Illusory Body, he must have seen through our ambush. Given this kid’s cunning, chances are high he has another trick up his sleeve!"

Strategist Tiger Mo explained as quickly as he could, and Black Cloud Great Sage instantaneously understood. With a wave of his hand, he led a group of people to follow Tiger Mo out of the isolated island surrounded by Sword Light.

Just as they rushed out, a magnificent purple Sword Light disappeared from Black Cloud Great Sage’s Grand Saint Mansion.

Subsequently, the mansion was instantly engulfed in a sea of fire with ghastly white and green flames, the screams of servants and retainers resonating throughout.

In that moment, Black Cloud Great Sage’s face turned green, and his teeth gnashed loudly.

"Ah... damn... if you get caught by me, I’ll tear you to pieces..."

Amidst the enraged howls, within just three to four breaths, Black Cloud Great Sage reached his Grand Saint Mansion’s entrance.

As soon as he arrived, a Demon General at the Ninth Stage of the Dark Palace Realm with traces of ghastly green flames clinging to him, crawled out from the mansion, crying bitterly to the approaching Black Cloud Great Sage.

"Great Saint, something terrible has happened!"

"Great Saint, a thief suddenly appeared and within two breaths, killed five of our stationed Demon Commanders completely, then set the Grand Saint Mansion on fire...."

As he was speaking, this Demon General suddenly let out a scream of agony. The patch of ghastly green flame on his back instantaneously expanded and burned him to ashes!

This ghastly green flame was the Bone-attached Poison Dragon Flame from Ye Zhen’s Bone-attached Poison Flame Pearl, a poison flame that even Dao Realm experts dreaded.

A single burst of flame could reduce an ordinary Realm King Realm expert to ashes.

A Demon General at the Dark Palace Realm Ninth Stage, after being touched by a bit of poison flame, had it instantly grow with the fuel of his blood and Spiritual Power, and was then incinerated.

"Useless!"

"A bunch of useless fools!"

"Put out the fire!" Looking at the flames soaring into the sky from the Grand Saint Mansion, Hei Yun Great Saint’s vision blurred.

What was all this? Up until now, thirty elite Demon Commanders had died, and he didn’t even know who the enemy was.

The worst part was, his Grand Saint Mansion was set aflame.

This was no different from a loud slap across his face in front of everyone.

And that slap was delivered in front of all the Tiger Clan members.

After today, he, Hei Yun Great Saint, would become a laughing stock among all the Tiger Clan, and even if he were to strip the culprit’s bones to ashes, he couldn’t erase this humiliation.

He, Hei Yun, was the first Great Saint in the Tiger Clan in ten thousand years to have his mansion burned!

Even his father, the Black Tiger King, was shamed because of him!

But no matter how painful and hateful it was at this moment, all he could do was put out the fire.

Luckily, among the Tiger Clan, the White Tiger Sharp Gold Qi was the most dominant, but there were also many who cultivated other types of Spiritual Power.

Especially among their Black Tiger Clan, who cultivated both the White Tiger Sharp Gold Power and Water Spiritual Power, extinguishing fires was not difficult for them.

Under the convergence of several Dao Realm experts’ powerful Spiritual Power, countless water Spiritual Power transformed into droplets, pouring onto the raging inferno within the Grand Saint Mansion.

But as the countless droplets of water Spiritual Power rained down, everyone stood stunned once more.

The countless droplets of water Spiritual Power fell, but the flames did not extinguish; instead, they surged as if fueled, causing the fire to grow even bigger.

The ghastly white flames were somewhat manageable, as part of them were extinguished by the strong water Spiritual Power. However, the ghastly green flames, under the inundation of massive water Spiritual Power, suddenly flared up several times more.

The sound of bricks, wood, and jade shattering echoed continuously, and Ye Zhen’s Bone-attached Poison Dragon Flame, already intensely hot, grew even fiercer, reducing most of the Grand Saint Mansion to rubble!

"Be careful, this ghastly green flame can attach to bones and is of a high grade; use your top water element Spiritual Power to put it out! One-element Heavy Water, Third Profound Light Water will do," Hee Yi the wise general shouted.

In fact, without Hee Yi’s reminder, many Dao Realm experts cultivating water Spiritual Power had already noticed.

Immediately, various types of densely concentrated, terrifying water Spiritual Power cascaded from the sky like a curtain of rain, covering the fiercely burning ghastly green flame and causing the light of the Bone-attached Poison Dragon Flame to gradually diminish.

Though Ye Zhen’s Bone-attached Poison Dragon Flame was fearsome, it was gradually extinguished under the suppression of the powerful, high-grade water Spiritual Power cultivated by those Dao Realm experts.

The fire was out, but the entire Grand Saint Mansion was in complete ruins.

Especially after being burned by fire and then drenched by high-quality water droplets that weigh ten thousand pounds each, the mansion, which was continuously expanded over hundreds of years, had countless costs poured into its construction with spatial folding formations set up by numerous experts hired, and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects and exquisite ornaments purchased from various places, looked as if it had been trampled by countless beasts, becoming a complete ruin.

Looking from above, on the lush White Tiger Mountain Range, the ruined Hei Yun Great Saint Mansion looked like a pus-filled sore on the White Tiger Mountain Range, hideously unsightly.

In the eyes of Hei Yun Great Saint, the ruined Hei Yun Great Saint Mansion seemed like a pillar of shame, firmly nailing him to the Tiger Clan’s pillar of disgrace.

God knows how much it will cost in the future, how many merits he will have to earn, to wash away this shame.

Thinking of this matter, which might greatly reduce his influence in the heart of his father, the Black Tiger King, Hei Yun Great Saint felt a suffocating pressure in his chest, and in a violent surge, a blood arrow spurted wildly from his mouth.

"Yo, third brother, what’s wrong with you?" As Hei Yun Great Saint spat blood, Zi Xu Great Saint rushed over with a large group from afar.

With apparent concern in his words, yet the hidden amusement in his eyes was more than evident.

Zi Xu Great Saint, at this moment, felt nothing but relief!

Before this, he had not expected that his competitor, his third brother Hei Yun, would be cornered like this.

The Grand Saint Mansion was burned! No different from having his pants pulled down in public!

Fortunately, he had not meddled prematurely.

However, this also made Zi Xu Great Saint more curious about what kind of existence his third brother had provoked.

"Third brother, do you want me to help with your situation here?" Zi Xu Great Saint asked again.

Hei Yun Great Saint ignored the approaching Zi Xu Great Saint, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with a dark face, his expression cold and severe, "A weasel wishing a hen happy New Year, you think you’re genuinely kind-hearted?"