King of Creation Chapter 2107 - 2092: Gathering the Dragon Soul

The communication transfer formation that connects directly with the Imperial Palace was entrusted to Liu Feng by Ye Zhen for safekeeping, so he could receive messages promptly and send them out immediately when needed.

"Sir, the emergency secret edict, sealed with the secret seal, can only be unlocked using your seal and a drop of your Essence Blood. Otherwise, this emergency secret edict will self-destruct immediately," Liu Feng presented a bright yellow Jade Scroll to Ye Zhen with both hands.

Ye Zhen accepted the emergency secret edict but did not hurry to open it straight away.

The fact that Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long chose to issue the urgent secret decree at this time proved Ye Zhen’s earlier speculation was correct. The matter Ye Zhen was tasked with must be related to the Human-Demon Battlefield.

Even the Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long’s decrees through secret edict are hard to execute.

Benefits from others always come with strings attached.

Ye Zhen took out the Commander’s Seal of the Heavenly Wave Army of North Sea, infused it with Spiritual Power Divine Sense, and a Spirit Light shot out from it, enveloping the emergency secret edict.

Suddenly, the emergency secret edict emitted a swirling radiance, forming a secret seal character. Within the character, countless complex patterns swirled and transformed. If the corresponding Essence Blood wasn’t dropped in, this emergency secret edict would immediately turn to ashes.

Like a needle, the spiritual power gently pricked, and a Blood Pearl of Ye Zhen’s Essence Blood slipped from his fingertip, falling into the glowing secret seal.

Instantly, countless patterns within the ’secret’ character dispersed like repulsed evil, revealing the body of the emergency secret edict.

A Jade Scroll sealed with the emperor’s seal of Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long.

Without the imperial eunuch to transmit the decree, there wasn’t a cumbersome ceremony. When Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense immersed, the entire contents of the emergency secret edict engraved themselves into his mind.

Afterward, Ye Zhen’s expression became a bit strange.

The edict issued by the Ren Venerate Emperor in the emergency secret edict was much simpler than Ye Zhen imagined, yet the target was very unexpected and vague.

Ye Zhen felt not an ounce of ease.

The clearer the orders, the more apparent the risks faced, but unclear and vague orders carry greater and uncontrollable risk.

"Sir, this secret edict?" Liu Feng asked hesitantly.

"No problem, reply to the Imperial City, saying the edict has been received and will be acted upon. Also, count the troops, write documents, and tomorrow morning, accompany me to the Grand Governor’s Mansion to hand over orders!" Ye Zhen instructed.

"Yes!"

Silently, in Ye Zhen’s palm, the emergency secret edict turned to powder, as was customary.

The emergency secret edict wouldn’t even be archived in the Imperial Palace; it was to be destroyed after reading.

Due to the rotational defense of the Human-Demon War, the area around the Grand Governor’s Mansion located in the back of the Human Demon Battlefield was filled with large military camps.

With hundreds of thousands of troops stationed here constantly, including the Sky Wave Army from North Sea rushing to deliver orders, it was extremely crowded.

Fortunately, the troops able to come here were all well-trained.

Though hundreds of thousands of troops gathered, no chaos ensued.

As before, Ye Zhen silently retreated into the Mirage Dragon Pearl at nightfall, utilizing the Temporal Sequence Space within the Pearl for bitter cultivation and Artifact Refining.

Throughout nearly half a year of marching, Ye Zhen spent at least two-thirds of his daily time within the Mirage Dragon Pearl for rigorous training.

However, Ye Zhen’s current Cultivation had already reached the Peak of Ninth Stage Realm King Realm, and breaking through to the Dao Realm required comprehending the Heaven and Earth Dao.

Within the Mirage Dragon Pearl, it’s impossible to comprehend the Heaven and Earth Dao, so Ye Zhen focused mainly on cultivating the Black Dragon Tyrant Body and Artifact Refining within the Sequential Space of the Pearl.

Counting the preparation time in North Sea County and the half year of marching, Ye Zhen had already spent four to five years inside the Temporal Sequence Space of the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

For most of those four to five years, Ye Zhen focused intensely on cultivating the Black Dragon Tyrant Body.

From previous dangers, Ye Zhen had long realized that personal strength was paramount.

Although Ye Zhen possessed life-saving treasures like All Living Beings’ Will Power, such items could be used up at critical moments; in contrast, personal power remained crucial.

In the Sequential Space of the Mirage Dragon Pearl, Ye Zhen immersed himself in a bathtub crafted from hundreds of types of Secret Gold, then poured a bucket of boiling Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood.

The Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood contained exceptionally terrifying energy, which ordinary bathtubs couldn’t withstand, turning to void upon contact.

It was only after using countless precious materials that Ye Zhen crafted a bathtub capable of containing the Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood.

Bare-skinned, Ye Zhen slowly settled into the bathtub full of Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood.

Upon entry, the scalding Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood instantly caused Ye Zhen’s entire body to turn red and skin to split open.

From Ye Zhen’s mouth, a painful muffled groan escaped.

In that instant, Ye Zhen felt as though even his bones were boiling.

Even though it was Ye Zhen’s fortieth use of Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood for Black Dragon Tyrant Body cultivation, with physical strength having increased hundreds-fold, it was still terribly painful.

The moment the Black Dragon Tyrant Body Cultivation was activated, the terrifying energy contained within the Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood flowed into Ye Zhen’s body like tidal waves.

Ye Zhen’s muscles, tendons, bones, and bone marrow underwent rapid change under the guidance of the Black Dragon Tyrant Body Technique, absorbing the energy from the Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood like a sponge.

Ye Zhen’s bone marrow, skeleton, muscles, and tendons quickly strengthened.

Simultaneously, threads of elusive, invisible energy converged towards Ye Zhen’s Xuan Palace’s Black Water Mystic Palace through the circulation of qi and blood.

After two hours, nearly half of the Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood in the bathtub had dulled, and Ye Zhen’s bone absorption speed likewise decreased by over half.

As long as he cultivates normally, Ye Zhen can still completely absorb the remaining Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood.

But having grown up with arduous cultivation, Ye Zhen is well aware of a principle: the greater the external pressure, the faster he absorbs and enhances his power, and the greater his gains.

Initially, it took Ye Zhen a full ten hours to absorb and refine a barrel of Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood.

Now, the time has been reduced to just two hours.

This indicates that the external pressure is no longer sufficient.

With a thought, two barrels of Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood suddenly flew out from Ye Zhen’s Mirage Dragon Pearl. As the light shimmered, the Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood poured down like lava.

The terrifying pressure from the two barrels of Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood directly caused countless cracks to explode across Ye Zhen’s flesh, tendons, and bones.

This was at least more than ten times the physical strength compared to before.

But simultaneously as it shattered, the countless energies contained in the Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood surged in, immediately repairing Ye Zhen’s physical injuries completely.

Then in the next instant, it ruptured again. As the Black Dragon Tyrant Body Secret Technique operated, under the massive influx of Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood energy, Ye Zhen’s physical injuries once again healed.

In this cycle of shattering and recovery, Ye Zhen’s physical strength began to rapidly improve.

Behind each cycle, Ye Zhen’s physical body experienced a slight improvement.

This minute enhancement manifested in the bone and tendon rupture and expansion being slightly reduced compared to the previous time.

This reduction is very small, almost negligible.

It can’t be seen with the naked eye, only through careful observation with Divine Sense can one discover an incredibly tiny difference.

However, nearly every breath, such a cycle occurs.

The difference of one cycle is nothing, but when hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of such cycles accumulate, the degree of improvement becomes astonishing.

It can almost exponentially increase Ye Zhen’s physical strength.

And such cultivation, Ye Zhen has been conducting in the Mirage Dragon Pearl space for more than one thousand five hundred days and nights.

Ye Zhen can hardly recall how many times his physical strength has improved.

At least a hundredfold.

In any case, if Ye Zhen flicks his skin, it emits a metallic sound, and even a light flick can make a person’s finger ache with pain.

One hundred thousand barrels of Five-clawed Golden Dragon Essence Blood have long been completely consumed by Ye Zhen.

And of the sixty barrels of Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood left in Ye Zhen’s possession, only a little over ten barrels remain.

Ye Zhen has some doubts whether he can break through to the fourth layer of the Black Dragon Tyrant Body before these Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood run out.

Time flows continuously, and in the blink of an eye, Ye Zhen has cultivated in the Mirage Dragon Pearl space for four hours.

His crystal-clear skin faintly reveals a sense of swell, indicating that Ye Zhen’s time cultivating the Black Dragon Tyrant Body has reached its limit.

Under normal circumstances, Ye Zhen should stop cultivating at this point and switch to artifact refining.

Continuing to refine those precious bear skins in the Bear Clan Dao Realm.

But today, Ye Zhen feels something different; inside the Dark Palace in the Black Water Mystic Palace, there’s an inexplicable roar that stirs Ye Zhen’s blood.

That inexplicable roar made the circulation speed of the Black Water Spirit Power within Ye Zhen’s body inexplicably more than double.

This unusual sensation made Ye Zhen feel something.

So, feeling that his body had reached the limit, Ye Zhen did not stop cultivating.

With a fierce determination, Ye Zhen poured the last six barrels of Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood all at once into the massive bath tub.

The terrifying pressure, like a tubful of Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood, immediately caused Ye Zhen’s bones to emit sounds of unbearable stress.

Ye Zhen even heard the sound of his bones breaking inch by inch under this terrifying pressure.

Yet as the Black Dragon Tyrant Body Technique operated, tenfold the previous strength of the Dragon Clan crazily surged into Ye Zhen’s body.

Previously, Ye Zhen could only vaguely sense a mysterious energy rushing toward the Black Water Spirit Palace in his Mystic Palace.

But now, he could clearly sense a domineering, unrivaled will surging directly toward his Black Water Mystic Palace.

Roar!

Suddenly, a roar like the cry of a dragon resounded.

Almost as the roar resonated, the speed at which the energy within the bath tub of Ancient Divine Dragon Essence Blood surged into Ye Zhen’s body suddenly shot up tenfold.

The bones of Ye Zhen that had just been broken inch by inch were instantly restored to their original state.

It was at that moment that a dragon form phantom suddenly condensed and appeared within Ye Zhen’s Black Water Mystic Palace!

Dragon Soul Condensation!