King of Creation Chapter 2120 - 2105: Offenses Against Superiors

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Previously on King of Creation...
Ye Zhen arrives at Blood River Fortress and takes command from Marquis Bai Shuang. He learns about the harsh realities of the Human Demon Battlefield, including the constant harassment by demons and the brutal system of sin slaves. Ye Zhen also receives intel about the demons' true nature as predators who view humans as food. After the handover, Ye Zhen immediately begins reorganizing the sin slaves, reassigning cooks to labor and ordering them to be re-marked with a new brand.

"Why?"

"Sir, we have already been branded as sin slaves of the Ancestor God Temple, why do we need to be rebranded with sin slave marks of other halls?"

"Sir, do you want to turn us into your private slaves?"

"On the Human Demon Battlefield, we sin slaves have a chance to see the light of day again, but once we become private slaves, it means a lifetime of slavery!"

"Not just a lifetime, but generations to come, all will be slaves!"

"No, we refuse to be private slaves!"

"No to private slavery!"

"Yes, we refuse to be private slaves!"

Almost as soon as Ye Zhen issued the order, the nearly fifty thousand sin slaves began to erupt, with waves of opposition swelling higher and higher.

Some sin slaves even stood up in agitated anger.

For this scene, Ye Zhen did not speak, but merely gave a look. Liuu Feng, holding the command banner, suddenly waved it.

The first to dash out were the Heavenly Patrol Divine Generals and Hunters, who were already prepared.

A group of sin slaves saw hundreds of figures suddenly emerge in the void, each diving into the crowd of sin slaves like hawks.

"Rebels shall be executed immediately!"

"Rebels shall be executed immediately!"

In an instant, several hundred sin slaves with powerful auras were directly captured by these Heavenly Patrol Divine Generals and Hunters, soaring into the sky. Two Fourth Stage sin slaves in the Death Camp showed signs of resistance when captured.

The Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters, having been instructed, did not hesitate, and with a wave of their hands, the invisible Void Blades sliced through, sending the fine heads skyward.

The corpses were nonchalantly tossed down by the Divine Hunters, neck blood spurting three meters high and the bodies still twitching, causing the blood to drain from the sin slaves’ faces.

However, even more tragic was the fate of these two men’s Innate Divine Souls. Yout Jue, the leader of the Sacrificial Guard of the Left Chief Priest Ye of the Barbarian Spirit Hall, snorted coldly, two green flames flew from his fingertips, and the Innate Divine Souls that had just escaped screamed miserably.

Before the sin slaves could react, the Military Law Guards of the Heavenly Wave Army of North Sea charged into the midst of the sin slave crowd like wolves and tigers.

"This one, this one, and that one, grab them!"

The Military Law Guards, mixed with Wind Scouts, began seizing individuals from the sin slave crowd one by one, each captured slave screaming hysterically, while those not captured remained silent as cicadas in winter.

In just the time it takes for ten breaths, the once clamorous nearly fifty thousand sin slaves wisely shut their mouths, not daring to make a sound, for fear of bringing disaster upon themselves.

Because in this short time, at least over fifteen hundred individuals were taken by Ye Zhen’s forces, and out of those, over fifty were executed on the spot.

The entire camp was filled with the pungent smell of blood.

Looking at the over a thousand captured, Ye Zhen sneered, "Did you really think this commander can be easily fooled?"

"Liuu Feng, severely interrogate each and every one of them. Regardless of whether they live or die, results must be obtained!"

With this order, the captured sin slaves began to wail, some begging Ye Zhen for mercy on the spot, while others hysterically cursed Ye Zhen.

"Yout Jue, brand every other individual with the unique sin slave mark of our Barbarian Spirit Hall, and anyone who resists or refuses to cooperate, execute them without mercy!"

Ye Zhen’s order did not cause much of a stir.

The remaining forty-six thousand or so sin slaves kept their mouths tightly shut, watching the priests of the Barbarian Spirit Hall, holding magic artifacts, charge forward. Besides despair, their eyes were dull.

What are sin slaves?

They are a group of doomed individuals, whose deaths often go unheeded and unburied!

If Ye Zhen were to treat ordinary soldiers with such thunderous methods, there might be trouble, but with sin slaves, Ye Zhen could casually find a reason to kill all over forty thousand of them without any consequences.

At most, Ye Zhen would be labeled as bloodthirsty.

That is the fate of sin slaves!

There is a reason Ye Zhen acts this way.

Though these sin slaves belong to the Great Zhou Dynasty and fight for their lives, the saying still holds: the sin slave mark is dead, but people are alive.

If they aren’t purged, at a critical moment, they could absolutely deal Ye Zhen a fatal blow.

If he cannot fully control this force, Ye Zhen would rather kill them all than keep such a destabilizing factor.

As for whether they are wronged, Ye Zhen no longer cares.

This is the battlefield, and leniency has no place here.

Moreover, having been degraded to sin slaves, they are considered condemned individuals under the Law of Great Zhou, and their deaths don’t matter.

As the Barbarian Spirit Hall priests followed Ye Zhen forward, not a single sin slave resisted.

Yet, unexpectedly, discordant voices came from afar.

A priest dressed in the attire of the Ninth Month Moon Sacrifice, accompanied by a dozen Moon Priests and over a hundred Star Priests, rushed over from the distance.

"Stop!"

"Quickly, stop!"

In the distance, the leading Ninth Month Moon Priest shouted loudly, "These sin slaves, they are all the property of our Ancestor God Temple! How dare you turn them into private slaves!"

"You Barbarians from the Barbarian Spirit Hall, cease your actions immediately!"

With a roar, the Ninth Month Moon Priest charged like lightning towards a Double Moon Moon Priest from the Barbarian Spirit Hall, who was branding the sin slave mark with a magic artifact, and fiercely slapped him.

Facing the Ninth Month Moon Priest, whose status was higher than his own, the Double Moon Moon Priest from the Barbarian Spirit Hall was momentarily stunned, unsure of what to do, for the hierarchy within the Ancestor God Temple was remarkably strict.

A cold snort emerged from his nose, and suddenly the sound of wind and thunder arose.

Bang!

Before the afterimage disappeared, Ye Zhen had already appeared in front of that Ninth Month Moon Priest!

Raising his hand, Ye Zhen met it with a slap.

Seeing someone daring to intercept him, especially someone with similar cultivation, a vicious look appeared in his eyes, and his aura surged wildly. The palm he struck out with exploded with blinding sharp gold Qi, its speed increasing tremendously, carrying the momentum of wind and thunder, and slammed fiercely towards Ye Zhen.

Five Elements Fire Overcomes Gold!

Ye Zhen’s divine sense stirred, and the Bone-attached Poison Flame prepared to meet it, but Ye Zhen’s heart was slightly moved. Why not try the power of the recently completed Fourth Stage of the Black Dragon Tyrant Body?

As the thought moved, the Bone-attached Poison Flame retreated like a tide. Inside the Black Water Mystic Palace, the Dragon Soul roared upwards.

In the roar of the Dragon Soul, the Black Water Spirit Power within the Black Water Mystic Palace, accompanied by a vast Dragon Soul aura, instantaneously spread throughout his body.

Ye Zhen’s bones, muscles, tendons, and fascia underwent an incomparably mysterious transformation at that instant.

The bones became more delicate and tight, like jade, the muscles bulged heavily, and in that moment, Ye Zhen’s physical strength doubled from its original level.

This was still due to the short amount of time.

The next instant, Ye Zhen’s raised slap maintained its speed as it met the blow, while the Ninth Month Moon Priest’s powerful palm, elevated to its utmost power, slammed down like a hammer onto Ye Zhen’s palm.

The anticipated scene of Ye Zhen being flung away by a single blow did not appear.

Instead, with a loud bang, sparks flew, no, more accurately, flesh and bone fragments sprayed crazily!

The Ninth Month Moon Priest’s palm exploded instantly into fragments of skin, flesh, and bone, like an egg hitting a stone.

The immense force extended the explosion upward, directly shattering half of the Ninth Month Moon Priest’s forearm into fragments.

Staring blankly at his vanished palm and forearm, the Ninth Month Moon Priest finally reacted, letting out an extremely pained scream.

"Seize him!"

"Capture that guy for me!"

"Daring to attack our Ancestor God Temple’s Moon Priest, this is defying authority. If he dares to resist, kill him without mercy!"

Facing such a severe injury for the first time, the Ninth Month Moon Priest became somewhat hysterical.

The ten or so Moon Priests and a hundred Star Priests behind him, some fearfully glanced at Ye Zhen, but still cautiously surrounded him.

Within the Ancestor God Temple, the hierarchy was formidable. They dared not disobey the words of the most powerful Ninth Month Moon Priest.

"Defying authority?"

Ye Zhen sneered coldly, his divine sense sinking into the Strong Wind Spirit Essence Pearl. His figure flickered like smoke, appearing like a phantom in front of the hysterical Ninth Month Moon Priest.

Casually slapping him on the cheek, in the Ninth Month Moon Priest’s ghostly expression, the Protective Spirit Armor and Protective Body Suppressing Device appeared simultaneously.

But they merely appeared, as the striking force from Ye Zhen, seeming dragon-like, completely shattered the Protective Spirit Armor on the spot, and the Protective Body Suppressing Device dimmed, whimpered, and retreated into his body.

Slap!

A mouthful of teeth shattered instantly, and half his face caved in, blood flowing freely!

This slap, if not for Ye Zhen restraining his strength slightly, could have killed the Moon Priest with just physical force alone!

In the moment of astonishment among the Moon Priests and Star Priests, Ye Zhen suddenly displayed a token, with its Ancestor God shadow appearing immediately. In the white light, the words "Left Chief Priest Ye Zhen of the Barbarian Spirit Hall" emerged.

This immediately intimidated the Moon Priests and Star Priests into immobility.

"It seems the ones defying authority are you all!"

In the dazed and mute eyes of the Star Priests and Moon Priests, Ye Zhen roared angrily, "Take them all down!" Hundreds of priests from the Barbarian Spirit Hall charged forward, capturing the priests who dared not resist, each subjecting them to the unique Restriction of the Barbarian Spirit Hall.

The severe hierarchy within the Ancestor God Temple was relatively relaxed internally; sparring or having a bout wasn’t an issue.

However, once outside, especially when it’s military priests, the regulations were as strict as military law.

Nonetheless, the Ninth Month Moon Priest finally realized, "Wait, we are the military priests of the War God Temple. Although Left Chief Priest Ye’s status is noble, you have no authority to deal with us!"

Compared to the War Soul Hall, those from there preferred being called people of the War God Temple because the War God Temple enshrines the war gods who conquered battlefields throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty!

Being fellow Ancestor God Temple priests, although Ye Zhen had previously had conflicts with the War God Temple, the Ten Thousand Bones Reincarnation Seal avatar from the War God Temple was still in Ye Zhen’s possession.

This counted as a favor, and Ye Zhen didn’t want to push things too far.

Just as he was about to rebuke and brush over the matter, a jade scroll suddenly fell into Ye Zhen’s hands, which was Liuu Feng’s initial interrogation result.

With just one glance, Ye Zhen’s gaze turned icy cold, saying in a chilly voice, "Indeed, I have no authority to deal with you all, but you just attacked this Left Chief Priest, defying authority!"

Ye Zhen flicked his hand that was as white as jade and spoke meticulously, his demeanor as shameless as could be!