King of Creation Chapter 2159 - 2144: Demon Spirit Soldiers

The Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill is a rather special pill whose effect is somewhat similar to the Blood Refining Martial Soul Bead Ye Zhen obtained before, but the overall effect is much inferior to it.

Specifically, the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill is made using a secret alchemical method to temper the essence blood, spiritual power, divine soul, and even origin power of a powerful demon beast with various secret techniques, then adding countless spiritual medicines to condense and refine it into a spirit pill.

Subsequently, after being ingested and refined by a martial artist with low cultivation, their cultivation will soar to the corresponding level of the pill in a short period.

Besides the surge in cultivation, they also gain enhanced power, speed, agility, and attributes akin to those of the demon beast used as the medicine cauldron.

Martial artists who consume such a Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill are collectively referred to as Demon Spirit Soldiers.

Demon Spirit Soldiers are a somewhat renowned special unit on the Primordial Continent, particularly suited for group battles and close combat.

These Demon Spirit Soldiers possess immense strength, agility akin to lightning, and unparalleled ferocity in battle.

However, their acceptance and value are not high, and compared to the Blood Refining Martial Soul Pill, their value is more than ten times lower.

The reason is simple, with three main points.

First, the upper limit of the cultivation enhancement.

For instance, the Blood Refining Martial Soul Bead of a Heavenly Patrol General, after consuming and refining, will propel one’s cultivation to the Realm King Realm, and with continued cultivation, one’s cultivation can be increased to the peak of the Ninth Stage of the Realm King Realm.

But to continue cultivating, breaking through to the Dao Realm is several to even over ten times more difficult than normal martial artist cultivation. Nevertheless, there is still a chance for a breakthrough.

However, the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill has a different cultivation limit.

Typically, it is made using a Ninth Stage Realm King Realm or Ninth Stage Dark Palace Realm demon beast as the medicine cauldron, and some energy loss occurs during the alchemical process.

Once the pill is ingested, the martial artist’s cultivation usually reaches the Middle Stage of the Realm King Realm or the Middle Stage of the Dark Palace Realm.

Once these martial artists transform into Demon Spirit Soldiers, their cultivation can continue to increase; however, for Demon Spirit Soldiers of the Realm King Realm, their cultivation can only reach the peak of the Ninth Stage of the Realm King Realm.

For those of the Dark Palace Realm, their cultivation can only reach the peak of the Ninth Stage of the Dark Palace Realm.

The possibility of them breaking through to the Dao Realm or Realm King Realm is virtually nonexistent.

Since the emergence of Demon Spirit Soldiers, none except for the creator who tested the pill on himself has been able to break through to the next grand realm.

This inability to further break through in cultivation is a fatal flaw for martial artists.

For this reason alone, the value of the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill plummets, and many martial artists shy away from it.

Second, the safety of the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill.

While the Blood Refining Martial Soul Bead boasts a refining success rate of one hundred percent, it merely varies in terms of time.

The Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill is different.

Because it involves refining and merging the power of demon beasts, some martial artists experience merge failures, with mild cases resulting in damage to their divine soul and physical body, and severe cases causing explosive death on the spot.

Although numerous improvements and modifications to the pill formula over the years have reduced the failure rate, it still stands at about twenty percent as of now.

In other words, typically, out of three thousand Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pills, only about two thousand four hundred successfully create Demon Spirit Soldiers.

This failure rate, though not high, means that for most martial artists, the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill not only ends one’s future path in martial arts but also comes with a significant risk of failure or even death, further discouraging interest.

Third, the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill only inherits and grants the most basic power and cultivation, with no higher-level divine power secret technique, or even Dao patterns and the power of laws.

On the other hand, the Blood Refining Martial Soul Bead perfectly inherits these; for instance, the Blood Refining Martial Soul Bead of a Heavenly Patrol General, once refined, bestows the various divine power secret techniques of a Heavenly Patrol General with the corresponding cultivation.

In contrast, the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill is even less valuable, making it unpopular in the market.

For most nobles, finding experts and elites is as simple as recruiting.

The Great Zhou Dynasty has a population in the billions, with countless martial artists cultivated by various sects and hidden noble families.

To find elites and experts, one only needs to spend some Flower Spirit Stones on recruitment, with no need to go through such trouble.

But Ye Zhen is different.

The Heavenly Wave Soldiers of North Sea are Ye Zhen’s personal troops brought from the North Sea. If possible, Ye Zhen wants to bring back as many of them as he can.

This is Ye Zhen’s commitment as a Third-class Earl of North Sea, and also a man’s promise.

Thus, Ye Zhen is very interested in the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill.

It must be said, the nobles of the Great Zhou Dynasty, especially those old folks, are each a sly and cunning individual.

They initially claimed that all the stock included only twenty Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pills of the Mid-stage Realm King Realm, and three thousand of the Mid-stage Dark Palace Realm.

But Ye Zhen is no rookie.

Ye Zhen knows very well how much allure the demon clan heads he holds have for someone eager to advance their noble rank.

Ultimately, Ye Zhen squeezed out twenty-five Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pills of the Mid-stage Realm King Realm, over four thousand of the Mid-stage Dark Palace Realm, and even brought along a couple of hundred extras.

In any case, Ye Zhen used these military merit heads as leverage and secured a hearty laugh.

There truly aren’t many who could sell tens of thousands of demon clan heads in one go across the entire Human-Demon Battlefield.

For these items, Ye Zhen paid ten Realm King Realm demon clan heads and five thousand Dark Palace Realm demon clan heads.

With this precedent, Ye Zhen’s military merit exchange was sold out within just one and a half hours.

All families almost universally sent their members skilled in spatial divine abilities or those possessing spatial spirit treasure secret techniques, ensuring they arrived at Ye Zhen’s designated transaction location in the shortest time possible.

Of course, the transaction locations for each family were different; Ye Zhen wasn’t that foolish.

In just one and a half hours, eight Dao Realm Demon Lord heads, sixteen hundred Realm King heads, forty thousand Dark Palace Realm Demon Clan heads, and over sixty thousand heads of Demon Clan below the Dark Palace Realm were all snapped up.

Among these, especially the Demon Clan heads of the Dark Palace Realm and the Realm King Realm, the majority were Ye Zhen’s spoils from the Demon Soul Realm, now all cashed in.

To be honest, the Demon Clan expert heads that Ye Zhen exchanged, especially those obtained from the Demon Soul Realm,

had already surpassed the total number of Demon Clan elite experts killed in the few days since the start of this millennial campaign.

However, Ye Zhen didn’t need to worry about these.

The ones who bought the military merit heads were all cunning veterans who wouldn’t naively present a heap of heads claiming they had killed them themselves.

They would naturally arrange one or several carefully orchestrated battles, even eliminating a Demon Clan patrol team, to create a substantial commotion, then report these military merits in a plausible manner.

As for Ye Zhen, he exchanged them for a large amount of advanced military equipment.

To begin with, Ye Zhen exchanged for twelve Commander Level Spirit Boats, and with Ye Zhen’s flagship, the number of Commander Level Spirit Boats under Ye Zhen’s command had seen explosive growth.

Even the smallest of these Commander Level Spirit Boats could accommodate five thousand soldiers, and the largest could accommodate seven thousand. The slowest speed reached fifty thousand miles per hour, comparable to the flight speed of ordinary Early Dao Realm experts.

Thirteen ships could accommodate nearly seventy thousand people.

In other words, the sixty thousand elite troops Ye Zhen brought this time could all move at an extremely high speed.

No longer would they be as passive as they were during previous surprise raids.

Simultaneously, he also acquired one hundred and sixty Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows and their bolts.

There were also over two thousand three hundred Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbows.

The Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbow and the Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbow could compensate for the lack of experts during city defense, an absolute city defense weapon.

Ye Zhen personally kept a hundred Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows and a thousand Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbows and then deployed the Heavenly Patrol General to deliver these military supplies to the Blood River Fortress, Yang Gate Fortress, and Cairo Fortress at the shortest notice.

Each place received an average of twenty Sky-Breaking Execution Crossbows and four hundred Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbows, significantly enhancing their city defense strength.

Additionally, Ye Zhen sent part of the higher-grade standard armor and pill talismans obtained by trading Dark Palace Realm and below Demon Clan heads.

Of course, most were prioritized for the surprise attack army led by Ye Zhen externally.

This surprise attack army had to engage in bloody warfare with the Demon Clan army without defensive measures and guardian formations.

The best equipment had to be given to them to reduce casualties.

Even though the previous surprise attacks succeeded three times, future success would likely decrease.

However, Ye Zhen decided that this sixty-thousand strong army, under his direct command, would not enter the Blood River Fortress but remain mobile in the field.

As the former Supreme Commander of the Eastern Expedition, Ye Zhen was very aware that if one held their ground and was besieged by the Demon Clan army, they would completely lose the initiative.

An army that had lost the initiative, especially with a disparity in strength, had little ability to change the battle’s course or seek opportunities.

Therefore, Ye Zhen quietly allowed this army to stay outside the city, seeking opportunities.

"Grand Marshal, the soldiers and generals volunteering for the fusion and refining of Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pills have been selected, all willing, but most are of Establishment Realm and Dao Entrance Realm cultivation.

This level of cultivation, if forced to fuse and refine the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pills, might see an increase in failure and mortality rates," Niu Er reported.

"Besides, fusing and refining the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pills would take at least three days and at worst ten days to half a month. Our situation might not allow us to stay in one place for long," Niu Er wore a worried look.

Ye Zhen, however, patted Niu Er on the shoulder with a relaxed expression, "These are not issues."

"Distribute these Flood Dragon Essence Blood, one barrel per person, and let them use the secret method I taught to completely refine and absorb the Flood Dragon Essence Blood before fusing the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pills."

"Moreover, after distribution, bring them all sequentially to my flagship."

Soon, according to Ye Zhen’s instructions, Niu Er brought the soldiers one by one into Ye Zhen’s flagship, which resembled a monster capable of swallowing people.

The instant these soldiers stepped in, their forms shifted, appearing in a completely unfamiliar space, entirely unlike the flagship Spirit Boat.

At the moment of entry, some of these soldiers felt panicked, but as soon as Marshal Ye Zhen’s voice resounded, they instantly calmed down.

"In the shortest possible time, use the method I passed on to you to absorb and refine the Flood Dragon Essence Blood, greatly enhancing your physical strength, then fuse and refine the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pills," this was Ye Zhen’s voice.

These soldiers were now naturally inside Ye Zhen’s Mirage Dragon Pearl Sequential Space.

Only the Mirage Dragon Pearl Sequential Space could enable them to complete fusion in the shortest time.

The reason for giving them a barrel of Flood Dragon Essence Blood was to significantly reduce the fusion failure rate, minimizing the potential death rate.

This Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill was mentioned in Master Lud Li’s sect inheritance, albeit briefly.

The Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill, when the Beast Blood Demon Spirit’s power suddenly hits the body, failure in fusion might occur due to insufficient physical strength, even leading to a body explosion.

However, using Flood Dragon Essence Blood for body refinement would greatly enhance physical strength, significantly reducing fusion failure rates and preventing death from body explosion!

But using this pill meant a severance from Martial Arts, hence not to be used lightly by the ordinary.

It’s because of this that Ye Zhen sought to exchange a large quantity of Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pills.

The above statements are Master Lud Li’s original words.

As for Flood Dragon, these low-level Dragon Clan’s essence blood, Ye Zhen indeed had plenty of it!