King of Creation Chapter 5 - 5 5 Mirage Dragon Pearl

5: Chapter 5: Mirage Dragon Pearl 5: Chapter 5: Mirage Dragon Pearl “Lud Li, the Mirage Dragon Pearl defies the heavens far too much.

Give it up, and we'll destroy it.

Hand over the Mirage Dragon Pearl, and we'll let you live!” From within the void, an elder sporting a flowing white beard and jade crown bellowed loudly.

“Lud Li, surrender the Mirage Dragon Pearl at once.

Should this treasure persist in the world, our thousands of years of grueling cultivation would come to nothing.”

“Lud Li, heaven and earth cannot abide the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

Surrender it, and we'll grant you your life!” In the void, three terrifying figures encircled the bloodied Lud Li, roaring furiously without end.

Caught in the center, his jade crown broken, Daoist robe ripped, face smeared with blood, Lud Li erupted in bitter laughter. “What nonsense about ‘not tolerated by heaven and earth’?

Are you scared?

Scared that with this treasure in my hands, I'll topple the positions of you three old crooks, eh?

Surrender it?

Spare my life?

If I yield this treasure, what's the difference between life and death?

I, Lud Li, have wandered unbound my entire life.

How could I suffer your control, hahaha…….” As his狂笑 rang out, a dazzling radiance burst from Lud Li’s form.

“Not good, he's burning his True Body to flee!

Brothers, channel your power to me—help seal this monster!” The jade-crowned bearded elder thrust his finger forward, and golden light exploded across the void in an instant.

Simultaneously, the other two terrifying figures around Lud Li pointed as well, their three golden beams merging into arcane Divine Runes that bore down on him.

“Flee? When has Lud Li ever run like a beaten dog?

Don't you just fear the Mirage Dragon Pearl upending your status?

I'll embed a thorn in your hearts, one that can never be pulled out!”

Amid the狂笑, a pearl emerged from behind Lud Li’s head, as the golden explosion from his body coalesced around it entirely.

“Ten Thousand Laws Chaotic Sky, Mirage Dragon Pearl, shatter!” The void trembled fiercely, and the Mirage Dragon Pearl, empowered by Lud Li’s full might, smashed through the golden suppression, ripping apart layers of space as it escaped.

“Don't let it go!

Seal!” The jade-crowned bearded elder, furious, drew blood from his fingertip without a cut, shooting golden blood that transformed endless radiance into a Divine Rune dragon, lunging at the Mirage Dragon Pearl's glowing form.

The Divine Rune dragon moved with blinding speed, instantly wrapping the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

Yet just as it nearly made contact, the space across All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds twisted chaotically, and the Mirage Dragon Pearl vanished into a rift.

When the jade-crowned bearded elder scanned again, the turbulent space had stabilized, leaving no sign of the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

“Hahaha, across the countless worlds of All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds, Emperor Xuan, let's see how you destroy the Mirage Dragon Pearl….” With the laughter fading, Lud Li’s body dissolved into scattering light points, abandoning the three figures of Emperor Xuan in the void, their faces twisted in grim silence for a long while….

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With that vision fading, the sight before Ye Zhen shifted, revealing a mighty expert in some world who stumbled upon the dust-laden Mirage Dragon Pearl, deeming it a prize, pondering it endlessly day and night to no avail until his demise.

Scenes flickered onward, the Mirage Dragon Pearl trading owners repeatedly, sparking endless bloodbaths and claiming myriad lives.

Even peerless prodigies, after claiming the Mirage Dragon Pearl, faded into obscurity among the crowds.

As ownership changed hands multiple times, the sealed Divine Runes upon it slowly crumbled, the pearl quietly devouring its holders’ Blood Qi, True Yuan, and even greater powers.

In the final visions, Ye Zhen witnessed his Ye Family ancestors acquire the Mirage Dragon Pearl, passing it down as a heirloom through generations.

Yet their Ye Family branch, drained by the pearl's absorption, watched their cultivation wane gradually, culminating in their ruin.

The ultimate scene depicted Ye Zhen’s accidental bloodshed, with the Mirage Dragon Pearl at his chest mysteriously drawing in his blood.

The strange visions ended, unveiling before Ye Zhen’s eyes a pearl bearing nine spatial stages, only the First Spatial Stage glowing faintly, the remaining eight shrouded in murky gray chaos.

Ye Zhen sank into contemplation.

The barrage of revelations from these eerie visions overwhelmed him, particularly the clash between Lud Li and Emperor Xuan, which left him utterly stunned.

Martial artists could reach such horrifying heights of power.

Ye Zhen required time to process it all.

This Mirage Dragon Pearl had to be an extraordinary treasure, given Emperor Xuan and his two allies' desperate resolve to obliterate it.

Still, Lud Li’s final secret art had warped time and space, allowing the Mirage Dragon Pearl to slip from Emperor Xuan and his companions' grasp.

During its flight, however, a fragment of Emperor Xuan’s sealing Divine Runes clung to it.

What ensued was a prolonged unsealing over ages.

Through the passage of time, the outermost layer of sealing Divine Runes on the Mirage Dragon Pearl weakened, restoring a tiny, almost imperceptible function.

It covertly siphoned strength from successive owners.

Upon reaching Ye Zhen, the pearl had fully shattered that first seal layer, activating its First Spatial Stage.

Ye Zhen reckoned ninety-two prior owners had held it, with the first seal's breach spanning thousands of years.

Truly like water wearing away stone.

“For the Mirage Dragon Pearl to draw Emperor Xuan and two other supreme powers to unite in destroying it, what heaven-defying ability could it hold?” This puzzle had haunted Ye Zhen from the start.

Regrettably, the chaotic visions offered no hint of how the Mirage Dragon Pearl defied the heavens.

Ye Zhen noticed the Mirage Dragon Pearl had fully integrated with his Danzhong acupoint on his chest.

Whenever his eyes or focus turned to the Mirage Dragon Pearl seal there, it materialized in his mind, glowing softly.

Yet no matter his efforts or provocations, the chest-embedded Mirage Dragon Pearl remained inert, showing no trace of its heaven-defying traits.

Failing in his trials, Ye Zhen shelved it temporarily.

“Maybe I haven't uncovered the Mirage Dragon Pearl's secrets yet.

Or perhaps my beast-tongue gift is a minor boon from it; I'll reveal more in time,” Ye Zhen reassured himself.

Steadying his thoughts, Ye Zhen sat cross-legged once more, ignoring his grime, and circulated the Blood Qi Technique for focused inspection.

The Mirage Dragon Pearl's supreme powers lay beyond Ye Zhen’s grasp for now, but the two drops of Stone Marrow Spirit Liquid he'd consumed offered real, immediate gains.

Alas, he'd blacked out at the pivotal breakthrough moment.

Now, Ye Zhen burned to gauge how much the Stone Marrow Spirit Liquid had boosted his Cultivation and appraise its worth from the results.

Activating the Blood Qi Technique for an inner view, Ye Zhen froze in shock.

The Blood Qi surging through his meridians left him dumbfounded.

The transformation in his body's Blood Qi Cultivation astonished him.

But the shift wasn't a surge in power.

Instead, Ye Zhen’s Cultivation had bizarrely regressed, and substantially so.

Prior to the two drops of Stone Marrow Spirit Liquid, his meridians' Blood Qi had hit Blood Qi Filling Veins.

Aided by them, Ye Zhen had anticipated at least Blood Qi Like Waves, nearing or hitting Peak of the First Stage Blood Refining.

Yet now, his meridians’ Blood Qi had thinned to Blood Qi Like Chopsticks.

This shocking reversal nearly made Ye Zhen spit blood in rage.

The yearly assessment loomed, his Cultivation already lagging badly.

Now it trailed even more.

Chest tight with unventable fury, Ye Zhen sprang up and hammered the cave wall with a savage punch to release it.

Hisss!

Lightning-quick fist ripped the air, exploding with tearing sounds.

Bang!

Fist colliding, the rock wall crumbled, shards flying everywhere, leaving Ye Zhen stunned once more.

Shattering air with a punch demanded over two thousand kilograms of force, attainable only at Peak of the First Stage Blood Refining.

Stunned briefly, joy exploded across Ye Zhen’s face as he whirled out of the cave like a gale.

At the entrance, he paused to bury the giant rats' corpses and other rotting beasts, hiding the blood scent from beasts that might expose him.

Then, face alight with thrill, Ye Zhen bolted toward Hundred Pine Peak's martial training ground.