King of Creation-Chapter 768 - 758 The Secrets of the Kitten’s Cultivation

Chapter 768: Chapter 758 The Secrets of the Kitten’s Cultivation

In the end, Ye Zhen obtained over a hundred demon cores brought by Deacon Ding with only 7.3 million mid-grade spirit crystals.

Ye Zhen hadn’t expected that the miscellaneous items piled up in his storage ring, which he usually never even glanced at, could sell for the high price of 3.4 million mid-grade spirit crystals.

As a result, after taking this batch of demon cores, there were nearly ten thousand high-grade spirit crystals and more than ten supreme spirit crystals left in his storage ring.

Of course, these miscellaneous goods were the accumulation of Ye Zhen over several years. Over these years, dozens of vein forging realm powerhouses had died at Ye Zhen’s hands, including one establishment realm king, and countless soul sea realm martial artists, so accumulating such a lot of useless odds and ends was quite normal.

As for Deacon Ding, at the end of the count, he was dumbfounded. Even if he was not so bright, he could tell that these assorted valuable items from Ye Zhen were of dubious origin.

However, business at Stars Tower has always been about the value of trade, never about its origin.

After the transaction was completed, Ye Zhen, looking somewhat weary, intended to leave quickly. At this moment, Deacon Ding, seizing the opportunity, brought up the matter of the maid that Ye Zhen had mentioned earlier.

Undeniably, there was an intention to curry favor with Ye Zhen—a multimillion mid-grade spirit crystal transaction, no ordinary sect power could muster such a large deal.

Upon Deacon Ding’s mention, Master Mu, the persona Ye Zhen was disguised as, naturally wouldn’t refuse. After nodding, Deacon Ding hurriedly left and soon returned with a face full of joy.

"Congratulations, Master Mu! That maid has agreed; for a hundred thousand mid-grade spirit crystals, she can accompany Master Mu for a month!" Deacon Ding congratulated.

Even though Ye Zhen felt somewhat depressed hearing this, he still put on a face full of joy, "Really?"

"Master Mu, what do you take me for? How could I dare to deceive Master Mu in this matter!" Deacon Ding laughed.

"Good, good, good!" Ye Zhen clapped and laughed, then extended three fingers to Deacon Ding, "Three days, I have an important matter to attend to; in three days, I will bring spiritual crystals and take the beauty away, have her clean up and wait for me, haha...."

Ye Zhen left laughing with hands behind his back, while Deacon Ding, with a smile of delight, escorted Ye Zhen out of the Stars Tower entrance, leaving only when Ye Zhen disappeared from sight.

Ye Zhen hadn’t flown into the sky for long before his expression turned sullen. In this world, there truly are those not afraid of death. Behind him, three well-cultivated vein forging realm martial artists were trailing at a distance.

Sighing, Ye Zhen accelerated his cultivation. With a major plan at hand, Ye Zhen did not wish for any complications.

To Ye Zhen’s speechlessness, when he sped up, those three divided into three directions to encircle him, and one even unleashed a speed-type divine power body technique in an attempt to intercept him ahead.

"Since you seek death, I shall fulfill your wish!"

With geomagnetic spiritual power augmenting him, Ye Zhen flew swiftly, distancing himself three thousand miles from Qinglan Martial City in less than half an hour, before slightly reducing his speed. Before executing his plan, he didn’t want any disturbances alerting any local forces within Qinglan Martial City.

"Damn, kid, you’re quite able at running, huh? Now, your spiritual energy can’t keep up; can’t run anymore, right?" No sooner had Ye Zhen slowed than a martial artist draped in a black cloak cussed as he got in front of Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen looked at the black-cloaked martial artist with an expressionless face, noting that his cultivation was only at the fourth stage of the vein forging realm. Of course, due to the Hidden Meridian Art, Ye Zhen was currently emanating only the aura of the first stage of the vein forging realm, so this guy thought he had Ye Zhen cornered. Naturally, even if Ye Zhen revealed a third stage aura, it might not deter the greed of these three.

"Boy, if you hand over your storage ring, we might spare your innate divine soul, allowing you to reincarnate, otherwise...."

"Otherwise, we will completely smash you, obliterate you so utterly that you are erased from this world!" This voice came from behind Ye Zhen, as the other two companions of the black-cloaked martial artist arrived, the three of them vaguely forming a triangle to envelope Ye Zhen.

"Sigh... if I were you, I’d stay far away, not inviting such a fatal disaster upon myself!" Ye Zhen lightly sighed.

"A fatal disaster? Bah, even now, you’re pretending to be mysterious!" The black-cloaked martial artist cursed, "With your cultivation, the three of us can wear you down a hundred times over. In three breaths, if the storage ring isn’t handed over, prepare to be thoroughly erased!"

"Erased, is it?"

A playful smile suddenly appeared at the corner of Ye Zhen’s mouth, "Take a look at this?" A skull, as white as jade, abruptly appeared in front of Ye Zhen.

"Skull... no, is it a spiritual artifact, a mid-grade spiritual artifact?" The black-cloaked martial artist’s eyes widened abruptly, instantly consumed by endless greed, "Hand it over, hand it over and we can spare you...."

Hiss, wail, roar....

Almost instantly, the Soul Capturing Jade Skull in front of Ye Zhen vibrated, and the ghostly howl that sent a chill to the soul and could tear one’s divine soul echoed through the entire nearby area.

This was the soul capturing ghost howl of the Soul Capturing Jade Skull, an uncommon area-based sonic assault. Due to its broad range, its power was less than that of the ghost shadow soul devourer in the eyes of the Soul Capturing Jade Skull, but it was more than sufficient.

The moment the soul capturing ghost howl sounded, the three vein forging realm martial artists intending to rob Ye Zhen simultaneously clutched their heads in agony and began to scream. Caught off guard, they were all affected; that faint, tearing pain of the innate divine soul was unbearable, even for vein forging realm powerhouses.

Whoosh!

The Low Grade Spirit Artifact Divine Great Momentum Hammer flew out, trailing a stream of earthy yellow light, and struck in the void three times with the precision of a dragonfly skimming water. The bodies of the three Vein Forging Realm martial artists, who had clasped their heads and were screaming miserably, plummeted from the sky, along with a rain of flesh and blood.

Just a bit more, and the Divine Great Momentum Hammer would have shattered them to pieces.

"I told you, you are courting death, yet you wouldn’t believe it...."

Sighing lightly, Ye Zhen somewhat disdainfully stripped the storage rings from the three mangled bodies. To Ye Zhen’s dismay, aside from the black-caped martial artist, the other two Vein Forging Realm martial artists used Mid-grade Storage Rings that were only ten meters in size.

With such quality storage rings, one could imagine the worth of these three robbers.

Together, they contributed just over two hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Crystals to Ye Zhen, along with pills worth over a hundred thousand and various Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and spiritual medicines.

With a flicker, Ye Zhen disappeared from the scene of carnage, shooting towards a large mass of white clouds in the sky.

Under the control of the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, the large cloud drifted in the direction of Qinglan Martial Capital, while Ye Zhen, as if tossing snacks, fed the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten the Heavenly Level Demon Pills just bought from the Stars Tower, one by one.

He tossed a Heavenly Level Lower Grade wind element demon pill into the mouth of the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, and with a few bites, a faint breeze stirred around the kitten, which then opened its mouth again to Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen shook his head with a smile and threw another Heavenly Level Lower Grade wind element demon pill.

Ever since merging with a portion of the Black Dragon Bloodline, the appetite of the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten had become exceptionally voracious. If it were other demon beasts, it would take several hours to refine the Heavenly Level Lower Grade demon pills, but the kitten only needed a dozen or so breaths to finish the refinement.

This was very clear as observed with Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense, which had penetrated directly into the kitten’s body.

In less than two hours, seventy-six Heavenly Level Lower Grade wind element demon pills, along with twenty-one Heavenly Level Middle Grade wind element demon pills, were devoured completely by the kitten. After engulfing seventy-six Heavenly Level Lower Grade demon pills, the kitten’s cultivation aura had a distinctly noticeable enhancement. In Ye Zhen’s perception, it had ascended to the Mid Stage Low-Grade Spirit Tier, approaching the Late Stage Low-Grade Spirit Tier.

Of course, prior to consumption, the kitten’s cultivation was already very close to the Mid Stage Low-Grade Spirit Tier.

"There are still thirty-four Heavenly Level High Grade demon pills left. I wonder if you can break through to the Mid-Grade Spirit Tier. If so, I’ll be even more confident about tonight’s matters!"

Murmuring to himself, Ye Zhen tossed a Heavenly Level High Grade demon pill into the kitten’s mouth. The kitten took considerably more time to refine the Heavenly Level High Grade demon pills, with each taking almost half a quarter-hour.

Then, Ye Zhen’s expression became somewhat astonished.

Under normal circumstances, the energy contained in a Heavenly Level High Grade demon pill is ten times that of a Heavenly Level Middle Grade demon pill. Even though the increase in the kitten’s cultivation post-refinement shouldn’t be tenfold, it should at least be seven or eight times.

Theoretically, this was the case, but in reality, a Heavenly Level High Grade demon pill only provided twice the increase in cultivation compared to a Heavenly Level Middle Grade wind element demon pill after refinement.

This disparity was far from Ye Zhen’s expectations.

Compared to pure wind-element Heavenly Level Middle Lower Grade demon pills, other non-wind-element Heavenly Level High Grade demon pills have more impurities in the power they supply. Still, they should not result in a mere twofold increase in cultivation after discarding the excess power.

Perplexed, Ye Zhen entered the Sword Heart Enlightenment state, carefully observing the kitten’s condition. It didn’t take long for him to find the reason.

Body tempering!

The issue was that more than sixty percent of the energy in the Heavenly Level demon pill was dispersed into every limb, bone, and piece of flesh within the kitten.

After eliminating two to three percent in negative energy and various impurities, only a little over ten percent of the energy was absorbed by the kitten to enhance its cultivation aura.

And at this point, Ye Zhen also realized why the kitten’s cultivation improvement was extremely slow after devouring so many cultivation resources.

Most of the energy was used by the kitten to temper its body.

But when one thinks about it, with the kitten’s currently monstrous physical strength, being able to crush the attack of an Establishment King and shatter flesh and bones with a single swipe was entirely normal.

Feeding the pills one after the other, the kitten’s cultivation steadily approached the Late Stage Low-Grade Spirit Tier, while its physical strength also bolstered at a tangible pace, with its bones seeming as though they were covered in a layer of metal, shiny and compact.

And so it was, feeding until night fell, until the moon hung high in the sky, when only one Heavenly Level High Grade demon pill remained in hand. Ye Zhen abruptly sat up, his gaze like a sharp sword directed towards Qinglan Martial Capital.

"The time is near.... Tonight, will definitely be a night to be remembered by all powers in Qinglan Martial Capital...." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it on Qidian.com. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)