King of Creation-Chapter 777 - 767: Condensing Innate Soul Light?

In the Soul Hosting Palace at the headquarters of Stars Tower in Xuanlong Domain, an elderly man dressed in gray robes sat boredly in the center of the hall, occasionally glancing at the rows of jade slips on the Jade Pavilion ahead.

Every three inches above the Jade Pavilion, there hung a sandalwood plate inscribed with a name, and beneath each sandalwood plate lay a pitch-black jade slip with faint flashes of soul light within.

This was the rare Soul Hosting Jade Slip of the entire True Profound Continent, and even the financial resources of Stars Tower couldn’t provide each core member with a Soul Hosting Jade Slip.

Only those martial artists holding high positions within Stars Tower, whose roles carried great significance, can leave a Soul Hosting Jade Slip here, such as those with major responsibilities at the headquarters, the Tower Masters or Deputy Tower Masters of the branch towers, deacons at key marketplaces, significant personnel embedded from various sides, and tributes of the entire Stars Tower.

Among millions of martial artists in Stars Tower, only about a thousand are qualified to leave a Soul Hosting Jade Slip here.

The rarity of the Soul Hosting Jade Slip is firstly due to material constraints. The Yin Spirit Jade required for crafting Soul Hosting Jade Slips is extremely rare, being one of the few materials capable of preventing the dispersal of the divine soul.

Secondly, there are only a few top-notch individuals within Stars Tower capable of performing the Soul Hosting Secret Technique, and not just anyone has the qualification to disturb them for its performance.

However, these Soul Hosting Jade Slips are merely precautions against threats; given Stars Tower’s name across the entire True Profound Continent, there are truly few who dare to strike at Stars Tower’s vital individuals.

For instance, the gray-robed elder named Xui Fei, tasked with watching over the Soul Hosting Palace, emits a scent of decay.

He has been punished to guard the Soul Hosting Palace for twenty years now. In those twenty years, not a single Soul Hosting Jade Slip has shattered, trapping him in this prison-like hall for two dark decades.

Sometimes, Xui Fei even suspects whether those outside have forgotten his existence. At least, besides the regular clearing of the Purification Barrel and delivery of food every day, he hasn’t stepped out of this hall for two hours.

This kind of life can drive a person insane. There are times when he feels an impulse to smash a couple of Soul Hosting Jade Slips, hoping it might provide him a chance to escape this near-prison hall.

Crack!

A crisp sound suddenly resonated within the hall, yet Xui Fei unexpectedly didn’t raise his head and instead started laughing bitterly at his own delusion, "Look at me, I’ve imagined it to the point of hallucination..."

Shaking his head, he swept his blurry gaze over the Jade Pavilion before him, seemingly finding nothing amiss. Just as his eyes were withdrawing, his expression suddenly changed, with sharp gleam bursting from his blurred eyes.

It’s shattered!

A Soul Hosting Jade Slip on the Jade Pavilion has shattered!

Xui Fei’s figure almost shot towards the front of the Jade Pavilion as if fearing the scene before him was a mere illusion. When he saw clearly that a Soul Hosting Jade Slip indeed shattered, the urge to laugh heartily overwhelmed him!

"Stars Tower Master in True Spirit Domain, Yan Cong!"

After reading the name on the plate, Xui Fei’s expression changed dramatically once more—a tower master of a branch tower being assassinated is a serious event.

In the next instant, Xui Fei flicked a gust of wind with his finger, setting off the alarm in the Soul Hosting Palace.

But soon, before anyone could arrive, the alarm in the Soul Hosting Palace rang out loudly.

Instantly, the entire headquarters of Stars Tower was stirred.

Within the Soul Hosting Palace, Xui Fei looked at the Soul Hosting Jade Slips of the two tributes that had just shattered successively, face turning pale!

At the same time, or rather, slightly earlier, in a Refined House behind the main building of Stars Tower where Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi was thick like broth, an elderly man in silent cultivation suddenly opened his eyes, bulging like drums.

If Ye Zhen were here, he would notice that the old man’s appearance bore some resemblance to Yan Cong.

In the next instant, the old man’s roar echoed, "Which blind fool dares kill the senior grandson I value most?"

Instantly, the headquarters of Stars Tower that was in the slumber thoroughly awakened.

At the moment when the roar echoed within the headquarters of Stars Tower across the layers of Dead Sea, Ye Zhen, hiding within the Demon Soul Hall amidst the cloud layers ten thousand meters high, was inspecting the Innate Soul Light obtained from Gan Rusong.

The escape of Yua Hanjing had given Ye Zhen an inexplicable sense of crisis, so he hadn’t returned to the Sun and Moon Divine Sect for cultivation but instead hid among the clouds ten thousand meters high, having the little cat gather large expanses of Cloud Qi to hide the Demon Soul Hall, now magnified to ten meters, beneath the clouds, protected by the little cat.

Ye Zhen himself hid inside the Demon Soul Hall refining the Innate Soul Light obtained from several Establishment Kings.

Here, with the defense of the Demon Soul Hall and protection by the little cat, it’s the safest.

As for any unfortunate guy who flies too fast and crashes into the Demon Soul Hall hidden in the Cloud Qi—that’s not Ye Zhen’s concern.

Inside the Demon Soul Hall, Ye Zhen’s five fingers clasped around Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul Light, while his mind began to propel his divine soul power to operate the Soul Refining Spirit Theft Art recorded in the Puppet Spirit Record.

In mere moments, five strands of gray airflow suddenly shot from Ye Zhen’s fingers, enveloping Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul Light and extracting it rapidly.

The moment of extraction saw a visible fragment of Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul Light disappear, and the Innate Soul Divine Soul contained within Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul Light emitted a scream of utmost anguish.

As for Ye Zhen, at that moment, he was filled with an indescribable electrifying thrill!

As Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul Light was extracted, it was converted by the Soul Refining Spirit Theft Art into extremely pure divine soul power, sent into Ye Zhen’s Soul Sea.

The Innate Soul Light was indeed incredibly pure; a single Innate Soul Light could refine into a hundred portions of equally sized divine soul power.

Just extracting a palm-sized piece of Innate Soul Light instantly boosted Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Power significantly—equivalent to half a month’s arduous cultivation of his soul power.

"Hahahaha, Innate Soul Light, indeed a treasure, a great tonic!"

Amidst the loud laughter, the glow of the Soul Refining Spirit Theft Art flowing from Ye Zhen’s fingertips grew even more splendid, as vast amounts of Innate Soul Light were extracted by him, then refined and converted into Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Power.

Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Power was rapidly increasing at a visible speed, and Ye Zhen’s Soul Sea was rapidly being expanded; in less than two hours, Ye Zhen’s Soul Sea had more than doubled in size.

In other words, Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Cultivation directly increased by more than half.

And this was merely with the Innate Soul Light of Gan Rusong, a First Stage King of the Establishment Realm.

When Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul Light was completely extracted by Ye Zhen, Gan Rusong’s Innate Soul vanished entirely without a trace.

As for the act of soul searching a King of the Establishment Realm, at this stage, Ye Zhen absolutely wouldn’t dare attempt it, unless he wants his brain to explode.

The information contained within the Divine Soul of a King of the Establishment Realm is too overwhelming.

With a flicker of Divine Sense, a large cluster of Innate Soul Light from Tributor Du of the Stars Tower appeared in Ye Zhen’s hand, which was more than three times the Innate Soul Light of Gan Rusong.

With a movement of Divine Sense, the Soul Refining Spirit Theft Art began extracting Tributor Du’s Innate Soul Light, transforming it into surging soul power, constantly strengthening Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul.

The Divine Soul Power of a Martial Artist reaches a temporary peak when the cultivation reaches the Fifth Stage of the Soul Sea Realm—Divine Soul Fifth Realm!

After the Divine Soul Fifth Realm, the soul power enters a lengthy phase of accumulation.

A pure accumulation of power, and this accumulation is purely the accumulation of Divine Soul Power—from one to a hundred, then from a hundred to a thousand, and from a thousand to ten thousand, a hundred thousand.

At a certain point when the soul power can no longer expand, it breaks through to the next stage of soul power—the Soul Casting Stage!

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What it forges is actually the Innate Soul Light.

In most texts, the cultivation stage from Divine Soul Fifth Realm to Soul Casting Stage is collectively referred to as the Peak of Divine Soul Fifth Realm, while a small number of sects refer to this process as the early Soul Casting Stage.

However, whether it’s the Peak of Divine Soul Fifth Realm or early Soul Casting Stage, this process is somewhat lengthy, even terrifyingly protracted.

Because for most Martial Artists, starting from the Peak of the Fifth Stage of the Soul Sea Realm into the early Soul Casting Stage, this process will last throughout the Vein Forging Realm.

Almost ninety-nine percent of Martial Artists will take years or even decades after reaching their bloodline limit at the Peak of the Vein Forging Realm to push their soul cultivation to the Soul Casting Stage.

Cultivation stuck in the Vein Forging Realm for decades or a hundred years is all within the early Soul Casting Stage.

Only after reaching the Soul Casting Stage can one continuously refine Divine Soul Power, until forming the Innate Divine Soul.

This is almost a laborious process, and for most Kings of the Establishment Realm, breaking through to the Establishment Realm requires at least half of their efforts dedicated to this.

But, there are exceptions to everything, and the exception happens right now in Ye Zhen’s case.

A year later, when Ye Zhen had thoroughly refined Tributor Du’s Innate Soul Light cleanly, barely extracting the Innate Soul Light of Qing Qi from the Stars Tower’s Treasure Vault for refining for less than an hour.

The center of Ye Zhen’s brow began to throb painfully for no reason; the more he refined, the more intense the headache became, as if his entire mind were filled completely with something, his whole Soul Sea seemed to be boiling, as if it would overflow, feeling as if his brain would explode, even the Soul Refining Divine Eyes at the center of his brow seemed on the brink of bursting!

No matter how much Ye Zhen urged the Soul Refining Spirit Theft Technique, no matter how much Innate Soul Light he extracted and refined into Divine Soul Power to send into the Soul Sea, Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Power wouldn’t grow any further.

Just as Ye Zhen found it incredibly strange, he suddenly recalled some records in the Secret Record of Soul Refining, a Heavenly Level High Grade Divine Soul Technique he cultivated.

"Soul Casting Stage?"

"Have I entered the Soul Casting Stage?"

In the instant he understood this, Ye Zhen’s expression turned incredibly peculiar, while others need decades or centuries for the process, he had completed it in mere days.

Of course, this has a great deal to do with the fact that most people spend their entire lives never obtaining a single cluster of Innate Soul Light.

And Ye Zhen, here, had the Innate Soul Light of three Establishment Realm Kings, the strongest of whom had a cultivation as high as the Fourth or Fifth Stage of Establishment Realm.

To sum it up, Ye Zhen had thoroughly refined the Innate Soul Light of a First Stage King and a Third Stage King of the Establishment Realm; calculating without loss, these two’s Innate Soul Light combined could at least achieve the soul cultivation of four First Stage Establishment Kings.

As for Ye Zhen, having enough Innate Soul Light to forge four First Stage Kings of the Establishment Realm soul cultivation, yet it merely sent his soul cultivation into the Soul Casting Stage, is perfectly normal.

It shows that during the process of using the Soul Refining Spirit Theft Art to transform Innate Soul Light, the loss is indeed significant!

"Since I’ve entered the Soul Casting Stage, if I finish refining this most powerful Innate Soul Light of Qing Qi, could I possibly advance to cultivating a wisp of Innate Soul Light in advance?" Ye Zhen’s eyes suddenly shone with brilliant light! (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation or monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)