King of Creation

The Second Island Master Yang Ben was like a meteor in the sky, fully pursuing Ye Zhen, while the chaotic cries below made his eyebrows furrow slightly as he instinctively glanced down.

With just one glance, Yang Ben understood the situation!

Earlier, in order to annihilate Ye Zhen, he launched an indiscriminate and all-encompassing attack on the two silhouettes of Ye Zhen that remained, using his bell Soul Artifact to unleash ten Purple Flowing Flames!

The five Purple Flowing Flames aimed at Ye Zhen's Illusory Body were expected, but the real issue was the inability to lock onto Ye Zhen's aura, which allowed him to evade the other five Purple Flowing Flames.

Two of those went astray and blasted into the distant void.

Ultimately, those two Purple Flowing Flames dissipated in the void, but the problem was that, due to differing angles, the other three veered and blasted toward the ground!

One of them, judging by its trajectory, was actually heading for the area near the Grand Hall below, where not only were there numerous structures but also a large number of martial artists from Yin Yang Island!

At this moment, upon witnessing this, those martial artists cried out in alarm and immediately fled for their lives!

Even the Grand Island Lord Yin Yi saw this scene but could only cry out in surprise, without any possibility of preventing it!

There was too little time, and this attack from a Low Grade Soul Artifact, driven with all his power by the Second Island Master Yang Ben, couldn't be stopped even with the Cultivation of the Grand Island Lord Yin Yi!

After hesitating for a brief moment, an immense wave of Divine Soul Power suddenly erupted around Yang Ben, and three extremely subtle Divine Soul Waves spread out from the center of the three Purple Flowing Flames!

Instantly, the three extremely terrifying Purple Flowing Flames silently disintegrated from within, transforming into the purest Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, dissipating into the air!

With no other choice, Yang Ben had to use the trace of Divine Soul Aura left within the Purple Flowing Flames to dissolve them from within!

Otherwise, his killing move not only failed to strike Ye Zhen, but it would have become a huge joke if it ended up slaughtering his own subordinates!

Moreover, dealing with the aftermath would be extremely troublesome.

Therefore, out of necessity, even at this critical moment, Yang Ben had to divert part of his Divine Sense to handle it.

On the surface, Yang Ben appeared to still be chasing Ye Zhen while managing this crisis. However, his speed noticeably decreased, and when he activated the Divine Soul Aura within the Purple Flowing Flames, his movement paused, and the distance between him and Ye Zhen increased significantly!

In this brief moment, the power of five Spirit Light auras manifesting above the heads of the Great Saint of Jinghai and the Grand Island Lord Yin Yi had already reached five!

After dealing with this minor accident, Yang Ben resumed his pursuit with increased speed, chasing Ye Zhen like a meteor chasing the moon!

At the same instant, clearly sensing the speed change of Yang Ben, Ye Zhen's expression flickered, and a smirk suddenly appeared at the corner of his mouth!

"Sigh, after spending so much time at sea, my thinking is getting rigid. Why must I escape in an unobstructed sky when there's plenty of land here?"

With a movement of his Divine Sense, Ye Zhen's figure plummeted toward the lush forest below as swiftly as a Golden Crow descending, and the moment he descended, five more figures emerged from his body, disappearing in different directions into the forest!

Seeing Ye Zhen once again use the Mirage Avatar, Yang Ben's eyebrows furrowed deeply. In that fleeting moment, Ye Zhen managed to grasp an elusive chance at escape!

Without hesitation, the bell hovering in front of his chest shook several times, and six Purple Flowing Flames whistled into the forest toward Ye Zhen's figure!

Even though Ye Zhen had hidden within the forest, Yang Ben's eyes were as sharp as lightning, accurately spotting the six figures into which Ye Zhen transformed. However, while he identified them, he couldn't discern which was Ye Zhen's True Body!

He could only continue his indiscriminate bombardment!

Simultaneously, the Great Saint of Jinghai and Yin Yi ascended to the sky to watch the combat and count the exchange!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Ye Zhen's transformed illusions began being shattered, while the kilometer-wide span of the forest around them was reduced to ashes by intense flames, and raging fires ignited instantly within the forest!

"Hmph, found you! Your True Body is here!"

Seeing the sole Ye Zhen figure dodge one of his Purple Flowing Flames, Yang Ben let out a sinister laugh!

As his figure descended rapidly, his hands moved swiftly like swimming dragons, quickly releasing rings of flames from his palms, speeding toward Ye Zhen like long fire dragons!

In an instant, a Heaven and Earth Net was cast over the sky and earth!

Worse still, the fiery dragons, when passing over the raging inferno on the ground, absorbed its flames to grow even stronger.

In a moment, the aura of the dozen or so fire dragons controlled by Yang Ben's hands became terrifyingly overwhelming.

Ye Zhen even felt that some of the fire dragons, without even needing to hit him directly, could incinerate him just by coming within a meter of him!

The area around the fire dragons turned into a scorched yellow, and the air became unbearably hot in an instant!

Ye Zhen understood that at this point, any hesitation, any reserve, was suicidal!

Without the slightest hesitation, the Acquired Spirit Treasure Thunder Light Pearl floated to Ye Zhen's forehead, and the thunder light flashed intensely!

Rumble!

Amidst the thunderclap, a flare of Thunder Snake Radiance suddenly rent the sky, briefly flickering through the encirclement of Yang Ben's fire dragons!

Suddenly, seeing Ye Zhen's escaping figure, Yang Ben was stunned!

"Damn it! Thunder Element Movement Technique, how can you have such a quick movement technique?" he shouted angrily as his figure flashed, chasing after him like a fire meteor.

Yet, the problem was that Ye Zhen, transformed into Thunder Snake-like radiance, flickered continuously. Although Yang Ben kept closing in, it was tough to catch up immediately!

With several uses of Thunder Snake Flash, Ye Zhen's power count had already reached twelve moments!

One-third of the time had passed, making Yang Ben exceedingly anxious!

Suddenly, Yang Ben's expression became stern. "Hmph, I originally wanted to spare you a remnant soul for some entertainment, but now it seems you're courting death yourself!"

"Go!"

While in pursuit, Yang Ben let out a shout, and the purple-red bell in front of his chest suddenly shot out, flickering in and out!

The crowd only faintly saw a purple light rapidly approaching Ye Zhen!

Meanwhile, Ye Zhen's heart inexplicably thudded several times, as a tremendous, indescribable danger rapidly drew near!

The instant his Divine Sense expanded rapidly, Ye Zhen noticed the radiance of Yang Ben's purple bell Soul Artifact swiftly approaching, enclosing him with a hundred-meter-long purple fire dragon!

In his determination to win this battle, Yang Ben did not hesitate to use the origin power of his Low Grade Soul Artifact Soul-Rending Purple Fire Bell to kill Ye Zhen!

Sensing the extremely violent Divine Soul Aura within the purple bell, Ye Zhen understood clearly that if he were hit, not only would his physical body turn to ashes, but even his Divine Soul would be scattered!

In that instant, a substantial Four-colored Innate Soul Light directly infused into the Thunder Light Pearl, the Thunder Snake Radiance flashed again, and Ye Zhen fled once more.

However, the speed of the Low Grade Soul Artifact Soul-Rending Purple Fire Bell was even quicker than the flash of Ye Zhen's Thunder Snake Radiance!

In the next instant, Yang Ben's eyes widened angrily, pointing at Ye Zhen and cursing, "Zhenhai, how can you be so shameless!"

In that flicker, Ye Zhen actually changed direction, dodging right over the heads of those thousand elite martial artists of Yin Yang Island.

Not to mention anything else, if Yang Ben dared to chase with the Soul-Rending Purple Fire Bell, as long as Ye Zhen's figure slightly dropped, the power of the Soul-Rending Purple Fire Bell would affect this group of elite martial artists from Yin Yang Island!

With one strike, the possibility of mass casualties is high!

"Hehe, not bad, but still a bit lacking compared to you!"

"Damn it, all of you idiots, move to the Grand Island Lord's side, what are you standing here for?" Frustrated, Yang Ben retracted the Soul-Rending Purple Fire Bell and cursed out loud.

In an instant, the martial artists of Yin Yang Island were sweating profusely on their foreheads, they were so close to being wiped out!

In the moment when Ye Zhen distanced himself significantly, his figure flashed and split into six illusion clones!

But this time, instead of fleeing, Ye Zhen's six illusion clones turned around and charged toward Yang Ben!

Ye Zhen realized that if he only focused on escaping, he might not even last fifteen breaths, let alone thirty!

Yang Ben was momentarily stunned, then sneered, "Great, I was worried you wouldn't dare!"

In the next instant, before Yang Ben could strike down Ye Zhen's six illusions, a dark purple Soul Refining Divine Light shot straight out from the forehead of one of Ye Zhen's figures!

Yang Ben was overjoyed, "Is that your true body?"

But before he could finish speaking, his expression became extremely wary, as a swirling vortex of divine soul power instantly condensed in front of him, visible to the naked eye.

Almost as soon as the divine soul vortex appeared, Ye Zhen's Soul Refining Divine Light crashed into the vortex's center and disappeared in an instant!

Time seemed to come to a halt for a tenth of a breath.

Yang Ben's face suddenly turned extremely red, as if filled with blood!

Pop!

Like a balloon bursting, the divine soul vortex at Yang Ben's forehead suddenly collapsed, causing him to tremble violently, with bright red blood gushing from his eyes, ears, and nose in an instant!

Grand Island Lord Yin Yi's eyes widened abruptly, "The Sea Suppression Great Saint actually managed to injure my second brother, just a mere martial artist at the sixth stage of the Vein Forging Realm, how is this possible?"

"Island Master Yin, you miscounted by one breath!" the Great Saint of Jinghai calmly reminded, but there was also an undeniable shock in his eyes!

He didn't expect this battle to turn from one-sided pursuit into Ye Zhen's counterattack!

Compared to the onlookers' shock, Yang Ben, who was directly involved in the battle, was beyond words to describe his shock!

The previous strike not only shook his innate divine soul but directly damaged his Spirit Palace!

Even the Spirit Pillar used to suppress the Soul Sea had tiny cracks appear!

The last time he suffered such an injury was over thirty years ago, when he was chasing a martial artist at the half-step Dao realm, and was wounded by the opponent's self-destruction of the divine soul!

And Ye Zhen, with just a cultivation at the sixth stage of the Vein Forging Realm, actually managed to injure him!

But the shock was just the beginning!

In the instant when blood spurted from Yang Ben's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, the rumbling sound of thunder rang out again, and a thunder snake radiance as thick as a bucket was poured down from above him!

In an instant, it struck Yang Ben down from the sky, his whole body appearing charred like coal!

In an instant, Yang Ben was struck dumb!

One thunder snake blast after another struck Yang Ben's head, directly knocking him from the sky to the ground, his entire skin charred like coal!

But with a flash of surrounding spirit light, a massive amount of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi poured into Yang Ben's body from all directions, layers of fiery-colored flame light emerged from his body, and Yang Ben's injuries began to recover visibly, with new granulation visibly growing on his exposed skin, his surface regenerating swiftly!

The strength of a Dao Entrance Realm expert was evident.

However, ultimately, the speed at which Yang Ben was repairing his flesh was still slightly slower than the destruction caused by Ye Zhen!

If the battle continued at this stalemate, it might end with Yang Ben being blasted to death!

But when Ye Zhen's fifth Thunder Snake Blast crashed onto Yang Ben's head, Yang Ben finally reacted completely!

The Soul-Rending Purple Fire Bell floating on his chest suddenly emitted vast swathes of purple flames, instantly enveloping Yang Ben!

Ye Zhen's Thunder Snake Blast had just fallen into the purple flames emitted by the Soul-Rending Purple Fire Bell when it was refined into nothingness!

Narrowing his eyes, another Soul Refining Divine Light burst from them!

To Ye Zhen's surprise, this time, Yang Ben seemed to have sensed it and dodged in advance, avoiding Ye Zhen's Soul Refining Divine Light attack once again!

With a sigh of regret, feeling the terrifying aura emitted by the vast purple flames, in the next instant, Ye Zhen let out a strange cry and once again transformed into thunder snake radiance, escaping into the distance!

"The time has passed twenty-five breaths, only one breath remains!" Grand Island Lord Yin Yi lightly hummed a seemingly indifferent reminder, which implicitly urged urgency.

In an instant, Yang Ben became anxious!

If he couldn't deal with Ye Zhen within these last five breaths, Yang Ben's reputation would truly be tarnished!

He shot up in pursuit, only to find that Ye Zhen's Thunder Snake Flash was almost as fast as his movement technique, and Ye Zhen had already darted far away!

"Twenty-six breaths!"

"Twenty-seven breaths!"

The Great Saint of Jinghai's counting sounded like a death countdown, urging Yang Ben into a frenzy, while the Sea-Breaking Great Saint was already flashing with spiritual light, ready to intervene between Yang Ben and Ye Zhen as soon as the time was up!

"Twenty-eight breaths!"

Upon hearing the count again, Yang Ben's eyes turned blood-red, estimating the distance between him and Ye Zhen, he suddenly bit his tongue, crazily infusing a mouthful of pale golden Origin Essence Blood and Hai Li's divine soul power into his Low Grade Soul Artifact, the Soul-Rending Purple Fire Bell.

Instantly, a layer of eerie purple light surfaced on the Soul-Rending Purple Fire Bell!

In the next moment, the Soul-Rending Purple Fire Bell seemed to be violently shaken by an invisible giant hand, the ringing intensified sharply!

The crisp bell sounds carried an extremely eerie divine soul wave!

Where the sound waves reached, the martial artists affiliated with Yin Yang Island clutched their heads, screaming in agony.

Yet, at this moment, Yang Ben couldn't care less!

In the next instant, as the eerie divine soul wave mixed with the crisp bell sound reached Ye Zhen's ears, who was flying as a Thunder Snake Radiance, his body trembled violently, falling out of a large mass of thunder light!

"Sea Suppression, die for me!"

With a sinister laugh, the Soul-Rending Purple Fire Bell shook lightly, sending wave upon wave of purple flowing flames, like lightning, crashing toward Ye Zhen!

In an instant, the pupils of the Great Saint of Jinghai, the Great Sage of the Overturning Sea, and the Sea-Breaking Great Saint shrank simultaneously, their expressions becoming extremely tense and worried! (To be continued. If you like this work, please vote for it at Qidian (qidian.com) with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read it at m.qidian.com.)