King of Creation

The red sun sets in the west, the crimson clouds remaining in a thin line, and the sky is about to darken.

This is the scene Ye Zhen saw when he looked out from the window of the Silent Chamber in the posthouse.

The scene itself is not startling, but when compared, it becomes quite extraordinary.

Ye Zhen remembers very clearly that when he entered the Mirage Dragon Pearl, the sun outside had just shifted west, roughly around Shen hour two quarters, about four o’clock in the afternoon.

But now, it is between You hour two quarters to three quarters, approximately a little before half past six in the afternoon.

However, Ye Zhen remembers distinctly that from when he moved the Mirage Dragon Pearl out of his body and entered it, he first wasted one hour without any clue, and then, as advised by Achou, Mirage Dragon Primordial Spirit, he cultivated for ten hours.

Altogether, he stayed in the Mirage Dragon Pearl for eleven hours.

Under these circumstances, it should be the next day with the red sun high, at approximately Wei hour two quarters, around two o’clock in the afternoon.

Yet now, the sun has set, nearly two hours off, it simply doesn’t match up.

In an instant, Ye Zhen’s heart skipped a beat, a shocking thought suddenly arose.

But this idea is indeed too astounding, Ye Zhen needs to verify it.

"Nie Ting, from the moment Achou helped me set the illusion until now, how long has it been?" Ye Zhen felt that after entering the Mirage Dragon Pearl, the changes in time seemed somewhat messed up, but as an outsider, Nie Ting and others should not be affected.

"Lord, it hasn’t been long, only about one hour, or to be precise, one hour and less than half a stick of incense...."

Nie Ting hadn’t finished speaking, yet there was already a look of horror in Ye Zhen’s eyes.

Just over an hour passed, while Ye Zhen, spent eleven hours inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

"Qianbi, how long has it been since I asked you to assist?" Ye Zhen still couldn’t believe it.

"Replying to Master, barely a little over an hour has passed."

After hearing Ling Qianbi’s answer, no matter how shocking or impossible Ye Zhen found it, he had already accepted it.

"Continue to assist. Additionally, start timing from now."

After finishing speaking, Ye Zhen returned to his original spot, and as the illusion set by Achou covered him, he drifted into the depths of the underground and vanished again.

When Ye Zhen remerged, it was already a day and a half later; this time, Ye Zhen had cultivated inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl for eighteen hours.

According to normal time flow, it should be bright outside, and the sun should be rising shortly.

But after coming out, Ye Zhen found that the sky was pitch black, and the street lamps were just turning on outside.

"Lord, from when you last instructed until now, altogether one and a half hours have passed." Big Ears Nie Ting’s words this time filled Ye Zhen’s eyes with endless joy.

After several attempts, Ye Zhen had confirmed what heaven-defying capability was brought by breaking through the Fifth Spatial Stage of the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

To speak honestly, it is truly heaven-defying!

Time!

The ability to manipulate the sequence of time!

Ten hours within the Mirage Dragon Pearl equates to one hour outside; ten days inside equates to just one day outside; ten years inside equates to merely one year outside.

It’s akin to where others can cultivate for one year, Ye Zhen can cultivate for ten years.

If this ability of the Mirage Dragon Pearl isn’t heaven-defying, which ability dares to claim to be heaven-defying?

The only flaw is that cultivation inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl cannot extract Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi for cultivation and can only rely on Spirit Stones and Psychic Spirit Pills, but Ye Zhen currently lacks none of these.

Ye Zhen is now short only of time!

"Time Sequence Ability, one day outside, ten days inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl; this is the heaven-defying capability unlocked after the Fifth Spatial Stage of the Mirage Dragon Pearl, right, Achou?" Ye Zhen exclaimed.

Mirage Dragon Primordial Spirit Achou lazily stretched, "What’s this?"

"The space sealing of the Mirage Dragon Pearl, starting from the Fifth Stage onwards, each stage is more heaven-defying than the last! Otherwise, in the past, they wouldn’t have..... wouldn’t have....."

Achou tapped its head with its short claw, "Uh, my memory is still insufficiently restored."

At that moment, Ye Zhen had no mood to explore secrets, but asked an urgent, pivotal question, "By the way, Achou, inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl, can I bring others in to cultivate?"

"I say, Lord Ye, didn’t you notice Little Cat, that effeminate one, you took him in and out two or three times already?"

A deep tiger roar sounded, and Little Cat angrily protested.

Ye Zhen hesitated, lightly rubbed his forehead, and his eyes gleamed with joy.

Since the Little Cat could be taken in and out several times, other people should be no problem as well.

Given the resolution of the Shahe City Branch Temple case might take about a year or half a year, Ye Zhen’s forces could advance rapidly, no longer constrained as they are now.

However, if there isn’t absolute trust in a person, Ye Zhen would definitely not bring them into the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

Back in the True Profound Continent, when Ye Zhen first acquired the Mirage Dragon Pearl, there was a lingering Spirit Shadow inside that Ye Zhen remembered vividly.

Lo, Lud Li was such a formidable being, yet under those few individuals’ pressure, had to perish and vanish.

If the news of the Mirage Dragon Pearl were to leak, even countless versions of Ye Zhen wouldn’t be enough to satiate those terrifying existences in killing.

However, precisely because of this, Ye Zhen was even more curious as to what kind of heaven-defying ability the Mirage Dragon Pearl possessed that made that fearsome existence go all out regardless of dignity?

Resolving not to rest until the Mirage Dragon Pearl was destroyed?

It seems surely linked to the immense capabilities of the sealed stages beyond in the Mirage Dragon Pearl?

Suddenly, Ye Zhen greatly desired to know exactly what kind of heaven-defying abilities are housed in the four stages beyond in the Mirage Dragon Pearl?

.....

Within the Heavenly Temple Luo Prefecture Branch Temple, sitting among the ruins of the branch temple, waiting for news from the experts scattered far and wide searching for traces.

Once the enemy’s trail is discovered, with Mu Hall Master Mu Xu’s means, he and Baili Fei can reach any location within millions of miles in just a few breaths, then slay or capture the culprit alive.

However, until now, they have already waited for almost three days.

Aside from the initial three hundred experts deployed around the Luo Prefecture Branch Temple, there are experts continuously hurried over from the Weizhou Branch Temple and the Ancient Teleportation Formation in Weizhou without sparing any expense, as well as thousands of martial artists from nearby Incense Halls who have been mobilized temporarily, and the county soldiers from nearby, along with the border army sealing various Human-Demon Battlefields.

Over the past three days, the Heavenly Temple has already deployed over a million people. Although hundreds of thousands of people are still impossible to search every inch of the millions of miles surrounding Luo Prefecture, the high divine sense of the Heavenly Temple has already swept five million miles around Luo Prefecture.

The surrounding millions of miles have also been roughly covered.

Moreover, one hundred Ten Thousand Thoughts Demon Seeking Mirrors from the Human-Demon Battlefield have been secretly brought in for searching the Demon Clan. As long as any demonic aura appears within the sight of the Ten Thousand Thoughts Demon Seeking Mirror, it will send an alarm.

But the Ten Thousand Thoughts Demon Seeking Mirrors have scanned the millions of miles around Luo Prefecture and still found nothing.

Not to mention the Demon Clan, not a single trace of demonic aura has been detected.

The demon clan that committed the crime earlier seems to have vanished into thin air at this moment.

This makes Moon Hall Master Baili Fei and Mu Hall Master Mu Xu’s expressions exceptionally grim.

In other words, the slaughtering case of the Luo Prefecture Branch Temple has yet to find the culprit.

Mu Hall Master Mu Xu still managed, while Moon Hall Master Baili Fei felt overwhelmed and stressed.

Because the abbots of both branch temples affected belonged to their Sun and Moon Peak people. In other words, the two branch temples that were slaughtered belonged entirely to their Sun and Moon Peak territory.

If poorly handled, it will bring a massive blow to the prestige of their Sun and Moon Peak, and Baili Fei’s position as a hall master, painstakingly obtained, might also come to an end.

"Impossible, we arrived so promptly, the culprit couldn’t possibly escape beyond millions of miles in such a short time. After all, Dao Realm Experts possessing Great Divine Power like Brother Mu, who can teleport across space, are extremely few.

Perhaps, the culprit might be hiding somewhere, just unnoticed by us. No, I must...."

Before finishing the sentence, Moon Hall Master Baili Fei’s heart trembles slightly, immediately taking out the Mother-child Magic Conch from a self-contained spatial realm within his body.

After casting several layers of Silent Barrier, the conch soon sounded with a low voice.

"Reporting to the Hall Master, according to our spy’s secret report, news suddenly came from Demon God Palace that the Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi, who had been inactive for a long time in the Demon God Palace, has suddenly appeared and decided to personally summon the Clan Leaders of Moon Demon Clan and Bull Demon Tribe in seven days, along with several members of the Moon Demon and Bull Demon Tribe!"

"Prophet Demon Master?"

Moon Hall Master Baili Fei is stunned, the Prophet Demon Master is a presence similar to the Nine Suns Divine King in the Heavenly Temple.

Moreover, the status and authority of the Prophet Demon Master in the Demon God Palace far exceed that of the Nine Suns Divine King in the Heavenly Temple.

At crucial moments, certain Demon Gods in the Demon Clan have to obey the commands of the Prophet Demon Master.

This is related to the complex system of the Demon God Palace.

However, it is certain that the matter capable of disturbing the Prophet Demon Master of the Demon God Palace must be an earth-shattering event.

"Can it be ascertained why the Prophet Demon Master wants to summon the Clan Leaders of the Moon Demon Clan and the Bull Demon Tribe?" Baili Fei asks.

The voice on the other side of the conch hesitated slightly, "Returning to the Hall Master, this matter has already spread widely among the Demon Clan. It is said that elites from the Moon Demon and Bull Demon, along with a Soul Demon Sovereign, wiped out our Heavenly Temple’s Luo Prefecture Branch Temple, with Spirit Shadows as evidence.

And managed to retreat unscathed.

The Prophet Demon Master was alarmed due to this matter...."

"Retreat unscathed, how is it possible?"

Baili Fei stomped his foot fiercely, his complexion becoming extremely unsightly.

The nature of the Demon Clan, the Heavenly Temple knows too well.

Not to mention slaughtering one of their branch temples, even defeating one of their Divine Masters would warrant a small celebration.

This time, the Demon Clan might celebrate extravagantly!

The bigger the commotion on the Demon Clan’s side, the more face the Heavenly Temple loses.

"Brother Mu, it seems we must immediately plan an operation against a Demon God Palace branch hall, retaliate tit for tat, otherwise, when the Demon Clan’s celebration begins, our Heavenly Temple might lose all dignity, even be torn apart." Baili Fei’s eyes flash with cold light.

"Indeed it should be so!" Mu Xu nods with gravity.

"Furthermore, ascertain what cultivation the involved demons possess, then dispatch disciples of matching cultivation." Mu Xu adds.

Attempting to destroy a branch hall of the Demon God Palace is a mere trifle for Baili Fei and Mu Xu.

But the problem is, it’s too disgraceful to them, they can’t afford to lose face, and can’t bear the heavy consequences of the chain reaction.

Though Demon God Palace and Heavenly Temple are mortal enemies, there are some unwritten rules of engagement behind the scenes.

Both parties can attack each other’s branch temples, but those who act are generally below the Dao Realm.

If hall masters like Baili Fei and Mu Xu trespass deep into enemy territory to slaughter a demon branch hall, it will only provoke insane revenge from the other side.

If such a situation arises, neither Demon God Palace nor Heavenly Temple can expect to develop further.

Ultimately, the struggle between Heavenly Temple and Demon God Palace is about territory, interests, and Dao lineage, but definitely not about a battle to the death!

"Let them continue searching, lest we fall into Demon God Palace’s trap to lure the tiger away from the mountain. It’s possible those demon brats are hiding somewhere around Luo Prefecture. Brother Mu and I will return to Luoyi to arrange matters.

If a demonic trail is found, with Brother Mu present, we would reach there in the shortest possible time." Baili Fei said.

"That would be best!" Mu Xu nods and asks, "In that case, concerning Ye Zhen in Luoyi, since the deadline approaches, should Brother Baili make early plans?"