Chapter 1750 - 1735: Wind Flash and Sweep

The Strong Wind Spirit Essence Pearl granted Ye Zhen the speed talent of the strong wind, allowing his speed to increase several times, even dozens of times over.

However, because the Strong Wind Spirit Essence Pearl itself was incomplete, it carried a flaw that could not be remedied.

Or rather, the speed talent of the strong wind, this Innate Divine Ability Ye Zhen obtained, was incomplete from the very start.

In several speed contests with the little cat, Ye Zhen discovered that within a hundred li, he could absolutely suppress the little cat in speed.

But after a hundred li, the distance between the little cat and Ye Zhen would get smaller and smaller.

It wasn’t that the little cat got faster—its speed didn’t change—but Ye Zhen’s speed was dropping, and dropping more and more. The longer he kept going, the more severe the weakening became.

After a thousand li, the little cat would catch up to the distance Ye Zhen had opened at the start, and then begin to overtake him.

After five thousand li, the little cat would already be five hundred li ahead of Ye Zhen, and after ten thousand li, it would be two thousand li ahead.

During flight, Ye Zhen could clearly sense that his speed would hit the extreme at the very first instant, then slowly and continuously decline.

Ye Zhen could distinctly feel that the longer he flew, the more sluggish his influence over the Wind Spirit Power between heaven and earth became, completely losing that initial carefree, at-will feeling.

Ye Zhen estimated that this should be the result of the incompleteness of the Strong Wind Spirit Essence Pearl.

However, Ye Zhen soon discovered that if he deliberately lowered his speed to a certain level and did not maintain high-speed flight all the time, this obvious sluggishness would weaken a lot.

After that, Ye Zhen focused his full attention and tried several more times, even activating Sword Heart Enlightenment to carefully sense it, and found that the speed granted by the Strong Wind Spirit Essence Pearl actually began to drop after flying ten li.

However, the decrease after ten li was extremely small, to the point that Ye Zhen had only noticed it after a hundred li in his earlier tests.

In other words, the strongest speed the Strong Wind Spirit Essence Pearl granted Ye Zhen was within ten li.

Within ten li, Ye Zhen’s speed was even faster than Instant Teleportation, faster than an existence at the Early Dao Realm, and even faster than the little cat, this Demon Beast that was extremely skilled in flight.

But after ten li, it began to decay.

Between ten and a hundred li, Ye Zhen’s speed still stayed at a very high level, but after a hundred li, it began to plunge rapidly.

Basically, Ye Zhen’s current speed allowed him to flash across ten li in an instant, incomparably swift.

To fly a hundred li, Ye Zhen only needed five or six breaths of time, but to fly a thousand li, he needed close to a Hundred Breaths; his speed had slowed by half.

Thus, the positioning of the speed ability granted by the Strong Wind Spirit Essence Pearl became very clear—short-distance raids.

Ye Zhen gave this ability a very fitting name—Wind Flash and Sweep.

Just like what everyone saw: with just a flicker, Ye Zhen would appear ten li away.

Although the Wind Flash and Sweep ability granted by the Strong Wind Spirit Essence Pearl had its flaws, Ye Zhen was very fond of it.

Because once this Wind Flash and Sweep was used in actual combat, its effect would be incredibly powerful.

Conversely, as for the defect of this Wind Flash and Sweep, Ye Zhen really didn’t care much.

For long-distance flight and movement, he had the little cat as his mount. The little cat had Void-Breaking Swift Five Thousand Miles, and its sustained flying ability was extremely strong.

In a sense, the flaw of the speed ability brought by the Strong Wind Spirit Essence Pearl didn’t really count as anything for Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen used the strength of nine bulls and two tigers, gathering the power of everyone and the Three Great Battle Spirits, to finally take out the Great Saint of the Tempest Fengg Kui, who had come to hunt him down.

But as for who had hired Fengg Kui, Ye Zhen had no idea.

Still, Ye Zhen didn’t really care. Anyway, it was definitely some enemy of his who sent him, and likely one with quite a bit of pull.

He believed it was nothing more than those few people.

What Ye Zhen was worrying about now was North Sea County.

With this pursuit by Fengg Kui, his entire schedule had been thrown into chaos. By the time Ye Zhen left the Demon Soul Realm and returned to North Sea County, the five-year term would likely be up.

Heaven only knew what kind of tricks the West Patrol Xio Qiangu would pull, what methods he’d cook up to deal with Ye Zhen.

So Ye Zhen had to hurry back to North Sea County to preside over the overall situation.

The fiefdom of North Sea County, Ye Zhen didn’t particularly care about, but the Third-class Earl of North Sea and the Second Route Wind Patrol Envoy were Ye Zhen’s foundation for standing firm in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

He couldn’t let Xio Qiangu mess those up.

To the point that Ye Zhen barely handled any of the matters in the Demon Soul Realm before getting ready to leave.

After discussing it with the Great Saint of Jinghai and the others, Ye Zhen once again took them into the Mirage Dragon Pearl Space, to continue their Cultivation under the influence of Temporal Power.

Unexpectedly, just as Ye Zhen had sent the Great Saint of Jinghai and the others into one of the separate spaces he had partitioned off inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl, he heard Senior Sister Liao Feibai’s roar.

"Ye, if you don’t let me out right now, believe it or not, this old lady will cut you in half with one sword!" In her roar, there was a hint of a sob.

However, Liao Feibai’s voice clearly paused the moment she saw the Great Saint of Jinghai and the others; the sobbing tone in her voice vanished in an instant, replaced by a fury that made even Ye Zhen’s heart tremble.

With a stir of his Divine Sense, Ye Zhen hastily moved Senior Sister Liao Feibai out of the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

The instant she appeared, Liao Feibai’s almond eyes widened in rage as she glared fiercely at Ye Zhen. With a flash of her figure, she appeared beside him. Her slender hand flicked out and twisted Ye Zhen’s ear.

Seeing this, the Great Saint of Jinghai and the others fled like they were flying into a corner of the Mirage Dragon Pearl Space, leaving Ye Zhen with a "you’re on your own" look.

Right after, under Liao Feibai’s slender hand, one of Ye Zhen’s ears was twisted into all kinds of shapes, hurting him so much his teeth were bared in a grimace, yet he didn’t dare utter a single word.

Because Ye Zhen knew very clearly where Senior Martial Sister Liao Feibai’s anger came from, and why she was in such a towering rage.

It was all because, when he had risked his life against Fengg Kui earlier, Ye Zhen had pulled everyone else out of the Mirage Dragon Pearl Space, including the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, the Nine-Headed Beast, and Big Ears Nie Ting, bringing them all out to fight desperately against the Great Saint of the Tempest Fengg Kui.

But he had left Liao Feibai behind.

This was Ye Zhen’s little bit of selfishness. Fengg Kui was simply too fast; let your guard slip for even a moment and you’d be torn to shreds on the spot. Ye Zhen had been worried about Liao Feibai’s safety, that was why he did this.

But...

"Do you know that the half-day I just spent felt harder to endure and longer than my entire life before this?"

Liao Feibai suddenly spoke to Ye Zhen in a very calm tone, making Ye Zhen’s heart give a violent tremor.

Outside, it had only been an hour, but under the influence of the Temporal Power of the Mirage Dragon Pearl, it had been nearly half a day inside.

"Do you know you just almost drove this old lady insane!" After that calmness, Liao Feibai broke out into a hysterical roar.

"You remember this—if you dare treat me like that again next time! If you get killed, I’ll slit my throat on the spot and absolutely will not live alone. If you by some fluke don’t die, I’ll make sure you never get to be a man again in this life!" Liao Feibai roared through gritted teeth.

She only flicked a glance at Ye Zhen’s lower body, and it made his lower body feel a chill that cut to the bone.

Ye Zhen wanted to apologize, wanted to squeeze out a smile, but he just couldn’t manage it.

Because he saw that Senior Martial Sister Liao Feibai’s eyes were brimming with tears at this moment.

Ye Zhen knew very well that, although Liao Feibai had been roaring in anger just now, every word she said was deadly serious.

Gently wiping away the tears pooled in Liao Feibai’s eyes, Ye Zhen said earnestly, "Senior Sister, I promise you, I will never do that again!"

"As if you’d dare."

Seeing Ye Zhen nod, the frost on Liao Feibai’s pretty face finally melted, but then her delicate face tightened again as she snapped at Ye Zhen, "What are you standing there stunned for, hurry up!"

This time, Ye Zhen froze. "Senior Sister, what is it, hurry for what?"

"Hurry up and send me back in there. I need to seize every moment to Cultivate, raise my Cultivation in the shortest time possible, so you don’t end up despising me." Liao Feibai said with a fierce face.

"Uh..."

Ye Zhen was speechless. A few breaths later, under Liao Feibai’s repeated urging, he could only give a wry smile and send her back into the Mirage Dragon Pearl Space.

Judging from that look, she really was going to throw everything aside and bitterly Cultivate.

But then again, if they encountered the same danger as before, Ye Zhen would probably still do the same thing.

As a man, he absolutely could not put his own woman in a dangerous situation.

"Continue our offensive across the entire Demon Soul Realm, wipe out the remaining forces of all other factions in the Demon Soul Realm, and try to unify the Demon Soul Realm in the shortest time possible.

Also, we must focus on training more Realm King Realm commanders!" Ye Zhen instructed.

"We will strictly obey the Grand Marshal’s military orders!" Hei Er, Hei Qi, and Hei Jiu bowed in unison.

After a brief round of instructions, Ye Zhen once again left through the exit of the Demon Soul Realm.

This time, however, when he left, he brought along ten Realm King Realm and five hundred Late-stage Dark Palace Realm Demon Soul Officers.

The last time Ye Zhen left he had tested and discovered that as long as a Demon Soul’s Cultivation was above the Divine Communication Realm, they could leave the Demon Soul Realm.

And in the year or so that the Black Wolf had spent on the Primordial Continent after being taken out last time, his Cultivation hadn’t declined at all—on the contrary, it had even improved somewhat.

So this time, Ye Zhen simply brought out another batch of Demon Soul Generals.

Although these Demon Soul Officers didn’t have real physical bodies and their Combat Power couldn’t compare with Martial Artists of the same Cultivation, as long as Ye Zhen equipped them with corresponding full sets of Demon Soul Artifacts, they could unleash Combat Power surpassing Martial Artists of the same tier.

It just so happened that the strength of those around Ye Zhen was a bit weak at the moment, so he planned to bring a contingent out of the Demon Soul Realm to bolster his power.

Unfortunately, in the previous battle with Fengg Kui, the Demon Soul Army had suffered heavy losses, especially among the senior officers.

Senior Demon Soul Officers at the Realm King Realm in particular were few to begin with—there had only been sixty-one. In the previous battle, eleven had been taken out by Fengg Kui.

So the ten he was taking now were already the limit; otherwise, Ye Zhen could have taken more with him.

Half a Quarter-hour later, Ye Zhen exited through the spatial gate of the Demon Soul Realm and appeared on a desolate plain of the Primordial Continent.

The instant he appeared, Ye Zhen oriented himself, leaped onto the back of the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, and began to race away.

But just as Ye Zhen had barely set out, the Mother-child Magic Conch within the Mirage Dragon Pearl Space began to pulse with a faint vibration.

With just a single glance, Ye Zhen’s expression changed drastically. It was the Mother-child Magic Conch he used for emergency contact with North Sea County that was vibrating.

When he was in the Demon Soul Realm, separated by One Realm, the Mother-child Magic Conch had been silent.

Now he had just left the Demon Soul Realm and the Conch Horn was already reacting. Could it be that something had happened in North Sea County?