King of Creation-Chapter 1611 - 1596: War and Chaos

In front of two armies!

The place where Ye Zhen landed this time was unexpectedly the battleground of two charging armies. Watching as the two forces clashed like two torrents, both sides unleashed overwhelming volleys of arrows, Ye Zhen smiled wryly and with a thought, he activated the Innate Five Elements Divine Escape, disappearing in an instant.

Before vanishing from the spot, Ye Zhen did not forget to collect Ling Qianbi, Black Wolf, and others into his Spirit Beast Bag.

Fortunately, Ye Zhen could use the Innate Five Elements Divine Escape. Otherwise, landing in the middle of the two charging armies and getting caught in concentrated fire would cause even a Realm King Realm expert to fall on the spot.

Even the ability to use Void Shifting Divine Power might not guarantee escape, as the overwhelming force of the myriad of arrows would cause intense spatial fluctuations.

If any Dao Realm expert were caught in the middle, they might also get injured.

Silently escaping from the center of the army’s charge made Ye Zhen want to laugh. The cavalry leading the charge of the army with the yellow Suan Ni flags might have been startled by Ye Zhen’s sudden appearance and disappearance.

They paused slightly.

This pause caused a disruption in the charge of the yellow Suan Ni army, allowing the cavalry of the army with black Pixiu flags to break through first.

Once the battle started, they fell into disadvantage.

Better them than me. Eventually, these two armies would determine a victor, and their victory or defeat had nothing to do with Ye Zhen.

With laughter, Ye Zhen silently made his way to the distance, taking out the Spirit Map as he walked to check his current location.

Thanks to his role as the Second Road Wind Patrol Envoy in the Celestial Patrol Division’s Western Patrol, Ye Zhen had access to high-level Spirit Maps, which were strictly controlled within the Great Zhou.

One of the responsibilities of the Great Zhou Celestial Patrol Division is to patrol the four directions of the world, the deep mountains and great lakes to create Spirit Maps of Great Zhou.

Numerous Wind Scouts and Wind Patrol Envoys travel the lands to gather Spirit Maps, which are compiled into geographical Spirit Maps of Great Zhou by the Celestial Patrol Division.

The Celestial Patrol Division then distributes different grades of geographical maps as needed.

The Spirit Maps of Great Zhou are divided into four grades: Heavenly, Earthly, Human, and Mundane. Maps available to ordinary people on the market are mostly only Mundane-grade and some Human-grade Spirit Maps.

Mundane-grade Spirit Maps are simple maps that indicate the general layout of rivers, mountains, paths, and place names, with regions marked only up to the county level.

Human-grade Spirit Maps are much more detailed, including the distribution of towns within counties and the flow of rivers and mountains.

Earth-grade Spirit Maps are classified items; even rivers less than a hundred miles long are noted, the rarely traveled lands are indicated, and even paths are marked.

When a State Governor takes office, they are issued an Earth-grade Spirit Map of the state they govern and a Human-grade Spirit Map of the surrounding million-mile radius.

As for Heavenly-grade Spirit Maps, they are only issued to the military and secret bureaus like the Celestial Patrol Division as needed, because they include military annotations and details about surrounding Spirits and Exotic Beasts.

Moreover, Heavenly-grade Spirit Maps of specific regions are issued as required.

Of course, the Heavenly-grade Spirit Maps are not the highest in the Great Zhou Empire. It is said that the Celestial Spirit Mirror in Luoyi can vividly display any location in the entire Great Zhou or even the entire Primordial Continent.

However, it’s said that only the Holy Emperor of Great Zhou has the right to activate it.

Even in his capacity as a Wind Patrol Envoy, Ye Zhen only obtained Heavenly-grade Spirit Maps of the area under his Second Road Wind Patrol Envoy jurisdiction, along with simplified Earth-grade Spirit Maps of the entire Great Zhou Empire.

The so-called simplified Earth-grade Spirit Maps remove military defense annotations, mountain and river specialties markings, rivers and mountains under a thousand miles, and small towns, etc.

On the Five Immortals Island’s black market, such simplified Earth-grade Spirit Maps of the Great Zhou Empire have a bounty of ten million High Grade Spiritual Stones!

But they rarely fulfill the bounty.

The reason is simple; when Ye Zhen received the simplified Earth-grade Spirit Map, he imprinted his Divine Soul Imprint into it.

Within this Earth-grade Spirit Map, there is allegedly a mysterious formation studied by the Ancestral Shrine of Great Zhou that can only be viewed with the Divine Soul Imprint and cannot be recorded by Divine Sense.

This Spirit Map is like a small magic treasure with restrictions belonging to someone else; the holder can only view the map through their own Divine Soul Imprint. Any other Divine Sense activity would instantly turn it to ashes.

However, it is very convenient to use.

After flying over a thousand miles, Ye Zhen asked someone about a nearby larger mountain range name, and with a slight movement of his Divine Sense, over a hundred mountain ranges appeared as phantom images in the Spirit Map.

Within the Great Zhou Empire, there are too many mountains with the same name.

But from now on, it was convenient; Ye Zhen moved his Divine Sense, and compared the phantom images of mountains beneath his feet with those in the Spirit Map. Soon, Ye Zhen confirmed his position.

He was currently in a slightly remote area of the Southern Region of Great Zhou, and for very distant commanderies, Great Zhou typically uses the enfeoffment system.

This region was no exception; Ye Zhen was currently in the South River Marquisate under the Great Zhou. According to Great Zhou’s noble system, when enfeoffing a nation, one noble rank is lowered; in other words, the ruler of the South River Marquisate was previously at least a Duke.

The surroundings of this South River Marquisate are all similar enfeoffed nations, with various sizes of Marquisates and Principalities.

But, the size of a commandery is not necessarily smaller than that of a marquisate.

In the Great Zhou Empire, once a nation is enfeoffed, the sovereign has all governance rights within including military power.

This military power is not just about controlling the army, but also in waging offensive wars.

As long as you have feudal states around you, and as long as you have the ambition and strength, you can boldly launch attacks and annexations. This is something the Great Zhou will not interfere with.

As long as you pay tribute on time according to the size of your territory and refrain from military actions on the lands of Great Zhou and other feudal territories, you can safely be the ruler of your nation.

Take Ye Zhen’s North Sea County, for example. Due to its border location, Ye Zhen has military powers similar to a feudal state. However, while his forces can suppress bandits within North Sea County, taking them beyond the county would be a serious crime.

But in a feudal state, there’s no such issue.

As long as you have the skills and capabilities, you can march your army directly to the capital of another feudal state without anyone interfering.

The clash Ye Zhen encountered upon arriving was indeed a war between two great feudal states.

More accurately, it was an invasion by the Tianming Marquisate upon the Southern River Marquisate, adjacent to it.

According to the spirit map, the Tianming Marquisate’s area is less than one-third of the Southern River Marquisate, yet it has forced the Southern River Marquisate into retreat, losing over a hundred cities according to the information Ye Zhen gathered.

Of course, this war between the two marquisates has nothing to do with Ye Zhen. He had already found from the spirit map that the nearest city with an ancient teleportation formation is the economic center of the Southern River Marquisate, Shahe City.

At Ye Zhen’s speed, it would take just over a day to get there.

Moreover, because it’s a remote city, within a radius of three million miles, Shahe City is the only one with an ancient teleportation formation. Other than Shahe City, the next nearest ancient teleportation formation to Ye Zhen takes more than half a month to reach.

Ye Zhen cannot afford a journey that takes over half a month. Even rushing with an ancient teleportation formation to the Marquisate of Haiyuan, the nearest to North Sea in the Great Zhou, and then making his way to Five Immortals Island would take at least ten days.

There’s not enough time.

Besides, using an ancient teleportation formation all the way would require at least seven shifts, potentially delaying him by three to four days along the way.

The kitten, which had awakened a few degrees of Void-Breaking Black Tiger King divine power, hadn’t increased its flying speed considerably, but it no longer produced the previous wind and thunder clashing sounds while flying.

The sound of breaking through the air was minimal, probably inaudible beyond a thousand meters. The journey to Shahe City was steady and uneventful.

However, a day later, when Ye Zhen reached Shahe City, he was a bit surprised.

Or rather, a bit dumbfounded.

Who said this war had nothing to do with him!

This mattered a lot!

It was quite unfortunate because just five days ago, this economic center of the Southern River Marquisate, Shahe City, was captured by the Tianming Marquisate.

The walls of Shahe City still bore dry black marks of blood. From time to time, dismembered limbs could still be seen among the trees and bushes within the city.

One could imagine the ferocity of this war.

But even more brutal was the ancient teleportation formation in Shahe City.

Due to the turmoil, the ancient teleportation formation in Shahe City had long been under military control. Five days ago, it fell into the hands of the Tianming Marquisate’s army.

After switching to Tianming Marquisate’s control, the formation was directly sealed for three days to clear up remaining adversaries and prevent reinforcements.

Fortunately, the Tianming Marquisate intended to govern Shahe City long-term, reopening the ancient teleportation formation three days later, limiting the scale of teleportation to fewer than a hundred people at a time.

There were no restrictions on entry, but few dared to enter due to the war around Shahe City. Leaving, however, was no problem for those who wanted out.

Besides paying a heavy spirit stone fee, they had to queue for inspection.

The spirit stones were not an issue for Ye Zhen, but the queuing inspection was life-draining for him.

After casually inquiring, Ye Zhen found that due to the turmoil, countless merchants and civilians sought to escape the war-torn Southern Sands Marquisate via the ancient teleportation formation, causing a massive crowd to gather in Shahe City.

It is said that the merchants and civilians who arrived in Shahe City over half a month ago were still queueing even after Shahe City changed hands.

As for the number Ye Zhen drew, it was several tens of thousands away. At the current pace, it would be fast if it reached him in ten days, and half a month would be typical.

This frustrated Ye Zhen, as waiting would potentially miss the battle on the night of the full moon.

That battle wasn’t of much concern to Ye Zhen, but Yuan Hongying, who had been greatly provoked recently, might do something insane if he waited in vain for Ye Zhen.

After considering for a few moments, Ye Zhen promptly made a decision — reveal his identity and use his privileges!