Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 297 - 204: Jiuli Armor Leaf

But just at this moment.

Gu Chuanjia, covered in blood, also followed along, wanting to speak with Chen Ku.

Unexpectedly, just as he approached.

The blood qi from his body spread out.

Suddenly, Chen Ku heard a sound of wailing and howling coming from within the cliff.

Thanks to his acute hearing, far superior to others in the same realm, he was able to catch it.

Although they were both in the Fourth Realm, Gu Chuanjia clearly didn’t hear anything unusual.

Chen Ku immediately recalled the description of the Iron Armored Rhino.

After slaying demons in the Butcher Court for over half a year, and due to the Transformation Diagram, he had long become familiar with the names, appearances, and habits of most demons within the Qiu Dragon Mansion. At this moment, he suddenly remembered...

"Iron Armored Rhino, only has one mate in its lifetime. If one dies, the other will be devastated, refusing to live alone... Now, it seems I killed the male rhino, and the female rhino within the rock wall smells the blood and is going berserk. But the problem is... how do I get inside this rock wall?"

"Brother Chen, you’re staring at this rock wall? Is there a problem?" Gu Chuanjia wasn’t slow-witted, noticing Chen Ku gazing silently at the rock wall, he sensed something was amiss.

He also took a few steps forward.

Yet as he continued to approach the rock wall.

Chen Ku keenly heard the cries inside the rock wall becoming even more shrill.

Rumble~~

The ground suddenly started shaking more violently.

"What’s happening!" Even Gu Chuanjia heard this, looking in horror at the shaking ground and rock wall, as if some Demon King was breaking out from inside.

Chen Ku understood: "So that’s it!"

Immediately, he placed the corpse of the Iron Armored Rhino from his storage bag in front of the rock wall, letting its bloody scent seep through the soil and gaps into the rock wall!

Moo!!

Almost two breaths after Chen Ku placed the male rhino’s corpse in front of the rock wall, a strong bull bellow rolled out like sound waves.

"What, there’s another Iron Armored Rhino!"

Gu Chuanjia exclaimed hoarsely:

"A second Iron Armored Rhino! The one hidden by the Martial Temple!"

His eyes wild with fervor, then joy.

What it meant for an Iron Armored Rhino to be specially hidden, a scholar who recently ascended to Martial Arts Scholar status like him would surely know.

Clearly it’s a special hidden challenge!

Boom!

Almost as he was filled with joy, suddenly, a ’Diamond Mountain Piercing’ roar came from behind the rock wall, in just a dozen breaths...

Rumble!!

The enormous mountain rock wall was suddenly shattered by a golden rhino’s horn, followed by an even larger rhino, twice the size of the male rhino killed by Chen Ku!

Whoosh~~

Instinctively, Chen Ku looked up, seeing the giant rhino like a dark cloud leaping overhead, then...

Boom!

Its massive body landed five zhang away, the ground heaving like waves.

Gu Chuanjia quickly executed a Thousand Jin Drop to steady himself, peering intently, seeing this second rhino not only larger than the male but also bearing a golden horn, and skin covered in iron scales like ’armor scales.’

"A Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhino! That gold horn is absolutely a material for crafting top-grade famous weapons... no... its back armor scales are the key... Iron Armored Rhinos don’t grow such scales, it must’ve eaten something..."

Gu Chuanjia shouted:

"A hidden demon specially concealed by the Martial Temple examiner, there must be treasures inside its body!"

Hardly needing Gu Chuanjia to elaborate.

Chen Ku leaped forward, drew the Refined Iron Rod from his storage bag on his lower back, swung it back, then fiercely raised it high, bringing down a Perfection-level Skyward Strike toward the Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhino! 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Moo!

Seeing Chen Ku’s strike coming, the Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhino’s eyes turned blood red, already crazed from the scent of its mate’s corpse, charging head-on with its golden horn toward Chen Ku’s strike!

In an instant!

Chen Ku’s Power of Ten Thousand Jun strike had already fallen before the Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhinoceros, directly smashing onto its golden horn.

Dang!!!

It was an echoing sound like a deep toll from a copper bell.

Boom~~~

Simultaneously, a terrifying airflow spread in all directions like a tsunami.

"What a hard bull head!!"

Chen Ku exclaimed. This strike not only failed to crush the female rhino’s head like it did to the male, but the ’indestructible’ golden horn on the opponent’s head reverberated so much that his hands went numb, and he was flung backward.

Swish~~

Nearby, Gu Chuanjia felt the airflow as Chen Ku was repelled after striking the Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhinoceros’s head and exclaimed:

"Five Realms Demon, Brother Chen, we’re not its match!!"

Five Realms...

Unexpectedly, Chen Ku seemed as if he didn’t even hear Gu Chuanjia, quickly retreated, distancing himself, while the female rhino, eyes blood-red, fixed her gaze on him and charged again...

The four hooves pounded, the ground shook, as if a mountain was coming at him!

Chen Ku squinted his eyes. From the previous strike, he felt that the opponent’s horn was much harder than other parts, and the armor scales on its body were unusually tough.

If it wasn’t for his own Vajra Body, Iron Cloth Shirt, Impervious to Swords and Spears abilities, the rebound alone, with the Power of Ten Thousand Jun, would have been fatal to any Fourth Realm.

"Copper Skin Iron Bone! Tough, huh!"

Chen Ku’s eyes flashed with flame, faced with the charging Five Realms Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhinoceros, he clenched the Refined Iron Rod with both hands, his whole body igniting with powerful fire.

Huntian Overlord Body — Li Fire Body!

Crash~~

With a hand wiping between the two rods, the Refined Iron Rod became a magma-like fire staff, held firmly by Chen Ku, facing the charging rhinoceros.

Step!

The Piercing Sound Step whistled out.

The Li Fire Body, combined with the Furious Ape Mighty Staff’s ’Chaotic Sky Palace,’ thrust out a myriad of staff shadows, tearing through the sky, creating gusts of wind like a row of flying swords, turned into fiery clouds by the Li Fire Body, all targeting the Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhinoceros.

In its eyes, the Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhinoceros only saw countless meteor-like staff shadows crashing down, causing its supposedly impervious golden helmet and iron armor to melt like red-hot magma.

Finally, among the meteor-like staff shadows, there was a huge fire staff piercing through the sky, heading straight for its mouth.

Thump!!

A strike pierced through the mouth and brain.

Chen Ku, in a bow stance, pierced through the Five Realms Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhinoceros with one strike, then pressed hard with both hands, using the rock staff in his hands, dyed by the Li Fire Body, to gut the two-zhang tall beast straight from the mouth!

Crash!!

The giant beast collapsed like a landslide, and amid the mass of flesh, blood, and entrails, a brilliantly glowing piece of armor like a leaf remained on the tip of Chen Ku’s staff.

Gu Chuanjia in the distance was utterly shocked.

A Five Realms demon.

It was actually slain?

"What kind of cultivation technique is that? It can imbue a weapon with Fire Element Energy? Turning a long staff into a rock staff?"

Before he could remain astounded for long, he saw, after Chen Ku cleaved open the body of the Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhinoceros with a strike, the silver-gray armor plate on the tip of the staff, and cried out:

"That’s... Jiuli Armor Leaf! An important ’Divine Weapon Level Iron Material’ used for forging Divine Weapons..."

This kind of iron material was hidden near the ’Stone Tablet’ in the Strange Stone Forest that many candidates were highly likely to be teleported to on their first visit to Qingyun Path.

He and others had previously collaborated to kill an Iron Armored Rhinoceros, and as a result, never expected...

On that cliff, there was another Five Realms female rhinoceros, with a piece of Divine Weapon Level forging material hidden inside.

Everyone knew the veteran examiners at the Martial Temple loved to hide test elements, but...

This was too well hidden!