Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 403 - 265: Kill Through! (Part 2)
The mountain bandits, driven to a mad escape by Chen Ku, saw the arrows falling like rain towards Chen Ku and shouted with bloodshot eyes and gritted teeth:
"He’s dead for sure!"
However,
Chen Ku, with his keen instinct, almost subconsciously spun the staff in his hands like a wheel, twisting it with both hands, producing the sound of ’clang clang clang’.
Most of the arrows were deflected by his staff technique.
"Don’t stop, don’t stop! Keep shooting!" A leader saw that the arrows effectively blocked Chen Ku’s way up the mountain and shouted excitedly, "Shoot all the arrows we have! He’s just one man, his stamina is limited, he can’t hold out for long!"
He wasn’t wrong about that.
Clang clang clang!
Chen Ku continuously defended himself against the arrows raining down from the sky like a downpour, clearly feeling his physical strength and qi being rapidly depleted, he thought to himself:
"No wonder they say that even martial experts can’t withstand a thousand arrows fired at once. This is only a few hundred arrows fired together, and after several rounds, I’m already struggling. If it were truly a thousand arrows at once, the force of impact, combined, would be like ten thousand beasts charging at once. No matter how abundant one’s qi and defense were, they would be pierced through by the unending force of the arrows!"
Even water droplets can erode stone, let alone continuously fired arrows attacking a single person.
"Fortunately, since I dared to come alone to exterminate the bandits, how could I not be prepared?"
With a swift motion, Chen Ku tapped his storage bag and took out several ’Wood Emperor Pills’. This was the function of the Huntian Overlord Body’s Wood Emperor Technique.
After refining the Wood Emperor True Qi, he could usually condense it into pills for use as a spiritual medicine to replenish qi in critical moments. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
Because this true qi originated from his own cultivation body, after consuming it, there was no need for refining. It would circulate through the Five Elements Body, converting wood to fire, fire to earth... in accordance with the Five Elements Body’s operation.
After refining the Wood Emperor Technique, Chen Ku would occasionally gather some Wood Emperor Pills. After taking a few at this moment, the consumed qi was quickly replenished to a state of perfection.
Seeing the arrows still raining down continuously from above.
"I don’t have the luxury to continue delaying here with you!"
After sweeping away a wave of arrows in front of him, Chen Ku’s figure suddenly vanished from the target range of the arrow rain.
"He’s gone! Where is he!"
"Could he have been shot into minced meat?!"
"Something’s not right, there’s not even blood, where is he?!"
Just when the archers on the tower were shocked to lose sight of their target.
Boom!!
Exhibiting the Nine Colors Following Light Technique paired with the Fog Driving Technique, Chen Ku had already bypassed all the archery towers’ attack range and arrived directly on the cliff platform above the ladders.
Hidden in the central area surrounded by the tower, he calculated the range.
He concentrated the Dragon Subduing Refining God Sword technique into the Coiling Dragon Stick!
Clang~
Clang~~
The platform resonated with the faint sound of a blade, vibrating through the sky.
"What sound is that?"
Everyone heard this sound.
Suddenly, Chen Ku revealed himself.
"He’s here!!!"
Someone shouted.
Suddenly, their pupils shrank. In their field of vision, the wide-robed, armored youth held the Coiling Dragon Stick, which had somehow extended behind him, creating a crimson staff shadow over a dozen meters long.
Accompanied by the youth grasping the over forty-meter-long staff shadow with both hands, he swung it from left to right towards the surrounding towers, fiercely hurling it out...
"Down with all of you!"
One strike,
Sweeping strike!!
The forty-meter blade light and staff qi combined, centered on Chen Ku, in an instant, slicing through all the wooden arrow towers and everything within the radius, cutting all the bandits in half!
Boom! Boom rumble rumble!!
In a moment, one after another, the archer towers were all toppled!
After Chen Ku swung out the staff and stood it vertically, looking again...
Within a radius of over a dozen meters, there were already only remnants and broken limbs. Sensing the true qi within him, he whispered:
"As expected of battlefield’s world-surpassing martial art, one sweeping strike, reaping the remnants like mowing grass, but the consumption is also great..."
But this was nothing for Chen Ku.
Casually, he swallowed another Wood Emperor True Qi Pill, instantly replenishing his qi to peak perfection. Recklessness was unnecessary; stability was most important.
"Up here should be where the three Mountain Kings of Three Dragon Mountain reside."
After Chen Ku replenished his qi state with pills, he continued up the mountain steps to strike again, passing through two more natural barriers with ease, the miscellaneous soldiers afterwards posed no difficulty at all.
Before long, he had slain more than a hundred additional miscellaneous soldier bandits, arriving before the mountain stronghold hall of Cloud-climbing Peak.
At the moment when Chen Ku arrived at this place, holding his staff.
From inside the main hall, three Mountain Kings, now fully armored and equipped with weapons, also walked out respectively. They saw Chen Ku surrounded by the small soldiers from Cloud-climbing Peak, yet without a single arrow wound or blade mark on him.
Even his eyes showed no sign of fatigue.
Instead,
his fierce aura was overwhelming, as if he hadn’t lost any strength at all.
"You are Chen Ku?"
Hu Heida looked at the young man both shocked and angry, and questioned:
"Our Three Dragon Mountain has always had no enmity with you, so why attack our mountain stronghold?"
"Indeed, there is no enmity."
Chen Ku chuckled softly:
"But why pretend ignorance, since I have received the Martial Temple’s military order, between us, there is no longer any issue of enmity or grievance, but rather...I need achievements against all the bandits, both big and small, on this mountain. I sincerely hope you gentlemen won’t begrudge me."
The Second Village Chief was slightly angered and said: "For your achievements, you plan to take our heads for rewards? Do we owe you or something?"
"It’s not about owing anything; just like when you mountain bandits come down to rob and kill, people also didn’t ask whether they owed you. Now I am a soldier, and you are thieves. I come alone to eradicate this bandit nest, if you can unite and kill me, then it is my fate. Conversely, if I kill you, it is my achievement."
Chen Ku’s gaze was subtle, unmoved, instead, he asked with a smile:
"Having chosen to be bandits, shouldn’t you have known the law of the jungle by now?"
The three seemed surprised by Chen Ku’s directness, as if from his tone, he was more suited to being the Mountain King.
Hu Heida took a deep breath and looked at Chen Ku: "Such big talk, daring to challenge our whole mountain stronghold alone. Do you really think you are Qin Yuxian? Don’t think that just because you’ve climbed here, you can boast recklessly. Know that my brothers and I are not just some weaklings to be easily crushed!"
"Enough with the nonsense."
Chen Ku beckoned to them:
"Hurry up, come at me together."
The Third Mountain King’s eyes instantly turned blood red, and he gestured:
"Brothers, advance side by side! Kill him!"
In an instant, these three Mountain Kings led three to four hundred bandits stationed at the cliff top, all of them charging towards Chen Ku.
"Now this is more like it, so let me...start the slaughter!"
Chen Ku activated the Killing Heart Method, his eyes already filled with ruthlessness. With one man and one staff, he charged towards the foremost Hu Heida.
As he moved forward with his staff, three strands of hair fell with the wind, and almost simultaneously, three more Chen Kus were formed.
They burst forth with the same blood and aura as Chen Ku, expanding and spreading around.
They divided into three directions, attacking left, right, and behind.
"What? Four?!"
Hu Heida and the two Village Chiefs were instantly terrified by the sight of Chen Ku’s hair incarnation, their faces turning pale, and they instinctively hesitated.
Yet,
a staff was already sweeping across before their eyes.
"What are you dazing about!"
As the staff swept with the voice, resonating in the ears of the three chiefs, their hearts seemed ready to explode from the formidable force behind the staff in the next instant.
They instinctively wanted to dodge.
However...
In their minds, it seemed they heard a terrifying word.
Stop!
Their attempt to dodge was futile!
"Not good!"
In Hu Heida’s mind, the thought slowed down at the first moment. He realized he had been hit by a ’Divine Soul’ technique, and immediately, he shouted in his consciousness:
"Namo, He Ruo Da Na, Da Luo Ye Ye..."
Instantly, in his spirit, an ancient scripture was recited, and between his spirit, a drop of ’dew’ emerged, dropping onto his spiritual platform, bringing him back to clarity.
What seemed like a long time was actually just a fleeting moment.
With the help of this ’mysterious spell’, Hu Heida immediately freed himself from Chen Ku’s spiritual control, his feet like a golden carp swimming on the water surface, swiftly retreating a step.
Whoosh~~
And just at the moment he retreated, he nearly brushed past the staff wind from Chen Ku’s sweeping staff, and even so, his face was still burning with hot pain.
Yet, immediately...
Two streams of scarlet, scorching heat scattered before him, following the staff wind.
It turned out to be...
Two heads.
