Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 413 - 271: Array Formation Eight Gates_2
Two high-level items subconsciously appeared in his mind.
One is the Immortal Weapon of the Champion Marquis.
The other is the Fire Beak Pot from Fire Beak Mountain.
"Thank you, Mentor, for your guidance. I plan to first form the array and then slowly consider the matter of the suppressing item." Chen Ku bowed.
Looking at Chen Ku’s departure.
"The Eight Gates Shocking Array is terribly powerful, but the resources it demands for formation are also frightening."
Qin Yuxian sighed:
"A suppressing item above the Immortal Weapon level, I really don’t know how the junior disciple will find it?"
If a Divine Weapon is needed, he can think of a way; if worse comes to worst, he can give his Divine Weapon, the Drumming Golden Hammer, to Chen Ku.
"You’ve forgotten, this Hero King Realm already belongs to him. If worse comes to worst, he can use the Hero King Realm as the suppressing item; it’s also possible after all." Shan Lingguan suddenly spoke.
"Using the Hero King Realm as the suppressing item? But... this is part of the Cave Mansion of the Fifteenth Realm Hero King. Using the Hero King Realm as the suppressing item might be inappropriate, and in the future, there’s no guarantee it won’t be deeply entangled with the Martial Path of the Hero King, even assimilated by the Cave Mansion; that won’t do..." Qin Yuxian quickly objected.
The reason they are trapped in this Stone Egg is precisely due to Hero King Pei Dongliu leaving behind resurrection contingencies for himself.
The precedent is set.
How can one guarantee that the entire Hero King Realm doesn’t contain the Hero King’s spiritual intent?
After all, Cave Mansions are worlds opened within by Fourteenth Realm experts, similar to the inner core of demon beasts or the True Qi of Martial Practitioners, inherently possessing strong personal imprints.
"It all depends on whether the disciple can learn the Forbidden Technique Finger in advance." Shan Lingguan murmured: "If he can learn the Forbidden Technique Finger and erase all Hero King Law Nature from the Cave Mansion Realm, then using a Cave Mansion from a Fifteenth Realm Martial Saint as the suppressing item wouldn’t be the worst choice."
"But to learn the Forbidden Technique Finger, one must first be accepted into the Destruction Tower, whose apprenticeship conditions require one to be an extraordinary genius who stands out in the Nine States Genius Competition. Even I, at the peak of Seventh Realm Gang Control, rank only six hundred and tenth on the Nine Provinces Genius List..."
Qin Yuxian feels trapped in a dead loop:
"Unless the junior disciple can form the Eight Gates Escape Armor Formation, there might be a possibility of breaking into the top one hundred, but the Eight Gates Escape Armor Formation requires an Immortal Weapon level suppressing item to nourish and refine its power." 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
"However, judging by the child’s appearance, he seems to have some plan in mind." Shan Lingguan remarked.
...
Chen Ku did not consider the suppressing item initially.
Instead, he went first to the vicinity of the Eight Gates Shocking Array within the Hero King Realm and used the Hero King Realm’s Array Suppression Stone to attract a large formation, beginning to simulate the array patterns on the Eight Gates Array, engraving the patterns within his body...
He treated the tens of thousands of meridian sources within his body like a blank paper, simulating the Eight Gates array patterns, and inscribed them on it.
This process was like copying a ready-made answer to rewrite a new answer sheet.
In just five days.
Chen Ku completed the Heaven Covering Formation of the Eight Gates Array.
Heaven Covering Formation.
The Sixteenth Heaven Formation, external square, internal round, the four directed by Wind Raising, its shape similar to the heavens, is the formation’s master, leading as the vanguard.
It resides in the northwest Qian Palace, its element is metal.
The Qian Trigram is the first of the Eight Trigrams, symbolizing the heavens and father, overseeing the other seven formations, pioneering and leading as the gate of the beginning of all things.
Thus, the Heaven Covering Formation is the ’Open Gate’ among the Eight Gates.
After five days.
Possibly visible inside Chen Ku’s body, beneath the head meridian, like a star map-like array map, using True Qi to link the body’s meridians into a line, like a mysterious totem, starting from the head, covering his body, precisely the array patterns of the Heaven Covering Formation, the Life Gate of the Eight Gates Array.
At the same time, Xu En, trapped within the Eight Gates Shocking Array, also sensed changes in the array.
"Huh, what’s going on? This formation seems to be moving a bit?"
But he couldn’t get through even one formation, felt only a bit of change in the formation outside, yet unable to see the exterior situation clearly.
In the following days, every four or five days, Chen Ku could complete engraving an array map within his body, using True Qi to connect meridian sources into Eight Gates array patterns.
In a flash, more than a month has passed.
Chen Ku successfully engraved the Eight Gates Array into eight parts of his body, namely:
Open Gate Heaven Covering Formation in the head,
Rest Gate Wind Raising Formation in the shoulder,
Life Gate Cloud Pendant Formation in the hand,
Shang Gate Earth Carrying Formation in the elbow,
Du Gate Tiger Wing Formation in the tail,
Jing Gate Snake Coiling Formation in the waist,
Shocking Gate Bird Flying Formation in the knee,
Death Gate Dragon Flying Formation in the foot,
The Eight Gates, eight formations, each situated in the eight polar regions of Chen Ku’s body.
Observe inside now.
Chen Ku feels that those previously disordered, chaotic meridian sources have all been connected into a grand array by his True Qi.
"The array formation is complete."
He murmured softly:
"But it lacks a suppressing item, giving me a sense that although there’s a grand array within me now, it’s unusable, and once activated..."
Chen Ku slightly altered his thoughts, trying to activate one of the gates within.
Bzz~~
The sound like a copper bell resonating immediately echoed in the head, meanwhile, inside his body, those array patterns sensing his True Qi fluctuation seemed to want to activate this terrifying grand array.
However, from the position of the Open Gate Array on top, the array pattern injected with True Qi merely lit up and resonated before...
All array patterns within started to show signs of rampaging.
It’s as though a newly shaped clay embryo lacking pressure shaping, once touched, would crumble.
And the solution for this...
"Suppressing item."
Chen Ku swiftly extinguished the array within, observing the fragile and easily fragmented Eight Gates array patterns once more, realizing:
"The role of the suppressing item lies in its ’suppression’ power, step by step solidifying the grand array from a clay embryo into an indestructible artifact."
Sensing the changes in his body.
The strength hasn’t significantly increased, merely having the Eight Gates array perfectly engraved in his meridians, needing to undergo array eye formation and array nourishing to achieve great success.
In other words, before the grand array within achieves great success, all early to mid-stage Sixth Realm array vein experts are unable to utilize the powers of the internal array, resembling a ten-month pregnancy that can’t be premature nor agitated, lest efforts be in vain.
"Although this ’array formation’ phase won’t significantly boost my strength, spending a continuous month etching all Eight Gates array patterns in my meridian, this process... has deepened my grasp of the ’Eight Gates Shocking Array’ within the Hero King Realm."
Initially the Hero King Realm was acquired by chance, even using the Hero King Realm’s Core Array Suppression Stone to control the Eight Gates Shocking Array was still quite crude.
Now, this month’s engraving of array patterns feels like dissecting and reassembling the Eight Gates Shocking Array, significantly enhancing comprehension and mastery of this grand formation.
Yet witnessed, Chen Ku with a shift in mind, controlling the Eight Gates Array within the Hero King Realm, directly operated based on the body’s eight polar positions.
At once, eight large formations unfolded in an eight-trigram formation in the void.
The formation’s transformation, felt the most strongly by Xu En trapped in the Eight Gates Shocking Array.
He noticed the external environment of the formation, continuously changing, the surrounding setting rolling continually, calling out loudly to the outside:
"Chen Ku, what are you doing? If you have the capability, come in and fight this Hierarch openly, no more of these meaningless minor actions!"
His words finished, unexpectedly, a haunting voice echoed from outside the formation:
"Peace Sect Leader, trapped in this formation now almost for two months, today, it’s time to send you off completely!"
As Chen Ku concluded, he reached towards the Heaven Covering Formation within the Eight Gates.
Over one month of engraving array patterns.
Finally realizing a deeper level of the Eight Gates Array’s formidable nature.
Accompanied by his pointed finger.
Suddenly, Xu En, located within the Earth Carrying Formation of the Eight Gates Shocking Array, abruptly saw on the earth-colored ground where he stands, strands of array patterns shine brightly, and subsequently...
