Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 415 - 273: Six-Eared Macaque
"What kind of demon is this?"
Within the quiet courtyard, as summer had already arrived, the cicadas were clamorous, and Chen Ku inquired softly.
Er Lang laughed and said, "According to the Qiu Dragon Demon Record, if this demon stands in one place and is fed, it can know things from a thousand miles away, be aware of the conversations of others, and is said to have the most intuitive information, ranking sixth on the Qiu Dragon Strange Beast List, known as the Six-Eared Macaque."
"Six-Eared Macaque?"
Chen Ku’s expression slightly changed, immediately looking at Er Lang, and asked:
"Is there really such a monkey?"
"It should be somewhat different from the one in the myths of my previous incarnations. This one only has the cultivation of the Sixth Realm, but in terms of its good listening ability, it’s indeed true. However, every time it listens, it needs to take medicine to gather information, and the more precious the spiritual objects it consumes, the more valuable the information it hears."
Er Lang said:
"And it indeed has six ears, each corresponding to a different listening level. You’ll understand once you take a look."
Hearing this, Chen Ku became intrigued.
He then focused his mind into the Evil Summoning Banner.
There, in the sixth level of the Evil Summoning Banner, the thick green fog lingered and demonic Qi was oppressive, resembling a prison of heaven and earth with fifty different types of demons fighting relentlessly within.
Chen Ku’s gaze immediately fell upon that monkey, its fur glossy and gleaming, its gaze like electricity, tusked, with six ears in total.
"Gold, scarlet, purple, blue, white, and gray, truly six different colors."
Chen Ku saw the monkey had six ears, each a different color, now within the Evil Summoning Banner, holding an iron stick, furiously striking at all other Sixth Realm demons.
"What is it? Sir, is this demon substantial enough?" Er Lang laughed softly, "It’s been five or six hundred years since a beast from the top ten in the Qiu Dragon Demon Record appeared. Only with an artifact like the Evil Summoning Banner can you forcefully summon them without reason."
"Even if it’s not the legendary Six-Eared Macaque, the fact it can listen to all sorts of information is a precious ability."
Chen Ku’s mind was moved, and he said:
"I’m about to enter Martial Arts Heaven and Earth. By then, if the Six-Eared Macaque can hear the various checkpoints within, and all the hidden treasures, how marvelous would that be?"
Er Lang’s eyes also brightened: "If it truly can hear everything, it would be akin to an open-book test, wouldn’t it? Sir, you might be able to sweep all the treasures under the jurisdiction of Qiu Dragon Mansion!"
Chen Ku was moved.
"Whether it truly possesses this special ability, we’ll know in a moment."
Immediately, he grabbed the Evil Summoning Banner, retracted all the incarnations outside, and entered the Hero King Realm with Er Lang, releasing the Six-Eared Macaque.
In front of the Mountain-Lifting Palace.
A Six-Eared Macaque holding a reverse willow iron stick appeared in mid-air, still in the posture of striking down within the Evil Summoning Banner.
Boom!
The strike, amidst its dominance and fierce will, carried boundless arrogance!
Boom!
The strike landed on the ground, carving a twenty-zhang long fissure before the Mountain-Lifting Hall, as the earth cracked like a spider web.
"Hmm? Is this monkey using... a Stick Technique?"
Chen Ku was slightly surprised:
"The power seems quite strong, almost comparable to the Dragon Subduing Refining God Sword from Guan Hongluan’s family!"
Upon a second thought.
This demon monkey excels in listening. Perhaps it overheard some stick technique somewhere. Being a type of monkey, it’s naturally adept with the stick, so taking it down would provide insights.
And the stick it wielded seemed to be made from some rugged iron wood in the mountains, branches trimmed, fashioned into a raw stick.
Roar~~~
Just as he was pondering, the Six-Eared Macaque holding the iron stick noticed the change in surroundings, with eyes full of Evil Qi, it locked onto Chen Ku, and let out a roar.
[A Six-Eared Macaque intends harm to the master, suppress and slay it to acquire Evil Qi]
Yet,
As it was about to charge and strike Chen Ku, suddenly, its right ear’s third gray ear twitched.
In the next moment.
Looking at Chen Ku, it swung without hesitation as if it had realized the culprit who trapped it was before its eyes, and only by striking down the person could it escape.
Roar~~
This Golden Six-Eared Demon Monkey let out a savage howl, and its entire blood and demonic power spread out like a river surging forth.
Woo woo woo~
Sound waves roared across, the area for miles filled with a ghostly wail-like sound of ripping air.
In the terrifying sonic cries, scarlet-gold light soared into the sky.
Behold, the Golden Six-Eared Macaque ascended to the sky, thrusting its stick towards Chen Ku.
Boom!
With what seemed like one strike, it actually transformed into rapidly thrusting hundreds of times, the dense stick force and power causing the air tens of zhang above Chen Ku’s head to explode instantly!
"Good Stick Technique!"
Chen Ku’s eyes lit up slightly.
Boom!
Stomping the ground, shaking the earth, amidst the resonant ground tremor, as he gazed at the descending strike, he raised his hand, without using any weapon, sending a palm strike first.
Where the palm wind directed, all visible and invisible dust in space exploded forth!
Rumble!
Amidst the relentless sound waves, a palm seal enveloped in True Qi carried the overwhelming intent of a mountain-crushing palm, incorporating all the stick wind generated by the Six-Eared Macaque’s descending strike!
Bang!
The moment stick and palm touched, the force derived from Chen Ku’s Seven Dragon Power shattered and exploded the macaque’s stick wind.
With the Supreme Heaven Heart Technique mental method, any form of the Mountain-Lifting Palm could unleash World-Surpassing Martial Arts level power under the technique’s augmentation.
Bang!
The golden-furred six-eared macaque struck down with its stick, only to be rebounded upward by Chen Ku’s palm strike.
Amidst the swirling, roiling air currents.
Chen Ku continuously struck with palm seals, each palm stronger than the last. Five consecutive strikes, resembling meteors falling to the earth, directly hammered the macaque down from the sky to the ground.
[The Diagram Master subdued and killed the Six-Eared Macaque, acquiring a Sixth Realm Evil Qi]
Gazing at the Six-Eared Macaque subdued by his palm.
Chen Ku exhaled lightly, saying:
"To withstand my five palm strikes before dying, not even a little grandmaster like Zhou Li has that ability. It seems this monkey stealthily learned some kind of profound stick technique."
The massive physical strength of the Seven Dragon Power, wielded with the Five Elements Body, could overwhelm even a soon-to-reach Sixth Realm peak little grandmaster like Zhou Li. It could be said that Chen Ku was nearly invincible in the Sixth Realm. Even without weapons, he could crush any enemy with World-Surpassing Martial Arts level hand techniques.
At this moment, having acquired the innate Evil Qi of the Six-Eared Macaque.
Chen Ku placed it on the Transformation Diagram.
[Six-Eared Macaque Transformation!]
[Six-Eared Macaque Transformation · Shapeshifting]
[Shapeshifting Section: Sixth Realm Demonic Power]
Chen Ku frowned slightly.
Muttering to himself:
"Not too lucky, looks like I need to complete the Six-Eared Macaque Transformation."
Looking towards the sixth level of the Evil Summoning Banner, with only forty-nine Sixth Realm demons left after the Six-Eared Macaque was slain, Chen Ku once again transformed the area in front of the Mountain-Lifting Palace into the ’Butcher Court’.
Thus, releasing one, killing one... 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
[The Diagram Master subdued and killed Mountain Lion... Golden Horned Deer... Green Scale Scorpion... Spider Skull... Chi Snake... Dilu Demon... Copper Fish... Shadow Demon Elephant... Dragon-tailed Ant... acquiring nine Sixth Realm Evil Qi]
These were Sixth Realm demons with no special abilities, and even if they had some, they were of no great consequence to Chen Ku’s transformations, all consumed as dog food Evil Qi.
[Cultivating Six-Eared Macaque Transformation with the nine Sixth Realm Evil Qi]
[Successfully cultivated the Six-Eared Macaque Transformation · Transformation Level]
Suddenly,
Beside the corpse of the Six-Eared Macaque he had slain, Chen Ku transformed into a new Six-Eared Macaque, yet dressed in human clothing, the only unchanged thing being...
The six multicolored ears on each side.
At the same time, all the learning and innate abilities of the Six-Eared Macaque flowed as information into Chen Ku’s heart.
[Six-Eared Macaque Transformation · Transformation]
[Realm: Sixth Realm Demon]
[Learned: Sky-Supporting Sea-Suppressing Stick (Divine Skill) — First Fragmented Form · Garlic Mashing Strike Minor Achievement Level (World-Surpassing) ... Cloud Stepping Technique Great Achievement (Ultimate Skill), Monkey Wine Brewing Technique Great Achievement (Sixth Realm Spiritual Wine) ... Jujube Nailing Stick Technique Perfection (Superior Martial Arts)]
[Innate Divine Ability: Six-Ear Listening]
[Abilities: Golden Fur, Skin Like Iron, Bone Like Vajra, Thousand Feet Eye View, Force Shaking Lion Elephant...]
Chen Ku’s focus lingered on the martial skills and innate divine abilities learned by the Six-Eared Macaque.
Especially this monkey’s garlic-mashing-like martial technique, revealed to be a World-Surpassing Martial Arts level stick technique, called—Garlic Mashing Strike.
"No wonder that one strike wasn’t weak. Even though it was just one move, it had World-Surpassing Martial Arts level power. It’s fortunate this monkey only reached a minor achievement in its art, or I wouldn’t have subdued it so easily earlier."
Chen Ku examined the other martial arts, fully grasping everything at last.
Demons weren’t supposed to possess martial techniques and learning.
Because 99% of demons are merely somewhat powerful beasts whose high level of cultivation still couldn’t awaken intelligence.
Only a few very rare demons could possess human-like intelligence.
Clearly, this Six-Eared Macaque was one of those rare types with a bit of intelligence and learned quite a few human martial arts skills due to its Six-Ear Listening divine ability.
If Chen Ku’s guesses were correct.
This Six-Eared Macaque must have first overheard a superior martial art cultivation method called the Jujube Nailing Stick, and then realized the strengths of human martial arts, slowly acquiring those movement techniques and the divine skill fragment.
"Sky-Supporting Sea-Suppressing Stick, what a grandiose name, I wonder what its origin is?"
Chen Ku mused to himself:
"Just the one fragmented form learned by that little monkey has World-Surpassing Martial Arts power. If I could access the Divine Skill level stick technique, it would supplement my subsequent stick technique cultivation."
Thus far.
He had yet to possess any Divine Skill level martial arts.
"Nine strands of Evil Qi have pushed the Six-Eared Macaque to Shapeshifting—already sufficient. When I enter the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth realm and acquire the Fire Extinguishing Pearl, I can naturally go to Fire Beak Mountain, broadly amassing Evil Qi to upgrade all transformations to Transform great achievement level."
Chen Ku stored all the Sixth Realm demon corpses within a Storage Bag, handing it to Er Lang, and the two simultaneously appeared in the outside courtyard.
"Now, let me test this Six-Eared Macaque’s ’Listening’ ability and see what I can overhear?"
