Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 419 - 276: Broken Divine Weapon

The sixth-level gray ear moved ten times.

The fifth-level white ear moved three times.

The fourth-level blue ear moved once.

Chen Ku’s mind was immersed in the ’Listening’ world of the Six-Eared Macaque.

Centering around him.

It spread over a radius of a thousand miles, under a special ’perspective’, immediately revealing a variety of information colors within the sphere of the Qiu Dragon Mansion’s Martial Arts Heaven and Earth at Purple Peak Mountain.

One after another, they floated between heaven and earth, resembling colorful threads intertwined.

However, he did not see golden information.

Nor red information.

Instead, there was quite a bit of blue-violet information.

In the end.

Chen Ku, relying on one top-grade Spiritual Fruit, three Spirit Grasses, and ten top-grade Treasure Herbs, acquired a total of thirteen pieces of information.

The True Qi transformed from ten top-grade Treasure Herbs resulted in ten gray pieces of information, all of which were not particularly important, such as:

"There is a peach tree full of fruit in the rock cave on Purple Peak Mountain."

"At Tusk Ridge, a wild boar gave birth to eight piglets."

...

But not all the information was useless.

For example, this one.

[Scholar Gu Chuanjia took a shit at Cloud-climbing Cliff three days ago]

Chen Ku was slightly stunned upon hearing it.

Wasn’t this the scholar he encountered the first time he entered the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth?

Unexpectedly, he encountered him inside again this time.

It seems that he is a regular in the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth.

For the time being, he did not pay attention to this Gu Chuanjia.

Chen Ku listened to those three white pieces of information.

"There is a checkpoint called ’Blood Maple Forest’ at Purple Peak Mountain, set by Elder Scholar Xin Ruhai of the Martial Temple, three hundred miles north of here, where the gatekeeper is a Sixth Realm tree spirit. Defeating it will reward you with a ’Green Gold Cicada Molting’, which can be used medicinally and has the value of a top-grade Spirit Medicine."

"Five hundred miles from here, there is another checkpoint called ’Sky-reaching Stacked Road’, which is filled with various demon worms. At its end, you will encounter a ’Thief King’, a Sixth Realm prisoner confined there. Defeating him will grant you the casting material for Divine Weapon Level armor, ’Black Dragon Silk’, as well as his Ultimate Skill ’Miao Kong Hand’."

"Eight hundred miles south lies a Jade Liquid Pool. By collecting and sowing ’Spiritual Jade Seeds’, you can grow Jade Flowers to lure out the spirit ’Jade Princess’ from beneath the pool. Defeating her will reward you with top-grade Famous Weapon Level casting material ’Jade Silk’.

These are the three pieces of white information.

Lastly, there was a piece of blue information obtained by exchanging for a top-grade Spiritual Fruit, a golden apricot:

"On Purple Peak Mountain, there is a hidden checkpoint called ’Golden Light Forest’, set by Elder Scholar Li Yuanhua of the Martial Temple, located thirty li from here, within a Golden Maple Forest.

The gatekeeper is a ’Golden Light Centipede’, usually coiled at the bottom of a well, guarding the spring water beneath. This is a Spiritual Spring that produces a bowl of ’Spiritual Liquid’ each year, comparable in effect to a top-grade Spiritual Fruit, but the well’s surroundings are protected by a formation, invisible to outsiders.

This centipede has a natural preference for eating Green Gold Cicada.

If one obtains a ’Green Gold Cicada Molting’, enters the golden light, it can lure the Golden Light Centipede from the well.

This Golden Light Centipede is a peak Sixth Realm demon capable of shooting golden light from its eyes to envelop opponents.

No one has successfully challenged it in the past ten years.

If one can steal the Spiritual Liquid from it, it is considered to have cleared the level.

If it is defeated within the time of a stick of incense,

it will be considered a ’Record Break’.

The Martial Temple rewards record breakers with a ruined Divine Weapon Level robe ’Black Soap Feather Mage Robe’.

Having digested this blue information,

Chen Ku couldn’t help but click his tongue in amazement.

"Ruined Divine Weapon Level Robe—Black Soap Feather Mage Robe."

Though it seems ruined, that the Martial Temple offers this ruined Divine Weapon Level robe as a hidden checkpoint reward indicates it certainly still possesses some Divine Weapon Level defensive ability.

Moreover...

Chen Ku further understood a principle.

Weapons, robes, and armor—things of this nature—when broken, damaged, or worn, can all be repaired.

"No wonder it’s blue information."

Chen Ku again felt the precious value of the information heard by the six ears of the Six-Eared Macaque.

The White Light Level information already involved checkpoints and some techniques for clearing them.

The Green Light Level information involved hidden checkpoints within Martial Arts Heaven and Earth and rewards of ruined Divine Weapon Level.

"I truly wonder what precious intelligence the purple information will be? What level will the red information above purple be? And then, the highest level golden information..."

Chen Ku marveled once again at the heaven-defying nature of the divine skills of the Six-Eared Macaque.

Thinking of the information he heard.

Especially that the Blood Maple Tree checkpoint was even linked to a hidden checkpoint.

"I suppose it’s because the listening range of the Six-Eared Macaque currently spans within a thousand miles, and the information within this range inevitably interrelates, leading to such results."

Chen Ku has currently acquired information on several checkpoints.

So he used Martial Destiny to exchange for three more top-grade Spiritual Fruits, which he stored in the Storage Bag for future use, and then, pinpointing the location of the Blood Maple Tree, employed his movement technique to swiftly approach.

Within a range of three hundred miles.

Under the combination of Chen Ku’s Electric Light Divine Walk and the Black Smoke Beast, he arrived quickly.

He reached a grove of blood-red maple trees.

He then detached the Six-Eared Macaque from the Transformation Diagram temporarily, replacing it with the ’Hundred Feet Divine Consciousness’ of the Peace Path Sect Hierarch Xu En, and started scanning outward.

As the divine consciousness extended, everything within a hundred feet was clearly revealed within his mind.

"Goodness, these maples have all become spirit monster tree spirits."

Swoosh swoosh~

As soon as his steps entered the Blood Maple Forest, all the maple trees around emitted one mournful wail after another.

The trunks of those blood-red maple trees all opened their large mouths, and in roars, the branches came one after another to bind Chen Ku.

[There are Blood Maple Tree Spirits with malicious intent towards the master, defeating them can earn Third Realm Evil Qi...]

However,

Chen Ku was completely unflustered, not even making an effort to dodge, merely circulating the ’Wood Emperor Technique’ within his Huntian Overlord Body.

Immediately, with his body as the center, a terrifying devouring power began to transmit to the surrounding trees.

Suck!

Within an instant, as Chen Ku activated his Wood Emperor Technique,

Woosh woosh~~~

Airflow and vitality were all sucked towards Chen Ku, swirling around him.

The domineering Wood Emperor Technique was frantically devouring the vital energy of the wood essence tree demons around him, and visibly, those blood-red maple trees’ trunks became shriveled, aged, and lifeless, with maple leaves turning yellow and falling one by one...

And then,

Blast!

Explosion!

The Blood Maple Trees within a range of several dozen feet all exploded one by one.

[Diagram Master has slain twenty-eight Blood Maple Tree Spirits, gaining twenty-eight instances of Third Realm Evil Qi]

"Third Realm? Seems like these aren’t the real Blood Maple Tree Spirits yet!"

"Roar!"

Just then, a sharp, hoarse howl echoed from the depths of the Blood Maple Forest.

"Hmm?"

Chen Ku’s eyes slightly opened, and then he saw at the extreme limit of his vision, the ground suddenly began to tremble, even the distant land quivered. Massive roots began to surface from beneath the earth.

Following that, a fiery red maple tree at the edge of his sight, unbelievably rose from the ground, standing like a human being.

Two large trunks hung down from its treetop like two arms, using these arms to brace the ground, it pulled its roots from the earth.

Rumble!

Alongside a ground-shaking tremor,

that Blood Maple Tree pulled itself out from the ground. Its lower half was a conglomeration of countless entangled roots forming legs, and its trunk developed expressions resembling facial features, letting out a roar.

"Roar!"

[A Blood Maple Tree King intends to harm the Master, slay it to obtain Sixth Realm Evil Qi]

Almost at the moment when the Transformation Diagram warned Chen Ku.

Boom~

Behind the Blood Maple Tree King, dozens of feet away, hundreds or even thousands of arm-thick branches manifested, clenching into fists at the tips.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In the blink of an eye, numerous trunks resembled rapidly growing rubber fists, all at once lunging toward Chen Ku.

In the blink of an eye, they punctured the space above Chen Ku, creating hundreds of sonic booms.

"Quite impressive indeed..."

Chen Ku chuckled lightly, facing the thousands of fists launched at him, tapped his foot, and his body soared into the sky, evading the countless fists.

Rumble~

The ground where he originally stood, was instantly pounded into a massive cloud of dirt.

"What a pity..."

Hovering in mid-air, Chen Ku chuckled, drew the Coiled Dragon Staff, operated the Five Elements Body, holding a section of the staff, evenly spread the Lihuo True Qi over it, and then...

He executed the Dragon Subduing Refining God Sword technique, continuously building up the forces of the staff!

"Roar!"

The Blood Maple Tree King’s attack missed, roaring as it twisted the hundreds of fists together, resembling countless twisted iron wires into a steel cable, condensing into a fist ten times larger, once again striking toward Chen Ku in mid-air.

At the same time,

Chen Ku’s staff force had also reached its peak, and he lightly raised the nine-foot-long fiery red staff with his right hand, swinging it down towards the Blood Maple Tree King below.

With this gentle swing,

whoosh~~

The nine-foot-long staff suddenly extended to over forty meters in length, wielding a force of seven hundred thousand pounds!

Boom!

In an instant, it seemed to shatter the sky in front of him!

Tear~

The gigantic tree fist condensed by the Blood Maple Tree King, containing the frightening tree spirit of the Sixth Realm, was thus...

cut open by the forty-meter-long fiery staff...

The force of the staff did not cease, tearing everything apart as it surged forward.

Until, 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Split! Sound!

The colossal figure of the Tree King, akin to a two-story house, was cleaved in half from the center.

[Diagram Master has slain the Blood Maple Tree King, gaining one Sixth Realm Evil Qi]

Chen Ku retracted the staff, standing in mid-air, withdrew the Martial Arts Gold Order, and began absorbing martial destiny from the ground:

[Scholar Chen Ku, credited with one thousand one hundred forty points of martial destiny]

This should be the sum of the martial destiny from the Sixth Realm Blood Maple King and other tree spirits combined.

And just as Chen Ku absorbed the martial destiny from this place.

In the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth, there was also some commotion.

A golden light shot up to the sky.

[Scholar Chen Ku, within three breaths, has cleared ’Blood Maple Forest,’ setting a new record in Martial Arts Heaven and Earth]

In an instant, in other places within the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth, some Daji martial artists who were also undergoing trials were all shaken.

"Blood Maple Forest? The level with the Sixth Realm Demon Blood Maple Tree King? Cleared in three breaths?"

"Since when did Qiu Dragon Mansion produce such a monster?"

"Which Seventh Realm master is that?"

"Chen Ku? Sounds somewhat familiar, isn’t he from the Prefecture City..."

These people within the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth came from over thirty counties of Qiu Dragon Mansion.

In a mountain forest.

Gu Chuanjia also looked up, his expression even more shocked:

"Chen Ku? The Chen Ku I know? He’s slaying Sixth Realm like drinking water in just half a year?"

Meanwhile,

Inside the Martial Temple.

A group of elderly scholars also saw this line on the Gold List.

"Cleared Blood Maple Forest in three breaths..." Xin Ruhai, the elderly scholar who set up the Blood Maple Forest checkpoint, was in disbelief at this moment.

Tang Lie felt honored.

Suddenly, as if he thought of something, he shouted:

"Quick, check how much Chen Ku has risen on the Nine Provinces Genius List?"

Chen Ku’s previous ranking was based on his first entry into the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth, the internal evaluation by its rules.

Which means that over nine hundred ranking was his strength during his last entry into the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth.

His second endeavor will certainly refresh the evaluation of him in the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth after a few months...

Immediately, these old scholars at the Martial Temple used their authority to look at the Nine Provinces Genius List on the Gold List, focusing on Chen Ku’s rank.

"So fast! Jumping so fast..."

They saw Chen Ku’s rank, after defeating the Sixth Realm Blood Maple Tree King, start jumping at lightning speed...

Ninth hundred and sixty-four... nine hundred and sixty-three... nine hundred and sixty-two... nine hundred and six... nine hundred and fifty... nine hundred and twenty... nine hundred...

Eight hundred and sixty-four!!

"Directly leaped over a hundred ranks?!!"

"Still climbing!!"