Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 424 - 279: One Acre Golden Light (Part 2)
A custom Divine Weapon costs one hundred ninety thousand.
At that time, he could forge two weapons at once without any remorse.
His thoughts flickered, thinking about the enormous martial destiny that he was about to manifest.
Unknowingly.
He had already arrived at a forest of golden-yellow trees ahead.
Before him.
The forest was lush and verdant, somewhat resembling autumn ginkgo trees, all with yellow leaves, and the leaves shimmered with a crystalline luster, looking like sheets of golden leaves.
This forest was overly resplendent.
Just as Chen Ku reached the Golden Light Forest.
Within the Martial Temple, Li Yuanhua, the old scholar responsible for constructing this hidden checkpoint, was originally reclining on a lounge chair drinking tea. Suddenly, a message was relayed from his token that his ’Golden Light Forest’ checkpoint had been triggered.
"What? That boy found the Golden Light Forest!"
Li Yuanhua jumped up from his spot and rushed to the Gold List, exclaiming hoarsely:
"Tang Lie, you old fellow, did you leak the questions to this boy?"
"What do you mean?" Tang Lie was furious.
Li Yuanhua said in a deep voice, "My Golden Light Forest hidden checkpoint requires a special item to trigger, which will lure out that ’Golden Light Centipede’. Coincidentally, after that boy finished with the Blood Maple Forest, he just happened to obtain the ’Green Gold Cicada Molting’, and then he went straight to the Golden Light Forest with it.
How could it be such a coincidence?"
For a moment, everyone looked at Tang Lie with scrutinizing gazes.
Tang Lie was furious and said, "You’re talking nonsense! Even if I hadn’t done such a thing, Chen Ku wasn’t necessarily cheating. You’re completely slandering me.
Moreover, even if there was cheating, why do you immediately think I leaked the questions to Chen Ku?"
"Do you even need to ask? Aren’t you the one who became the mentor of the scholar?"
Li Yuanhua frowned and shouted:
"You would definitely leak questions to favor this naturally gifted disciple!"
"You’re talking nonsense!"
Tang Lie roared, pointing to the sky:
"I, Tang Lie, swear that if I leaked questions to Chen Ku, may I be struck by heavenly thunder!"
As soon as these words were spoken. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦
Everyone in the Martial Temple fell silent.
Xin Ruhai took a deep breath, stood up to mediate, and said, "Old Li, don’t accuse people without reason. The Blood Maple Forest was arranged by me. The Green Gold Cicada Molting was something you and I discussed as a reward for passing the Blood Maple Forest. Only you and I know this secret, there’s no way Old Tang could know, and there’s no possibility of cheating."
The other old scholars began to think carefully, too.
Some regular questions in Martial Arts Heaven and Earth are known to each other. For instance, the Golden Armored Rhinoceros hidden by Tang Lie has been fairly obvious and has been there for years; they all understand it.
However, all other more secretive hidden checkpoints are not usually made public. These are the little secrets of the question setters to prevent the questions from being leaked, losing the purpose of trialing the students.
"What’s all this noise?"
At this moment, a deep voice asked, coming from outside the hall.
It was the Main Sacrificial Officer, Zhao Shenyang.
He looked at the others and said:
"I’ve heard it all. Just because he obtained the Green Gold Cicada Molting and then went to the Golden Light Forest, it doesn’t prove anything. It could be luck or perhaps he’s familiar with the environment of Purple Peak Mountain.
Moreover, you also need to think about the purpose of Martial Arts Heaven and Earth’s trial. Aren’t your questions meant to be broken by the trialists? Breaking the question doesn’t matter—passing the checkpoint is the real skill."
With this reminder from the Main Sacrificial Officer.
The others also fell silent.
Indeed, passing the checkpoint is the real skill.
So,
Can that Chen Ku pass the Golden Light Centipede?
They looked at Li Yuanhua, who set up this checkpoint, and asked, "Old Li, do you think he has any chance?"
"Ha!"
Li Yuanhua sneered and said:
"I don’t think he has the ability. Although our Ji Country has always believed in personal power, with martial arts breaking everything, sometimes we must admit that ’martial skills are not as magical as divine skills’. That Golden Light Centipede is an ancient mutant, a descendant of the ’Thousand-Eyed Sky Wu’, with its body fully awakened to the divine ability of the ancient Great Demon Thousand-Eyed Sky Wu’s ’Golden Eye Divine Ability.’"
"Golden Eye Divine Ability?"
"Is it that ancient Great Demon’s divine ability that, when unleashed, could cover a range of twenty li?"
"A range of twenty li?!
"Twenty li is the level of the ancient ’Thousand-Eyed Sky Wu’.
Li Yuanhua, hearing the others’ comments, said softly:
"The Golden Light Centipede I house at the peak of the Sixth Realm can’t cover such a large range, only about one acre, known as ’One Acre Golden Light’."
"One acre?" The others gasped, "Isn’t that already extravagant?"
"Yes, even with just one acre, once the golden light covers it, even a Seventh Realm master would be trapped inside, unable to break through or destroy it," Li Yuanhua said.
The others said in shock, "So only someone above the Seventh Realm can be sure to pass the checkpoint? It’s no wonder no one has passed it in over a decade with such difficulty."
"In fact, the conditions to pass this checkpoint are not strict; you don’t need to kill the Golden Light Centipede. Simply retrieving a bowl of spiritual liquid from the well beneath it counts as passing. However, if someone truly extraordinary can obtain the spiritual liquid and also kill the Golden Light Centipede, it would be considered a record-breaking ’perfect pass’, and they would receive a broken Divine Weapon Black Feather Mage Robe, only requiring a casting material of Divine Weapon Clothing Level, ’Green Gold Swan Feather’, plus ten thousand repair fees to gain a Divine Weapon Level garment," Li Yuanhua explained.
"What are you saying? You said the demon’s divine ability, Golden Light, covers an acre, all it needs to do is cover the well, and who could steal that bowl of spiritual liquid? If someone managed to kill the Golden Light Centipede, why would they only pursue a bowl of spiritual liquid?"
"The difficulty of the checkpoint I set is within the permissible range of the Martial Temple rules."
After saying that, Li Yuanhua glanced at Tang Lie and said:
"If Chen Ku can’t pass, then it indicates that he has no fate with the ’Black Feather Mage Robe’. It’s his own incompetence, who else could he blame?"
Tang Lie said nothing.
He just kept looking at the Gold List, waiting for Chen Ku’s result in the Golden Light Forest.
...
In the Golden Light Forest.
Chen Ku held the Green Gold Cicada Molting in his hand, walking slowly into this splendid forest.
His Skinny Dog nose could distinctly smell the extremely rich medicinal aroma emanating from the Green Gold Cicada Molting in his hand...
If the intelligence received by the Six-Eared Macaque was true.
Then...
Just as Chen Ku held the Green Gold Cicada Molting and walked into the depths of the Golden Light Forest within half a li.
In the depths of the Golden Light Forest, hidden behind an invisible array formation restriction, beneath a dried-up well underground, a massive centipede with a golden-red back, suddenly...
Opened the dozens of eyes on its forehead.
Boom!
Suddenly, its enormous body spiraled up the well walls, wriggling towards where Chen Ku was, heading straight for him in the seemingly empty void!
Crash~~
The array in the void shattered like a mirror, and the light from the formation scattered like powder from butterfly wings, flying in all directions.
Glistening light sprinkled around.
The Golden Light Centipede broke through the void, its many eyes reflecting the young man under its massive body, holding a green cicada molting, simultaneously looking up at him...
