Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 443 - 289: The Array Eye is Complete! (Part 2)
He was eager to try the power of this Immortal Blade in his hands, seeing just how mighty even twenty percent of its potential could be.
Chen Ku did not rise but simply swung the Immortal Blade in his hand flatly toward a grove in the distance.
Whoosh~~
Along with the swing of the Immortal Blade, the originally rich and abundant True Qi within his body was instantly devoured by the two prohibitions within the Immortal Blade, ultimately condensing a terrifying and unmatched Sword Light at the blade’s tip.
Clang~
The Sword Light slashed out!
The world turned pale in an instant.
Even Chen Ku squinted slightly at this moment before he had a chance to observe the consumption of True Qi within him.
Booming~
The three hundred zhang range of the grove in the distance was all cut flat by this one slash, and the fallen giant trees smashed out a vast cloud of yellow dust rushing toward the sky.
"So powerful!"
Although Chen Ku had already personally felt the power of this blade wielded by the Champion Marquis, with one slash sweeping across, his Seventh Realm cultivation coupled with the Champion Marquis’ technique called ’Territory Expansion’ could completely clear a thousand zhang range within the Drinking Horse River Secret Realm.
At this moment, wielding it again, he was still awed by the power of this blade.
"As expected of an Immortal Weapon, and this is only using two prohibitions I’ve mastered without blade techniques, purely unleashed with True Qi; if combined with the Dragon Subduing Refining God Saber Technique, the power would surely be even greater...could it even tear through the Gang Qi of a Seventh Realm Gang Control master with one slash?"
Chen Ku finally understood why this blade was an Immortal Weapon.
"Prohibition?"
He was beginning to comprehend the source of the blade’s power:
"Is it because of the prohibitions within the blade that make it an Immortal Weapon?"
Giving it further thought.
Whether in the Fire Beak Pot’s prohibition or the prohibition within the Immortal Blade, in some sense, they create special abilities by engraving special patterns within the object’s core.
In this process, the material requisites of the object are indeed a stringent condition, yet the strength of these prohibitions is also not to be overlooked.
"Just like...the array patterns within a martial practitioner?"
Suddenly, Chen Ku realized:
"Whether it’s Magical Treasures, Immortal Weapons, or Sixth Realm martial practitioners, merely talking about the idea of engraving formations, prohibitions, and rules within themselves holds similar wonders; no wonder... Master and Senior Brother Qin always said that only an Immortal Weapon or a similar-level Magical Treasure could suppress the Eight Gates Array within me."
He instantly grasped the reason.
The Willful Weapon in his hand also has a prohibition within it, but evidently, it’s far from qualifying to suppress the Eight Gates Array.
"I wonder how Master Zhuge, the Divine Weapon Casting Master, managed to embed prohibitions within weapons, how many kinds of prohibitions does he hold... it seems, I must seek interactions with such individuals whenever possible in the future."
Setting aside this thought.
Feeling the empty meridians within him, Chen Ku casually retrieved dozens of Wood Emperor True Qi Pills from his storage gourd, swallowing them to restore his True Qi.
"For now, it’s best to first refine this Immortal Blade into a life-bound object to suppress the array."
Once his True Qi was fully restored, Chen Ku began the sacrificial refinement of the Immortal Blade, initially extracting a portion of Essence Blood, combining it with the Imperial Enlightenment Sect’s ’Building Array Eye’ magic skill, beginning little by little to refine the Immortal Blade.
As Chen Ku’s cultivation technique operated, both Essence Blood and True Qi were poured onto this Immortal Weapon.
Ultimately, out of nowhere, red light emerged from the Immortal Weapon, forming a small point, heading straight into Chen Ku’s brow, directly where he had engraved the Open Gate position of the Eight Gates Array within himself.
To the outside observer, they only saw the Immortal Blade entering Chen Ku’s body.
But under Chen Ku’s inner vision.
He saw within the densely packed, star-like Eight Gates Formation Map the preset array eye position within the Open Gate, suddenly, an Immortal Blade fell from above and was swiftly embedded at the array eye position!
Just at the moment when the Immortal Blade merged into Chen Ku’s body, rooting within the Eight Gates as the array eye.
Boom!
The Eight Gates Array within Chen Ku seemed to come alive instantly like being given the finishing touch.
"Array eye, formed!"
Having already understood, when this absolute-level Eight Gates Shocking Array was paired with an Immortal Weapon like the ’Divine Strategy Horse-Slaying Saber’ as the array eye, it resulted in an incredible resonance.
This array, if placed in the outside world, in a unique environment, would be as terrifying a formation as the Eight Gates Shocking Array within the Hero King Realm.
Now, it had been placed within him.
Whirrr~~
Chen Ku could feel the array within him, under the suppression of the array eye, was operating orderly, no longer in chaos or rampage, starting to use his body cultivation as the formation map, crazily absorbing the surrounding Vital Energy.
Explode!
Explode!
Explode!
...
In just the blink of an eye, within several hundred zhang range of Chen Ku, all trees and other things containing Vital Energy were instantly drained of Vital Energy by his internal array, turning into withered wood, dry grass, bursting apart.
"An even more domineering absorption power than the Wood Emperor Technique!"
Since it’s an array, there needs to be energy to operate.
The Eight Gates Shocking Array within the Hero King Realm relies on the entirety of the Hero King Realm’s energy.
While Chen Ku’s internal array, being engraved on a human’s body, gains adaptability with human intake and exhalation of external energy, accumulating array power variation.
Whish whish whish~~
The Vital Energy from Martial Arts Heaven and Earth continuously surged towards Chen Ku’s body.
From afar, even the clouds in the sky rolled towards Chen Ku, the winds on the ground approached him.
His entire being seemed to be a vortex center.
This process of absorption, in Martial Arts Heaven and Earth, persisted for a day and a night, eventually spreading several miles outward.
Finally,
After a day and night, an astonishing scene appeared.
The small hill Chen Ku casually sat cross-legged on, embodying a hundred meters high mountain, was drained of Vital Energy by his internal Eight Gates Array, rendering it starkly bare amidst the thriving Martial Arts Heaven and Earth.
"Satisfied now?"
Chen Ku, feeling the array within him had absorbed the Vital Energy within the several miles surrounding the little hill, sensed the absorption’s pace slightly decelerating.
Taking another internal look.
Within his vision.
Rumbling~~
The array internalized began operating, seemingly urging the internal realm of Eight Gates Heaven and Earth to start rotating, functioning according to the route of array patterns, akin to a gigantic army, all in motion, commencing the evolution of one True Qi micro-particle after another within the Eight Gates Array.
Chen Ku, observing this through internal sight, showed mild surprise:
"Those True Qi micro-particles?"
Thinking back to the massive ’Eight Gates Shocking Array’ within the Hero King Realm that could evolve into thousands upon thousands of armies within each formation, presently comparing it to the untold number of True Qi micro-particles evolving from the Open Gate, it was entirely akin to a True Qi Army.
Watching the Eight Gates Array, due to the Immortal Blade’s function as an array eye, all illuminated within him, resembling eight revolving wheels, eight Cave Heavens, and within every Cave Heaven were countless True Qi ’armies.’
"How majestic the power!"
Even for him, feeling the terrifying power contained within the Eight Gates Array in his body that had absorbed several miles of surroundings as Source Energy, was profoundly awe-struck.
