Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 447 - 291: Strength (Part 2)

It seems like there aren’t many people.

But in terms of the quality of experts, all the experts in the entire Qiu Dragon Mansion combined do not outnumber the puppet experts in this Hero King Realm.

If Chen Ku could master this army,

then he would directly conquer Qiu Dragon Mansion, seize territory for his own rule, and have the qualifications to establish a small nation.

"What a pity, but there’s no need to rush. I have already risen to the 615th position on the Genius List. As long as everything goes smoothly in my cultivation from here on out, and I step into the Seventh Realm, then elevate my ranking further to bring my name to the attention of the Destruction Tower, I’ll have the opportunity to join a sect-level force. By then, obtaining the Forbidden Technique Finger would allow me to wholly digest all the treasures in this Hero King Realm."

He advised himself to take it slow.

Chen Ku deliberately walked towards the Bronze Axe General of the Seventh Realm, one step, one step...

Continuing until he was within a hundred meters.

Boom!

The Bronze Axe General, originally quiet, suddenly had its eyes blaze with red light, and a powerful Gang Qi pressure surged toward Chen Ku.

[There is a Bronze Axe Puppet intending to harm the host, slaying it would yield a Seventh Realm Evil Qi.]

Almost at the moment the Transformation Diagram warned Chen Ku, the Bronze Axe Puppet stationed at the entrance of a grand hall slightly bowed, its massive body leaping from its spot, stirring a small whirlwind, the bronze battle axe in its hands cleaving from the air!

Slash!

The power was exactly the same as the one axe-light Chen Ku had felt at the entrance of the Underground Palace before, as it slashed, even the air within a hundred-foot radius seemed to be split open instantly!

However, today’s Chen Ku was no longer the Martial Artist of the Fourth or Fifth Realm from back then.

"Perfect, I’ll use you to test the might of the Eight Gates Array!"

The air in a hundred-foot radius roared and tore, pressing against his clothes, blowing his black hair wildly.

"Open the Eight Gates! Open!"

Boom!

The first great array in his forehead instantly rotated, like a heavenly river pouring in, infusing terrifying True Qi into Chen Ku. Simultaneously, the array patterns in the great array, akin to flowing runes, swiftly extended from his mind, spreading to every muscle under Chen Ku’s skin.

"Take my palm strike!"

Chen Ku advanced instead of retreating. In the face of his current speed and movement technique, the speed of the Bronze Axe General was entirely negligible; he immediately stretched out a palm from within his sleeve, forming the Mountain-Lifting Palm Seal, first testing the power of this Seventh Realm puppet.

With a step forward, a palm strike issued, and suddenly it seemed to swirl the air within a hundred-foot radius, taking everything from the floor tiles and dust in front of the hall’s entrance plaza, all flying up.

Having opened the ’Heaven Covering Formation’ of the First Gate among the Eight Gates within, Chen Ku simultaneously operated the Champion Marquis’s Hundred Battle Array Nourishing Technique, not only eliminating the instability of the great array but instead greatly enhancing his momentum. His palm seal struck, as if overturning heaven and earth; that was the array power of the Heaven Covering Formation.

Boom!

The next moment, the palm seal collided fiercely with the axe-light.

Boom!

The Seventh Realm Bronze Puppet actually shook violently in mid-air, as if struck by a thousand troops and horses simultaneously against its axe head, finding no footing and suddenly plummeting backward.

Chen Ku’s palm strike was of the World-Surpassing Martial Arts level, accompanied by the addition of the great Heaven Covering Formation’s palm force, and with all Eight Gates opening, his True Qi elevated, and with his own cultivation body’s power, supported by tremendous force, his combat prowess had already far surpassed before.

Thud, thud, thud.

Chen Ku, as he sent flying the Seventh Realm Axe Puppet with one palm, also endured the power of that one axe. However, the ’Breaking Army Bright Armor’ divine weapon he wore shielded most of the Gang Qi’s destructive force, causing only a slight tremor in his body, but he remained unscathed in actuality.

"Indeed, now when I fully exert my Mountain-Lifting Palm, it’s not much different from a strike by a master of the inner Gang level at the Seventh Realm."

Chen Ku looked at the Seventh Realm puppet he had just struck flying, which fell to the ground, but showed a sheen and was undamaged, thinking: 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"Though I can withstand the Seventh Realm, I’m unable to inflict heavy damage, it seems I still need to..."

Immediately, seizing the moment when the Axe Puppet was rising again, his feet spun into the Electric Light Divine Walk, utilizing the speed of the Black Smoke Beast, relying on the defense of the Bright Armor, at once pushing his own speed to the limit...

Originally, the combination of Chen Ku’s Electric Light Divine Walk and the speed of the Black Smoke Beast was unparalleled, only lacking high-grade armor; pushing speed to the limit would melt even the Yuan Tuo Silver Armor due to friction. Now with the Champion Marquis’s Champion Camp’s Bright Armor, he finally ran at his speed’s full potential.

From afar, it appeared as a momentary flash of light, the speed exceeding his previous by over double.

In an instant, he was upon the Seventh Realm puppet, stirring the ’Immortal Blade’ housed in the first inner Heaven Covering Formation’s array eye in his mind, activating its two layers of prohibition, and from his forehead, turning into an Immortal Blade, pierced through the Seventh Realm puppet’s head.

[The Diagram Master has slain the Bronze Axe Puppet, obtaining a streak of Seventh Realm Evil Qi]

Swoosh~~

Observing his own blade withdraw all his True Qi, but also reducing the Bronze Axe Puppet to collapse, revealing a piece of Spirit Jade, Chen Ku picked it up, whispering to himself:

"Sacrifice the Seventh Realm Evil Qi of this Bronze Axe Puppet."

Swoosh~~

Vaguely, it seemed something within Chen Ku lit up brightly, then a new scroll was outlined in his mind.

[The Ninth Transformation Map is completed]

Chen Ku gazed at the slowly unfolding new Transformation Map.

He mused: "Which transformation to add on, or should I create a new transformation?"

Immediately, he looked at the eight transformations currently hanging on his Transformation Map.

Flood Dragon Transformation·Transformation (Fifth Realm),

Four Non-Interacting Changes·Transformation (Fourth Realm),

Fire Beak Pot Transformation·Transformation (Fifth Realm),

Erlang Transformation·Transformation (Fifth Realm),

Five-colored Peacock Transformation·Transformation (Fourth Realm)

Black Smoke Beast Transformation·Transformation (Sixth Realm)

Zhang Yulin Change·Shape Shifting (Seventh Realm)

Champion Marquis Transformation·Transformation (Seventh Realm)

Chen Ku looked from the Black Smoke Beast Transformation onward, none were of the Third Transformation Level’s third-layer transformation; there were only three commonly used transformations, besides these, he had True Void Ancestor Transformation, Divine Aura Transformation, Floating High Preacher Transformation, Six-Eared Macaque Transformation, Xu En Transformation, Cheng Qingshan Transformation, and several other sixth or seventh realm transformations, all still at the first level.

"Evil Qi..."

Chen Ku looked at his currently owned Sixth and Seventh Realm Evil Qi.

There were only five streaks of Seventh Realm Evil Qi.

But there were nearly a hundred streaks of Sixth Realm Evil Qi.

He had slain close to fifty Sixth Realm demons in the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth connecting forty-eight checkpoints, plus about forty Sixth Realm demons in the Evil Summoning Banner, totaling nearly a hundred streaks.

"Every forty-five streaks of Evil Qi can promote a third-layer transformation of the shape-shift level, I have just enough to promote two Sixth Realm transformations to the third level."

Chen Ku glanced at those Sixth Realm transformations still lingering at the first ’Shape Shifting’ level.

He then looked at the earlier transformations still at the Fourth or Fifth Realm; the Fifth Realm ones were fine, but the Fourth Realm’s Four Unlikes was lagging too far behind, had it not fused the Power of Two Dragons, it would have been dismantled by Chen Ku long ago:

"Is it to advance two new Sixth Realm transformations, or... enhance Flood Dragon and Four Unlikes, and Five-colored Peacock, with ’fetus transformation shape shifting’ to elevate them to the Sixth Realm?"

He lost himself in thought.

And then, he made a decision.