Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 452 - 294: Second Gate Opens (Part 2)

"This time our luck isn’t great, most of the demons don’t have strong innate divine abilities, their rankings on the Demon List and Strange Beast List are quite low, the only decent one is a Sixth Realm ’Dragon Whisker Fish,’ a demon with the bloodline of one of the merfolk related to the Dragon Totem Divine Beast." Er Lang replied.

"Ancient merfolk bloodline?" Chen Ku’s eyes lit up slightly as he said: "That’s still a good gain."

He is now a Flood Dragon Talented individual, having not improved for a long time. He actually already has a target, the Eighth Realm ’Eight-tailed Dragon Fish’ in the Hero King Realm, which grew from absorbing four hundred years of national fortune of the Great Hong Dynasty.

Unfortunately, his current strength is not enough to kill this Eighth Realm demon.

However, it doesn’t hinder him from collecting the bloodline of the Totem Divine Beast in advance for the next ’Transformation Dragon’ preparation.

After receiving the Evil Summoning Banner, Chen Ku instructed Er Lang on the matter of needing spiritual medicine.

"Spiritual medicine, huh? Don’t worry, currently the pill market within the Qiu Dragon Mansion is already monopolized by us at seventy percent. If spiritual medicine, this kind of pill material, appears, it will be sent to the Three Emperors Ancestral Masters Association immediately. I’ll keep an eye out for you, how much do you need?" Er Lang asked.

"The more, the better. Top-grade spiritual medicine would be best." Chen Ku said.

After giving his instructions.

Chen Ku watched Er Lang leave.

Then looked at the Evil Summoning Banner in his hand, his spirit probing inside, a total of three thousand demons of various sizes, he murmured to himself:

"Three thousand demons, including fifty heads of Sixth Realm demons, one hundred heads of Fifth Realm demons... Such a powerful lineup, if converted into a human army, it would already be the ’elite soldiers’ with no opponents in the entire Qiu Dragon Mansion."

Chen Ku estimated that if he brought out these three thousand demons, their combat power compared to old Marquis Guan Yanbing’s twenty thousand new soldiers would still be surplus.

After all, it’s unlikely that old Marquis’s twenty thousand new soldiers include fifty heads of Sixth Realm generals, one hundred heads of Fifth Realm generals...

"Then... let’s begin!"

Chen Ku, within the room, with a single thought, directly appeared in the first layer of space within the Evil Summoning Banner.

Roar!

Roar!

Roar!

Though it’s just the first layer, the roars of various strange demons within the Evil Summoning Banner are like a living hell, a Shura blood river, biting each other...

Chen Ku’s eyes flickered slightly, calculating internally, not long ago, his strength was already capable of single-handedly killing four to five hundred demons in the Evil Summoning Banner, and now his strength has greatly improved...

Estimating, just one thousand First Realm demons are already not enough to put pressure on him.

And what he needs to cultivate here is to let himself quickly pass through the Champion Marquis’s ’Hundred Battle Array Nourishing Technique’ to swiftly complete the eight gates array nurturing, from the third stage ’array eye’ of the Sixth Realm straight to the fifth stage ’great achievement.’

So, he must try his best to simulate the battlefield environment where the Champion Marquis thrives.

With a thought.

Chen Ku began reciting the incantations and prohibition within the Evil Summoning Banner:

"Release all prohibitions of the sixth layer space, let all demons be in the same space."

Accompanying his divine soul activating the incantation prohibition of the Evil Summoning Banner.

Whoosh~~

One by one, the emerald tadpole runes wrapped around the demons of the upper five layers, all were transmitted to the first layer.

Roar!

Roar!

In an instant, demonic qi and roaring from the great demons of the Fifth and Sixth Realms brewed into terrifying demon clouds, obscuring the sky of this space, turning this place into a mountain of corpses and sea of blood among demons.

Once they came out, they instinctively began slaughtering.

There were golden lions, triangular wolves, blood-colored sword-toothed tigers, bat demons with wings spanning dozens of meters...

The Transformation Diagram immediately jumped out with three thousand alerts.

In an instant, countless demons of various sizes, including First Realm, Second Realm, Third Realm, Fourth Realm demons, all lunged and bit towards Chen Ku.

"Eight Gates Array, Open Gate, open!"

Light appeared between Chen Ku’s brows, the force of the Open Gate continuously transmitted throughout his body, multiplying his battle power, but that’s still not enough:

"Killing Heart Method!"

"Hundred Battle Array Nourishing Technique!"

Simultaneously, two more transformations were added.

Thus, directly charging into the wave of three thousand demonic entities varying in strength and size.

What kind of environment is this?

Demons slaughtered each other, and Chen Ku slaughtered demons within it, chaos to the extreme, none had a common enemy, attacking anything they encountered, in some sense, even more brutal and terrifying than a battlefield.

Two hours later.

Covered in demon blood, having exhausted all his true qi, Chen Ku walked out from within the Evil Summoning Banner, then returned all remaining two thousand four hundred and fifty demons back to their respective spaces.

On his bed, quietly chewing the Wood Emperor True Qi Pill, recovering true qi while using Wood Emperor True Qi to heal wounds.

He did not wear Divine Weapon level defense while entering the Evil Summoning Banner, purely for battle training to harmonize the great array within him; if he wore Divine Weapon defense, it would completely be a one-sided massacre, with no meaning for harmonizing the array.

This involves the key element of the ’Hundred Battle Array Nourishing Technique’: nurturing a sense of war intent within the body through battle, quickly harmonizing the internal array.

Chen Ku was equipped with the Champion Marquis’s ’Hundred Battle Array Nourishing Technique,’ without needing to slowly nurture war intent himself, the technique itself carries the ’war intent’ of the Champion Marquis within this magic skill.

What he requires are enough enemies to stimulate him, to harmonize through this war intent.

Therefore, he only wore Famous Weapon level armor, to experience true life-and-death battle on the battlefield, facing enemies from all directions in such an environment.

A fierce battle lasted for two hours.

Though having the Killing Heart Method, Chen Ku’s mental state was undamaged, his body still felt exhausted, hence he came out to heal.

Half a day later, regaining his physical state, Chen Ku returned to the Evil Summoning Banner for further training.

Two days passed in a blur.

After two days, the one thousand First Realm demons within the Evil Summoning Banner were all slaughtered by him, and only three hundred Second Realm demons remained...

Chen Ku could clearly sense that his internal array, under the impetus of the Champion Marquis’s war intent, was already one-third harmonized, mainly shown in one aspect.

His eight gates array broke through one more gate, able to achieve:

"Second Gate, Rest Gate, open!"

Previously, due to lack of harmonization of the array, coupled with physical constraints, it needed tremendous cost to enable the second gate, now it could be opened comfortably within a bearable range.

And the effect of opening the second gate was, tripling his battle power!

Only slightly less than the fourfold battle power of Blowing Fur to Soldiers.

Blood Qi surged through Chen Ku, even breaking through the demon clouds of numerous Sixth Realm great demons, tearing through the sky, smashing through the skulls of two Sixth Realm demons with a single strike.

"Only the second gate and my battle power triples, if I add Blowing Fur to Soldiers on this basis..."

The eight gates array amplifies inherent power, Blowing Fur to Soldiers swiftly divides one’s battle power into three clones, each lasting three breaths.

So theoretically speaking, the higher Chen Ku’s personal strength, the stronger the individual clones.

But Chen Ku did not execute this maneuver.

The reasoning lies in that he’s using battles for training, not life-and-death slaughter, quickly killing all demons would necessitate Er Lang to summon more.

Again emerging from the Evil Summoning Banner full of injuries. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

As Chen Ku stepped out the door, he received two messages, one from Qin Fang’s envoy.

News from Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion returned.

The other was a message from his mother, sister, and sister-in-law:

"Er Lang, happy birthday."

Standing in the courtyard, seeing a family feast table ready, his sister-in-law, Hu Zi, his sister, brother-in-law, and elderly mother were all standing by the table waiting for him, collectively smiling and congratulating him on his birthday.

Chen Ku then remembered, couldn’t help but smile, saying:

"Today is my eighteenth birthday, I completely forgot."