Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 456 - 296: Seventh Realm Fire Evil

The red sun rises, its rays enveloping a forest.

"Finally filled."

Chen Ku shakes the Evil Summoning Banner, watching as its space is once again filled with nearly three thousand demons.

Inside the Banner’s space.

Demonic Qi is eerie, demon clouds shroud, and various large claws, wing shadows, sharp teeth reflect frightening silhouettes within the banner.

"It’s time to head to Fire Beak Mountain."

Chen Ku stows away the Evil Summoning Banner, rising in a mist towards Yuan Country, and begins to fly over.

Flying in mid-air.

His gaze looks down below.

For demon capturing, he specifically came to a nearby Demon Mountains of Qiu Dragon Mansion; back then, during the night, he did not notice the scenery beneath him.

At this moment,

The daylight is excellent, the sun even blazing hot, and only because Chen Ku is wearing the Taiyin Jade Toad Robe can he feel refreshingly cool.

He sees the land below Qiu Dragon Mansion, especially the situation in the fields, all withered and shriveled wheat seedlings, dried to death in the ground.

In the fields, the earth even has tortoise shell-like cracks.

Even the flow of water in the small river canals is only arm-thick.

He can even see, by some roadsides, groups of escapees with exposed upper bodies, showing rib-like skinny ribs, listlessly queuing with canes, without knowing their destination.

"Hiss."

Chen Ku looks at the environment below, his heart slightly shaken:

"Has Qiu Dragon Mansion’s land dried up to this extent this year? So many people are fleeing?"

Undoubtedly, from what he sees in the fields, most crops have dried due to weather conditions, possibly related to last year’s lack of snow and the scarcity of rain from spring to summer this year.

Being someone who once scavenged for food in Dachen Village near Snake Fish Town and picked herbs in the mountains, Chen Ku is acutely aware of how the city farmers rely on the weather for sustenance.

When the weather is favorable, it’s alright; but in a year of great drought or disaster, undoubtedly, ordinary people cannot survive.

Just like now.

Looking over, on the yellow dusty official road, there are tens of thousands escaping famine, reminding him of last summer and fall, similarly surrounded by many fleeing escapees near Snake Fish Town.

But compared to this year’s massive escapee group, last year’s situation amounted to nothing.

"Although I anticipated last winter that this year would be a year of great disaster, I never thought it would become such a calamity."

Chen Ku exhales, looking in the direction of Baojiao County and Yuan Country:

"This year is already a year of great disaster; if Yuan Country seizes the opportunity to invade, then all geography and opportunity won’t favor Ji Country or Qiu Dragon Mansion..."

They faintly imagine what kind of scene that might be.

Chen Ku’s heart chills slightly, feeling time becoming increasingly urgent.

He hesitates no longer, heading straight towards Fire Beak Mountain at Two Realms Mountain.

After all,

With the looming threat of fearful disaster and war, the stronger and fuller his own power, the greater the safety he can derive from it.

Whoosh~~

Treading on the cloud mist brought by the Four Unlikes, passing through layers of airflow, it takes Chen Ku a day to finally reach Fire Beak Mountain.

The reason it takes a day and night is because he is not only traveling but also merging his internal array while in the Evil Summoning Banner. In one day, undergoing over ten intense battles, exhausting his True Qi multiple times, fighting and killing hundreds of demons, with realms from First to Sixth.

"Half achieved."

Feeling under the Champion Marquis’s war intent stimulation, the Eight Gates Array within him begins to operate increasingly seamlessly, with fewer and fewer transformations and obstacles in the array patterns.

Much like martial arts progressing from entry-level to minor achievement, about to advance to great achievement.

This is the cultivation process of the Sixth Realm’s Array Network Cultivating Array.

Array Nourishing, like practicing troops internally repeatedly, the more familiar the drill, the smoother and more perfect the array pattern operates in actual combat.

And Chen Ku employs the Champion Marquis’s transformation, using war to nurture war, employing practice to hone his internal grand array, faster than the average person’s array nourishment.

This method is indeed favored by military practitioners.

Because such an environment is found only in military battlefields.

Generally, martial practitioners in Jianghu opt for peaceful, error-free nurturing, after all, nourishing the array on a battlefield, though rapid, can lead to death a mistake, an exhaustion, an enemy ambush.

This is a method only Chen Ku can attempt with the Evil Summoning Banner.

Whoosh~~

Entering Two Realms Mountain, Chen Ku smells the primitive, fresh forest air within Two Realms Mountain.

But soon,

He detects within the fresh forest air, many demon scents, along with many Yuan Country expert scents.

The scent of Qi Cultivators.

Just like the smell of Yelev Xuandu within Hero King Realm.

"Hmm? Why are there so many Yuan Country Qi Cultivators within Two Realms Mountain? Could they... have started preparing to attack Ji Country?"