Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 505 - 327: Black Wind Formed! Three Gates Open! Seventh Realm Achieved! (Part 2)
Put aside any feeling of sentiment.
Chen Ku walked to the edge of the cliff, scanned his surroundings, and sat cross-legged, preparing to enter the Seventh Realm. He first released his incarnations of Loose Cultivation Transformation and Flood Dragon Transformation to stand guard nearby and serve as his protectors.
Since others would also come here to cultivate, caution was required.
Whoosh!
Chen Ku sat cross-legged with closed eyes atop Black Wind Cliff, feeling the Gang Wind strike from all directions as he calculated the consumption of Wood Emperor True Qi within his body:
"The consumption of Wood Emperor True Qi here is immense; in approximately one hour, it will be exhausted."
In his body, aside from Wood Emperor True Qi, there were also Golden Light True Qi, Lihuo True Qi, Kunlun True Qi, and Weak Water True Qi.
One hour later.
Chen Ku’s Wood Emperor True Qi was exhausted, yet he did not take a Wood Emperor True Qi Pill, opting instead to use the other four types of True Qi to continue protecting his body, resisting the assault of Black Wind Gang Qi from all directions.
Four hours later.
The Five Elements True Qi within Chen Ku’s body was completely depleted.
Only then did he begin taking a True Qi Pill.
After taking the Wood Emperor True Qi Pill, Wood Generates Fire, Fire Generates Gold, restarting the circulation of the Five Elements within his body...
On Black Wind Cliff, it was impossible to distinguish the sun and moon or differentiate between day and night; the entire day was shrouded in darkness by the wind and sand that covered the sky.
Approximately seven days passed.
Chen Ku opened his eyes, sensing the changes in the Five Elements True Qi within his body and whispered in his heart:
"Seven days of Gang Wind refining, the Five Elements True Qi within me has cycled forty-two times, only slightly condensing; it seems stepping into the Gang Control stage quickly is not easy, no wonder there are so many bones here."
Chen Ku underestimated the difficulty of breaking through into the Gang Control stage.
Yet he could understand.
After all, before obtaining the Immortal Blade, he had invaded the intestines of Seventh Realm experts but still could not harm them, demonstrating the power of Gang Qi.
Moreover, he practiced the "Huntian Overlord Body," a special martial arts technique. Refining Protective Gang Qi would surely make it harder than typical Seventh Realm Gang Control stage Protective Gang Qi.
Therefore, without extreme training, it is absolutely unformable.
"Fortunately, I follow my master’s path. Back then, he cultivated here not only to step into the Gang Control stage but also utilized the special ’Black Wind’ here to cultivate ’Black Wind Technique’.
Chen Ku examined within himself, observing some faint black light particles among his Hundred Veins Array Veins, aside from the circulating Five Elements True Qi.
"Black Wind True Qi..."
His heart felt a slight joy:
"The sixth layer of Huntian Overlord Body, originally cultivated using wind-aligned spiritual objects. Master Shan Lingguan, at that time, searched everywhere for wind spiritual objects but ultimately found Black Wind Cliff coincidentally with powerful energies within the Black Wind here. Though not as quickly effective as the spiritual objects used for cultivating other cultivation bodies, its endless supply allowed me to produce a slight trace of Black Wind True Qi after seven days of inhalation and exhalation. Next, as I continue to temper Five Elements True Qi and inhale Black Wind, refining True Qi will allow me to achieve the sixth layer ’Black Wind Body’ sooner.
When Black Wind Body is achieved and combined with external Black Wind Gang Qi, simultaneous inner and outer refining will double the cultivation speed."
This insight came from Master Shan Lingguan’s experiences while cultivating here, utilized fully by Chen Ku.
Three more days passed.
As Chen Ku completed another cycle of creation and destruction of Five Elements True Qi within, he instinctively reached for his storage gourd but found it empty, realizing:
"I’ve consumed all the Wood Emperor True Qi Pills."
The Wood Emperor True Qi Pill, a condensed form of True Qi added with rare grass and wood spiritual objects during peak strength, restores Wood Emperor True Qi to full strength upon consumption, simultaneously running Five Elements to restore one-fifth of the Five Elements True Qi within.
He can condense a Wood Emperor True Qi Pill with cultivation, but it takes a day to restore True Qi.
Now, ten days later, Chen Ku had exhausted sixty Wood Emperor True Qi Pills earned from two months of accumulation.
At this juncture, Chen Ku could only opt to take other pills, though not as homogeneous as Wood Emperor True Qi Pill, yet capable of restoring considerable True Qi.
Yet Chen Ku chose not to consume other pills.
Instead...
"Eight Gates Array, Open Gate! Rest Gate! Open!"
He chose to consume the True Qi stored within the Eight Gates Array; these True Qi were the extreme Earth Vital Energy he absorbed from a mountain within Martial Arts Heaven and Earth and stored in a Treasure Vault.
Though only two gates could be opened now, they could still provide him with abundant True Qi.
Simultaneously, he could keep rotating the Eight Gates Array, allowing it to continue absorbing the Vital Energy from Black Wind Cliff to maintain the True Qi stored in the Eight Gates Treasure Vault.
However, unlike the gentle True Qi from Wood Emperor True Qi Pill, the True Qi within Eight Gates Array was derived from forcefully absorbing Earth Vital Energy, imposing tremendous workload post-infusion.
Nevertheless, Chen Ku currently seeks True Qi training under extreme circumstances.
Gang Qi! Hundred Refinements to Gang!
At this moment, if Shan Lingguan witnesses Chen Ku’s cultivation method, even he would tremble with beard; he’d feel this disciple is too extreme.
