Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 506 - 327: Black Wind Mastered! Three Gates Open! Seventh Realm Achieved!
The Eight Gates Array is originally a grand array to forcibly enhance battle strength, with extremely high demands on the physique, used for combat, yet now Chen Ku is using it for cultivation.
This is almost playing a joke with his body.
Because Chen Ku is now attempting to use the Eight Gates Escape Armor Formation, while simultaneously absorbing and exhaling the Vital Energy of heaven and earth, and transforming it into True Qi within his body, to meet the refinement from the Black Wind Cliff.
This is extremely dangerous.
Because maintaining the absorption, exhalation, operation, and transformation of the Eight Gates Escape Armor in an absolutely balanced state greatly tests the Martial Practitioner’s control over their own True Qi.
If control is mishandled, the result is either the True Qi refined by the Eight Gates Escape Armor cannot keep up with the refinement consumption speed of the Black Wind Cliff, causing Chen Ku to suffer Gang injury, or the Eight Gates Escape Armor absorbs too much, can’t refine in time, overloads, and results in bodily explosion and death.
In any case, it’s a self-destructive path choice.
But Chen Ku still made this dangerous decision.
Not out of impatience, but because he faintly felt that what would be formed by the final refinement, whether in his Seventh Realm state, or physique, or the usage of the Eight Gates Escape Armor, would undergo a qualitative transformation.
And his courage to do this stems from...
"Incarnation, assist me!"
Chen Ku shouted loudly in his heart.
Instantly, in his mind, the power from the nine transformations on the nine Transformation Diagrams all transmitted towards him.
Nine transformations, although some were split into incarnations and left in Qiu Dragon Mansion, Chen Ku still possessed ’Shape-Shifted’ cultivation, able to evoke the power of these nine transformations within his body.
Instantly, within Chen Ku’s body, perhaps due to the incarnations being split off, these nine transformations dropped to Shape-Shifted Level, or remained at Transformation Level, all transforming into large invisible hands.
In a moment, it was as if there were nine invisible large hands helping Chen Ku smooth over the True Qi absorbed by the Eight Gates Escape Armor, turning it into gentle True Qi, and sharing the potential runaway tendency of the Eight Gates Escape Armor.
Currently, on the Transformation Diagram Chen Ku was wearing, the seven transformation-level transformations total to eight: New Er Lang, Loose Cultivator, Seventh Realm Fire Beak Pot, Zhang Yulin, Cheng Qingshan, Yang Xi, Purple Gold Elder, Li Tiansheng.
The last one is Flood Dragon Transformation.
After he ascended the mountain, he removed the New Six-Eared Macaque.
At that time, he transformed into Purple Gold Elder and Li Tiansheng.
This was to turn his transformations, excluding the Flood Dragon Transformation, all into Seventh Realm experts, in preparation for this moment.
Apart from the Flood Dragon, there were eight Seventh Realm experts helping him smooth his meridians and suppress the Eight Gates Escape Armor within his body.
Such a situation, even in major powers like the sects with ’宗’ in Ji Country, Destruction Tower, Qianyuan Mountain, is unlikely to have nine elders supporting a disciple’s cultivation, unless that person is the sect’s Saint Heir.
And now, Chen Ku was enjoying this treatment.
Eight Seventh Realm experts, smoothing True Qi meridians within him, suppressing possible Gang injuries and runaway tendencies.
Although not a sect member, he himself was equivalent to a sect.
Thus, with the suppression of eight incarnations within his body, Chen Ku’s risky maneuver not only encountered no danger, but instead his ’Black Wind True Qi’ within grew rapidly.
With the absorption rate of the Eight Gates Escape Armor Formation, almost in three days, Chen Ku’s Black Wind True Qi became as thick as the Five Elements True Qi, spreading into every part of his body, merging into the Eight Gates Array, after a round of fusion...
The sixth order Black Wind Body achieved!
At the very instant the Black Wind Body was achieved, Chen Ku felt his physique’s strength soar up a level, promptly making an even riskier action:
"Third Gate, Life Gate, open!"
Boom!
Sitting cross-legged atop the Black Wind Cliff, Chen Ku’s body started to flush red as if it was going to explode, his whole being seethed with overwhelming Blood Qi as if it intended to disperse the Black Wind of the cliff.
However, as time ticked by, the red state on Chen Ku faded, yet his aura did not decline, still exuding an imposing Blood Qi skywards.
This proved he had already achieved the level of unlocking the Third Gate, Life Gate, without injury.
Before the sixth order Black Wind Body’s achievement, he needed to mentally prepare for severe injury after opening the Third Gate.
But after attaining the sixth order Black Wind Body, he was able to venture into this domain without worry.
And after opening the Third Gate, the Eight Gates Escape Armor gave Chen Ku a corporeal transformation, significantly expanding the refinement area of the Gang Wind of the Black Wind Cliff!
In a blink, a month passed.
On the Black Wind Cliff, like a demon descending to the world, the endless Black Wind formed into a vortex circling the peak of the cliff, as if an ancient beast was here engulfing that terrifyingly sharp black Gang Wind.
At the black vortex’s center, Chen Ku’s robes had long since weathered into tattered strips, mostly eroded by the wind, looking closely, the skin of his entire body had turned black-red.
Like the inhabitants of high plateau regions weathered by wind and sun, covered with traces of frost.
Ding!
At an instant, from within Chen Ku came a sound akin to ’crystallization’, sharp like frozen ground.
It was at this moment!
Invisible to all, atop the six orders of True Qi in Chen Ku, appeared a strand of ’crystal’, at its emergence upon the True Qi, the next moment, as if a wind burns through a reed field, freezing the ground layer...
In a flash, spreading swiftly, the six orders of True Qi within entirely transformed into crystalline forms, covering Chen Ku’s viscera and skeleton surfaces.
True Qi Crystallization!
Hundred Refinements to Gang!
Chen Ku suddenly opened his eyes atop Black Wind Cliff, fists placed on his knees, slightly clenched.
Crack!
The long sky of dozens of feet above Black Wind Cliff seemed to momentarily hold within his clenched fist, frozen in place.
Chen Ku couldn’t help but let out a long howl.
Over a month, three major breakthroughs.
Black Wind Accomplished!
Three Gates Opened!
Seventh Realm Achieved!
