Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 507 - 328: Eighth Realm Dragon Energy

Boom~

Chen Ku slowly loosened his clenched fists, and the golden-red blood energy that covered the sky abruptly rolled back, fully retreating into his body.

The next moment.

Under the raging black Gang Wind, he stood up suddenly, straightening his body. The single garment he wore, after more than a month of relentless black wind assault, disintegrated into a flurry of cloth scraps accompanying his action.

Revealing Chen Ku’s slender and robust physique.

Looking at his skin tone, after enduring over a month’s torment, it had turned into a black-red hue, resembling a primitive man. He channeled the Wood Emperor Gang Qi that had advanced into the Seventh Realm, circulating it through his entire skin.

Then, with a tremor of his body, he shed an old layer of human skin, like shedding a cicada shell, blown away by the black wind.

The newly emerged form, resembling a jade-like divine statue, exuded immense power.

"After entering the Seventh Realm, the Gang Control stage, my entire being, from the inside out, feels brand new. This sensation is quite delightful."

Chen Ku casually retrieved a set of clothes from his storage gourd, putting them on, feeling the strength of his body after the breakthrough.

Though, before breaking through to the Seventh Realm, he had already experienced the Gang Qi physical form of several incarnations, which allowed him to shape-shift and become a Seventh Realm master. But those transformations were enhancements, not the cultivation of his original self.

Now, his original self had surged into the Seventh Realm level, accomplished through simultaneous refinement in the Eight Gates Array and the Huntian Overlord Body, achieving the Seventh Realm Gang Control stage.

"It feels like this Seventh Realm Gang Control level of mine can easily defeat several ordinary Seventh Realm Martial Practitioners like the Purple Gold Elder; their physical bodies are too weak, even without activating the Eight Gates..."

Chen Ku, having the experience of Nine Transformations, had profound insights into other Seventh Realm masters, enabling him to clearly discern the differences between himself and a typical Seventh Realm practitioner.

Without opening the Eight Gates, he could crush the same realm’s Inner Firm.

Activating three gates, even the pinnacle Outer Firm of the Seventh Realm could be easily overpowered.

Adding the support of the Nine Transformations and the technique of Plucking Hair to Make Soldiers, Chen Ku felt confident in challenging the pinnacle of the Eighth Realm.

Immediately, he decided to seek out the Eight-tailed Dragon Fish in the Hero King Realm to face off.

Should he manage to slay it, he wouldn’t just gain the Dragon Qi of the Nation’s Fortune residing within the Eight-tailed Dragon Fish, but also prove that with various transformations enhancing him, he fully stepped into the ’Six Great Limits’ realm mentioned by Yang Xi after breaking through to the Seventh Realm.

With a thought.

Chen Ku’s body vanished from the spot, entering the Hero King Realm, leaving behind the endless howling black wind on the cliff top.

...

Gurgle gurgle~

The Eight-tailed Dragon Fish sensed that familiar aura returning, immediately leaping out from the pool, its golden eyes coldly gazing down at the slender, handsome young man in black walking from afar.

Roar~

Without hesitation, the Eight-tailed Dragon Fish emitted a massive sound wave from its mouth, not showing any courtesy to the human who had repeatedly come to provoke it. The eight dragon tails fiercely slapped the back of the pool, splashing water into a downpour, compressed into a single droplet, instantly shooting toward Chen Ku’s location.

"It’s that Dripping Water Divine Skill again!"

Having already witnessed the power of this strike last time, Chen Ku knew if it hadn’t been for his Gathering Spirit and Dispelling Qi of a Loose Cultivator, converting his Qi at the crucial moment, that small drop of water could have killed him entirely.

Moreover, its speed still surpassed what he could catch last time.

Unable to keep up with the speed referred to the mental reaction time; as a creature apparently at the pinnacle of the Eighth Realm, this Dripping Water strike’s speed far exceeded any Seventh Realm level’s reaction ability, even with Chen Ku’s numerous transformations’ spirit boosts, he couldn’t match the speed of this water attack before.

But this time, Chen Ku reacted in time.

Primarily because after his self breakthrough, opening the Three Gates not only cultivated the Protective Gang Qi but also significantly increased his reaction speed, especially with the learned experience from last time. The moment he saw the Eight-tailed Dragon Fish’s move, he instantly deployed his weapon.

Raising his hand, he opened the Three Gates, summoning the Willful Weapon, gripping the pole with both hands, thrusting it forward.

With this thrust, it stirred the wind and clouds, gathering Chen Ku’s Three Gates battle power and the Nine Incarnations’ support within a moment, executing over a thousand moves, finally merging them into one!

Divine-level Martial Arts, Thousand One!

In an instant, Chen Ku unleashed it, turning into a staff dragon soaring through the sky, piercing through the air, penetrating everything before him, erupting with terrifying power comparable to the peak of the Eighth Realm.

In the next moment.

The spearhead of the Willful Weapon, instantly launched, pinned against the incoming drop of water from the Eight-tailed Dragon Fish.

Droplet and spearhead collided.

Boom!

Two mighty forces of the Eighth Realm peak clashed; it was akin to two missiles colliding mid-air.

A small mushroom cloud formed in the air above the medicine garden, lifting boundless soil and dust, spreading into a ring!

The impact of those rings stalled for a moment... then instantly expanded to several miles away, turning into gales fiercely slapping against the grand halls of the medicine garden as if the end was nigh.

If not for the prohibition’s protection, there was no doubt those grand halls would be directly destroyed by the formed force of this shock wave.

The Eight-tailed Dragon Fish and Chen Ku bore the brunt of the impact.

Strands of Gang Qi and demonic winds struck them like blades and swords; all of them were deflected by Chen Ku’s Divine Weapon Level Armor and vestment, leaving him unscathed.

In contrast, the Eight-tailed Dragon Fish lacked the protection of such armor or vestment, and the fierce Gang Qi and winds, sharp as blades, lashed at it, tearing open slit after slit like cutting fish scales, making it leap in agony.

Its eyes transformed into fear, seemingly unable to believe how the once-weak human had, in such a short time, already withstood its Dripping Water Strength.

Swoosh!

Chen Ku, however, gave no time for the dragon fish to catch its breath. At the moment his staff collided with the droplet of water, his staff was bent under the pressure, which he used to his advantage, bouncing off the ground, propelling himself a hundred meters into the air, and then using force to swing the hundred-meter-long staff in his hands backward, smashing it toward the Eight-tailed Dragon Fish’s head.

This strike shattered the air, and even the void seemed to be flattened.

Pop~

The Eight-tailed Dragon Fish saw the strike descending from the sky. While panicking, it didn’t forget to protect itself, immediately spitting out what seemed like a transparent bubble from its mouth, which expanded instantly, and the entire fish slipped inside.

Bang!

Chen Ku smashed his stick onto the bubble that the Eight-tailed Dragon Fish had entered.

However,

Unimaginably, the bubble, which seemed fragile and ready to burst at any touch, withstood a full-power attack from Chen Ku, comparable to the peak of the Eighth Realm. It was like an extremely resilient rubber ball, sent flying with a stick strike, landing on the ground, and then bouncing up rapidly, soaring high into the sky.

"Huh? This dragon fish has quite a number of skills!"

Chen Ku was surprised. No wonder it was a dragon fish nurtured in the capital city of a grand dynasty with the Dragon Qi of the Nation’s Fortune. Just the Dripping Water Strength alone was almost enough to instantly kill most Eighth Realm experts. Unexpectedly... it had such a trick ’spitting bubbles.’

"Ha, I don’t believe this bubble can last forever."

He was surprised by the defensive power of this bubble, but he didn’t intend to give up. Before the Seventh Realm, he wasn’t confident to kill this Eighth Realm peak dragon fish. Having broken through to the Seventh Realm, giving up now would make the breakthrough meaningless.

Anyway, the dragon fish only had that powerful Dripping Water Strength left, which he could already block; it was just this bubble left. Chen Ku had all the time to outlast it.

All martial arts and divine skills in this world rely on strength to sustain, Martial Practitioners rely on True Qi, while demons use demonic power.

Chen Ku didn’t believe this dragon fish’s demonic power could sustain the bubble for too long.

Bang! Bang! Bang!...

Chen Ku held his stick and simply treated the dragon fish’s bubble as a ball, practicing his stick techniques with over a thousand variations constantly hammering at the dragon fish bubble.

Bang bang bang!

One moment the bubble was hit up to the sky by Chen Ku, the next it was knocked back to the ground, then it was sent flying again, and before it landed, Chen Ku would strike again.

Like this, with Chen Ku relentlessly hammering with his strikes.

He had the Qi Power supported by nine incarnations and the Eight Gates Array, making him least afraid of a war of attrition.

The dragon fish, however, could be seen with the naked eye, its scales were shriveling up, clearly showing its demonic power was overtaxed in maintaining the bubble’s defense.

Finally, after half an hour.

The bubble had become a nearly indistinguishable trace under Chen Ku’s fierce strike.

Poof!

The bubble was broken with a single strike.

Whoosh!

In an instant, the dragon fish panicked, flapping its eight tails as it attempted to dive into the pool.

"Where do you think you’re going!"

How could Chen Ku let it escape? He plucked out three hairs and blew them into three versions of himself.

In an instant, four of his figures surrounded the Eight-tailed Dragon Fish from the southeast, northwest, appearing as four Chen Ku at the peak of Eighth Realm power, striking the bubbleless dragon fish with four Stick Gangs!

He deployed his strongest hidden technique, afraid the dragon fish might have other tricks, wanting to kill it before it had the chance to react.

The dragon fish, covered by four terrifying Stick Gangs, its two dragon whiskers fluttered violently, its forehead glowed, seemingly about to activate some other technique.

But it was already too late.

Poof!

The four Stick Gangs hammered down like heavenly pillars from four extreme directions, directly piercing the Eight-tailed Dragon Fish, fish scales danced in the air, blood splattered, and the hut-sized body crashed heavily to the ground, leaving meat paste everywhere.

[Diagram Master town-kills the Eight-tailed Dragon Fish and acquires a strand of Eighth Realm Dragon Qi of the Nation’s Fortune]

[As there are no dragons in the world, this dragon energy possesses form but lacks essence. To transform into a dragon, it requires nine Totem Bloodline descendants...]

Chen Ku watched with slight joy as this strand of Dragon Qi entered the Transformation Diagram:

"I’ve got the Eighth Realm Dragon Qi."

He was eager to know whether this Eighth Realm Dragon Qi could grant him a dragon transformation surpassing the Flood Dragon Transformation.

However, he currently had no other Totem descendant transformations.

With a thought,

The Fifth Realm Flood Dragon Transformation, with its foundation in the Hui Dragon Transformation, contained seven or eight Totem Divine Beast bloodline descendants within it. He might as well try to let the Flood Dragon Transformation refine with this Dragon Qi.

Responding to Chen Ku’s intent.

The Transformation Diagram immediately began its deduction.

[The Diagram Master intends to use this Eighth Realm Dragon Qi as an embryo, injecting it into the Flood Dragon Transformation, to perform fetus transformation refining shape... currently deducing the probability of this refining shape...]

[Deduction successful.]

[This deduction has a ninety-eight percent chance to refine a superior transformation of the ’Eighth Realm Flood Dragon Transformation·Transformation’ level]

[This deduction has only a two percent chance to refine a superior transformation of the ’Eighth Realm Azure Dragon Transformation·Transfiguration’ level]

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