Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 543 - 350: Emperor Yankang
Rumble~~
On Fengbo Mountain, a thundercloud storm within the layers of clouds continued to roar, as if brewing a downpour.
Chen Ku stood tall beside the corpse of the red Kui Niu.
Yet his mind was completely absorbed by the shape-shifting probability of the ’Green Dragon Transformation’ on the Transformation Diagram.
"Ninety-eight percent probability!"
Chen Ku rejoiced in his heart, saying:
"It seems the bloodline of the Single-Horned Red Kui is rich enough, and coupled with its peak Eighth Realm demon power, just a slight addition increased my success rate by more than fifty percent..."
[Do you wish to initiate this session of Fetus Transformation Refining Shape...]
He saw the prompt emerging on the Transformation Diagram, his brows slightly furrowed, and he calculated in his mind:
"The Green Dragon Transformation requires the infusion of six changes: Flood Dragon, Green Divine Eagle, Single-Horned Red Kui, Three-headed Lion, Suanying Tiger, and Moon Shadow Catfish. It needs to occupy six Transformation Chart Positions, and it would take at least seven or eight days. Right now, if I want to return to Yan Capital and engage in battles, I can’t afford to weaken my combat strength at this moment..."
Thus, even though he was keen to see what would result from the Green Dragon Transformation Shape-shifting, he had to suppress this desire for the time being.
He would deal with things after eliminating some people.
Moreover, the success probability for shape refinement given by the Transformation Diagram, which had a ninety-eight percent success rate for Green Dragon Transformation Shape-shifting, implied that after refining one Green Dragon Transformation, he would need at least nine Eighth Realm Evil Qi to manifest all abilities of the Green Dragon Transformation.
Otherwise, it would only result in partial abilities.
Undoubtedly, those harboring malicious intent against him could be used as resources for refining after achieving the Green Dragon Transformation to enhance the transformation level.
"And as for the Kui Divine Horn, cultivating the Seventh Layer of Huntian Overlord Body ’Five Thunders Decision’ also requires significant time. Time is pressing, and if I meditate now, it might delay the recruitment at Divine Martial Hall."
After contemplation, Chen Ku decided to temporarily return to Yan Capital City to attend the Divine Martial Hall exam first.
However, before heading back.
Chen Ku did not forget the two major pieces of intelligence the Six-Eared Macaque heard within Fengbo Mountain.
He stored the corpse of the Single-Horned Red Kui under him, and leaped towards the location of the ’Holy Medicine’ and Holy Heart Bodhi as heard by the Six-Eared Macaque.
With the speed of the Green Divine Eagle, he covered several hundred miles in a matter of minutes.
Whoosh~~
It was a cliff. Chen Ku hovered in the air, using the vision of Golden Eyes Hundred Li to scan between cliffs, as the Six-Eared Macaque only heard a general location, requiring him to search carefully.
However, having a general location, Chen Ku simply activated Golden Eyes Hundred Li and Thousand-meter Divine Sense, sweeping back and forth around the cliff.
Eventually, in just half a cup of tea’s time,
The Divine Sense found the target. With a flap of the wings, he reached a sheer cliff where a small tree about five feet tall grew. The tree was ancient-looking, like a mineral, blending with the cliff’s color. Only on close inspection could the Na Tree Body be distinguished with traces of dark gold color, its brilliance restrained.
On the shaded side of the small tree, a black-skinned fruit the size of a child’s fist grew, which, upon closer observation, strangely resembled a human heart.
Chen Ku immediately recalled this Holy Heart Bodhi’s function from the factual records of Yan Capital he had studied:
"Holy Heart Bodhi, a Holy Medicine, the appearance akin to a human heart. Upon ingestion, it places one in a special ’Holy Heart’ state, its effect comparable to a Divine Skill Level mental method, effective immediately upon consumption, greatly beneficial for cultivating Zen-like cultivation techniques."
He pondered the effect of this Holy Heart Bodhi, wondering:
"I wonder if this would have a miraculous effect for the Tian Hai monk, who suffers from a mental state deficiency while cultivating the Prajnaparamita Skill?"
With this in mind, once he returned to Yan Capital City and met Tian Hai, he would gift it to him, possibly revealing its effects.
Immediately, Chen Ku uprooted the sacred medicine tree growing on the cliff face, transplanting it into the medicine garden within the Hero King Realm.
The soil of the medicine garden in the Hero King Realm was specially prepared for cultivating Treasured and Spiritual Medicines.
Chen Ku transplanted this sacred tree to preserve the freshness of the Holy Heart Bodhi Fruit on the tree to the greatest extent, and he also wanted to see if the tree could survive. If it did, with adequate cultivation conditions, more Holy Medicine Bodhi Fruits could potentially grow in the future.
After walking out of the medicine garden,
Chen Ku arrived in front of the Mountain Lifting Hall and saw that on the large yellow soil area, erased by the divine power from his left eye during his battle with the Wilderness Deer, clumps of purple vines had grown. The vines bore dozens of palm-sized leaves, resembling strawberry seedlings lying on the ground...
"Oh, there are actually small fruits growing..."
He bent down gently lifting those leaves, revealing that underneath, seventeen small fruits had emerged, exactly the previously planted ’Devouring Element Fruit,’ capable of rampant growth in any soil with existing Primordial Qi through devouring it.
In just over half a month, seventeen fruits had already sprouted.
If fully matured, there would be seventeen top-grade spirit medicines, enough for him to receive seventeen times the azure-level information.
"Good, good, good!"
Chen Ku reached out and touched the soil again, feeling the primordial Qi scattered from the Wilderness Deer’s body in the soil. About half remained, which should be enough for these seventeen Devouring Element Fruits to mature.
He couldn’t help but feel a sense of anticipation.
With a flash of thought, he reappeared in the outside world:
"Next, there’s still the meditation site of the Eighth Realm master Wen Suzhen who settled in Fengbo Mountain. Let’s take a look..."
Given that it could be considered azure-level information, Wen Suzhen’s meditation site evidently holds significant information weight.
Transforming into a Green Divine Eagle, he flapped his wings and shortly arrived near Wen Suzhen’s meditation site.
Using the same old trick, he explored up, down, left, and right with divine sense, and soon found a hollow cave mansion within a mountain wall, blocked externally by a large rock. His heart stirred, and he split off a loose cultivator incarnation to go in first and see if there was any formation or the like.
Soon, the loose cultivator sent a message: "There are indeed some formations inside, but they seem quite ancient and have been eroded by time, losing most of their power. I’ve already casually broken them; the true self can now enter and investigate."
Boom!
The large rock at the entrance of the cave mansion was smashed into powder.
Chen Ku flew inside, stepping in slowly, and saw within the cave mansion a stone bed on which a skeleton draped in treasure clothing sat cross-legged, hands resting on the abdomen, holding some kind of spell, but the flesh had long since perished.
"A treasure clothing that doesn’t rot for thirty years, unexpectedly a good Divine Weapon Level Treasure Clothes..."
Chen Ku approached and touched the clothes on the skeleton before looking again; in front of the skeleton’s knees, a jade box was placed. He could roughly guess what might be inside the jade box, but to be safe, he scanned it with divine sense first, finding a book and a storage pouch inside.
After confirming no poison hidden within the jade box, Chen Ku moved forward to open the jade box, unfolded the book, and saw the first page was a self-preface:
[I am originally a loose cultivator, without sect, without mentor or friend, only due to a childhood chance falling into a deep cliff, obtaining a Martial Arts Visualization Map named ’Yankang Dao Map,’ consisting of nine pictures corresponding to Martial Arts Cultivation from the First to Ninth Realm.
Thus, I embarked on the path of martial cultivation, progressing rapidly for thirty years. By age fifty, I had already reached the eighth realm peak, renowned in Longyuan province.
Yet, upon cultivating the Eighth Picture, I gradually gained deeper insight into this Dao Map, realizing that this map was merely incomplete, as the Ninth Picture was not complete, being fragmented...
Initially, I was unwilling to give up, intending to forge a new path forward, but nearly fell into possession by the devil upon first attempt.
After this, I purposely switched to other martial paths, only to shockingly discover that regardless of which cultivation technique I switched to, even after painstakingly finding a divine skill level Qi guiding body refining method, in the process of cultivation, all was devoured by my body of Yankang Divine Power.
This action made me both frightened and delighted, delighted because it undoubtedly indicated the ’Yankang Dao Map’ was of extremely high grade, far above contemporary divine skill level martial arts, frightened because if this martial art was far above divine skill, then evolving a path forward would require unimaginable talent and qualifications.
Yet, even so, I was unwilling to languish forever at the eighth realm peak.
Thus, I spent one hundred and thirty years traveling the world, seeking the origin of the ’Yankang Dao Map,’ and finally at two hundred years old, discovered a trace of relevant clues.
It turns out that within a thousand years of our Ji Country, there circulated the legend of Nine Mansions, Three Treasures, Six Collections, a phrase used to refer to ’inheritance treasures’ left by Emperor-level masters and above, most renowned and closest to contemporary being one major treasure from the Six Collections, the ’Hero King Treasure,’ belonging to the Fifteenth Realm Hero King Pei Dongliu.
And the ’Yankang Dao Map’ I obtained in childhood, originates from one of the Nine Mansions, the [Yankang Immortal Mansion], inheritance from an Ancient Times figure named ’Emperor Yankang.’
Having learned this secret, I thereafter spent the latter half of my life pursuing the path to the [Yankang Immortal Mansion], but until my lifespan nearly ended, failed to locate the whereabouts of the [Yankang Immortal Mansion].
Only found a piece of fragmented ’bronze mirror,’ with faintly inscribed Yankang characters, but until my final closed-door meditation, I was unable to comprehend the mysteries of that bronze mirror.
Afterward, as the end of my lifespan approached, I intended to enter the dead meditation, seeking a last ray of survival.
If someone comes across this jade box containing this letter, it implies I died in dead meditation.
After this letter is what I cultivated all my life, the ’Yankang Dao Map,’ which if fortuitously encountered by later generations, may choose to learn or not learn.
——Wen Suzhen, the loose cultivator’s last words]
After reading these words on the front page, Chen Ku seemed to see a village youth who stumbled upon an opportunity, soared to fame, becoming a master of his time, but... success and failure both lay in the same chance encounter.
Because the ’Yankang Dao Map’ lacked subsequent cultivation techniques, he was trapped his entire life in a prison with no advancement.
"This senior is rather pitiable."
Chen Ku expressed a sigh, then, with some curiosity, turned over the pages following this booklet.
Yankang Dao Map!
What met his eyes were pictures one after another.
The images seemed to depict a great emperor, with Yin Yang symbols swirling behind, carrying the heavens and earth. Just a glance made Chen Ku’s mind absorbed, as if the emperor in the artwork were himself...
