Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog

All the students within the Divine Martial Mountain were startled, gathering outside the Martial Arts Training Square, forming a circle. Including the teachers and guards of the Divine Martial Hall, the number exceeded a thousand.

...

Under the gaze of everyone upon the heavenly scene.

Chen Ku and Xue Bailiu, after the scene evolution of this Martial Training Heaven and Earth, appeared in a vast Purple Bamboo Forest.

The sea of bamboo swayed like waves.

In the distance, there were mountains, waterfalls, and flowing waters, with stars hanging in the sky.

"Junior Brother Chen, inviting you for a bout this time is, as they say, the strong bullying the weak. So, I invite you to make the first move."

Xue Bailiu stood within the bamboo forest, separated by more than ten zhang from Chen Ku, speaking slowly in a refined manner:

"Please go ahead."

He extended his hand, making an inviting gesture.

Chen Ku nodded with a smile.

Having already accepted Xue Bailiu’s challenge, he naturally wanted to test his current combat strength against Senior Brother Xue, the third person in the province, to see if he was superior or not.

Besides, the new Divine Skills he acquired needed someone with matching strength to allow him to exert them to his heart’s content.

To speak bluntly,

Only those in the top ten of the Heroic List were qualified to be his opponents now. Within the Divine Martial Hall, such a person was only Xue Bailiu.

"Be careful, Senior Brother. Recently in seclusion, I’ve not only comprehended the mysteries of the Iron Tree but have also advanced considerably in realm. Please go ahead!"

After finishing speaking, responding to the opponent—

Chen Ku didn’t waste any more words, stepping forward slightly, not intending to extensively use other talents or even draw upon the ten incarnations’ power of the Divinity Transformation Realm. He planned to use only the unprecedented Ten Layers of Blood Qi from his Blood Exchange, coupled with the Yin Yang Wheel of the Huntian Overlord Body’s Ninth Layer, turning the world around him.

Boom~~

His form shot out like a giant dragon from its original place. In an instant, the surrounding Purple Bamboo Forest seemed to be hit by an unprecedented storm, shredded into countless fragments!

Swish!

Almost at the moment Chen Ku stepped forward, mobilizing his formidable blood energy, Xue Bailiu’s body disappeared from its original place.

With the ten zhang gap, even for a master of the Seventh or Eighth Realm, closing in would be instantaneous. Having witnessed Chen Ku’s rapid rise in power all along, proposing the challenge meant he wouldn’t underestimate him. He leaped into the air right away.

Intending to avoid Chen Ku’s sudden burst.

However, even though he dodged instantly, he was still enveloped by the surging blood energy that erupted from the Purple Bamboo Forest below.

Before him now was a hand, suddenly clenched into a fist mark!

Behind this fist mark was Chen Ku, with black hair cascading like a waterfall, billowing and flowing, surrounded by immense blood energy.

"This kind of blood energy!"

Faced with the blood energy that obscured his vision, even Xue Bailiu couldn’t help but be momentarily distracted. He had never seen such vast and formidable blood energy, utterly unparalleled in the Ninth Realm, as though...

stepping into a new domain.

"The legends recorded in the ancient texts about ten times Blood Exchange are true?"

This thought merely flashed in his mind, for he knew he didn’t have time to dwell on it. Faced with Chen Ku’s unabashedly powerful punch, he responded with a long shout:

"Good!"

With Xue Bailiu’s sharp cry, blood energy burst brilliantly from his body, fiercely radiating light, within which spirit officers seemed to sit solemnly.

Counting them carefully, there were no less than five hundred spirit officer divinities within Xue Bailiu’s body. Under the onslaught of Chen Ku’s punch, they all quivered in unison, chanting countless scriptures, manifesting the entwined vision of tortoise and snake internally and externally!

A divine tortoise and Tengshe appeared beneath his feet, trampled under Xue Bailiu, who then boldly showcased the foundation of his Eleventh Realm’s Martial Path True Body, the "Xuanwu True Body."

The combined five hundred spirit officers and the Xuanwu vision intertwined and resonated, tearing apart the overwhelming blood energy in an instant, leaving only Xue Bailiu standing like a Heavenly God, towering with Xuanwu underfoot, fists opening and closing.

Rumble~~

The vast blood energy and spirit light were all shattered by his fist mark.

Chen Ku immediately felt a terrifying physical force emanating from Xue Bailiu.

The next moment!

The fists of the two collided fiercely.

Fist to fist.

A thunderous collision!

Rumble!

The void within this Martial Arts Heaven and Earth seemed to shatter, on the verge of collapse, with even the celestial stars shaking and the sea-like purple bamboo forest beneath appearing flattened by the overwhelming aura!

This scene left all the students watching from the Martial Training Heaven and Earth Square astonished.

Because they clearly saw that cracks appeared on the celestial curtain overhead, as if it were about to collapse from the force. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

"This is just the initial trial between the two, yet it almost shattered a Martial Arts Heaven and Earth?"

"Although it’s stated in the academy that the space within the Martial Training Heaven and Earth only evolves for challenges at the Eleventh Realm level, it is, after all, a space formed by Martial Arts Destiny. How can it be so fragile?"

"It’s not that the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth is fragile, it’s that those two are too strong."

"As I know, after Senior Brother Xue mastered the Xuanwu True Body, he possessed the power of five hundred spirit officers. His physical strength alone can compare to Xiang Kunlun, who claimed the Ancient Treasure Vault’s ’Five-clawed Dragon King,’ and that’s just the foundation. It is said that after achieving great success, the Xuanwu True Body can evolve into the ’Ten Strong Martial Arts,’ marking it as one of the top ten Martial Path True Bodies in Dragon Abyss’s history!"

"But, looking at the scene on the celestial curtain, Junior Brother Chen actually matched him in physical strength. Does that mean...he also possesses the equivalent of Five Hundred Dragon Power?"

Bang!

Like the sound of two golden bells, they exploded within the mountain on the celestial curtain.

After their clash, Chen Ku and Xue Bailiu separated upon contact, yet the terrifying energy from the encounter flooded outwards like a torrent.

Wow!

Chen Ku felt a sweetness in his throat, almost about to cough up blood, and couldn’t help but exclaim:

"As expected of the third person in Dragon Abyss, he seems to have no weaknesses. Even in terms of physical strength, which I pride myself on, I didn’t gain an advantage."

In his earlier strike, he had mobilized all ten layers of his blood energy and spun the Huntian Overlord Body while adding the Hundred Dragon Power from the Golden Dragon Transformation.

After delivering that punch, it wouldn’t be weaker than the explosion power of Five Hundred Dragons, capable of shattering a small mountain.

Yet, he was repelled by Xue Bailiu’s merged punches, a testament to the unparalleled strength of the person ranked just two places after Hua Yuexian, an exceedingly rare third person in the current age!

Conversely, Xue Bailiu only stepped back slightly, his face flushed, yet he didn’t bleed.

However, his expression was extremely grave and incredulous.

Ninth Realm fighting his Eleventh Realm?

They actually matched each other in strength?

Could Hua Yuexian, hailed as a prodigy of her generation, achieve this in the Ninth Realm?

"Junior Brother Chen, you truly are a prodigy."

Xue Bailiu did not spare his praise, stating:

"There’s no need for further probing, for I merely wanted to witness the four prohibitions of the Destruction Tower. Go ahead and strike directly."

The first bout seemed like Chen Ku spewed blood.

But in truth...

He knew he had been utterly defeated.

The pinnacle of the Eleventh Realm’s Martial Path True Body was countered evenly by Chen Ku in strength, a result now apparent.