Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog

Amidst the sky, yellow sand billows and fierce winds rage.

Boom!

Chen Ku and Zhang Chixin distanced themselves from each other, their figures concealed by the rising dust cloud obscuring each other's view.

"Is this the combat power of the Ninth Realm, Eighth Layer Heaven's pinnacle? Even though I forcibly opened the Seven Gates, I still feel the pressure."

Chen Ku's gaze fluctuated, thoughts quickly flashing through his mind. Since breaking through the Ninth Realm, the Transformation Avatars in the Transformation Diagram, other than Flood Dragon Transformation, haven't provided much support, unable to match his combat power.

"However, as long as it's confirmed that Senior Brother Zhang has a 'Pure Yang Physique,' I must defeat him."

Chen Ku initiated a thought.

His figure moved, black arcs of electricity densely covered him, instantly stimulating his physique and maneuvering the omnipresent Taiyin Energy.

Suddenly, he disappeared into the yellow sand.

When he reappeared, he was already at Zhang Chixin's left, a Sword Qi finger aiming for Zhang Chixin's neck.

Under the sky.

Watching Chen Ku execute these moves, some among them exclaimed:

"That seems like Senior Sister Sang Hensong's 'Heavenly Yin Refining Form Technique' and 'Armor-Piercing Pointed Wind Finger,' which Senior Brother Chen had previously defeated, he actually learned them?!"

"Senior Brother Chen seems to have only clashed with Senior Sister Sang once, yet he could learn her two Divine Skills?"

Among those who spoke, some were students of the Yin Yang Hall familiar with Sang Hensong, while others had witnessed Chen Ku's previous battle with Sang Hensong at the Martial Training Camp.

All were astonished.

"If it were anyone else, it'd be unlikely; however, with Brother Chen, nothing is impossible."

Helan Qing shook his folding fan, looking up at the sky with a gaze of admiration and respect, saying:

"After all, Brother Chen managed to integrate all three thousand martial arts from the Martial Arts Stele Forest within a mere month. With such terrifying qualifications, being able to learn others' moves isn't surprising."

Now, some looked toward Sang Hensong.

Wearing a black Taoist robe from her lineage, her beautiful face showed shock and surprise as she watched Chen Ku demonstrating those two techniques of hers, quickly judging them:

"Although they resemble our family's Heavenly Yin Refining Form Technique and Armor-Piercing Pointed Wind Finger, they are actually two other martial arts!"

Thinking further about Chen Ku integrating all three thousand martial arts from the Martial Arts Stele Forest into one Scattered Palm style.

Sang Hensong's mind began to entertain a terrifying hypothesis.

"Could it be that he fought against my Martial Arts Mark just once and not only learned our family's Heavenly Yin Refining Form Technique and Armor-Piercing Pointed Wind Finger, but also fused other martial arts to create something new?"

Though their family's Heavenly Yin Refining Form Technique requires a Pure Yin Physique for cultivation, she heard that Chen Ku at the Destruction Hall had begun to comprehend the Yin Yang Dao.

Therefore, Sang Hensong dared not blink, wanting to see if Chen Ku's execution of these two means could inspire something she could comprehend in return.

Simultaneously, as everyone was speaking.

Under the sky, facing Chen Ku's sword assassination, Zhang Chixin's reaction was swift.

The majestic youth clad in a black and white robe proudly faced the sword, his body erupting in endless Blood Qi.

Oooh~~

Like substantial Blood Qi, it erupted from his body, instantly shaking this world, causing the yellow sand beneath to tremble and collapse in large patches.

Twisting his body with a punch, the Fist Mark glowed like a red sun rising from the horizon, blasting toward Chen Ku's 'Body-breaking Invisible Sword Qi.'

Dang!

The moment the fist and sword clashed, sparks flew from Zhang Chixin's fist, sounding like the clash of gold and iron.

"Such a strong physique, the hardness of this fist is no less than a supreme Divine Weapon!"

Chen Ku didn't expect his Body-breaking Invisible Sword Qi, formed from integrated Golden Core Qi, Dripping Water Strength, Armor-Piercing Pointed Wind Finger, and other armor-breaking martial arts, to be scattered by Senior Brother Zhang Chixin's brute force.

After destroying Chen Ku's Sword Qi, Zhang Chixin seemed to want to seize the opportunity of being close to Chen Ku.

One punch followed by transforming the fist into a claw, his long arm reaching toward Chen Ku.

With this grasp, there was a faint sound of a rooster crowing at dawn between heaven and earth, with infinite light shattering any evil.

One claw, like the three-legged Golden Crow of the sun grasping forth.

"This claw…"

Chen Ku felt the Supreme Yang and Hard Mental Realm within this grasp, his eyes burning intensely, mind self-muttering:

"Indeed, Senior Brother Zhang must possess the Supreme Yang Body, otherwise he couldn't refine martial arts so fiercely and domineeringly."

Facing this claw, Chen Ku did not retreat.

Creating a Forbidden Technique with his fingers.

Surprisingly, he also reached out with five fingers forming a claw, fiercely confronting Zhang Chixin as if he were a three-legged Golden Crow.

Unbelievably, Chen Ku's technique also faintly transmitted an aura of Supreme Yang and Hardness.

"What is that?"

Below the sky, a student exclaimed:

"Senior Brother Zhang's Primordial Yang Golden Crow Claw is taught to him alone by the Primordial Yang Palace Master as the number one of the Yin Yang Hall, with no second knowledge. How could Chen Ku possibly perform it?"

Even Zhang Chixin himself wore a heavy expression.

Momentarily distracted, he quickly determined:

"That isn't the Primordial Yang Golden Crow Claw, rather it's some ability to mimic others' martial arts."

At this moment.

Only Xue Bailiu among those present had their pupils constrict:

"Battle Technique?"

As the third figure of Dragon Abyss, a few years ago, he also had crossed paths with Hua Yuexian, recognizing the Supreme Method of the Martial Arts Holy Land Fighting God Palace to which Dragon Abyss's first figure Hua Yuexian belonged.

The Battle Technique can simulate the supreme battle techniques of others' martial arts during combat.

Bang!!

Two claws, supremely yang and unyielding, collided with each other, like two small suns crashing together.

The desert beneath their feet couldn't withstand it, collapsing in a large area instantly.

Boom!

Zhang Chixin's long hair flew up, each strand seemingly bathed in golden light, after one claw strike, his body slightly retreated, and in his hand emerged a great halberd.

This great halberd was black, exuding a heavy aura, distorting the surrounding void, shining brilliantly like the sun.

"The projection of the Nine Yang Immortal Halberd!"

"I didn't expect Senior Brother Zhang to allow even his own immortal weapon to be imprinted in it."

Zhang Chixin himself also watched the great halberd appearing on his Martial Arts Mark from the outside world.

The halberd was called the Nine Yang Immortal Halberd, something his father, the elder of the Zhang family from the Dragon Abyss Great Clan, carried with him for a lifetime. That elder had lived for over a thousand years and was a great ability of the eleventh realm.

This halberd had been nurtured into a Martial Arts Immortal Weapon.

More importantly, this halberd contained extremely pure yang blood qi, allowing mutual resonance, further enhancing his combat power.

It could elevate his eighth-layer heavenly combat power by another level, almost reaching the ninth realm ninth layer heaven level.

"Kill!"

Within the sky, Zhang Chixin, holding the great halberd, slashed towards Chen Ku in the distance.

All immortal weapons contain prohibitions, which manifest as the rules and patterns of the world.

In Zhang Chixin's hands, it transformed into a nine-headed bird, entirely black and red, emitting terrifying light, charging at Chen Ku like a demon dragon.

It brought immense pressure to Chen Ku, truly elevating his combat power to nearly the peak of the ninth realm.

"Stronger again!"

Chen Ku dared not be negligent, flicking his hand, the Immortal Treasure Kun Bone Stick obtained from Hua Qingyun flashed out, grasped with both hands, spinning into stick flowers, covering his entire body, continuously deflecting and knocking against the great halberd which appeared like a nine-headed beast!

Clang clang clang!

Sparks flew.

"I've heard Chen Ku didn't just obtain the Champion Marquis's Immortal Blade, he even has a stick-like immortal weapon. However, Zhang Chixin's Nine Yang Immortal Halberd is a treasured family heirloom, nurtured by their elders for a millennium, perfectly matching Zhang Chixin's cultivation technique, and from the looks of it, Chen Ku's stick doesn't seem as handy, like it was newly forged."

A girl with somewhat dark skin commented:

"Based on this Nine Yang Immortal Halberd, Zhang Chixin's momentum won't break, and Chen Ku will soon fall into disadvantage."

Though spoken softly, many heard this comment.

Regarding this assessment from a prodigious girl ranked in the top fifteen among a million Martial Practitioners of Dragon Abyss, many found no issues with it.

Xiao Tianzuo and five others looked solemn.

Boom!

Accompanied by the constant sound of clashing weapons in the sky.

Yet only Xue Bailiu remained calm, knowing Chen Ku had another move.

After Chen Ku consecutively blocked hundreds of Zhang Chixin's Nine Yang Immortal Halberd strikes using the Immortal Treasure Kun Bone Stick, he finally sensed a flaw in Zhang Chixin's Qi Mechanism flow with his internal Primordial Magnetic Yin Thunder Gang.

This flaw, to anyone else, wasn't a flaw at all, but a natural point of Yin Meridian Qi Mechanism existing under the balance of one's Yin Yang Five Elements.

Though Zhang Chixin was suspected to have an extremely yang physique, without breaking through to the tenth realm 'Primordial Heaven', no matter how pure yang he was, there was still some yin energy in his body.

This was a limitation of his realm.

Only by breaking through to the Primordial Heaven, reshaping one's own primordial qi, and reversing the innate, could one cultivate pure yang true yuan.

So, no matter how high his combat power could be elevated now, as long as he hadn't broken through the tenth realm, it existed.

This point of Yin Meridian Qi Mechanism wouldn't be a flaw to anyone, and even for Chen Ku, he had to search long to capture this thread of Yin Meridian Qi Mechanism.

Yet once found, for Chen Ku, who cultivated the Taiyin Technique, it was...

As Zhang Chixin's heavy halberd came slashing down.

A black electric arc flashed through Chen Ku's eyes, swiftly gathering all his Primordial Magnetic Yin Thunder Gang onto the Immortal Treasure Kun Bone Stick, smashing it towards the Yin Meridian Qi Mechanism under the opponent's halberd.

The next moment, halberd and stick clashed.

Clang!!!!!

Everyone stared in disbelief as Zhang Chixin, who completely dominated the sky, seemed to strike an unbelievably rebound-capable bronze bell with one blow of his halberd.

The reverberating force not only sent the Nine Yang Immortal Halberd in his hand flying upwards but also violently recoiled his body, uncontrollably staggering backward!

"What? What move is that?" Below the sky, Zhang Chixin himself widened his eyes, taking a step forward.

Within the sky, the moment Chen Ku countered Zhang Chixin with a 'rebound', he reached out his left hand, casting a prohibition towards Zhang Chixin who was still aloft, stumbling backward.

One Finger to Stone!

A wisp of smoke spiraled rapidly towards Zhang Chixin, turning him into stone in an instant!

"What is that?" Zhang Chixin blurted out.

Watching his opponent turned to stone.

Chen Ku, holding the Immortal Treasure Kun Bone Stick, gripped the stick with both hands at one end, the Kun Bone Stick's head transformed instantly into a beast-head big hammer as he leaped up, swinging a circle, smashing it heavily on Zhang Chixin's head.

Bang!

Zhang Chixin's figure shattered into foam-like illusionary light in an instant.

"Won!"

Everyone exclaimed:

"Chen Ku won!"