Chapter 711 477: Ocean Calming Pearl
Chen Ku gazed at the crack on the 36th Transformation Diagram above the Heart Sea, his brows furrowed, thoughts scattering in all directions.
Does the existence of this crack imply some different ability upon completing this 36th transformation?
Or is it due to some flaw in the 36 Transformation Diagrams?
Carefully reviewing the conditions required for the 36th Transformation: one jin of Reincarnation Mottled Iron, a grain of Time Sand, one jin of Xuanhuang Mother Iron, one streak of Evil Qi at the Fifteenth Realm, and the great achievement of one Origin Divine Power.
Currently, the Reincarnation Mottled Iron only exists in the Sheyue Hall and has been offered to the Transformation Diagram.
During the sacrificial process, Chen Ku's vast spiritual power glimpsed it, a metal seemingly just unearthed, with some kind of incantation naturally inscribed on its surface.
The remaining conditions, even just the streak of Evil Qi at the Fifteenth Realm, are immensely unimaginable, not to mention the Time Sand, which sounds as if related to time.
In contrast, the word "Origin" in the Origin Divine Power, reminded Chen Ku of the comprehension enhancement given by the piece of a True Dragon Scale, reaching the evaluation of 'Origin Talent' within the Evil Summoning Banner.
Sigh~~
Exhaling a breath, he recalled his scattered thoughts.
"First, sort out the immediate matters; once this 36th Transformation Diagram is completed, perhaps then the reasons will become clear."
Chen Ku took a deep breath, quite satisfied with the progress of completing twenty-four diagrams in just two to three years.
"Sheyue Hall still has plenty of treasures left, and even if nine-tenths are discarded, from a visual estimate, they're worth 'a city', whether for exchanging other resources later or establishing my own force and sect in chaotic times, they're a foundation."
Chen Ku hadn't forgotten his promise to his two mentors to rebuild the Imperial Enlightenment Sect.
His gaze turned to the shrunken mountain of gold with the Hong Dynasty Emperor's head on top, his heart stirred again, the Fortune Evil Qi of the Fourteenth Realm, crucial nourishment for evolving his Golden Dragon body, was already here.
Just waiting to see when he'll have the confidence to deal with this dead head.
Fourteenth Realm...
Need to keep improving myself; rash contact might not have good results.
"Next, let's check out the treasures in the Shocking God Hall."
Controlling the token of the Hero King Realm, Chen Ku moved his mind, sealing off the Sheyue Hall like closing off his harem's inner treasury.
Then, he headed towards another hall within the Hero King Realm.
The four halls in the Hero King Realm were designed according to the Four Great Heavenly Kings, each containing the rich foundations of Hero King Pei Dongliu's power.
Behind the Mountain Lifting Hall was the precious physical body prepared by the Hero King for himself.
The Sheyue Hall was filled with treasures, gold, jade, and such.
The Shocking God Hall belonged to the Shocking God Heavenly King, the master of the Eight Gates Escape Armor Formation practiced by Chen Ku, who arrived before the hall.
He pointed out a finger.
The weathered stone skin peeled off the entire hall, rendering its law prohibitions useless.
Once the hall opened.
The contents of the Shocking God Hall were revealed.
At a glance, Chen Ku's eyes moved with shock as he saw the hall filled with various weapons and treasures, mainly weapons.
Stacks of knives, spears, halberds, and axes like piles of grain.
Chen Ku, having come from poverty.
With just a glance, he could discern the pile of weapons on the ground were all of Famous Weapons quality, numbering no less than ten thousand.
In other words, it's a war resource enough to arm an army of ten thousand equipped with Famous Weapons.
Yet Chen Ku's gaze directly landed on the wall at the end, where eighteen weapons hung.
They were the eighteen types of weapons: knives, spears, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, spare, club, polearms, whips, maces, hammers, claws, and meteor hammers.
Each weapon shimmered as Chen Ku stepped in, resonating with movement.
"All eighteen weapons have spirits?"
Chen Ku was astounded; his cultivation at Divine Martial Mountain had refined his knowledge of the quality of weapons wielded by Martial Practitioners.
Sharp weapon, Famous Weapon, Divine Weapon, Immortal Weapon; each category subdivided by grade, and taking the weapons for martial practitioners of the Eleventh and Twelfth Realm as an example, some practitioners still used Divine Weapons, though they were top-grade, and couldn't fully unleash their strength.
Most martial practitioners at the Twelfth Realm, with a lifespan of a thousand years, could accumulate one or two Immortal Weapons.
Immortal Weapons were further graded into common, good, and precious categories.
Like the Immortal Blade of Champion Marquis; initially, it was just a regular common item, used in Champion Marquis's youth, and now under Chen Ku's nurturing, it has gained the power of a good item, similar to the Moon Repairing Axe.
Chen Ku also possessed a precious Immortal Weapon, the 'Immortal Treasure Kun Bone Stick' seized from Hua Qingyun at the Fighting God Palace.
Immortal Treasure, rare and precious among Immortal Weapons.
However, the eighteen weapons hanging on the wall at this moment were all 'Immortal Treasure' grade.
Chen Ku stepped forward and directly picked down the most handy stick he usually used.
The instant he grasped it.
Hoo ah~~~
Chen Ku's vision blurred with countless scenes of ghosts wailing, his mind sharply alerted as he lowered his head for a closer look.
He saw the stick engraved with hellish landscapes at both ends, adorned with unfamiliar demon sculptures, on its body prominently inscribed with five characters:
Prison Suppressing Mysterious Iron Rod.
He waved casually, and within the staff's wind, there was a shriller sound of ghostly wails, as if the staff held the grievances of countless demon spirits and ghost valleys.
He examined the material of the staff more closely, slightly startled:
"It's actually the Reincarnation Mottled Iron!"
He wanted to test the capabilities of the staff, so he summoned the Evil Summoning Banner and stirred it with a swing of the staff.
Then, he saw the demons of the Eighth and Ninth Realms within the Evil Summoning Banner suddenly witness a black pillar crushing down from the heavenly dome.
Wherever the staff passed, the demons were all crushed into blood paste, and most incredibly, Chen Ku discovered that after those demons perished...
Their souls were absorbed by the staff.
"No wonder it's called the Prison Suppressing Stick; it seems this staff is akin to a prison, holding countless unjust souls!"
Looking again at the other weapons, they were all of the same quality as this staff.
Chen Ku marveled at Hero King Pei Dongliu's accumulations.
Suddenly, he noticed, beneath the eighteen types of weapons, there was a table, and on the table lay a jade plate, within which a pool of clear water resided. The strangest thing was a bead the size of a child's fist floating above the water.
"After all these years, the water in this plate hasn't evaporated... What about this bead?"
Astonished, Chen Ku reached out his hand to take it.
The moment he picked up the bead from the water...
An unimaginably terrifying weight pressed into his palm. Even with Chen Ku's cultivation of the Huntian Skill, his body resonating with heaven and earth at all times, rotating the Yin Yang Force Field for protection, normally not weaker than the strength of eight hundred Dragon Ascensions, his body staggered under the bead's weight, nearly causing him to fall face-first, unable to grasp it, and in one slip, letting the bead crash into the ground of the Shocking God Hall.
Boom!
The bead hit the ground, causing a commotion as massive as a small star crashing down, directly smashing a large hole in the floor of the Shocking God Hall, and...
A dense network of cracks rapidly spreading in all directions!
The next moment!
The entire Shocking God Hall collapsed with a loud rumble.
"This thing!"
The hall's collapse naturally did not affect Chen Ku, even the beams that fell upon him shattered, and he merely watched through the dust and mist as the cracks the bead created continued to spread, with a momentum seemingly intent on destroying a radius of over ten miles.
He instinctively wanted to use all his might to pick up the bead.
But then, he realized something was amiss, sensing a hint of Tao Rhythm from the bead.
"Tao Rhythm?"
Chen Ku suddenly thought of something and exclaimed:
"Tao Artifact!"
A Tao Artifact is a weapon beyond Divine Weapons, usually containing some heavenly law or principle, and in the hands of a cultivator, if cultivated to perfection, it will eventually form into a more transcendent existence known as "Tao Fruit."
The Primordial Martial Tao Fruit inherited by Hua Yuexian is a 'Perfect Taoist Device' formed by the principles and laws of the Primordial Martial Emperor's life, and evolved into a "Tao Fruit."
"It turned out to be a Tao Artifact!"
Chen Ku was ecstatic.
This object, I'm afraid, even if the Nine Great Sects of Dragon Abyss and the Holy Land of Fighting God Palace joined forces, wouldn't have more than one or two pieces.
Immediately, he directly communicated with the True Dragon Scale within his brow.
Instantly...
The comprehension wisdom of Origin Talent transformed into a special light from the depths of his eyes, beginning to observe and understand along the Tao Rhythm on the bead.
Rumble~~
Outside, the grand hall, pillars, corridors, all collapsed under the tremendous shaking force caused by the bead's fall.
Yet Chen Ku, with astonishing comprehension, found the knack to pick up this bead.
Tao Artifacts are no ordinary weapons.
To master them, one must grasp certain incantations or magical skills, refining them like a Magical Treasure, to drive them with Tao practices.
After several breaths, Chen Ku comprehended a few runes, and without hesitation, dripped a drop of Soul Blood into the bead.
The purple Soul Blood entered the bead.
At that moment, Chen Ku felt as if the bead suddenly lost its weight, but within his Heart Sea consciousness, a tremendously heavy force law was transmitted.
Ocean Calming Pearl!
Three ancient Taoist texts appeared in Chen Ku's heart.
"This Tao Artifact, is it called the Ocean Calming Pearl?"
Chen Ku muttered in a daze.
Amazingly it shares the name with that mystical treasure from mythical tales of the past, though unlike that treasure, which consisted of twenty-four beads, he had only one here.
But what is similar...
Is its incredible weight!
Chen Ku had no doubt that even the bead which his strength of eight hundred Dragon Ascensions could not lift, if unleashed, could crush a Twelfth Realm Martial Practitioner with its weight alone, an absolute death to whoever it struck.
"This is indeed the most valuable weapon in the Shocking God Hall!"