Chapter 730 489: Heavenly Dao Tribulation
In the Hero King Realm.
The vast ruins caused by the Ocean Calming Pearl had not yet fully recovered and remained a sight of devastation.
Amidst these ruins, Chen Ku summoned the 'Innate Furnace,' the Fifth Divine Skill. Its body resembled crystal white jade, like a work of art, octagonal and square, with ancient and mysterious symbols carved upon it.
Chen Ku took a deep breath and leaped into the furnace.
In the next instant...
The Innate Furnace resonated with him.
[The Diagram Master wishes to reconstruct his own foundation, creating an Innate Root, currently deducing...]
[Deduction in progress... The Diagram Master has already reached the Tenth Martial Realm... Deducing the amount of Evil Qi needed for reconstruction...]
[Deduction complete, for this reconstruction, forty-five strands of Tenth Realm Evil Qi are needed...]
[Inject?]
Listening to the message echoing in his mind, Chen Ku took a deep breath:
"Inject!"
Whoosh~
In an instant, forty-nine outlines resembling humans, beasts, or Primordial Qi life forms, flew out from the Evil Qi floating around the Transformation Diagram in his mind and surged into the Innate Furnace from all directions.
Woooooooo~
In a flash, Chen Ku felt an immense force that could tear his body apart emanating from all directions within the furnace.
Compressing towards his entire body.
Boom!
In just a moment, Chen Ku's body was compressed into a mass of blood pulp within the furnace, further compressed into a blood sphere radiating nine colors of light.
"Holy shit!"
The instantaneous agony, coming from the soul and body, overtook Chen Ku before he could respond, shattering and melting his entire being, causing him to utter a string of expletives amidst the unbearable pain:
"Shit shit shit..."
In that moment, Chen Ku felt that no torture under the heavens could be more agonizing.
Fortunately.
Once his body was crushed into a mass of blood pulp, he lost the sensation of his body, leaving only his soul and will numbly observing his state.
"Am I... being refined into a pill?"
At this moment, under Chen Ku's perception, he realized he no longer possessed any human-like features, becoming a sphere glowing with nine colors, resembling a pill.
Even his unwavering trust in the Transformation Diagram scared him when he was turned into a 'pill.'
Will it... revert?
While Chen Ku's heart was anxious, new information appeared in the Transformation Diagram during the mental sensing process:
[Currently deducing... Estimated reverse reconstruction will take forty-nine days]
Almost immediately after this message appeared.
Within the Innate Furnace, the forty-nine strands of Evil Qi transformed, after circulation, into unprecedented Chaos-colored fog, merging into Chen Ku's blood sphere.
Accompanying the merging of this Chaos-colored fog.
Pain was transmitted across Chen Ku's soul, as though his soul and flesh were being altered and corroded by the chaotic fog.
The vast spiritual senses allowed him to acutely perceive that his soul particles and blood and flesh particles were absorbing these gray fogs.
Continuously torn apart, recomposed, and repeating this cycle endlessly.
Simultaneously,
The domineering Golden Lotus bud within his blood sphere also continuously collapsed and recomposed...
"Pain, it's too painful!"
Chen Ku felt the process, his heart shattering:
"No one told me reversing Innate is this painful, even the soul can't escape!"
This is truly reconstruction!
As if burning his entire body and soul to ashes, to then be reborn from the ashes into the true self.
Though Chen Ku vaguely sensed it was refining all of his postnatal Qi mechanisms, including flesh and soul, to then rebirth amidst the ruins, emerging as an Innate Root-like being.
The process was truly arduous.
"Can I use 'Heart Transformation'?"
Chen Ku, subconsciously wanting to shift his will out of the blood sphere first, planning to return after forty-nine days.
Unexpectedly, the Innate Furnace flashed the message.
[Reminder to the Diagram Master, this process of Innate Furnace reconstruction includes the Diagram Master's origin life. If the Diagram Master opts for Heart Transformation, then his soul's radiance won't become the Innate Root.]
Upon receiving this message, Chen Ku numbly chose to accept.
It left him no room to retreat or evade altogether.
"Well then, since I can't avoid it, let's... endure it."
Consequently, Chen Ku embarked on the pain-laden process of being refined by the Innate Chaotic Fog within the Innate Furnace.
As the chaotic fog gradually drenched Chen Ku's life origin entirely, Innate Origin continued to surge in, progressively wrapping his nine-colored origin into a gray cocoon.
Day by day passed.
In the blink of an eye, seven days elapsed, Chen Ku suddenly felt the agony of his soul being continuously crushed and recomposed disappear.
"It's over! Finally over!"
Chen Ku's consciousness emerged as if being fished out of a pond, his entire being drenched, yet upon observation, he found his soul intent to be unprecedentedly transparent, devoid of any impurities.
"Is it over? Despite only lasting seven days, it felt like seventy years!"
He gasped heavily.
However, the next scene unfolded, as the golden lotus originating from his Huntian Overlord Body, comprising ten layers of cultivation body, suddenly began to fly out from his origin.