Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog

The Ten Thousand Feet Mountain Peak pierced through the sea of clouds, and the mountain itself resembled a Divine Weapon tempered to a red-hot hue, covered in crimson Divine Runes, with magma flowing along these channels to form a river.

Eventually, it turned into a Heavenly Fire Waterfall, cascading into a fiery lake below.

Beneath this waterfall, amidst the endless surge of flames, was a bare-chested man, sitting cross-legged below the waterfall, enduring the fire baptism of the entire Holy Land.

This was the Fire Virtue Sect, one of the top ten Cultivation Holy Lands of Yuan Country.

A golden-red flame flickered at the man’s brow, vivid and lifelike, adding a mythical aura to him.

Suddenly.

The man opened his eyes, deep in his eyes was the silhouette of a black-haired youth, the image frozen in the moment of eight bronze chains piercing through him.

"My Divine Fire Avatar was actually slain!"

The man was none other than Xiao Li’s true body.

He abruptly rose from beneath the Heavenly Fire Waterfall, his expression filled with shock, anger, and disbelief:

"Those chains, and..."

At this moment, all that remained in his mind was the fragmented image last relayed through the connection with his Divine Fire Avatar.

Even in the shattered image, he could feel the helplessness of the Divine Fire Avatar under those eight chains.

As if they were inherently suppressing his Six True Flames power.

Most crucially, he vaguely saw a flash of gold and silver in the youth’s eyes in the final moments...

"Those eight chains were not the key means of killing my avatar, the critical strike seemed to come from his left eye..."

Xiao Li’s mind surged like a turbulent sea, quickly pondering something.

He suddenly lifted his head.

Looking at the pill furnace hanging like a great sun above the Holy Land:

"Could it be?"

He immediately vanished from the Heavenly Fire Waterfall, heading towards the mountain peak.

As he passed by.

The tens of thousands of cultivators within the Fire Virtue Sect all showed reverence, bowing in respect:

"True Inheritor!"

"Chief!"

As Xiao Li’s fiery light streaked through the Fire Virtue Sect like a shooting star, the disciples began to whisper among themselves:

"What happened? The Chief seems like his mind is ablaze, quite angry?"

"A few months ago, the Alliance Army came to request the Chief to carry out some mission in the enemy country, Ji Country’s heartland. At that time, the Chief’s true body was in closed-door cultivation, I heard he sent one of his three Divine Fire Avatars. Now... such a commotion, could it be that something went wrong in Ji Country?"

"Impossible, the Chief Senior’s Divine Fire Avatar, even within our Da Yuan Country’s borders, there are very few who could contend against it, let alone the reckless men of Ji Country?"

"Then this..."

Amidst the discussions of the Fire Virtue Sect disciples.

Xiao Li’s body had already reached beneath the pill furnace hanging like a great sun on the mountain top, and he stepped forward intending to enter it.

"Hold on..." In front of the pill furnace, two burly old cultivators with white hair and beards, upon seeing Xiao Li, solemnly spoke: "Chief, even you cannot rashly intrude here without the Patriarch’s conveyance."

Xiao Li responded in a deep voice, "Then convey it now, tell them that the disciple’s Six True Flames were broken by an eye, and I need to seek the Patriarch’s guidance."

"What?"

The two burly elders slightly changed their complexion.

Realizing the gravity of the situation.

But still, they took a deep breath and said:

"We will report it immediately, but the last time the Patriarch’s will manifested was three hundred years ago, it may not necessarily appear."

"Thank you."

Xiao Li waited on the spot.

......

On Divine Martial Mountain.

Whoosh~~~

As Xiao Li’s Divine Fire Avatar dissipated between heaven and earth, an extra strand of Twelfth Realm Evil Qi appeared within Chen Ku’s Transformation Diagram.

The violent air currents between heaven and earth continued to rage and swirl.

Yet below, the Divine Martial Mountain students and the Hall Masters and Instructors, as well as the four seasoned Qi Cultivators who intended to use their bodies to form an array, were all in shock.

Like an invincible Heavenly God pushing through the young generation of Fire Virtue Sect, the chief true inheritor’s avatar was actually slain by that black-clothed youth.

[Nangong Jiujiu intends to harm the master, slaying him will grant Twelfth Realm Evil Qi]

[Baili Jin intends to harm the master, slaying him will grant Twelfth Realm Evil Qi]

[Master Xuan Gu intends to harm the master, slaying him will grant Twelfth Realm Evil Qi]

[Song Handeng intends to harm the master, slaying him will grant Twelfth Realm Evil Qi]

Almost simultaneously, the four seasoned Qi Cultivators stared at the black-clothed youth in the sky, their intent to kill unmistakable.

"This child, he is the hope of Divine Martial Mountain, how remarkable, he can even easily slay Xiao Li’s avatar, if he gets to the battlefield, who knows how many young disciples of my sect would he kill?"

"Such a Ji Country monster should never be allowed to step onto the battlefield!"

"True, we four old fools are just one breath away from death, although we’re maintaining the Thirteen Sealing Yang Array now, we can still unleash one strike!"

"No need for more words, this Thirteen Sealing Yang Array wouldn’t last long anyway, we initially planned to kill as many young disciples as we can after the array ends, following each other to the Yellow Springs. It now seems, if we can take Chen Ku down before dying, it would outweigh killing any other young people combined!"

"Strike!"

In a flash, the four seasoned Qi Cultivators attacked simultaneously, each chanting an incantation, and their already white hair instantly burst into flames.

"Not good, these four old pigs and dogs are going to join forces for a final strike on Chen Ku!"

Trapped within the large array, Zu Dengfeng roared:

"Quick, break the array together, their attack will undoubtedly affect the array!"

The other Hall Masters and Instructors were also in a panic.

They couldn’t imagine what the outcome would be if they lost Chen Ku, this beacon of hope.

After all, though Chen Ku could, with his Tenth Realm cultivation, confront and slay Xiao Li’s Twelfth Realm Divine Fire Avatar, facing the collective strike of four seasoned Qi Cultivators, even a Thirteenth Realm Martial Practitioner, would not dare to frontally withstand! 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Boom!!

All the instructors and elder experts within the hall immediately unleashed their Ultimate Skills and Divine Skills, bombarding the array, causing it to waver.

Before Chen Ku appeared four terrifying Magical Treasure phantasms.

A Star Disk, a fishing rod, a beast bone, and a book.

All of them erupted in Heavenly Thunder Tribulation Light, a unique feature of Qi Cultivators at the Twelfth Realm ’Transcendence Tribulation Stage,’ blessed by the laws of heaven and earth, once unleashed, it would be a life-dedicated strike.

Chen Ku’s pupils contracted severely.

Before the four old geezers struck, he had already received a warning from the Transformation Diagram, so he was prepared, never intending to confront them head-on.

The Drought God Air Domain beneath his feet expanded to the limit.

His body instantly became ethereal.

Yet...

The pointer within the Compass turned.

Chen Ku’s surrounding space domain was unexpectedly frozen.

Chen Ku made a resolute decision, ready to directly escape into the Hero King Realm.

Just at this time.

A token flew out from the entrance of Divine Martial Mountain’s Martial Arts Heaven and Earth, transforming into a middle-aged man enveloped in a bright yellow python robe.

The man, his temples graying, wore a Purple Gold Crown, took one step out, and stood before Chen Ku.

"Who is that?" In the hall, Zu Dengfeng and the others were shocked and puzzled, completely unfamiliar with the suddenly appeared middle-aged imperial-robed man from the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth.

But the four seasoned Qi Cultivators surrounding the hall paled drastically, voicing their fright:

"Yang Han!!"

Yang Han?

Chen Ku stared at the regal-robed middle-aged man who abruptly appeared before him, dazed, was this not the third brother of the current Emperor Ji?

Yet, he saw the regal-robed middle-aged man slowly punch forward towards the four Magical Treasure phantasms ahead.

With one punch.

The whole heaven and earth seemed to be under his complete control, all the Qi Mechanisms of the universe captured by him.

That was a will of peerless martial arts!

Dominating all within heaven and earth!

Even Chen Ku’s spirit appeared influenced by this will.

"This punch..."

As the punch landed, the four Magical Treasure phantasms instantly shattered like paper toys, and then, heaven and earth essence qi surged.

Like a tidal wave of heaven and earth, reversing direction.

Crashing onto the four seasoned Qi Cultivators at the four sides of the hall.

"Ah... Yang Han... you..."

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The four seasoned Qi Cultivators of Twelfth Realm didn’t even get to voice their last words, crushed into oblivion by the terrifying punch wind, their Primordial Spirits exploding instantly.