CHAPTER 140: CHAPTER 114: TEN ELEPHANTS

First, I need to handle the matter at hand well. I’ve got 180,000 now; I’ll save this money and wait until my strength is sufficient before I start a business.

Chen Ku stowed away this first nest egg, which he would use to build his own force in the future.

Now, I should carefully consider how to use that old servant’s Mystic Barrier Realm Evil Qi.

He actually already had a strong inclination.

Instead of betting on the luck of the first Shape Shifting, it would be more prudent to use the Evil Qi to refine the Flower Fox Mink, elevating it to the ’Second Realm Demon’ level. By then... even if my own cultivation hasn’t reached the Mystic Barrier Realm, with the enhancement of a Second Realm Flower Fox Mink, I could display the combat power of a Second Realm Demon!

Decided. That’s what I’ll do.

The Transformation Diagram was reflected in Chen Ku’s mind.

He was considering which two transformations to integrate into the Flower Fox Mink’s transformation.

Currently, I already possess the Volcanic Crow’s resistance to the Flame Qi of Fire Beak Mountain from its First Realm transformation. If I were to refine the Volcanic Crow Transformation into the Flower Fox Mink, then the mink would also have flame resistance, and that place could no longer be used as a spot to ’farm Evil Qi.’

However, Chen Ku also wanted the Flower Fox Mink to be able to fly. Yet, he was also hesitant. If he fused the Golden Eyed White Jade Sculpture transformation into the Flower Fox Mink, *he* would lose the ability to personally transform into the sculpture, fly, and unleash ’Arrows from Beyond the Sky.’

In the end, after much deliberation, he still decided to refine the Golden Eyed White Jade Sculpture into it.

At worst, when I need to go out and kill in the future, I won’t send the Flower Fox Mink out independently. I’ll just use it as a mount, and I can even make it bigger. Riding an elephant-like giant beast with wings sprouting from its ribs, soaring through the sky, drawing a bow and nocking an arrow—the thought seemed rather impressive.

With the Golden Eyed White Jade Sculpture decided, one slot remained...

Then it shall be the Spirit Ape.

Chen Ku added the Spirit Ape to the diagram; this was the demon cub he had initially procured to cultivate the ’Spirit Monkey Breathing Technique’ and ’Force Power.’

According to the notes in the Transformation Diagram, the Spirit Ape, just like the Skinny Dog and the Golden Eyed White Jade Sculpture, possessed the bloodline of a Great Demon.

The Spirit Ape possessed a bloodline Talent called ’Spirit Monkey Submission.’

But because the one he had purchased was a young Spirit Ape, this Talent had never awakened, so he had never experienced what ’Spirit Monkey Submission’ actually was.

Having made his decision, he began the ’fetus transformation refining shape’ process.

[Using Spirit Ape Transformation, Golden Eyed White Jade Sculpture Transformation, and Flower Fox Mink Transformation to deduce the shape refinement...]

[Injecting ’Liang Shi’s’ Second Realm Mystic Barrier Realm Evil Qi, forming the placenta...]

[Among the three transformations, the Flower Fox Mink Transformation has the highest quality. This shape refinement will use the Flower Fox Mink Transformation as the main form...]

[Deducing the quality and success rate of this shape refinement...]

[Deduction Complete]

[This shape refinement has a ’98%’ chance of successfully refining a ’Second Realm excellent quality Demon Transformation’...]

[Begin this shape refinement?]

A 98% chance? Why isn’t it 100%? Doesn’t that mean there’s still a 2% chance of needlessly wasting my only Second Realm Evil Qi?

But looking at that ’Second Realm excellent quality Demon Transformation’...

98%! I’ll risk it!

[Starting shape refinement...]

[Refining shape in progress...]

...

Chen Ku intently watched the changes on the Transformation Diagram.

The three transformation diagrams gradually faded, transforming into three beams of light. These beams flowed towards the center of their triangular arrangement, injecting their light into the placenta already formed there by the Second Realm Evil Qi.

This time seems to be more than ten times slower than before? Is it because the Realm level has increased, so the speed has decreased?

Unlike the previous shape refinement, which succeeded in about a minute, this time, Chen Ku waited for over ten minutes.

During this period, he even found the opportunity to go through the ’Nameless Stance’ three times. After completing the third round of the stance...

Suddenly, a tri-colored light burst forth in his mind.

CRACK!

It was as if thunder and lightning had struck within his mind.

The giant egg that had been swirling in the midst of the three diagrams suddenly split open.

[Shape Refinement Success]

Chen Ku saw that from within the giant egg, two bear-paw-like claws first tore open the cracks. Then, as the eggshell scattered, a pair of white wings, about ten feet across, unfolded from its ribs, just behind the base of these clawed limbs.

Finally, the entire form of the demon was revealed.

[???? (Unnamed Transformation)]

[This beast is formed by the refinement of the Flower Fox Mink Transformation, the Golden Eyed White Jade Sculpture Transformation, and the Spirit Ape Transformation... It has a mink’s head and a bear’s body, wings sprouting from its ribs, eyes that flash like lightning, and is tailless.]

[Cultivation Realm: Second Realm Demon]

[Transformation Level: Transforming Shape Level]

[Slaughter Aura Quality: Excellent]

[Abilities: Five Elephants Power, wings that fly, Golden Eyes Hundred Li, Moon-Eating Submission...

Eating All Humans and Beasts, Size Change, Fine Dog Sense, Immune to All Poisons, Able to View Internal Organs, Become a Demon by Drinking Blood, Right Arm as Steel, Blood Claws Like Blades...]

In his Sea of Consciousness, this new, unnamed Demon Transformation dived into the first diagram.

BOOM BOOM BOOM!!

Chen Ku’s closed eyes suddenly sprang open. He felt a surge of power, as if ten great elephants were stampeding through his muscles. His flesh, blood, and bone density were instantly enveloped and transformed by a strange Evil Qi, turning him into something like a humanoid ferocious beast.

The Root Bone itself possesses Five Elephants Power! And the additional ’Incarnation’ also contributes Five Elephants Power! This stacking directly grants my physical body the Power of Ten Elephants!

After the Flower Fox Mink was refined with traits of the White Elephant, it only had Two Elephants Power. With an extra Incarnation, this increased to the Four Symbols Power.

Now, this new transformation had a base of Five Elephants Power. With another Incarnation superimposed, that became the Power of Ten Elephants.

This was more than double the Root Bone Strength Chen Ku possessed before this shape refinement!

And that doesn’t even include the amplification from Inner Qi and Martial Arts. If those were added...

Chen Ku could hardly imagine how far the wind from his staff strike could reach.

Ordinary Second Realm Demons certainly don’t possess such terrifying strength. It’s like how not all ferocious beasts have ten thousand pounds of force... Only exceptionally large and rare ones among them, like elephants, possess such might... So, a ’Second Realm excellent quality Demon’ means a Demon that, among Second Realm Demons, is like an ’elephant’—a being of immense power.