CHAPTER 374: CHAPTER 248: POWER OF THE EVIL SUMMONING BANNER (PART 2)

Chen Ku said, "This is not a problem."

Regardless of Fu Baicao’s request at the time, he also accepted his senior brother Qin Yuxian’s commission. If his senior brother’s lifelong dedication to the Qiu Dragon Martial Meeting were to fall apart, he would feel guilty.

"Alright, you now seem to have recognized your place. The Medicine King Hall will gradually develop again in Qiu Dragon Mansion. By the time it reopens, I think, you would be the only choice for the position of the Medicine King Hall’s Store Manager." Yang Luochen said with a smile.

Afterwards, he chatted a bit more with the two masters.

Chen Ku chose to go directly back to his home in Qiu Dragon Mansion.

Upon returning home, he heard that Jiang Shaoyou, within that day, had already started searching for a shopfront. He wanted to reopen Tongwen House in Qiu Dragon Mansion, for which he even contacted the famous families they had previously collaborated with.

However, Chai Tiangui was still quite confused about his path forward. Even with five thousand silver in hand, he still didn’t know what to do.

Chen Ku had no other suggestions either.

He could only offer some consoling words.

Night falls.

The Transformation Diagram sent a reminder.

[The Diagram Master has successfully refined thirty-six strands of Sixth Realm Evil Qi]

Finally, all the Sixth Realm Evil Qi had been refined.

In the dead of night, Chen Ku could finally get back to the rhythm of his previous cultivation routine and focus on enhancing his own strength.

"Let’s first elevate the Flood Dragon Transformation to the Transform level!"

Chen Ku took a deep breath and invested thirty-six strands of Fifth Realm Evil Qi into the Flood Dragon Transformation!

[The Diagram Master has mastered Flood Dragon Transformation·Transformed]

Elevating the Flood Dragon Transformation to the Transform level resulted in no other changes or new abilities, just an addition of the ’Incarnation’ power of two dragons!

Previously, due to the ’Luo Fish’, the Flood Dragon Transformation could only be enhanced to the Shape-Shifted level.

Thus, it could only harness the two dragons’ power inherent in the Flood Dragon Transformation.

Now, the Flood Dragon Transformation includes an incarnation, thus turning two dragons into four dragons!

Rumble, rumble!

In that instant, Chen Ku felt as if two more dragons entered his body’s flesh and bones from the void, coupled with the power of two dragons from the Four Unlikes!

"Six dragons’ power!!"

Chen Ku looked towards the "God Shaking Decision" taught by his master Shan Lingguan. Six dragons’ power is a realm that can only be reached after mastering the sixth level of the God Shaking Decision.

But this was not the end.

Chen Ku then transformed into the giant crocodile and the Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhinoceros respectively.

[Giant Crocodile Transformation·Transformed]

[Realm: Fifth Realm Demon]

[Abilities: Earth-shattering Waves, Breathing Poison, Fossil Armor...]

A thought crossed his mind as he only considered the first three more useful abilities.

His consciousness arrived at an open space in the Hero King Realm, where he stomped his foot, causing the ground to shake as if an earthquake had hit, forming a wave of impacts.

He had suffered from this move before, as the shockwave could spread as far as a hundred zhang, dealing area damage. If used to clear out minor foes, one stomp could shake the ground and could instantly send all lesser realm experts within the hundred zhang radius sprawling!

"The Buddha had a move called the ’Ground Touch Seal’ when subduing demons, and it should have this kind of effect."

Chen Ku watched as rubble soared within a hundred zhang, and the earth seemed like a writhing earth dragon, muttering to himself:

"Although my Huntian Overlord Body’s ’Kunlun Technique’ can also make fine iron rubble erupt from the ground to harm people, it doesn’t have as wide a range."

As for the last two abilities, one involves spitting poisonous gas that can corrode stone walls, though it’s somewhat unsightly. I mean, could I use ’Breath Injuring’ in a fight?

On the other hand, the final ability, Fossil Armor, was something Chen Ku tried, immediately feeling a ’Petrification’ sensation over his body. But he quickly felt himself becoming stiff and unable to move.

"Not good, this doesn’t seem like a good skill; it directly turns people into living fossils!"

Chen Ku finally understood why the giant crocodile couldn’t move. It must be this inherent trait, granting it high defense yet forfeiting its ability to move.

"Turning into a Stone Man grants unprecedented defense, but the price is too high. It’s not a special transformation that has to be mastered at a certain realm, so I won’t learn it, won’t learn it."

Chen Ku shook his head and immediately stirred the Golden Light True Qi within, shattering the petrification trait within him with a swoosh.

Simultaneously, he looked towards the changes of Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhinoceros.

[Golden Horned Iron Armored Rhinoceros·Transformed]

[Realm: Fifth Realm Demon]

[Ability: (Skin) Harder than Famous Soldiers, (Horn) Kangjin Material...]

There were also some other abilities, but they were not very noticeable.

Chen Ku only noticed the material of the golden horn "Kangjin Material", which sounded like some kind of special metal, and he couldn’t help but think to himself:

"No wonder the last time I hit this horn, it made both my stick and hand numb."

He touched his forehead, seemingly willing it to grow a golden horn from there.

He imagined that scene.

"Golden Horn King?"

He shook his head with disgust and thought again, saying:

"What if I could refine this horn into the body of a Flood Dragon, wouldn’t it be like having a ’Kang Jinlong’?"

However, the Flood Dragon Transformation is already at the extreme of the Fifth Realm, and to refine further, it would at least require many Sixth Realm changes to be integrated, so its quality wouldn’t decline.

That would require many high-quality Sixth Realm demon transformations.

"Evil Summoning Banner!"

Chen Ku immediately looked at the large banner quietly lying in his Heart Sea.

[The Diagram Master consumes ten strands of Sixth Realm Evil Qi and has mastered the Sixth Layer Evil Summoning Banner Incantation]

[The Diagram Master has successfully comprehended the incantations to manipulate the first six layers of prohibitions of the Evil Summoning Banner. Once a location is found, the banner can be introduced into the void, shake it, and it can randomly summon various types of demons within six hundred miles, including those below the Sixth Realm, and entrap them into the Evil Summoning Banner]

(Note: With the current prohibition, the banner can accommodate up to fifty Sixth Realm demons, one hundred Fifth Realm demons, three hundred Fourth Realm demons, five hundred Third Realm demons, eight hundred Second Realm demons, and a thousand First Realm demons)

Chen Ku’s heart was stirred.

He immediately decided to test the power of this second divine skill.

"Qiu Dragon Mansion oversees thirty-six counties, east to the Shaoxing Mountain Range, west to Mingsha Lake, south to Nanling Mountain, and north to Two Realms Mountain, covering an area equivalent to four or five standard cities from the previous world. Only thirty percent of the area is inhabited, with about eight million people, while the other seventy percent are mountains and forests, teeming with countless demons."

Chen Ku recalled the location of the nearest demon around Qiu Dragon Mansion, which should be the Bitu Mountain in another Anchan County, five hundred miles away.

It is heard that demons there often descend the mountain to eat people, and even the government’s several suppressions couldn’t curb it. They had to hold several migrations, making Anchan County now the most sparsely populated county among the thirty-six counties of Qiu Dragon Mansion, with only twenty to thirty thousand people.

Traveling five hundred miles, Chen Ku reached there in a half night’s time.

From afar, he saw demon qi rising in that mountain forest, and human skins and intestines scattered on the ground and trees...

The sight made him feel queasy in his stomach.

Suppressing his nausea, he took out the Evil Summoning Banner from the Transformation Diagram.

Ssshh—!

The banner appeared out of thin air in Chen Ku’s hand, and as he recited the incantation, he sent it into the void. It expanded with the wind and suddenly transformed into a mast-sized banner!!

The banner fluttered fiercely in the void, emitting rays of auspicious light. The tadpole script on the face of the banner seemed to come alive, flowing out in an eerie, oily green aura!

Like some sort of law, it scattered into the sky like stars, flying in all directions!

Instantly, a mournful wind roared, dim clouds and gloomy mist spread...

Chen Ku gazed into the distance and heard the howling of wolves and tigers in the mountain forest, the whole forest shook, and demons howled to the sky, issuing various cries of unwillingness.

From high above, with his Hundred Li Golden Eyes, Chen Ku saw in a stone cave of a Mountain dwelling, a red python demon just awakening before a green tadpole landed on its head and was instantly absorbed into it...

Gradually, the time of one incense stick passed.

Chen Ku then saw the tadpole script scattered out returning continuously to the banner face, having ’seen’ into the Evil Summoning Banner various types and shapes of demons...

They all appeared within the Evil Summoning Banner.

[Summoned three Sixth Realm demons...]

[Summoned forty-eight Fifth Realm demons...]

[Summoned a hundred and fifty-six Fourth Realm demons...]

[...five hundred Third Realm demons...]

[...eight hundred Second Realm demons...]

[...a thousand First Realm demons...]

At this moment, inside the Evil Summoning Banner, demons were shoulder to shoulder, heads pressed against heads, making Chen Ku feel a chill down his spine:

"Is this the power of the Evil Summoning Banner?"

So many demons summoned within the time of one incense stick?