Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog

Chapter 769 504: One Day Outside, Ten Years in the Divine Mansion

"Seal!"

As the towering middle-aged king at the center of heaven and earth spat out a single word—"Seal"—a hundred miles away, earth-shaking changes erupted at once within Chen Ku's body.

"Not good!"

Although Chen Ku had always guarded against the greatest hidden danger within himself—namely the "Hero King Realm" inside his body—even though he had already obtained the nexus of the Hero King Realm and possessed control over the entire Cave Mansion Realm, that still depended on whom he was up against.

Now it was the will of Pei Dongliu, the Hero King of the past, resurrected. How could he possibly wrest control from him? Not only could he not compete, at this very moment inside Chen Ku's body, all kinds of Prohibition Formations within the Hero King Realm lit up simultaneously!

In an instant, layers upon layers of Prohibition Formation power writhed like frenzied dragons and serpents, piercing through the Cave Mansion's void barriers and transmitting into Chen Ku's body.

This scene was like a supremely lethal Poison exploding inside Chen Ku, sprouting razor-sharp thorns.

Terrifying Cave Heaven power erupted within Chen Ku.

It instantly suppressed all of Chen Ku's Blood Qi methods, including his Spiritual Energy and Primordial Spirit.

Only his thoughts could still turn.

There was some unwillingness, and also great fury.

He truly hadn't expected to encounter the resurrected Pei Dongliu within this Martial Arts Ancestral Land, and even less had he expected that the Hero King Realm, which had carried him through crisis after life-and-death crisis, would now, in turn, become the greatest factor working against him.

The Hero King Realm inside his body had once been the world of a Fifteen Realms Saint. Although Pei Dongliu had not yet recovered his full strength now, using this Cave Heaven to unleash its might was in no way inferior to a Fourteen Realms expert exploding with power inside Chen Ku's body.

"Could it be I can only abandon a single Incarnation and leave this Martial Arts Ancestral Land?"

Though the situation was extremely unfavorable for Chen Ku—something that, for anyone else, could be called an absolute dead end—to him it was actually only a medium-sized challenge and choice. From the day he obtained his Innate Divine Ability "Heart Transformation," it had been fated that so long as his Incarnations were not extinguished, he could always reappear anywhere, at any time. Abandoning one Incarnation was all it amounted to.

The twenty-four Transformation Diagrams meant he had twenty-four lives.

The problem now was that it had not been easy for Chen Ku to enter this Martial Arts Ancestral Land; he hadn't even reached Wuji Peak yet and had already obtained a strand of Fourteen Realms Yinglong Evil Qi, allowing him to glimpse a path to breaking through to the Thirteenth Realm. Needless to say, Wuji Peak absolutely held even more secrets and fortunes.

Suddenly, Chen Ku's thoughts halted on that last notion:

"Thirteenth Realm, Shattering Void, Yinglong Refining Realm—whatever, I'll risk it all!"

And at the very instant Chen Ku's mind moved.

A hundred miles away, Pei Dongliu had already revealed complete confidence in having Chen Ku in the palm of his hand. Watching as Chen Ku's body and limbs, out of his control, spread into a great-character shape beneath the Heavenly Dome, manipulated by Pei's five fingers in his palm, he smiled faintly and said:

"Back then, when I, Pei, wielded the Three Marvels Cave Heaven, I swept across the world. In those three Cave Heavens, each one contained a peerless mystery. You, junior, obtained this Cave Heaven of mine, yet you actually failed to comprehend the 'Great Sun Tide Rule' within. Now it's being used to control you instead—one might call that fate's arrangement."

Back then, Hero King Pei Dongliu, with inconceivable talent, had opened up three Inner Worlds while at the Fourteen Realms on the Martial Path, each symbolizing one of the sun, moon, and stars' Three Marvel Laws, and within them he evolved the tide powers of sun, moon, and stars.

It was named the "Sun, Moon, and Star Tide"!

The world Chen Ku had obtained was the one that had evolved the Great Sun Tide Power; at this moment, it was under the complete control of Hero King Pei Dongliu.

The entire world was radiating terrifying solar rays from the inside out.

Every ray that pierced outward and fell upon Chen Ku's physique was as if he had been thrown into the sun, intent on Refining Chen Ku.

"What, even at a time like this, you still won't summon out that Incarnation formed from this king's body?"

Pei Dongliu said in a low voice.

But at this very moment—

Boom!

All of a sudden, that vaguely visible mansion in the Heavenly Dome completely condensed into solid form. Its gate swung wide open, and the light projected from within was drawn to the Ancient Mirror on Yang Pan's body below, directly escorting him inside.

Wooo~~

With the opening of that gate known as the "Dragon Han Divine Mansion," there actually emanated from within a kind of Ancient aura of time itself.

The next instant, Yang Pan was directly sucked into the world beyond that mansion gate.

"That is the Power of Time!"

In an instant, Pei Dongliu was captivated by this scene. A never-before-seen gravity and desire surfaced in his eyes as he grew excited, to the point he even forgot about Chen Ku.

Generally speaking, after a Martial Practitioner opens up a Cave Heaven world within, they can begin to create some Heaven and Earth Laws and become a true creator. However, there are always some Origin Laws between heaven and earth that are not so easily created.

For example, Pei Dongliu, after opening three Cave Mansions, had only been able to comprehend, copy, and create the Sun and Moon Tide Power of Laws from the Great Universe.

But now, within that Dragon Han Divine Mansion, there was being transmitted one of the most fundamental and most exalted Laws among the Great Universe Laws—the Time Law.

This meant that the founder of this Dragon Han Divine Mansion, the legendary Dragon Han Great Emperor, was, even among the Fifteen Realms, a giant-level figure between heaven and earth.

Pei Dongliu himself had once been a Fifteen Realms warlord in chaotic times, so he naturally knew there were gradations even within the Fifteen Realms. Otherwise, how could he have been defeated by Ancestor Ji, Yang Yin? But now, upon seeing the Power of Time within the Dragon Han Divine Mansion, in a flash it was as if he'd glimpsed a path for himself to also leap up and become a giant among the Fifteen Realms.