Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 570 - 367: Martial Arts Stele Forest

Li Shentong looked at these major sect leaders and couldn’t help but smile faintly:

"Why bother, everyone? Since we’ve decided to use the ’Martial Arts Stele Forest’ of the second trial as a test of the students’ qualifications and comprehension, then whatever the students comprehend here will reveal itself. Just watch and you’ll see."

At Li Shentong’s word.

The sect leaders and teachers spoke no more.

They just watched Chen Ku successfully reach the top and walk forward.

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"Ahead lies the ’Martial Arts Stele Forest’ of the second trial,"

Someone was leading Chen Ku, who had witnessed the Eighteen Dragons Root Bone Divine Power. At this moment, he was almost certain that this young man before him would undoubtedly become one of the star students of the Divine Martial Academy in the future.

And today’s results from the Eighteen Dragons Root Bone Divine Power test would be destined to spread throughout Dragon Abyss, and even across the thirteen provinces of the empire, within a day or two.

The law enforcer from Divine Martial Mountain, responsible for leading Chen Ku, introduced the conditions of the next test, saying:

"Martial Arts Stele Forest is a fragment of the ’Mystic realm’ from Ancient Martial Arts Heaven and Earth, relocated by the Martial Temple. Within, it houses various martial arts inheritance steles collected by Dragon Abyss Martial Temple since ancient times. This time, there are a total of three thousand six hundred steles.

The level of martial arts inheritance contained within ranges from Superior, Ultimate Skill, World-Surpassing, Divine Skill, everything is available, and there are even a few Immortal Techniques and Immortal Laws hidden within.

Additionally, the nine major sects have injected their legacies into among these three thousand six hundred steles, into nine particular steles..."

Chen Ku listened, his eyes slightly lighting up.

Although he had already speculated somewhat about the comprehension test of the second trial, he was still moved by the boldness of the Imperial Court in establishing Divine Martial Hall.

From Superior Martial Arts to Divine Skills, everything available?

There are even Immortal Techniques above the Divine Skill level?

Originally, after mastering the Azure Dragon Transformation, he had gained the qualification of ’Supreme Talent’. Now, faced with such a test of comprehension, it was simply a treasure bestowed by heaven!

"Then, what must be done to pass this ’Martial Arts Stele Forest’ trial?" Chen Ku concealed his inner thoughts and asked calmly.

The law enforcer read the rules, saying: "From the day everyone ascended the mountain, a limit of one month is set. Currently, seven days have passed, so there are twenty-three days left. You need to, within these twenty-three days, either comprehend fifty or more ’Superior Martial Arts’ from the three thousand six hundred steles, or ten or more ’Ultimate Skills’, or one or more ’World-Surpassing Martial Arts’, to pass.

And if, by chance, you comprehend the nine legacies left by the nine major sects in the three thousand six hundred steles, upon passing, you will be immediately classified into their academy’s main shrine."

"I see."

Chen Ku nodded.

Suddenly, he asked:

"Then may I ask, what if someone comprehends more than two sects’ legacies, what would happen then?"

The law enforcer seemed rather experienced in explaining this issue to more than one person, so he replied casually:

"If such a situation arises, the Divine Martial Hall is well prepared. The academy will categorize based on the student’s preferences into ’Major Study Hall’ and ’Elective Shrines’. For instance, if you simultaneously comprehend the legacies of Qianyuan Mountain and Primordial Yang Mountain, you can choose Qianyuan Mountain based on your martial arts affinity as your Major Study Hall, attend lectures more frequently at Qianyuan Mountain, and at the end of the year, graduate with the scores given by Qianyuan Mountain as the main evaluation, for your military rank assessment."

Chen Ku couldn’t help feeling familiarity with this system, remembering it.

He smiled and thanked the law enforcer.

Then, he looked ahead, walked tens of steps to the left, and turned past the red walls. What he saw in front was a giant doorway threshold, with a light screen above, rippling like a water mirror.

"Inside is the Martial Arts Stele Forest," the law enforcer said, inviting Chen Ku to enter.

Without hesitating, Chen Ku lifted his foot and stepped through the threshold.

His body entered the light screen.

Faintly, he felt a spatial detachment sensation similar to when riding the Martial Temple’s teleportation array with Xiao Tianzuo.

He thought:

"This should be entering a small realm."

He opened his eyes again.

As expected, he looked forward, and it was already a different environment.

The dim yellow sunset, a somewhat quiet atmosphere.

The ground was strewn with steles, some big, some small, some tall, some short. The large ones were as massive as pillars, the small ones were just the size of tombstones.

It truly was a forest of steles.

The steles formed a forest, and the air was filled with silence, no one speaking.

Looking closely.

In front of many steles scattered here and there, people were sitting cross-legged. Counting them, there were five or six hundred people, clearly those who had entered here before Chen Ku.

Chen Ku instantly recognized the top contender among all the students for cultivation and combat power, the third-ranked person on the Heroic List, Xue Bailiu.

His body was slender, dressed in black, sitting cross-legged in front of a Martial Arts Stele about two yards and six feet high. Looking closely, the Martial Arts Stele also bore numerous snow marks, as if it had been moved here from a snow mountain.

At the same time, Chen Ku also saw other people on the Heroic List, such as Chu Fengwu, ranked ninety-ninth, sitting cross-legged in front of a slightly blood-stained stele.

There were also Xiao Tianzuo, Helan Qing, Xie Qixing, Duan Qingxuan, Xu Fanfeng, and others, each sitting cross-legged before a stele.

Chen Ku gently walked over.

He wanted to greet them, but before he could speak, he sensed that all six of them were immersed in a special state of satori with the steles, and he instinctively didn’t dare to interrupt.

Turning back to look.

Almost all five or six hundred people here were in that state.

Chen Ku understood slightly in his heart that this was a quiet process of comprehension.

Immediately, he also scanned the surrounding Steles Forest.

Thinking to himself:

"Three thousand six hundred steles, I don’t know which one contains Divine Skills, and the Immortal Skills above, or even the inheritance of the Nine Great Sects, so I might as well try my luck first."

Then, he randomly came to a stele that no one was comprehending.

This stele was only about seven feet high, containing special patterns on it.

Chen Ku imitated others and sat down cross-legged, instinctively staring at the patterns above, and with just that gaze, what he saw was no longer the stele patterns, but his mind being drawn into the stele.

Inside the stele, he saw tiny figures drilling into his eyes, and his heart emerged with revelations, letting him know what Martial Arts this stele contained.

"World-Surpassing Martial Arts ’Chaotic Arrow Strike,’ a fist technique like arrows with seven forms..."

He began to practice within the stele immediately.

Stepping, twisting the waist, throwing a punch.

The sixth form, Cloud Piercing Sun Shooting, had already been demonstrated by him, as if a thunderbolt exploded beneath Chen Ku’s feet, the Qi energy bursting from the five-finger fist wind resembled chaotic arrows piercing the clouds, howling away, shaking a large expanse of air.

This form, instantly great achievement!

Immediately after, Chen Ku practiced all seven fist forms of this World-Surpassing Martial Arts in the stele with his mind.

Striking last and arriving first! Taking the initiative! Three Elements and First Rank! Aimless! Hundred Steps Piercing! Cloud Piercing Sun Shooting! Hundred Shots Hundred Hits!

Under the supreme talent of Chen Ku’s comprehension.

This Martial Art...had almost no threshold or difficulty, and he grasped all the changes and Mental Realm within a few breaths, achieving a great achievement as soon as he started.

Just at the moment Chen Ku mastered the Chaotic Arrow Fist.

Suddenly, his heart was moved.

He opened his eyes.

Behold, on the stele before him, a line of golden text appeared, slowly flashing:

"World-Surpassing Martial Arts ’Chaotic Arrow Strike,’ the ninety-eighth inheritor, congratulations on successfully comprehending this Martial Art, meeting the standard to pass the second stage ’Martial Arts Stele Forest,’ please leave your name on the stele as a memento, then you can leave the Martial Arts Stele Forest and head to the third trial ground..."

Chen Ku abruptly stood up from where he was.

From the time he entered till now, it has been only a few minutes, and now they were telling him to go to the next trial ground, what a joke?

The Divine Skills and Immortal Techniques here, he hadn’t even encountered them yet.

Instantly frightened, he immediately moved away from this stele.

Yet, seeing that after Chen Ku delayed in leaving his name, the text on the stele also gradually disappeared, seeming to only transport out of the Martial Arts Stele Forest after Chen Ku confirmed to leave his name actively.

Chen Ku was delighted.

This way, he could proceed to the next stele and continue trying his luck.

Immediately, he came before the second stele nearby, sat cross-legged, and comprehended another Martial Art within the stele.

...

In the Divine Martial Academy, the Qi Mechanism outlined, reflecting those masters and teachers of the great sects in the Martial Arts Stele Forest, were shaken in their hearts by the series of actions Chen Ku took after entering.

"Comprehended?"

"A World-Surpassing level fist technique, he comprehended it in less than a dozen breaths?"

"Is there a problem with the Martial Arts Stele?"

"Impossible for a problem, the Martial Arts Stele operates under the Qi Fortune rules of the Martial Arts Heaven and Earth of Dragon Abyss Province, it can’t be problematic!"

"So? It’s real?!"

"This Chen Ku, comprehended a World-Surpassing level fist technique in just a dozen breaths?!!"

"Possessing the Root Bone of Eighteen Dragons, and such heaven-defying talent and comprehension?"

"What kind of qualifications does this boy have?!"