Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog

Originally, Chen Ku, although he had also imagined the power of this palm strike, still did not anticipate it being this enormous! With his cultivation and Qi Power in action, he had actually killed Zhao Yuyan—who was at least at the Second Layer of the Mystic Barrier—as easily as swatting a fly, exploding her into a mess of flesh. Even more so, it left a deeply ingrained Palm Seal on the ground.

Is this the power of merging two Ultimate Skills, where the mental method and palm technique become one? This power... it seems like I could easily kill anyone in the Mystic Barrier Realm.

Chen Ku's heart couldn't help but beat faster. Could this technique have already surpassed Ultimate Skills and reached the World-Surpassing level of Martial Arts?

He remembered that when Ke Yansheng was acquiring the Skyward Strike for him, he had mentioned that Martial Arts were divided into six levels within different Realms. These were: Inferior, Middle, Superior, Ultimate Skill, World-Surpassing, and Divine Skill.

That day, while he was fighting at the docks with Zhao Chuanzu, he had also heard Sui Qingfang's cousin from Prefecture City, Lin Xinglong, speculate about his Fire Avoidance ability. Lin Xinglong had said that in the Hanging Temple in You State, there was a Martial Art called 'Indestructible Golden Body'. Once mastered, one was not only 'Vajra Indestructible' but also immune to 'Water, Fire, Poison, Medicine,' capable of being 'Sleepless and Restless,' and possessed endless Skill. It was described as extremely magical. Even if not yet at the Realm of Perfection, it could still rebound an enemy's attack. However, this Divine Skill was a 'Supreme Level' Martial Art, not something a country bumpkin from a mere county could learn...

Furthermore, Chen Ku, through learning the Xu Family's Blood Memory Inheritance of the Mountain-Lifting Palm, also clearly understood that the Mountain-Lifting Palm, purely in terms of its hand techniques, consisted of fourteen moves. Each move belonged to the Absolute Skill Level within the Fourteen Realms of Martial Practitioners. But the Mountain-Lifting Palm was actually only one-third of the hand techniques of a Divine Skill called the 'Sky-Shaking Earth-Shattering Divine Technique'. The Xu Family ancestor, Xiong Ying, had once used this Divine Skill to lift a kilometer-high mountain. Regrettably, later generations were incompetent, and the bloodline dwindled. They had actually allowed a 'Divine Skill' to be reduced to only the first four moves of the Mountain-Lifting Palm—four moves at the Absolute Skill Level—losing not only the subsequent ten palm moves but also the Inner Strength and mental method.

In the Xu Family's memory, the Mountain-Lifting Palm's hand techniques alone constituted an Ultimate Skill. However, if paired with Inner Strength and a mental method, it became the true 'Sky-Shaking Earth-Shattering Divine Technique'.

Could it be that I accidentally stumbled upon using the Nine Dragons Union from the Zhao Family's Ancient Elephant Sect as the Inner Strength, thereby completing a part of the Mountain-Lifting Palm's Inner Strength and elevating this hand technique back to the World-Surpassing Level?

Chen Ku was excited. Merely supplementing it with the Inner Strength of the Nine Dragons Union could elevate this one palm strike to the World-Surpassing Level, possessing such power! If, one day, he could also find a compatible 'mental method' and restore the hand technique to the Divine Skill Level... How terrifyingly heaven-defying would that be?

He let his imagination run wild for a moment. Today, I've truly seen the difference in Martial Arts tiers! I managed to piece together a World-Surpassing Level Martial Arts move, something that doesn't even exist in all of Baojiao County.

Chen Ku considered the origin of this Martial Art, which was still inextricably linked to the Xu Family Qilin Blood. Compared to piecing it together myself, it's actually more convenient to directly obtain the memory inheritance from the Xu Family Qilin Blood. However, I don't know what progress Shangguan Yun has made with the Hero King Treasure. I'll have to sneak into their house later to check. If necessary, I'll have the Volcanic Crow fly out daily for long-term surveillance, especially targeting that fifth-ranked expert in the city, Counselor Sui You.

As this idea formed, Chen Ku looked at the bloody scene on the ground, especially the Palm Seal. He figured that Shangguan Yun, who was very familiar with the Xu Family's Mountain-Lifting Palm, would definitely recognize it.

A thought flickered in his mind. He found something, dipped it into the blood on the ground, and flamboyantly scrawled several large characters on the alley wall before turning and jauntily leaving the alley.

The characters left on the wall were strikingly:

"Killer Peace Path..."