Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

In the Dharma Destruction Hall, Murong Cheng's words made all the students look at the handsome young man in black who was meditating in front of the iron tree as if he were a monster.

Since Chen Ku entered Shenwu Mountain, his cultivation level has been improving rapidly like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, in front of the eyes of his fellow students.

Before taking part in the Shenwu Mountain Examination, he was only at the seventh realm. At that time, he had fought with Jiang Family's Little Barbarian God Jiang Hengchu outside the gate of Shenwu Mountain, which attracted the attention of many people.

As a result, since participating in the college selection and being successfully admitted, his cultivation has been improving by one level every day.

It seemed as if he was making breakthroughs every moment of every day.

Half a year.

He actually managed to cultivate from the seventh realm to the ninth realm, during which he crossed the entire eighth realm and completed the marrow cleansing realm five times.

"What kind of cultivation monster is this? He reaches a new realm in half a year. He must be born for cultivation."

"It would be fine if he practiced fast in the early stage, but now he is already at the eighth or ninth level. He can fight against ten thousand troops alone and can be at the level of ten thousand enemies. And it is as easy as eating and drinking water."

"Is there no bottleneck in his practice?"

Among the students present here, every one of them is a leader among their hometown people, and they are not unaware of the difference between their own practice and that of others.

In their hometown, some people take several years to master martial arts, but they can get started right away. Some old people have wasted a hundred years and are still at the fourth or fifth level, while they are only in their twenties or thirties, but have already reached the seventh or eighth level.

This all shows their talent for spiritual practice.

But now Chen Ku is showing them what true talent is.

During the past six months, almost all of these students have made breakthroughs, especially those who received a lot of dragon energy from the Dragon Ladder. Later, they each comprehended a lot of martial arts from the Martial Arts Stele Forest, and had famous teachers teaching them day and night in various halls...

Most people have achieved breakthroughs in one or two small realms in the past six months.

There were also those who broke through the realm, for example, Xue Baliu, who completely stepped into the eleventh realm of 'True Body' from the peak of the tenth realm, and became a great cultivator of the eleventh realm.

But even someone like Xue Baliu, who was one of the top three heroes in the province, hadn't made any progress in his cultivation for a long time after that breakthrough.

……

In the eyes of everyone looking at him as if he were a monster.

Chen Ku was completely unaware that his mind and consciousness had been completely attracted by the "restriction" in the iron tree.

Through the Taiyin Body, he glimpsed the "forbidden patterns" on this restriction one after another.

Saw the truth behind this ban.

It seems to be prohibiting the iron tree from having any life.

"Do not……"

Chen Ku suddenly had an idea in his mind, and he said to himself:
"It feels like this tree was originally an ordinary tree, but the owner of the Destroying Law Building used this restriction to transform it into an iron tree, extracting all the vitality from it and changing its form."

This discovery surprised Chen Ku.

Because he immediately thought of the means by which this could be accomplished in the Dharma-Extermination Building.

It turned out to be the 'Extermination of Life', which was listed as one of the four forbidden inheritances of the Extermination Tower together with the 'forbidden method' that he pursued.

The more Chen Ku observed the iron tree, the more he understood it, and the more he felt that this should be the "Extinction of Life" among the four great inheritances of the Mie Fa Tower.

Destruction of life.

To completely extinguish the life within a living tree and turn it into a cold iron tree is not just a matter of extracting the life force, but a fundamental reversal of the five elements and yin and yang state of the tree.

From wood to metal, from life to death.

Changing the existence of something in its essence and form.

In a sense, it can even be called a "creator"-like method, which is even more amazing than the so-called "turning stone into gold".

"Mie Fa Lou is too arrogant. He actually hid one of the four forbidden inheritances in this iron tree as a test."

Chen Ku was trying his best to make his consciousness remember the "restriction" in the iron tree. Obviously, this restriction was the full picture of the "destruction" forbidden technique.

并，
He tried to use the pure Yin energy in his body to hook the restriction, trying to perform this "forbidden art of extermination".

Soon, Chen Ku outlined a black restriction in his body.

Immediately, he opened his eyes.

When he opened his eyes and was about to use the power of this restriction, he saw Murong Cheng and the other students were all staring at him.

Murong Cheng, in particular, looked at the trace of power emerging from Chen Ku's palms and fingers in disbelief, and said in a lost voice:
"Have you discovered the secret that the sect master left in this iron tree?"

The other students were confused.

Then, as if struck by lightning, everyone looked at Chen Ku, shocked.

"What? Palace Master, do you mean that Senior Brother Chen has completed the test and entered the Dao?"

"Is this the beginning of Taoism?"

"Are you going to become a true disciple of the Mie Fa Lou?"

Even Xue Baliu's eyes were fixed on the trace of power condensed in Chen Ku's hand. He felt a sense of threat, not from Chen Ku, but from that trace of power.

Facing Murong Cheng's question, Chen Ku looked down at the restriction drawn by the pure Yin energy between his fingers and said softly, "Disciple doesn't know either, so I want to give it a try."

Murong Cheng nodded, and immediately looked up into the sky, and saw a sparrow flying outside the hall.

He stretched out his hand and grabbed it. His big hand, wrapped with innate true energy, instantly caught the sparrow in the sky, making it stand in the palm of his hand, and no matter how he flapped his wings, he couldn't fly away.

Lift up the sparrow.

He gestured to Chen Ku and said:

"Let's try it with this sparrow."

Chen Ku nodded, without much hesitation, and immediately stretched out his fingers from his sleeves, allowing the pure black forbidden power to flow out from his fingertips and fall on...

On the sparrow.

I saw a faint wisp of tobacco rising from Chen Ku's index finger, covering the sparrow's body.

"hiss!"

The next moment, all the students were shocked, looking at the sparrow covered by the smoke, which was suddenly transformed into a sparrow statue and then a stone sparrow.

“Petrified!”

"It's done! Senior Brother Chen has understood it?!"

However, Chen Ku and Murong Cheng were still looking at their palms.

After one breath, two breaths, three breaths...

篷~
The stone sheen on the sparrow's body faded away, and it regained its life.

"What is this?" Xue Baliu asked directly, "Is this the Dao rhyme left by the elder Master of the Mie Fa Tower in the Iron Tree?"

Chen Ku shook his head and said, "No, Senior Brother Xue misunderstood. I only imitated 1% of the charm of the restriction in the iron tree. At most, I could only petrify this sparrow for three breaths. It can't be said that I have obtained the complete inheritance at all."

Everyone was shocked.

Being petrified for three breaths was already incredible. That was petrification. Everyone could feel just now that there was no flesh and blood left on the sparrow's body, it had completely turned into stone.

If this method is used in a fight, it would probably only take one breath to kill the enemy.

"Brother Chen, can you use this move on me?" Xue Baliu said to Chen Ku, "I want to see if I can resist it?"

Chen Ku frowned slightly and looked at Murong Cheng.

Murong Cheng nodded and said, "It's okay to try. Your Senior Brother Xue's martial arts true body has already been completed. Your barely introductory magical power cannot hurt him. Besides, it will naturally dissolve after three breaths."

"In that case, I am sorry, Junior Brother."

After Murong Cheng spoke, Chen Ku also couldn't help himself. He also wanted to see how much effect this small restriction could have on someone like Xue Baliu who was at the eleventh level of martial arts. He quickly outlined a restriction in his body and pointed it towards Xue Baliu.

huh~~
The fingertips seemed to spit out a cyclone of tobacco, which quickly enveloped Xue Baliu.

Everyone could see with their own eyes that Xue Baliu's body began to turn to stone starting from his feet, but soon, after it turned to his calves, the stone could no longer spread upwards.

"Brother Xue, can you try and see if you can break free?" Chen Ku was also trying.

Xue Baliu did not say anything. He felt his feet, as if he had lost them and his lower body had no feeling. However, he had already achieved the true body of martial arts. Any strength in his body was true power. He immediately gathered all the true power in his body and rushed towards the petrified parts of his feet.

Click~~
Everyone clearly heard a sound as if something was breaking.

Immediately, Xue Baliu's feet, which had been petrified, began to return to normal.

Xue Baliu looked at his feet thoughtfully, and said to Chen Ku: "It can be broken, but it is not easy. Even if I try my best, it will take me a breath to break free from this restriction."

"One breath?" Chen Ku said to himself.

Xue Ba Liu said solemnly: "It's terrifying. It can even affect a martial arts body of the eleventh realm. Is this the inheritance of the Dao rhyme in the iron tree?"

Chen Ku looked at Murong Cheng, wanting to ask if he could tell him the inheritance in the iron tree.

Murong Cheng put his hands behind his back. Since Chen Ku had already understood something, he did not hide it and told him everything. He said:

"That's right. What's contained in this iron tree is none other than 'Destroying Life', one of the four forbidden techniques of my Destroying Law Building. Once it is performed, it can annihilate any life and turn living things into dead objects. It is a martial arts magical power that truly reverses the five elements and reverses yin and yang."

"Martial arts supernatural power?" Chen Ku immediately asked, "Is it the same martial arts supernatural power as my disciple's ability to turn a hair into a soldier?"

"good."

Murong Cheng said:
"The so-called supernatural power is an incredible power beyond common sense. To achieve this, in addition to the innate supernatural power, the only direction of practice is to master the essence of Yin Yang and the Five Elements. For example, the essence of this 'Destruction of Life' is to reverse the Five Elements and reverse Yin Yang. The reason why you can only maintain the restriction of this supernatural power for three breaths, Chen Ku, is because your supernatural power only has the power of the cathode, but not the power of the anode, so you can only simulate its form, but not its essence."

Then he pointed to the iron tree and said:

"But the forbidden magical skill used by our sect leader can turn it into a dead object of iron or stone forever, because its yin and yang nature has been completely changed."

"So, in order to successfully master this art of life and death, do I need to reach the realm of 'yin extreme and yang birth'?" Chen Ku pondered.

"You are right. I have already told you the order of comprehending this iron tree: comprehend yin and yang, move yin and yang, and when yin reaches its extreme, yang will be born. You have only reached the stage of moving the yin energy in yin and yang. You also need to be able to move the yang energy to completely reach the threshold of practicing this magical power. That is... one yin and one yang is called the Tao, and you have entered the Tao."

Murong Cheng said slowly.

The look he gave Chen Ku was full of admiration:
"And you were able to reach the second step in less than half a year. I am really impressed. And your cultivation has reached the ninth level in such a short time. It is incredible."

"In fact, I have also encountered some good fortune recently."

Chen Ku was just thinking of taking this opportunity to talk about the Five Elements Land, so he said:

"Regarding some matters in the Land of Five Elements, I would like to meet with the headmaster and report to the academy. I would like to ask the Palace Master to report on my behalf." (End of this chapter)