Holy Fist!

Chapter 470 The Lord of the Holy Temple, the Three Great Emperor Stars!
Ninety-nine stomata, also known as the general outline of stomata.

This was a secret technique created by Bai Xiao to complement his strongest forbidden martial art, the Dragon Elephant True Scripture, serving as a supplement and enhancing his sustained combat power. It played a crucial role multiple times during his peak cultivation period, with excellent results. However, at that time, the power of Bai Xiao's Dragon Elephant True Scripture hadn't yet surged, and the number of Heavenly Glazed Sacred Dragons and Earthly Glazed Elephant Gods was only around ten, so the ninety-nine energy holes could be replenished in one go. Now, however, the power of the Dragon Elephant True Scripture has more than doubled, thus reducing the effectiveness of the ninety-nine energy holes.

However, even within the terrifying and nightmarish Beidou Temple, many more Qi Hole Diagrams still exist. By mastering the Ninety-Nine Qi Hole Secret Technique and absorbing and fusing these diagrams, one can gradually catch up with the rapid increase in Bai Xiao's strength.

Moreover, it will be even more effective!

Because after Bai Xiao reached the Grandmaster realm, each of his attacks was imbued with a large amount of the power of heaven and earth, which indirectly reduced his energy consumption. When he attacked the Myriad Beasts Dragon God that morning, he threw out the Dragon Elephant Glazed Beads multiple times in succession.

"Buzzing..."

On the back of Bai Xiao's right hand, the skull mark kept flashing, emanating wisps of fear, as if black mist was shrouding the surroundings.

However, it could no longer forcibly drag Bai Xiao into slumber and into a nightmare of terror, as it had done before. At this moment, the immense foundation of a Grandmaster, deeply rooted in the inner world, remained firmly locked, connected to the entire universe. Unless Bai Xiao was willing, even the power of some imprints left by a Root-level being could hardly do anything to him across the distant void.

Unless, that Origin-level being is rapidly approaching this world.

……

At dusk, the sunset painted the clouds with a fiery glow, transforming them into a breathtaking spectacle. As time passed, the crimson clouds gradually dimmed, their light fading. A touch of twilight, with astonishing speed, enveloped the entire world.

The sun had just set, and the moon was just rising.

Bai Xiao sat cross-legged, his palms facing upwards, loosely clasped together. He calmed down, his breathing even, and his powerful aura as a grandmaster gradually subsided.

"call……"

A hazy, dark aura enveloped his entire body.

The black skull mark shimmered slightly, radiating a mysterious power.

The white owl offered no resistance.

Suddenly, the world spun around, and the stars shifted.

"Shh!"

Nightmares of terror, conquest of cities, the Temple of the Big Dipper, the eighth floor at the top.

Beside the window.

A tall, black figure suddenly appeared.

"Kakakaka..."

Suddenly, from all directions, there was a feeling that space itself was about to collapse; the air currents shattered, revealing black fissures. This feeling of repulsion and compression lasted for four or five seconds before finally disappearing.

Bai Xiao's eyes flickered as he glanced around.

"Is the upper limit of what a nightmare of terror can be endured at the Grandmaster level?"

"After all, it's just a fragment of the world..."

He muttered to himself, his gaze returning to the scene on the eighth floor, where murals depicting the demon bird Intaro were carved on the walls. Previously, what had most caught Bai Xiao's attention was the presence of several fear knights beneath the demon bird.

The fourth one was none other than Wu Binghe, the former senior disciple of the Ferocious Bird School!

Even after Wu Binghe, a fifth fleeting Fear Knight appeared, and it was none other than Bai Xiao's face. It seemed to foreshadow the future…

He will eventually become the fifth Dread Knight under the Demon Bird.

However, at this moment.

Bai Xiao gazed at the painting, his face remaining cold and indifferent, devoid of any panic. He was now known as the Dragon Sect Master in the secret martial arts world of the Tianxia Federation, a Grandmaster-level existence. In fact, he had recently slain a Grandmaster-level biological armor, his blood stained with the blood of other Grandmasters. In any world, he would be considered a top-tier figure.

The Demon Bird Intaro is indeed mysterious and unpredictable, undoubtedly a mysterious source within the void. However, the Fear Knights beneath the Demon Bird cannot possibly also be at the source level; they are most likely Grandmaster-level beings. Since they are on the same level as White Owl, then he has nothing to fear.

Moreover, nightmares can only accommodate Grandmaster-level characters at most.

Bai Xiao's thoughts wandered, and he glanced quietly out the window.

Outside the Beidou Temple, a surging, dark gray mist, thick and vast, surged like ocean waves. As far as he could see, it was all this sky-obscuring fog, seemingly engulfing the entire Conquest City. Only the Beidou Temple emitted a faint, dim golden light, barely managing to hold it back.

The situation is more serious than last time.

Bai Xiao gazed into the distance, where countless colossal, terrifying creatures stood like small mountains within the mist. Even the weakest among them seemed comparable to a top-tier martial artist at the master level.

His eyes flickered.

This time, the eldest disciple, Wu Binghe, was not seen.

"It seems that these terrifying creatures want to destroy the last remaining spark of power in the nightmare of terror and destroy the Beidou Temple in one fell swoop."

Bai Xiao slowly turned his head, his gaze fixed on the white stone staircase leading upwards behind him.

"It seems I need to speed things up."

He lightly touched the ground with his toes.

"call out!"

Bai Xiao appeared as if by teleportation, instantly moving from the eighth floor of the Big Dipper Temple to the seventh floor. He materialized like a ghost, arriving at one of the most important seven-story buildings in the Big Dipper Temple: the Seven Star Secretariat!

"Kakakaka..."

In the center of the venue.

A domineering figure covered in golden armor trembled slightly. It stood a full five meters tall, like a towering iron tower, its body clad in a massive suit of armor weighing over ten tons, its outline ferocious and menacing. Especially striking was the enormous golden lion king's head on its chest, roaring menacingly.

With bared teeth and claws, it is lifelike.

The lion's head, its pupils suddenly lit up, like an inextinguishable flame.

"Roar……"

It has just risen and roared.

"Bang!!!"

The so-called inextinguishable flame was extinguished in an instant.

An overwhelming and terrifying aura descended, like an enormous mountain crashing down on the seventh-level guardian's shoulder.

He knelt heavily on the ground, his entire body pressed forward.

His hands and feet pressed four deep pits into the ground, creating golden-red flames, but he still couldn't get his massive body to stand up.

This figure, bearing two gleaming sun symbols on his shoulders, was once known as the Lion King, revered by the world, commanding the lion army. Now, the Lion King submits to a greater ruler, his head bowed. A figure in a black and gold dragon and elephant combat suit calmly walks past him, strolling leisurely.

"Boom!"

The lion's head sank into the ground, and the red light that had been shining went out again.

"His aura is probably comparable to that of a top-tier sect master."

"In other words, the seven guardians of the Seven Halls of the Big Dipper at the very top of the Big Dipper Temple are likely all at the peak level of sect masters. This Conquest City is indeed not weak, but the world has already fallen, and they have all become monsters that are neither alive nor dead, with only their remaining willpower attempting to defend the last holy land..."

With his hands behind his back, Bai Xiao quickly floated into the Seven Star Secret Arts Hall.

Here, the overall layout is basically the same as the ordinary secret arts hall at the beginning. However, the Seven Star Secret Arts Hall is much more spacious and much larger.

He wandered alone.

Bai Xiao weaved through the various obsidian bookshelves, searching for secret techniques similar to the previous pore diagrams. His movements were incredibly swift, yielding a considerable amount of information in a short time. Immediately, one after another, secret techniques related to pores were extracted.

The Seven Stars Secretarial Hall truly lives up to its reputation as an upgraded version of the ordinary secret arts hall.

The quality of the secret techniques here is much higher.

Previously, in ordinary secret arts halls, the most pore diagrams contained only seventy-seven pores. Now, however, pore diagrams with seventy or eighty pores are commonplace.

Bai Xiao even discovered a secret technique with more than two hundred air holes.

Heaven and Earth Spring

There should be a lot of overlap in the pores here, but there are probably also quite a few new pore locations left, which could bring him hundreds of new pores. As he looked, Bai Xiao discovered an unexpected surprise.

"Once a cultivator can light up 365 energy pores in their body, it will form the number of stars in the celestial sphere, and the energy pore diagram will spontaneously operate and break through. Every once in a while, more energy pores will be lit up."

His gaze slowly swept over the contents of the "Heaven and Earth Spring" secret technique.

"I wonder if the Ninety-Nine Pore Secret Technique, obtained after the balanced transformation and enhancement, also possesses this characteristic? If so, then I only need to activate more than 365 pore positions, and I won't need to worry about the subsequent steps. The Ninety-Nine Pore Secret Technique can spontaneously operate and break through..."

With a thought, Bai Xiao instantly retracted all the diagrams of the pores.

He turned slightly.

"Shh!"

The Sixth Floor at the Top of the Big Dipper Temple.

"Oh!"

A powerful guardian slammed into the wall without warning, creating a huge dent and cracks. With a thud, his body fell limply to the ground, lifeless. A black figure slowly drifted over.

Two minutes later, Bai Xiao left.

The sixth level of the Seven Palaces of the Big Dipper should have stored some kind of cultivation resources, but with the passage of time and the erosion of fear, those mineral- and mercury-like substances have lost their extraordinary power and become ordinary.

The fifth floor, the Hall of Holy Light.

He forced his way in, glanced around, and then quickly left.

The Holy Light Hall, as its name suggests, is the energy core of the entire Big Dipper Temple. In the center is a huge pool of holy light, containing a holy light crystal that is dim and cracked, almost on the verge of shattering and collapsing.

time is limited.

The fourth level is still about cultivation resources.

Bai Xiao simply went to the third level of the Seven Palaces of the Big Dipper.

According to the inscription on the stone tablet in the Secret Arts Hall, this is the source of calamity.

As always, they stormed in and suppressed the guardians.

He was startled to see a black stone in the center of the hall, exuding a strong, ominous aura. Its surface was stained with blood, and it shimmered with red light. A mysterious and eerie feeling lingered, as if touching this stone would bring unimaginable disaster and misfortune. Even Bai Xiao frowned slightly, sensing the extremely malevolent nature of the stone, and did not attempt to handle it.

"The Stone of Calamity..."

"It should be used in conjunction with the Star Compass at the Well of the Void."

Beside the stone, a line of characters is engraved, arranged closely together.

The white owl paused for a moment.

He then went directly to the second floor of the Seven Palaces of the Big Dipper.

Sure enough, in the central hall, there was a huge compass five meters high, densely covered with stars that twinkled and echoed each other.

It exudes an incredibly mysterious and strange aura.

It faintly corresponds to the Calamity Stone that Bai Xiao had just seen.

Similarly, a line of small print conveys a similar meaning as before.

"What does it mean?"

He muttered to himself, deep in thought.

"Perhaps this world, before it was completely shattered and invaded by fear, had some attempt to save itself? Is it related to these things?"

A thought flashed through Bai Xiao's mind, and he slowly turned around.

At the top of the stairs, an armored figure exuding the aura of a half-step Grandmaster knelt on one knee, motionless like a statue. The obsession within him had been extinguished, casually erased by Bai Xiao, yet it still couldn't stop his intrusion. After all, the gap between a Grandmaster and those below Grandmaster is a vast chasm.

"Above is the top floor of the Big Dipper Temple..."

Bai Xiao looked up without the slightest hesitation.

His master-level strength is his greatest asset on this trip!

"call out!"

The top floor of the Beidou Temple.

The white owl hovered in and glanced at the dome, inlaid with multicolored crystals, exceptionally magnificent, giving one a dreamlike feeling. One could imagine that when this world still had sunlight, this place must have been breathtakingly beautiful. But now, only some dim golden light filled the surrounding space.

He drifted away, flying over the long corridor.

Finally, a vast golden hall appeared before them.

Center of the hall.

An ancient, wild, black well is embedded in it, standing tall and majestic.

However, in Bai Xiao's perception, this black well did not seem to be embedded in the floor, but rather embedded and locked in space, making it difficult to move.

"This is... the Well of the Void?"

He muttered the strange syllables of what this world called the Well of the Void.

He gradually drew closer.

"good."

Suddenly, a hoarse and unpleasant voice rang out from beside the well.

White Owl turned his head to look.

There stood an old man, only half a body remaining, his appearance withered and emaciated, almost like a dried corpse. He seemed to have remained there for a very long time, until someone appeared and revived him.

"This breath..."

Bai Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly.

Although the opponent's power was extremely weak, Bai Xiao could still sense that will comparable to that of a grandmaster, an extraordinary and detached essence.

"Friend, we are the same kind of people."

The gaunt old man suddenly raised his right hand, and on the back of his hand, which was as old as tree bark, a skull mark exuding fear appeared.

"Ok?"

White Owl's pupils contracted.

"The Demon Bird Intaro invades worlds in this way. The journalists, summoned by nightmares of terror, are transported to fragmented worlds once invaded and destroyed by fear. Ultimately, they return to their original worlds, bringing with them the essence of fear, becoming the coordinates of terror..."

"Hehehe, I used to be the same way."

The old man's voice was hoarse, filled with bitterness and boundless regret.

"The demon bird Intalo wanted me to become its third Dread Knight. But I chose to resist, and in the end, everything was destroyed..."

Bai Xiao stopped and slowly landed on his feet.

He looked at the gaunt old man and asked in the language of this world.

"you are?"

The old man glanced at the seven-colored dome with emotion and spoke slowly.

"The Lord of the Beidou Temple".

"It is also one of the three imperial stars of the largest empire in this world."

(End of this chapter)