Holy Fist!

Chapter 473 The battle has ended; a visit to the Crane Sect!
"call out!"

"Oh!"

The Celestial Dragon Pearl spun and danced, accelerating at an unimaginable speed, its surging aura transforming into a burning white-gold stream of light.

The white owl's giant hand swung out, rapidly expanding and deforming in mid-air. In a blur, it resembled a colossal, gilded hand that blotted out the sky, encompassing an area of ​​a thousand meters in radius, pressing down. Between its fingers, massive amounts of air were frantically compressed and escaped, transforming into four white pillars of air that shot into the sky.

Above the earth, deep within the fog.

Wu Binghe abruptly looked up, his pupils contracting rapidly at the terrifying scene before him. This power surpassed even ordinary Nightmare-level attacks; even he sensed an intense danger, alarm bells ringing in his mind. What was most terrifying was that Bai Xiao had also distributed his power, creating several clones to fight. And the one who unleashed this palm strike at this moment was not even at his peak!
"Demon Blood Sacrifice to the Sword!"

Wu Binghe gripped the sword in his right hand, and without hesitation, grabbed the blade with his left, slashing it sharply, drawing blood. The next second, a large amount of essence blood and spiritual energy writhed eerily, being frantically devoured and absorbed by the Sword of Fear.

Instantly, the cross-shaped longsword twisted and deformed, its surface revealing numerous skull-like bone outlines, and dense black spikes sprouted from both sides of the blade. Blood-red eyes appeared on the sword, cold and venomous.

The aura of the Sword of Fear surged to an unprecedented height, forming a black sword-shaped flame that shot straight into the sky and stretched for a full kilometer.

Clearly, this is a subsequent change to the Demon Bird Codex. After the cultivator's spiritual will condenses into the Sword of Fear, they can go a step further and consecrate the sword with blood, thereby summoning unparalleled terrifying power in a short period of time, causing its power to surge dramatically.

Bai Xiao, having ceased his cultivation of the Demon Bird Manual, was naturally unaware of the deeper changes. Only fear knights like Wu Binghe could use it!
"despair!"

Wu Binghe stepped forward, and his entire armor erupted with terrifying black light.

"Zheng!"

A swift upward slash!
The enormous, fiery black cross sword collided with a giant, glassy hand!
"Boom!"

The earth shook violently, as if an earthquake had struck. Debris and dust shot out in all directions, faster than bullets. At the center, several kilometers in diameter, all buildings and the ground collapsed, forming a giant, hand-shaped crater.

"Kakakaka!"

In mid-air, the palm was raised. Sixteen golden, glittering sacred dragon pearls flew back simultaneously, like swallows returning to their nests, and floated back to the wrist.

The white owl hovered silently, looking down at the deep pit.

His face was stern, and his eyes were cold and domineering.

Bottom of the pit.

Wu Binghe held his sword with both hands, raising it high towards the sky, remaining completely still.

However, from the gaps in his heavy armor, trickles of blood seeped out and dripped down. Especially his hands, where the web between his thumb and forefinger was completely split open, and his two thumbs were almost trembling and falling off.

He raised his head, his dark eyes gazing at Bai Xiao in the distance.

His pupils were filled with the murderous intent and madness of someone in the state of demonic blood sacrificing to the sword.

"It seems we haven't fought enough."

Bai Xiao muttered to himself, then plummeted downwards like a dazzling white-gold shooting star. He raised his left hand and threw a punch.

The light from the crystal fist crisscrossed the heavens and earth, and twenty-nine enormous Earth Crystal Elephant Gods descended around it, stomping down in unison and triggering a terrifying earthquake. The entire ground churned like a tsunami under the immense impact.

The highest point of the mud wave was raised to nearly 100 meters!
"Oh!"

Half empty.

At the critical moment, Wu Binghe swung his sword fiercely, striking the glazed fist light, leaving only a white mark. In an instant, he was sent flying by the huge fist imprint, crashing heavily onto a piece of the battlefield.

"Boom!"

The moment it lands, its power is released, comparable to a nuclear explosion.

As the terrifying mushroom cloud rose, countless fearsome creatures were instantly annihilated, vaporized on the spot, and turned into puffs of ashes.

"Cough cough cough..."

At the center of the fist imprint, Wu Binghe, his black armor shattered, stood disheveled on the ground. His chest heaved, his face was covered in blood, the light of the Sword of Fear in his hand was dim, his ten fingers were almost white bone, and his aura had greatly diminished.

Wu Binghe didn't even have time to catch his breath and recover.

Ahead, another supreme and invincible domineering figure flew in.

"One punch isn't enough? Then two!"

"I'll keep beating you until you come to your senses!"

Bai Xiao believed that, just as a paintbrush is a painter's language, fists and feet represent a martial artist's will. Every time he threw a punch at Wu Binghe, he was actually shouting, hoping to quickly bring Wu Binghe's true will back to its senses!
"Oh!"

"Boom!"

Bai Xiao's left hand was on top, his right hand below, and his ten fingers simultaneously clenched into a powerful fist. His left fist roared like an angry elephant, while his right fist coiled like a raging dragon. Both fists struck simultaneously, hurtling towards Wu Binghe's chest with the speed of a meteor piercing the sun.

It finally struck the Fear Sword that had been parried.

"Wake up!"

"Roar! Moo!"

The Earthly Crystal Elephant God and the Celestial Crystal Sacred Dragon, like layers upon layers of enormous illusory light, possessed earth-shattering power and triggered a terrifying explosion.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

"call out!"

Within a giant mushroom cloud of fire.

Wu Binghe's figure flew out rapidly, like a pebble skipping across the ground, creating deep craters before rising again, repeating this cycle endlessly. His black armor shattered completely, revealing a body riddled with wounds; his arms were now nothing but bones, and even the surface of his Sword of Terror was covered in dense cracks. His dark pupils held a mixture of confusion and bewilderment.

He was Kong'e, the fourth Fear Knight under the Supreme Demon Bird. After being dragged into the void by fear, Wu Binghe trained and slaughtered amidst countless nightmares of terror controlled by the Demon Bird, as if time had ceased to exist. Through countless acts of killing and being killed, he grew stronger, finally breaking through to the Nightmare level and perfectly mastering the Demon Bird's Secret Codex!

After becoming a Dread Knight.

The first order Kong'e received was to completely destroy the remaining forces of the Big Dipper Temple here, and incidentally take away Bai Xiao, the fifth appointed Fear Knight. However, he never expected that when they met again, Bai Xiao had already broken through to the Grandmaster realm, and his aura was stronger and more terrifying than ever before.

They even possessed some kind of peculiar ability.

It can actually evolve four clones with power reaching the level of a grandmaster.

The original body, even with its clones, was still able to overpower him, beating him like a punching bag with ease. Peak techniques were used with effortless grace.

"How did he acquire such power!?"

As Wu Binghe flew backward, only this thought occupied his mind.

"Oh!"

Before he even landed, he was struck by Bai Xiao's punch again, and like being hit with a golf ball, he was slammed into the ground by the incomparably violent Tianli Holy Dragon.

"boom!"

Bai Xiao's entire body shone with a brilliant golden light, frantically suppressing Wu Binghe. If it weren't for the demonic bird's will instinctively protecting his body, Wu Binghe would likely have been blasted apart on the spot by Bai Xiao. The power of the Dragon Elephant True Scripture far surpasses that of ordinary forbidden martial arts!
"Bang bang bang!"

"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"

With each punch he threw, he would reprimand Wu Binghe.

"Boom!"

Another punch landed.

"Crack!"

Wu Binghe's pupils contracted violently. The sword of fear blocking his path shattered instantly, exploding into countless black fragments. In an instant, Wu Binghe's Demonic Bird Manual backfired, his mind reeling and his willpower weakening. He was sent flying diagonally, his dark eyes seemingly beginning to fade.

"There's a chance..."

White Owl suddenly flashed, transforming into a platinum-gold afterimage.

"Boom boom boom!"

Wu Binghe felt as if he were being attacked simultaneously by hundreds of figures. Every corner was filled with attacks as if they were flowing like mercury. The fists and feet were filled with an incomparably powerful martial will, which was frantically shaking and eroding Wu Binghe's demonic bird will.

"Boom!!!"

Suddenly, the power of fear in this world seemed to sense danger.

The boundless, dark gray fog churned violently, seemingly summoned by the will of the demonic bird, gathering at an unimaginable speed. It formed a beak that blotted out the sky, snapping towards Wu Binghe.

at the same time.

Terrifying creatures from all directions surged towards this place, crashing like waves. Some nightmare-level horrors charged towards Bai Xiao, but were blocked by Bai Xiao's clones.

this moment.

The Demon Bird's Will seemed to sense the danger posed by the Fear Knight beneath it, and it spontaneously activated its power to take Wu Binghe away from this terrifying nightmare.

"kill!"

"The underworld flows back!"

Bai Xiao pointed a finger, and a colossal, sky-covering scroll of demonic energy, carrying countless hellish demons, slammed into Wu Binghe. Instantly, he was thrown into a state of confusion, the heavens and earth seemed to reverse their course, and he and the Demonic Bird Scripture entered a state of disarray, briefly losing contact with the Demonic Bird's will. "Now!"

Bai Xiao's pupils gleamed with a sharp light as he unleashed a palm strike.

However, right now.

"The desires of gods and demons, and the desire to kill, have returned to their proper place!"

Unbeknownst to him, at the edge of the battlefield, behind him, a hazy figure, seemingly breaching the barrier of the world's fragments, was drawn by Bai Xiao's Six Desires of Gods and Demons technique and descended with overwhelming force. His body was bound by blood-red chains brimming with resentment, crisscrossing and piercing through bone and flesh. The dense chains extended backward, pulling at six cold, differently colored coffins.

"Buzz!"

A mysterious force, channeled through the Six Desires of Gods and Demons, descended upon Bai Xiao, seemingly attempting to forcibly extract the boundless killing intent within him. It should be understood that killing intent is also a part of one's will and spirit; once it is lost…

The essence of a master will be damaged.

"town!"

Faced with the sudden situation, Bai Xiao's pupils erupted with a blazing platinum light. He activated the Dragon Elephant True Scripture, forcibly suppressing his surging killing intent. With a palm strike, the power of the Yellow Spring Demon Scroll swiftly slammed into Wu Binghe's brow.

But at this moment, the demonic bird's will had already recovered and reconnected with Wu Binghe. The enormous beak, composed of endless black and gray mist, instantly descended and swallowed Wu Binghe whole.

It seems to have been mysteriously transported into other terrifying nightmares.

"call!"

A fierce wind was blowing.

The palm print that Bai Xiao had just unleashed pierced through the mist, stretching for tens of kilometers and creating a series of massive white shockwaves.

"Unfortunately, it was only half successful..."

He took a deep breath and slowly turned around.

His stiff, terrifying profile was fixed on the figure of the chains.

"you wanna die!"

Bai Xiao vanished instantly, appearing in front of the chained figure dragging the coffin as if time travel had occurred. He unleashed a powerful and ferocious Dragon Elephant Palm strike!
"call out!"

The figure bound by blood-red chains stared in horror, his previously arrogant aura bursting like a balloon, his breath catching in his throat. Where had this guy come from? And who was this terrifying figure before him?
The Six Desires of Gods and Ghosts, originally named the Six Desires Heavenly Book.

That was the method employed by an being close to the origin, attempting to break through. The Six Desires Heavenly Book, consisting of six types representing different desires, spread throughout the void. All cultivators would become sustenance for that being, their cultivation desires being devoured and transformed into some forbidden power.

That being, over the long years, had successfully condensed hatred and rage. He stripped away the power of hatred and chose a genius who had once cultivated the Six Desires Heavenly Book as the vessel for his will. He sent that genius to replace him, to reap the harvest of all those who had cultivated the Six Desires Heavenly Book and bury them in coffins.

He is the embodiment of hatred, possesses the combat power of a grandmaster, and has never failed.

Until this very moment.

"Wait……"

The figure with the blood-red chain, watching the impending palm strike, attempted to explain.

However, in his rage, Bai Xiao showed no mercy.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"

Sixteen dragons and twenty-nine elephants roared and shook wildly, unleashing an unprecedented and terrifying explosion. The surging, crimson-gold flames, comparable to a volcanic eruption, turned everything around into molten lava, devouring it completely.

"what!"

The embodiment of hatred had no chance to resist and was instantly blasted apart by Bai Xiao's furious attack, shattering into countless fragments of blood-red chains.

"Hua la la la la..."

Countless drops of blood-red light fell, shaking the heavens and earth, as if reflecting the fall of a grandmaster-level being. In the distance, the six mysterious coffins, each corresponding to one of the six desires, were also reduced to ashes under the absolute crushing force.

"Sssssssssss..."

White smoke billowed from Bai Xiao's fist as he slowly withdrew it.

He just used up all the power of the Dragon Elephant Scripture in one go.

Bai Xiao turned around, his gaze still fixed on the direction where Wu Binghe had disappeared.

He channeled the power of the Yellow Springs Scroll into Wu Binghe's mind. Although the other party had been taken away by the Demon Bird's will, the power of the Yellow Springs might still remain, capable of stimulating the senior brother's consciousness. After all, the Demon Bird's true form was not here, but had always remained in the Big Dipper. What had just manifested was merely the residual will of the Demon Bird from a series of terrifying nightmares, automatically activated for protection.

"Hopefully, the power of the Underworld Scroll will be useful."

White Owl muttered to himself.

At the same time, deep in the void, in an unknown region.

"Roar!!!"

A tremendous, terrifying roar resounded throughout the universe, shaking the heavens.

"The embodiment of hatred has been destroyed!"

"who is it!?"

……

A terrifying nightmare, the Temple of the Big Dipper.

Under the intimidation of Bai Xiao's power, the dark gray fog of fear began to recede into the distance, eventually leaving the city of conquest and revealing the original appearance of the place.

However, the once magnificent city is now riddled with holes.

They had already been subjected to repeated shocks of fear.

Just now, a battle between grandmasters occurred, further exacerbating the damage. More than half of the buildings and city walls collapsed and crumbled, turning into ruins.

The top floor of the Beidou Temple.

The gaunt old man leaned against the window, witnessing the entire process of the white owl displaying its power, including the scenes of defeating the Fear Knight and resisting the will of the demon bird.

His breathing was weak, and he murmured to himself.

"If it were him..."

"Perhaps it is indeed possible to preserve one's own world amidst the invasion of fear."

The life force of the Temple Lord weakened once more, visibly extinguishing itself. His aura withered like a dead tree, and he glanced silently outside. There, the dense fog of fear no longer shrouded the city, and the former outline of the War City was clearly visible. Though dilapidated, the old man could still recall in his mind the once bustling city filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.

"It's so quiet..."

At this moment, he felt a long-lost peace.

Even for just a moment, the old man was already content.

His aged, cloudy gaze pierced through hundreds of meters, looking at the iconic clock tower of the Conquest City. At its top, a figure stood silently.

Turning his head, Bai Xiao's face was revealed.

The two looked at each other from a distance and nodded to each other in tacit understanding.

"goodbye……"

The Lord of the Temple murmured.

In the next instant, his life force was completely extinguished, and the divine light in his pupils vanished. At the same time, the energy source of the entire Big Dipper Temple could no longer hold on, and the source of holy light in the Holy Light Pool shattered and exploded on the spot.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The Beidou Temple collapsed on the spot, its layers falling down.

Large swaths of dim golden light fell like raindrops from the sky.

Bai Xiao withdrew his gaze and silently turned away.

"Buzz!"

The world spun and turned upside down.

He returned to the real world.

Before me lay a pale, dawning sky.

"Tattoo..."

Suddenly, a series of footsteps approached rapidly outside the courtyard.

"The owner."

"The invitation from Crane Immortal Martial Arts School has just been delivered!"

(End of this chapter)