Holy Fist
Chapter 331 - 170 Power of Stars, Beidou Light

Chapter 331: 170 Power of Stars, Beidou Light

"My child! You killed my child!!!"

In front of him, a thin woman dressed in grey clothes stared fixedly at Bai Xiao. Her face was pale and sickly, with hollowed eyes that sank deeply. Only her eyes bulged out, like those of a goldfish.

"He was my only child! He was just joking with you, why did you do that to him! Why! Why!!!!!!"

"Give me back my child!"

The woman screamed hysterically, her arms skinny like white bones. Her eyeballs protruded further and further out, almost falling from their sockets.

"I was just joking with him too, don’t be so agitated,"

"If you want him, I can give him back to you."

Bai Xiao casually reached out and grabbed a chunk of dark impurity that spewed from the mouth of the black qi giant snake, tossing it over. Unexpectedly, the ash-like impurity, its structure somewhat loose, disintegrated into sand halfway and scattered in the wind.

The child’s ashes smeared the woman’s face.

"Sorry."

Bai Xiao looked at the scene in front of him and said earnestly.

"Ahhhhhh!"

The woman went mad, her two bloody eyeballs falling out. In a short time, her entire head underwent a drastic transformation, blossoming like a meat flower; her skin split into over a dozen petals. A horrifying white skull and a clump of sticky, dark brain matter were suddenly exposed.

Next to her, the man experienced a similar fate. His grotesquely curved mouth split wider and wider until it suddenly grew into something resembling the ferocious maw of a crocodile.

Sharp, uneven teeth emerged from the flesh.

The mouth opened and closed, clicking and clacking.

"I want your life!"

The two fully exposed monsters let out a piercing scream.

Boom!!!!!

Suddenly, before they even had the chance to rush at Bai Xiao for revenge, an enormous and scorching black shadow, carrying a fierce wind, appeared behind them.

Two huge red hands, as if cast from iron, opened with fingers like hydraulic pincers.

Crack!

One hand engulfed a head and squeezed fiercely inward.

Splat!!!

The two hideous faces were crushed together by a brute force.

The heads, like crushed cans, collapsed, with blood and mucus spraying from the crevices. The frightful facial features melded inseparably together.

Boom!

Both bodies exploded, turning into a thick cloud of black qi that burst forth.

"Too ugly..."

Bai Xiao slowly withdrew his hands. Honestly, the couple’s faces, now flattened, looked better than before, almost like they had plastic surgery. He was just trying to be helpful, a simple gesture to let them join their child.

Soon, strands of black qi were drawn towards him, whirling into the back of his hand.

The Skull Mark grew noticeably brighter, and it kept increasing in luminance.

In just a short time, it was as bright as a small light bulb.

Bai Xiao looked at it in surprise, feeling the black pattern of Sword Qi.

"Over a hundred strands of Fear Qi, could there be so many!?"

He was a bit confused. After all, the Fear Core of the Totem Giant only had over a hundred strands of Fear Qi, yet this one family totaled over a hundred? Clearly, the monsters Bai Xiao encountered this time were unusual.

They could converse with him briefly, seemingly like a normal person with logic. But after a few words, they began to go mad and reveal their true nature. Moreover, their bodies underwent different changes after death compared to other fearful creatures.

"Perhaps these beings can be called ’aberrations’..."

Bai Xiao opened his palm, looking at the slightly blackened membrane.

When he just touched those two people, he felt as if a special frequency was trying to affect him, some strange energy trying to invade his body. But Bai Xiao’s Qi and Physique were too powerful, easily blocking everything.

"Aberrations’ methods are different from fearful creatures, seeming more mental in nature, involving manipulation, invasion, parasitism, illusion? Too bad the power is too weak..."

Bai Xiao brushed the black dust off his hands and continued to stride forward.

He could feel that, with over a hundred strands of Fear Qi accumulated in the Skull Mark, the shadowy semblance of a book at the location of his heart conveyed a sense of eagerness, seemingly impatient to absorb power.

With a slight intent, Bai Xiao relaxed his restraints.

"Whoosh..."

From within, there came a sound like that of flowing water gathering. The Skull Mark on the back of his hand flickered, quickly dimming, and the fine black qi on its surface disappeared one after another. In its place was a chilling and fierce sensation at his heart, along with a rising whiff of extreme evil aura.

Thump, thump, thump, thump...

His heart beat powerfully, as if there was an invisible vortex forming.

Fear Qi kept gathering there, entering the vortex and vanishing without a trace. Bai Xiao’s heart was still that heart, still vibrant red, but under the special frequency of the deeper reality, looking at this heart revealed different changes.

It was as if a drop of black ink had fallen on the heart, gradually diffusing.

Over a hundred strands of Fear Qi were completely absorbed.

Yet the diffused area of the heart only covered a very small portion.

"It seems opening the Magic Bird Secret Scripture requires a vast amount of Fear Qi."

Bai Xiao narrowed his eyes, muttering to himself.

Suddenly, at the end of the alleyway, he stopped his steps. His entire body quickly sidestepped to hide in a blind spot, pressing his back against the wall, silent and motionless.

"Click, click, click..."

This alley was situated in a residential area, next to it a grey-black main road with streetlights. At the moment, shrouded in grey mist, there was a faint green light rippling from the lamps.