154: mask!

Xiao Shi knew very well… with the Red Tiger Sect’s foundation, Blood Martial Realm could absolutely not be the end.

“Was the Red Tiger Sect’s ancestor in this situation before?”

Xiao Shi couldn't help but ask.

“Correct.”

Guo Chengdao nodded.

In fact, he didn’t know much about the Red Tiger Sect of the past.

When he joined the Red Tiger Sect, it was already a minor sect in Seven Stars Province.

And he hadn't heard from the ancestor about any glorious history of the Red Tiger Sect.

He could only infer from the Crimson Tiger Totem that their sect was not simple.

But all this time.

They had been unable to nurture and restore the Crimson Tiger Totem.

This also made it difficult for their Red Tiger Sect to develop well.

Xiao Shi frowned at this.

It seemed that way.

The cultivation method for the Blood Martial Realm would require him to figure it out from the Crimson Tiger Totem.

At least, the current Red Tiger Sect did not have a suitable cultivation method for the Blood Martial Realm.

“Then I can only wait until my Natal Martial Blood stabilizes before I delve into it.”

Xiao Shi thought to himself.

Now that he had entered the Blood Martial Realm.

He became increasingly curious about the martial arts realms above the Blood Martial Realm.

He really wanted to know what realm was above the Blood Martial Realm.

Since the Blood Martial Realm was the highest realm in the Seven Stars Province in the past, there was no information about realms above the Blood Martial Realm.

However, in Tian Dou Province, there were powerful individuals above the Blood Martial Realm.

Therefore, it was not difficult to learn about the realms above the Blood Martial Realm here.

And with the status of Meng Que and his servants in the Rapid Shadow Palace.

They easily inquired about the realms above the Blood Martial Realm.

According to the information they gathered.

Entering Martial Realm, Qi Martial Realm, Blood Martial Realm.

These were the lower three realms of martial arts.

And above the Blood Martial Realm were the middle three realms.

At the same time, above the middle three realms, there were also the legendary upper three realms!

However, the upper three realms only existed in legends.

Let alone Tian Dou Province, even the entire Star Luo Territory had no existence of the upper three realms.

According to this three-stage division.

There were a total of nine major realms in martial arts.

This was not much different from what Xiao Shi had learned through the Martial Emperor Regalia.

After all, the Martial Emperor Regalia had a total of eight components.

Each component corresponded to a realm.

Although Meng Que and his group hadn't inquired about all of the middle three realms.

They also knew that the first realm of the middle three realms was the Martial Soul Realm!

This realm seemed to involve the soul.

And after gaining a general understanding of the entire martial arts realms.

Xiao Shi also deeply felt his own insignificance.

He originally thought that breaking through to the Blood Martial Realm was already considered a strong individual.

But among the nine martial arts realms, he was only in the third realm.

He still hadn't escaped the scope of the lower three realms.

This kind of strength… was obviously not enough in this chaotic world.

At the same time, according to the division of these three martial arts stages, Xiao Shi could also imagine that the leap between each stage would undoubtedly be extremely difficult.

For example, the difficulty of crossing from the lower three realms to the middle three realms would certainly be greater than breaking through between individual realms.

However, Xiao Shi didn't need to consider this problem for now.

After all, he had just broken through to the Blood Martial Realm, and even the Natal Martial Blood within him hadn't stabilized yet.

There was still a certain distance from the middle three realms.

The most urgent task at hand.

First, the stabilization of the Natal Martial Blood.

Only when the Natal Martial Blood was completely stable could Xiao Shi utilize its power and unleash the full strength of the Blood Martial Realm.

Second, to research the cultivation direction of the Blood Martial Realm from the Crimson Tiger Totem.

Although Xiao Shi could obtain the cultivation method for the Blood Martial Realm from the Rapid Shadow Palace.

However, the Rapid Shadow Palace's cultivation method might not be compatible with him.

After all, he was following the Crimson Tiger path.

He could only find a way from the Crimson Tiger Totem.

Third, to quickly obtain key items for the Blood Martial Realm through killing.

For example, body refining techniques for the Blood Martial Realm!

In the past, when Xiao Shi was in the previous realm, he could often obtain items for the next realm in advance through killing.

However, when he was in the Qi Martial Realm, he failed to obtain items for the Blood Martial Realm.

This led to him suddenly having no follow-up after breaking through to the Blood Martial Realm.

However, Xiao Shi remembered the box that dropped when he killed the Ghoulish Spirit.

Since the Ghoulish Spirit's strength had reached the Blood Martial Realm, and as the first kill of a Blood Martial Realm entity, the dropped item would inevitably be an item of a higher realm.

Therefore, when Xiao Shi got this box.

All the information inside the box was question marks.

And the note on the box was [Insufficient level, cannot view.]

At that time, Xiao Shi speculated that he could at most view item information that was one realm higher than himself; if an item two realms higher appeared, he would not be able to view it.

Now that he had broken through to the Blood Martial Realm.

Xiao Shi pondered that he should also be able to view this item!

Thinking of this.

Xiao Shi eagerly took out this box from his storage bag.

The entire box was black.

It looked very ordinary.

And when Xiao Shi's gaze focused on the box, information about the box immediately appeared before his eyes.

[Name: Lost heavenly secret box]

[Type: Box]

[Grade: Martial Soul Grade]

[Introduction: A special box, no one knows its origin, no one knows how it was formed, and no one knows what exists inside the box.]

[Note 1: This is entirely a box of luck. Perhaps you can obtain a peerless secret technique from the box, or you might obtain a peerless elixir from the box, or there might be nothing inside. As the saying goes, heavenly secrets are unfathomable; before opening it, no one can know what truly exists inside the box.]

[Note 2: Different heavenly secret boxes will contain different items. The type of this heavenly secret box is 'lost', so the items inside the heavenly secret box will be lost items of heaven and earth.]

[Note 3: Opening the heavenly secret box will incur a price, but this price is not fixed and will appear randomly.]

... Xiao Shi looked at the box in his hand.

He felt a little surprised.

He didn't expect this box to have such a function.

heavenly secret box… Before this.

He had never heard of such a box.

However, from the level of this box, it seemed normal that he hadn't heard of it before.

After all, this box was directly Martial Soul Grade.

Like the Seven Stars Province where he was before, the strongest was only the Blood Martial Realm, so it was impossible for such a Martial Soul Grade heavenly secret box to appear.

And now that he understood the function of this box.

A glint of light also appeared in Xiao Shi's eyes.

He had a strong curiosity and expectation for the items inside the heavenly secret box.

If he could open a powerful body refining technique from the box, it would greatly solve his current predicament.

Even if he didn't open the desired body refining technique, he might still get other unexpected treasures.

This kind of thing, full of unknowns and mystery.

Often has the greatest temptation.

However, Xiao Shi was somewhat apprehensive about the price of opening the heavenly secret box.

Although the notes did not explicitly state what the price would be.

But this was what made Xiao Shi most apprehensive.

Especially since the heavenly secret box was a Martial Soul Grade item.

If the price of opening it was according to the Martial Soul Realm standard… then such a price.

It was far beyond what he could bear now.

But if he had to wait until he reached the Martial Soul Realm to open it, that would be too far away.

Xiao Shi didn't want to wait that long.

He desperately needed items that could bring him improvement now.

“Should I take a gamble?”

Xiao Shi was a bit conflicted.

After some thought.

Finally, he gritted his teeth.

“I'll risk it!”

The reason he had such confidence.

Was because he thought of the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree.

Although he didn't know what level the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree had reached.

But he figured it had at least reached the Martial Soul Realm level.

If the price of him opening the heavenly secret box was a price that only a Martial Soul Realm individual could bear, perhaps he could transfer it to the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree.

As the owner of the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree, he possessed this ability.

It was rare to have this box.

If he didn't make good use of it, it would be a bit of a waste.

Only by using it as early as possible could his strength and cultivation improve faster.

Thinking of this.

Xiao Shi no longer hesitated.

At present, he was still inside the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree.

Here.

He felt that he was absolutely safe.

Even if something unexpected happened, with the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree's formidable power, it could calmly cope.

Xiao Shi looked at the box in his hand.

In front of the box, there was a circular, Bagua-like recessed pattern.

It contained some strange rule.

Just looking at it, it felt very profound and extraordinary.

Xiao Shi knew.

This was the key to opening the heavenly secret box.

He immediately reached out his hand.

And pressed his finger on this pattern.

Buzz!

The moment his finger touched the pattern.

The entire pattern seemed to be activated.

It suddenly started spinning at high speed.

And in this high-speed rotation.

A huge disc was projected behind Xiao Shi.

The entire disc also rotated continuously at an extremely fast speed.

This gave Xiao Shi an indescribable sense of strangeness.

It was as if he was currently in some kind of rule.

His entire body was in a static state, unable to move.

Although he couldn't turn his head to look.

But he could clearly feel the disc rotating behind him.

At the same time, he also knew that there were many different prices on the disc.

When the disc stopped rotating.

He would bear the price corresponding to that position.

With continuous rotation.

The speed of the disc became slower and slower.

Finally, it stopped rotating.

Buzz!

Although the disc was already still.

The disc Xiao Shi felt was blurry, unable to clearly see what price was on the disc.

He could only see… that at the position on the disc corresponding to him, there was a pattern.

This pattern was a ball of fire.

“What does this mean?”

Xiao Shi didn't understand.

Whoosh!

The entire disc dissipated with a roar.

Xiao Shi's figure also returned to normal.

However, he frowned tightly.

He didn't know what price he was about to pay, only that it was a pattern of a ball of fire.

“Could it be that some kind of heavenly fire will descend?”

Xiao Shi's nerves were taut.

He dared not be careless in the slightest.

Worried that an inexplicable crisis might appear at any moment.

However, he waited for a long time.

No abnormalities occurred.

Nor did the heavenly fire he imagined fall.

This made him even more puzzled.

He couldn't figure out what the pattern of the ball of fire meant.

However, based on the current situation.

He felt that the price of opening the heavenly secret box might not take effect immediately.

Instead, it would appear at some point in the future.

If that was the case… then it would be even harder to guard against.

He shook his head.

Xiao Shi felt that since he couldn't figure it out now, there was no need to keep worrying here.

As long as he had enough strength.

He wouldn't need to worry about any price.

He turned his head to look at the heavenly secret box beside him.

At this moment, the entire heavenly secret box had already opened.

Xiao Shi took a deep breath.

He picked it up eagerly.

And slowly opened it.

His gaze, burning with anticipation, focused on the contents of the box.

He saw at a glance… that inside the box, there was a pure black mask.

The mask had a unique design and exuded an astonishing aura.

And the most terrifying thing… was that the moment Xiao Shi opened the box.

Boom!!

The aura emanating from the black mask immediately caused the sky of the entire Tian Dou Province to tremble.

In an instant.

Streaks of black aura continuously gathered in the sky, turning more than half of the Tian Dou Province's sky black.

These black auras continuously gathered above Tian Dou Province, forming a huge black mask.

It was precisely the mask that Xiao Shi had just opened from the box!

Although Xiao Shi was inside the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree at this moment.

He also noticed the abnormality.

He immediately saw the scene in the sky through the vision provided by the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree.

This caused his expression to change drastically.

He didn't expect the mask opened from the heavenly secret box to be so astonishing!

Fortunately, people in the outside world could only see the huge black mask formed in the sky, but could not sense where this aura originated from.

Even the people in Tree Shadow City did not notice that this drastic change was caused by the aura emanating from their city.

At this moment, everyone was staring blankly at the black mask that appeared in the sky.

“This… what is this!?”

Many people felt confused.

An uneasy feeling subconsciously arose in their hearts.

They knew.

To be able to form such a scene above the entire Tian Dou Province, this was definitely not something an ordinary martial artist could do.

“Could it be that something big is about to happen?”

Some people couldn't help but guess.

Fifth Elder, who was stationed in Tree Shadow City, was also staring at the black mask in the sky at this moment.

His brows were tightly furrowed.

Even with his knowledge and experience, he couldn't tell what this black mask represented.

However, the First Elder, who was stationed in Wind Shadow City.

The moment she saw the huge black mask in the sky.

Her entire expression suddenly changed drastically.

“Could this be…”

She thought of a rumor!

“If it really is it… then it’s bad!!”

“But… how is this possible!!”

“That existence clearly disappeared hundreds of years ago, how could it appear!? And in our Tian Dou Province at that…”

She took a deep breath.

Knowing the urgency of the situation.

Regardless of whether it was what she thought, she needed to immediately report this matter to the Shadow Master.