225: The Emperor's might was overwhelming; the secret of the Nine Towers

Pill Tower Holy Domain, with Xiao Chen's commands being issued one after another, began to operate at high speed like a precise war machine.

Xuan Kongzi, presiding over the central hub, issued the highest-level 'Anti-Alliance Conscription Order' in the name of the Pill Tower to all surviving forces on the continent, and revealed part of the truth about the 'enemy from beyond the border' to the public.

At first, some forces still held a wait-and-see or even skeptical attitude, but when Xiao Chen's vast Imperial might, intentionally or unintentionally, swept across the entire Central Region, and even more distant areas, all doubts and lucky turned into... deep fear and... a choice that had to be made!

Flame Emperor and Dragon Emperor immediately returned to their clans, opened the long-sealed ancestral secret realms, and spared no expense to cultivate the elites within their clans.

Flower Without Shadow and Wonderful Sound also began to integrate their sect's power, pushing the power of music and illusion to a higher level.

The Starfall Pavilion scouts led by Venerable Feng, like an invisible net, spread to every corner of the continent.

And Xiao Chen himself once again... entered the deepest part of the star tower, beginning his... exploration and refinement... of this Imperial Tower's... ultimate mystery!

star tower's ninth floor, this place... had already... produced a certain... mysterious resonance... with Xiao Chen's Chaos Emperor Domain.

The space within the tower, as if... it formed a world of its own, the flow of time... also had... subtle differences... from the outside world.

The ancient star runes on the tower walls, at this moment... in Xiao Chen's eyes, were no longer simple patterns, but rather... lines... expounding... the supreme laws... of the birth, evolution, and demise of stars!

"Star Emperor... truly lives up to his name... a peak Emperor... from ancient times..." Xiao Chen... caressed... the cold tower wall, his heart... filled with emotion.

He... could feel that this tower... was not only an Imperial weapon... of infinite power, but also... the crystallization... of an Emperor's... lifelong Dao and Dharma!

The understanding of the 'stars' within it... even... surpassed his current understanding of 'chaos'!

"However... my Dao is chaos, it is inclusiveness, it is evolution... the Dao of stars can also... be used by me!" Xiao Chen's... eyes were firm.

He... did not... try... to completely copy the Star Emperor's path, but rather... using his own chaos emperor heart as the foundation, began... frantically... to absorb, analyze, and fuse... the stellar mysteries... contained within this tower!

"Buzz—!!!"

As his comprehension... deepened, the star tower... and his connection... became increasingly... close!

The tower body... trembled slightly, emitting... joyful and excited... fluctuations!

As if... after countless ages of dormancy, it finally... once again... encountered... its true master!

And just as Xiao Chen... was about to... completely... refine... the core of the star tower... at that very moment—

"Boom—!!!"

A... massive... indescribable... information flow... suddenly... erupted from the depths of the tower's core!

Like... a bursting flood... it rushed into... Xiao Chen's sea of consciousness!

That... was not... cultivation techniques... or... Dou Technique, but rather... fragmented... images!

It was... the Star Emperor's... memory fragments... of the ancient catastrophe... imprinted in the tower... with supreme divine abilities... before his fall!

In the images—

The endless void... was... torn apart!

Countless... terrifyingly powerful... dark figures... swarmed in... like locusts!

Wherever they passed, stars... dimmed, worlds... collapsed!

Powerful ancient Dou Emperors... fought bloody battles!

With a wave of their hands... galaxies reversed, laws annihilated!

But... those dark figures... seemed... immortal and inexhaustible!

Finally... a colossal... blurry figure... larger than stars... appeared at the end of the void!

The aura it emitted... caused... the images to... violently distort!

The Star Emperor... and several... peak Emperors... joined forces... to charge towards that figure, followed by... a flash of... destructive... white light... and... endless darkness!

Lastly... a clear image... was... the phantom of a colossal... dark red... coffin... slowly... descending... from... a spatial crack... that spanned across the galaxy!

On the coffin... were carved... two distorted... ancient characters—'Burial Emperor'!

"So... that's how it is..." Xiao Chen... slowly... opened his eyes, his gaze... filled with... shock and... realization.

"The ancient catastrophe... the burial emperor coffin... indeed... is... an invasion... from beyond the border!

And that coffin... is not... the ultimate enemy... it... is more like... a kind of... guidance... or rather... a container... that seals... an even more terrifying existence!"

"The nine ancient pagodas... correspond to... the nine components of the burial emperor coffin... And this ninth... most mysterious ancient pagoda... is probably... the true... core!

It is... the key to containing that 'Imperial Corpse'... or rather... guiding the will of that Lord from beyond the border!"

"We must... find... and... destroy... that ninth ancient pagoda... before that Lord from beyond the border... completely... locks onto this world's coordinates... and... finds... a new... way to descend!"

Xiao Chen... suddenly stood up!

His Imperial might... erupted with a roar!

At this moment, he... had... completely... refined the star tower!

With a thought, the ten-thousand-zhang giant tower... instantly... transformed into a stream of light... and merged into his glabella!

He... and this tower... had truly... become one!

"It's time... to take the initiative!" Xiao Chen... took a step... out of the original site of the star tower, his figure... appearing above the Pill Tower!

His gaze... like two tangible beams of light... swept towards... a certain... direction on the continent!

There... was... the area most likely... to hide the ninth ancient pagoda—the continent's extreme north... known as the 'Perpetual Frozen Ice Plain'... a forbidden zone of life—based on the Star Emperor's remaining memories... and... the tracing of the auras of the first eight ancient pagodas!

"Teacher! Issue the order... to the Anti-Alliance! Gather... all combat power above Dou Saint! Three days later... follow me... north... to the Perpetual Frozen Ice Plain!"

"This battle... will... decide... the fate of this world!"

Xiao Chen's... voice... like nine heavens' thunder... resounded throughout the entire Pill Tower Holy Domain!

A resolute... fighting spirit... and... vast Imperial might... mixed together... shot straight into the sky!

The final decisive battle... was finally... about to... begin... its final... act!