The moment excruciating pain swept through his consciousness, Baili Tianming saw the Valley of the Medicine King as it was when they first met. Sixteen-year-old Shen Xichu stepped forward through the shattered moonlight, and the Ice Soul Sword flicked off his jade hair crown—so that split-second hesitation in the flash of her blade that day had already laid the seeds of Karma for today.
"The Tribulation of Love Sacred Body..." Blood bubbled from between Baili Tianming's clenched teeth. The instant the crimson dragon completely merged with his Nascent Soul, he finally saw the true forms of the nine Karmic True Dragons entwined around his Dao Heart. A severed length of red cord was fastened around the neck of each dragon shadow, the knot clearly matching the weaving style of Shen Xichu's sword tassel.
The water of the cold pool suddenly boiled like a furnace. Baili Tianming pressed his right palm against the bluestone by the edge of the pool, and the hard basalt gave way like dough. He was startled to find his five senses magnified a hundredfold: every pattern on the battle drums of the Northern Sea demon clan three thousand miles away, the six-sided crystalline structure of the frost condensed on Shen Xichu's eyelashes, and even the rushing sound of his own blood scouring his newly formed meridians were terrifyingly clear.
Chapter 134