The bitter wind of the Extreme North howled, carrying with it shards of ice, as the ice-flame dancing at Yun Qingyu's fingertips suddenly burst. From that cluster of azure flames, three hundred overlapping faces of Chu Yao emerged, their pupils swirling with karmic fragments from different reincarnations. The Nine-Headed Snake totem carved onto the surface of the dark ice coffin abruptly writhed, black-and-gold blood oozing from the gaps in its scales and corroding spiderweb-like cracks into the millennia-old mysterious ice covering the lid.
"This is... the true blood of the Nine-Nether Serpent!" Ao Li's dragon claws clamped tightly onto the trembling edge of the altar. The wound on her back, pierced by the Soul-Suppressing Nail, split open once more. "The resentment of three hundred lifetimes of reincarnation is awakening the malevolent entity sealed by the First Generation Palace Master!"
Before her voice had even faded, three hundred ice sculptures simultaneously emitted the crisp sound of shattering glass. Little Nianyao stumbled backward, and the Fate Pact fragment at her heart suddenly surged with intertwining golden-red flames. Those burning runes condensed in midair into Li Taibai's shattered sword soul, every stardust-like gleam of sword qi reflecting tragic scenes across different times and spaces: a white-robed sword immortal committing suicide under the moonlight, a dragon woman nailed to a Kunlun sacrificial pillar, and a maiden with Buddha-Demon Wings driving …
Chapter 24