The sea of clouds atop Mount Buzhou churned like ten thousand galloping horses as the ice lotus in Lin Yu's arms suddenly blossomed with twelve rays of multicolored light. The newborn baby in the swaddling clothes opened its eyes, its pupils swirling with intertwined vortexes of stars and flames. Its tiny hand gently touched Lin Yu's chest, and a root from the Ice-Heart Grass deep within the Chaos Sea split off to wrap around the infant's wrist.
"He is absorbing your power," Su Yao said, pressing down on Lin Yu's trembling shoulder as ice-blue patterns surfaced on her fingertips. The baby's skin began to show alternating patterns of ice crystals and fire runes, each mark corresponding to the shift of some stellar orbit across Mount Buzhou. The Black-robed Man suddenly dropped to his knees, his black robe fluttering without wind to reveal a Chaos mark on the back of his neck identical to the baby's.
"Three hundred years..." the Black-robed Man rasped in a hoarse voice. "When I betrayed my sect back then, it was precisely to find a vessel capable of housing both light and darkness at once." He unbuttoned his collar to reveal an identical Yin-Yang fish pattern branded over his heart. "We are all chosen vessels, but only you..."
Chapter 387