Chapter 151

The bronze clapper sank into the Qingqiu Leyline, and star sand began to seep from the fissures in the scorched earth. Su Jiuli’s residual ashes swept over the Nine-Tail Stele Forest, and fine blood-red threads suddenly slithered out from the cracks in the steles. These threads coalesced into the runes of a Marriage Covenant from three thousand years ago, but as they touched the ashes, they ignited with a verdant fox fire. The firelight illuminated the hidden patterns at the base of the steles, revealing a horrifying scene: twelve Celestial Fox elders were casting young foxes into a blood sacrifice pit, while half of a blood-stained jade pendant floated within a bronze cauldron at the bottom of the pit. "So, the calamity of Qingqiu began with the sacrifice of the young..." A whisper emanated from the residual ashes, startling the Gravekeeper deep within the stele forest. The pupils beneath the bronze mask contracted sharply as the Gravekeeper slammed his bone staff against the ground. The Wu Clan tortoise shell hanging from the staff’s head split with fine cracks—the pattern of the cracks perfectly matched the trajectory of the star sand’s residual ashes!