Chapter 152

The blood covenant flowing from the Giant Bronze Gate seeped into the leyline, and Su Jiuli's remaining ashes wrapped around the tomb guardian's disintegrating body. Lu Xiaopang's decaying half-face suddenly peeled off, revealing a skull underneath covered entirely in Soul-Devouring Gu Patterns—the Star Sand embedded between the bone seams was resonating with the Soul Lamps on the dome of the Fox Tomb! He thrust his withered fingers into his socket, and the dug-out Glazed Heart eye burst into divination sticks, which pierced toward the Blood Cauldron wrapped in a fishy gale. The ashes inside the cauldron suddenly condensed into the illusory figure of the First Generation Patriarch, who flicked his finger, causing the Nine-Tailed fox bones to collapse with a crash. Bronze chains burst out from the flying bone fragments, and amidst the clinking of the links, half a jade pendant tumbled out from Su Jiuli's remaining ashes—the cracks on the pendant matched the Gu Patterns inside Lu Xiaopang's skull precisely! "So you were the vessel for the jade pendant all along..."