Bronze roots pierced the shade of the soul lamp, and Lu Xiaopang's phantom seeped from the heart of the flame. The Star Sand winding around his fingertips condensed into a tortoise shell, and Soul-Devouring Gu Insects crawled out from the cracks in the shell patterns. The swarm lunged at the Glazed Heart in Su Jiuli's palm, only to be burned into blue smoke the moment they touched the heart's fire. The dust wrapped around the insect carcasses and plummeted to the ground, etching the residual pattern of an astrolabe onto the scorched earth, the end of the pattern pointing toward a blood sacrifice pit deep in the Fox Tomb.
"Senior Sister's kindness is still as searing as ever..."
Lu Xiaopang's phantom suddenly solidified, and bronze chains burst from his decayed half-body. The chains coiled around the Glazed Heart, and the Blood-Weeping Script on the links suddenly came to life, transforming into blood snakes that gnawed at the heart's fire. Su Jiuli's fox tail whipped around the chains and she retreated violently, her tailbone grazing the soul lamp on the dome; as lamp oil splashed, it projected a terrifying illusion—the Resentful Spirits of three hundred young foxes were reforming at the bottom of the blood sacrifice pit, piecing themselves together into a nine-tailed fox skeleton!
Chapter 153