Howling chill winds swept through the bottom of the forbidden abyss in Qingqiu, and Su Jiuli's lingering ashes skimmed past the fissures in the rock wall. Bronze beast heads embedded in the crevices suddenly snapped open their bloodshot eyes, spitting turbid, foul-smelling mist as their fangs ground together—and floating within the mist were shattered bone Xun of the Celestial Fox lineage. The blood-weeping melody seeping from the Xun's mouthpiece resonated in the exact same rhythm as the agonizing cry when Lin Xuan's Destiny Soul had disintegrated!
Her fox tail coiled around a piece of the bone Xun, and the moment her lingering ashes touched the body of the Xun, nine bronze soul-banners abruptly materialized at the bottom of the abyss. The Wu Clan runes on the banners slithered like snakes, and the glazed skulls tied to the tails of the banners turned in unison. Soul-Devouring Gu Insects crawled out from their empty eye sockets—yet before the swarm of insects could draw near, they were shattered into fine powder by the sound of the Xun! The powder condensed into star sand, amidst which a scene from the past of the Celestial Fox was revealed: the youthful Lin Xuan kneeling before the sacrificial pit, burying the bone Xun engraved with the Marriage Covenant among the remains of a hundred infant foxes!
"Senior Sister actually found the soul-summoning Xun..."
Chapter 164