The bronze blood pool churned like boiling water, and the dragon bones submerged at its bottom suddenly underwent a grotesque transformation. Su Jiuli’s residual embers swept across the pool’s rim, and the Netherworld Decree Mark on her wrist peeled away like a snake shedding its skin. As the dark red fragments fell into the blood, they coalesced into three hundred Bronze Divination Bamboo Slips. From the cracks in the slips, forbidden incantations of the Wu Clan seeped out, squirming like living creatures to piece together a fragmented Astrolabe upon the surface of the pool!
"To think that Senior Sister could rouse the Viper Pool..."
The phantom of Lu Xiaopang emerged from the divination slips, his withered fingers crushing a dragon bone. Amidst the swirling bone dust, nine Soul Lamps rose from the depths of the pool, inverted. It was not fire that danced upon the wicks, but the stripped-away benevolent souls of the Heavenly Fox elders! Each soul bore a Marriage Covenant carved into its forehead. As the foremost soul turned, the reflection cast upon the bronze wall revealed... a vision of Su Jiuli carving out her own heart three hundred lifetimes ago!
Chapter 167