Chapter 18

Lu Xiaopang's roar was still echoing in the air when the Dragon-Imprisoning Nail pierced the Black Tortoise Turtle Shell, carrying a bloody wind. Cracks instantly covered the shell as the Xuanming True Water, dormant on the ocean floor for ten thousand years, violently surged, condensing into countless icicles suspended upside down in the firmament. The Star Mark on Lin Xuan's wrist suddenly burned like a hot iron, and the seed of the Taotie oozing from the cracks in the Astrolabe actually turned into black mist, wrapping around Su Jiuli's lingering soul and plunging deep into the turtle shell! "Splash—" A roar of snapping chains came from deep within the reef cave, and three thousand Star Sand coffins simultaneously erupted with fox fire. The black-robed man thrust the tip of his sword into a crack in the turtle shell. Amid the dazzling light burst forth from the Space-Time Condensing Jade, an image of the First Generation Patriarch gouging out the Black Tortoise True Spirit emerged—the giant turtle, its seven apertures pierced by iron chains, actually had the exact same Greedy Wolf Star Mark as Lin Xuan embedded between its brows!