A foul-smelling, viscous liquid oozed from the cracks in the bronze altar.
Su Jiuli’s fading embers were forced to the edge of the altar by the Soul-Devouring Gu Insects. The barrier formed by her seven-tailed fox fire crumbled inch by inch under the insects' fangs. The withered hand of Lu Xiaopang suddenly tightened, causing the Gu Insect it held to swell; from the creature's bursting belly emerged half a bronze divination bamboo slip. The tip of the slip hooked a fragment of Lin Xuan’s Destiny Pattern, from which the First Generation Patriarch’s blood curse seeped: "Use the Star Lord’s bones as fuel to incinerate Heaven’s mandate!"
"Sister’s blood, in the end, must feed the cauldron..."
Chapter 181