The moment the Bronze Sundial Needle flickered over the blood-stained tail bone, the Soul-Devouring Mother Gu, dormant in the depths of Return to Void, suddenly opened its eyes. The cyan flame in Su Jiuli's left pupil swept across the star marks on the needle tip, and the patterns condensed in the void into the Heavenly Fox altar from three hundred epochs ago. Across the altar surface flowed not ancestral blood, but Soul-Devouring Gu mash splashed when the First Generation Patriarch cut out his heart! The fate fragments floating within the mash shared the exact same origin as the tail bone she had severed back then.
"So cutting out the heart was a lie... refining the Gu was the truth!"
The cyan flame formed by Lin Xuan's remnant soul suddenly surged violently. The firelight pierced through the Jiuli Great Wizard's half-dragon scales, illuminating a horrifying sight deep within his soul body: the benevolent remnant soul of the First Generation Patriarch was being devoured by the Soul-Devouring Mother Gu, and the star marks on the Gu's forehead fit the ancient totems on the surface of the sundial needle perfectly! The moment the totem touched the cyan flame, the veins of the Nether Palace suddenly collapsed, and out of the subsidence floated four holy beast skulls bound by bronze chains—leaping within the eye sockets of the skulls was precisely the Nether fire seed that had scattered from Su Jiuli's right pupil!
Chapter 218