The moment the Primordial Era Soul-Devouring Halberd shuddered, star sand began to seep from the tooth marks on the female infant’s wrists.
Deep within the wounds gnawed by the Celestial Fox spirit, a forbidden totem—carved by Su Jiuli into her own veins moments before she turned to stone—surfaced. The instant this totem touched the White Tiger skull pattern on the halberd’s shaft, the ancient pulse within the Return-to-Ruins Black Hole abruptly stagnated. From the bottom of the abyss rose nine bronze chimes, their surfaces etched with the original text of the Four Symbols alliance oath that the First Generation Patriarch had sought to erase.
"The chime tolls... the oath manifests..."
Chapter 241