Chapter 243

As the first crack appeared in the blood cocoon, the surviving Bronze Pillars of the Wu Clan altar suddenly resonated. The fragments of the Nine Heavens Linglong Tower sealed within the pillars flew out, embedding themselves into the tower-shaped Star Mark in the female infant’s left eye. From the shattered remains of her right arm, bronze bone spurs suddenly sprouted, their roots burrowing into the altar’s ley lines to drag forth a juvenile Qilin Skeleton entwined with a Soul-Devouring Sundial Needle—this creature, a beast of auspicious omen, bore on its forehead the very Wu Clan tattoo that the First Generation Patriarch had worn in his youth! "The Four Symbols are but the surface... the Five Elements are the core..." Silver Marrow trickled from the infant’s tower-marked left eye. The liquid condensed in the void into a map of the Star Palace’s ley lines, in which the five cardinal directions were anchored by the remains of juvenile holy beasts: the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale in the East pinned down the Black Tortoise Turtle Shell, the Vermilion Bird Burning Feather in the South suppressed the White Tiger Fang, and the heart of the central Qilin Skeleton was pierced by the severed tail of the Celestial Fox Ancestor!