Chapter 261

The Primordial Fetal Seed fragment on the bronze door knocker fractured into a spiderweb of cracks, each fissure weeping viscous Silver Marrow. The petrified nine tails emerging from the female infant’s spine suddenly went rigid, their tips plunging deep into the flesh of the Mother Nest. As the rotting meat churned, a Black Tortoise Turtle Shell wrapped in a Soul-Devouring Sundial Needle surfaced; the cracks on its carapace perfectly aligned with the trajectory of Su Jiuli’s Soul of Affection blood bead. "The turtle shell as a vessel... the blood bead as a guide..." The remnant soul of the Wu Clan High Priest manifested above the shell, his fingertips dripping with Silver Marrow as he carved annihilation runes into the void. The moment the runes touched the wick of the eighth Soul-Guiding Lamp, Su Jiuli’s Soul of Affection blood began to boil. From the mist of blood emerged a secret from the time the Star Palace was first built: the Celestial Fox Ancestor’s nine tails were not natural, but forged from the melted Destiny Palace Totems of thirty-six thousand Saintesses.