The moment the blood-red moon sank into the Guixu Eye of the Sea, three thousand ancient bronze stelae in the Jiuyi Mountains began to wail in unison. The star marks etched into their surfaces glowed with ghostly blue phosphorus fire; through the fissures licked by these flames, viscous black mist seeped out—but it was not water vapor floating within, but the dense, mangled wings of Soul-Devouring Gu Insects!
As Lin Xuan shattered the seventh turtle-shell formation eye, the screeching of the Astrolabe’s Artifact Spirit pierced his consciousness. He stumbled, propping himself up with the God-Slaying Spear; beneath the rock layers pierced by the spear tip, half of a bronze stele was exposed. The words "Suppress Nether" on its face were soaked in dried blood, and a fragment of a Celestial Fox Tail Bone was wedged into a crack.
"Is this... the clapper of a Qingqiu execution pillar?"
Chapter 301