The moment the darkness was shattered by the trembling ring of the Ice Soul Sword, Lin Xuan plunged into a prison built from Bronze Star Remains. The star marks floating across the four walls were not carved; they were destiny curses clawed out by countless cultivators before their deaths. In the gaps between the curses, sickly green Gu Insects slithered, their bellies glowing with the captured specks of devoured remnant souls.
The artifact spirit spilled an ethereal projection from the astrolabe, the hem of its star-patterned robe suddenly igniting with silver flames: "The star orbits here have been tamed three times!"
Before the words faded, the Ice Soul Sword suddenly stabbed into a crack in the ground, its blade reflecting a vision of Ling Shuang sealed to a broken pillar of the Star Palace by nine soul-suppressing nails. Lin Xuan reached out to touch the hilt, but his fingertips were scorched by an invisible barrier—the star marrow oozing from his wound vibrated at the exact same frequency as the Gu Insects crawling on the wall!
Chapter 303