As the gale from a void rift tore through his star-patterned robe, Lin Xuan plummeted into the inverted bronze Star Palace. Draped between the pillars were not hangings, but star orbits composed of thousands of writhing Soul-Devouring Gu Insects. The ghostly green glow from their bodies illuminated distorted murals on the walls: the First Generation Patriarch was driving the hearts of the Four Symbols Holy Beasts into the Jiuyou Dragon Vein!
The Artifact Spirit’s phantom emerged from the Astrolabe, its starlit fingertips grazing the insects, and the entire Star Palace suddenly flipped. Lin Xuan grabbed his Master-Slaying Spear and jammed it into the ground. As the tip pierced the masonry, it revealed half of a Wu Clan blood-sacrifice diagram—the white bone mask worn by the figure in the mural carving out the heart was identical to the one on the face of the Nether Palace Master.
"This isn't a Star Palace... it’s the eye of the Abyss-Devouring Formation!"
Chapter 304