Just as the Yellow Springs undercurrent, laden with bronze shards, slammed toward Lin Xuan, a red-gold fox claw extended from the Fox Clan coffin and formed a seal. Nine trails of Burning Tribulation Fire erupted from the claw’s tips, searing secret Star Palace patterns into the current. The moment these patterns touched the fleshy tendrils of the Astrolabe, the Gu-infested sections faded into a ghastly gray, revealing the Celestial Fox Tail Bone totem hidden beneath.
"Jiuli..."
Lin Xuan coughed up black blood from his throat. Before his fingertips could reach the coffin, the entire undercurrent suddenly froze. Stardust drifted from the First Generation Patriarch's token that the fox claw had crushed, coalescing in the void into the lingering phantom of Su Jiuli before she had dissipated. Her right hand pointed toward Lin Xuan’s heart, while her left palm pressed against a claw mark on the surface of the coffin; the silver-gray Star Marrow seeping from the mark shared the exact same origin as the cracks on the Astrolabe.
Chapter 305