As the star-radiance erupted from the Heaven-Measuring Ruler to pierce the void, the Bronze God Tree suddenly stirred to life. Chains hanging from its branches coiled around Lin Xuan’s limbs like giant pythons. The Soul-Devouring Gu Patterns on the surface of the chain links writhed madly, pumping the Star Marrow channeled from the hundred thousand hanging coffins into his meridians. With every Star Mark that flared to life, a bloody memory surfaced in his mind’s eye: the First Generation Patriarch carving the heart from a Holy Beast.
The Artifact Spirit let out a desperate, cracking shriek from within the Astrolabe.
Lin Xuan swung his halberd, severing three of the chains. Yet, it was not iron filings that sprayed from the breaks, but bronze shards embedded with the lingering grudges of Wu Clan warrior spirits! These fragments coalesced in midair into a partial manuscript of the Classic of Returning Tribulations. The ash from the burning pages scorched a map of the Star Palace’s ley lines onto the trunk of the God Tree—the core of the forbidden zone marked on this map was precisely where the Ice Soul Sword was embedded into the Heaven-Measuring Ruler.
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