Chapter 308

As the Astrolabe atop the Xuanwu stele hummed and trembled, the Burning Tribulation Fire seeping from the base of the monument suddenly coalesced into the shape of a fox. The moment the fire fox leaped into the dark currents of the Return to Void, the sound of one hundred thousand Bronze Sarcophagi trembling echoed from the depths of the abyss—each vibration causing the Gu patterns in Lin Xuan’s meridians to dim by three parts, as if some ancient, long-dormant restriction were awakening. The shattered remains of the Ice Soul Sword suddenly floated and began to reassemble. New Star Mark veins sprouted across the sword’s spine, erupting with dark blue starlight that illuminated the bronze fragments drifting in the dark currents. Those fragments were spontaneously piecing themselves together into half of a Wu Clan blood-sacrifice map. In the map, a Heaven-Measuring Ruler held by a figure carved out of a heart was missing a section, and embedded into that very gap was a piece of the First Generation Patriarch’s spine, now corrupted by Gu!