As the gale winds plunging toward the abyss tore through his star-patterned robes, the blood-seal on the Edict of Self-Accusation burned like a branding iron. The geomantic map in Lin Xuan’s palm expanded rapidly. Where the gazes of one hundred thousand crimson-gold pupils within the map converged, nine bronze Heaven-Measuring Rulers suddenly emerged from the Guixu Eye of the Sea. At the ends of the chains binding the rulers, fragments of crimson-gold stardust—shattered when the Celestial Fox Ancestor’s Destiny Soul plunged into the sea eye—were tethered fast.
The remains of the Ice Soul Sword suddenly reassembled from the void.
The newly formed star-mark veins on the sword’s spine erupted in a ghostly blue radiance, illuminating a piece of Xuanwu rock deep within the sea eye. What seeped from the cracks in the rock was not water, but bronze filings infused with the lingering resentment of the Wu Clan’s war spirits. These filings coalesced in mid-air into the second half of the *Classic of Returning Tribulations*. The burning ash of the scripture pages formed the very astrolabe map depicting the First Generation Patriarch’s self-sacrificial eye-gouging ritual upon the surface of the sea.
Chapter 311