When the blood-stained remnant marks of the Blood Imperial Edict in the Wu Clan High Priest's right eye seared through his fingertips, the entire sea of stars suddenly solidified into a gargantuan bronze curtain. Cracks in the astrolabe held in Lin Xuan’s palm erupted with crimson-gold blood light. Ninety thousand claw marks emerged from the screen, each one tethered to the Destiny Soul chains of Star Palace cultivators. To his horror, the trajectory of these chains coincided perfectly with the Star-Eclipse markings on the sheath of the Bronze Dagger. He leaped toward the giant screen, treading upon the surging Star Marrow. The moment his toes touched the patterns, three hundred and sixty Bronze Divination Bamboo Slips descended from the void, their tips pointing toward the depths of a fissure beneath a blood-weeping Xuanwu stele hidden deep within the earth of Qingqiu.
The wreckage of the Ice Soul Sword suddenly drew in the stardust of the divination slips.
Gu Patterns reborn along the sword’s spine burst into eerie blue phosphor flames, illuminating a collapsed Wu Clan altar behind the bronze curtain. Stuck between the fangs of a taotie motif on the altar’s surface was the broken tail-tip bone of the Celestial Fox Ancestor. The instant the bone’s markings touched the Blood Imperial Edict, the entire sea of stars reversed its rotation. Fragments of stars coalesced in the air to reveal a horrifying truth: the First Generation Patriarch had used the Wu Clan High Priest’s rig…
Chapter 324