The moment the Stone Statue Infant’s Eternal Burial Shrine was embedded with the fragments, the blood groove of the Reverse Scale on the bronze Dragon-Locking Pillar erupted with the radiance of the Ziwei star. The Stone Statue Infant in Lin Xuan’s arms saw its right pupil flare violently; the Burial Pivot Array tore free from its socket, condensing in the void into three hundred and sixty Devouring Abyss star chains. The symbols flickering along the links were no mere runes, but the agonizing screams of the Twenty-Eight Mansions, refined by the First Ancestral Witch after he had carved out their very throat bones. Each cry shattered the frozen soil of the Netherworld, and the Star-Eclipse Fluid surging through the fissures beat in perfect synchrony with the pulse of the burial shrine.
"Chained to Return to Void..."
The remnants of Su Jiuli’s drifting sand coalesced into a crimson-gold Fire Phoenix, plunging toward the Ancestral Witch’s true essence along the lines of the blood groove. The Eternal Burial Shrine suddenly erupted with flames of the Jiuyou Netherworld. Wherever the fire swept, forty-nine Soul-Burning Towers rose from the depths of Return to Void—the bronze sacrificial texts wrapped around their bodies resonated lethally with the Extinction Array in the Stone Statue Infant’s left eye.
Chapter 347