The moment the Bronze Roots wrapped around Lin Xuan's neck, three thousand chasms split open across the North Sea ice sheet. From the fissures surged Xuanming True Water, solidifying into the Bronze Yue used by the First Generation Patriarch to sever the Ladder to Heaven. The little girl's mutilated body suddenly turned into star sand, the grains piecing together an incomplete chapter of the Guicang: "Star Remains sacrifice to Guixu, nine calamities bury the Celestial Fox." Behind Lu Xiaopang, the High Priest totem completely awakened, and a human-skin Blood Banner shrouded the altar. Witch runes crawled across the banner surface, manifesting the darkest sacrifice of the Wu Clan: three hundred boy-children buried alive in a bronze tripod, while what boiled within the tripod was none other than the Star Marrow from Lin Xuan's first incarnation!
The Astral Instrument Spirit detached itself from the plum branch, and from the splitting bark oozed the blue burial blood of the Flood Dragon clan. The blood drops condensed into an ice mirror, within which Su Jiuli knelt upon the Wu Clan altar, burying the Bronze Heart of the First Generation Patriarch into the little girl's chest—the star mark on that little girl's forehead was identical to the floating corpse in the blood pool. The star marks along Lin Xuan's spine bulged violently, transforming into live snakes that drilled into the ice mirror, their scales reflecting a tamed Marriage Contract: the one the First Generation Patriar…
Chapter 35