The moment the Nine Luminaries Soul-Locking Cauldron surfaced from the depths of the Star Ruin abyss, the Star Marrow bloodstains on the tip of the bronze master key began to spin in reverse. As the remains of the Tribulation-Heaven Pestle in Lin Xuan’s hand touched the Greedy Wolf Mark on the cauldron’s body, the Netherfire erupting from the mouth of the vessel revealed a phantom image of the First Generation Twelve Sages weeping blood as they melted into the cauldron. Hidden within those twisted saintly faces were the Xuanwu Sea-Suppressing restrictions, long ago tampered with by the Four Symbols Return-to-Source Map.
The projection of the Ziwei Emperor Core, formed from the Infant Girl's Remnant Soul, suddenly shuddered.
Bronze Sea-Suppressing Pillars rose from the four corners of the Soul-Locking Cauldron, and the Devouring Abyss Nether-chains coiled around the pillars suddenly pierced through the strata of the Star Ruin. Stepping across the crumbling, shattered bones of the Primordial Era Dragon Vein, Lin Xuan retreated. The Star Sand raised by the tip of his pestle coalesced into half a scroll of the Azure Dragon Boundary-Breaking Art—the missing "Horn Mansion" chapter of the technique was now resonating lethally with the newly emerged Xuanwu restriction.
Chapter 355