The moment the bronze Fate Key touched the fissures in the White Tiger Star Core, the *Greedy Wolf Devouring Moon Secret Scroll* suddenly floated up from the ruins of the Nether Palace. The instant Lin Xuan used the broken remains of the Heaven-Slaying Blade to split the scroll's seal, the sound of tearing silk—reminiscent of the Vermilion Bird Burning Feather—echoed throughout the Star Ruins. That sound was the sign that three thousand Soul-Devouring Prohibitions, sealed within the scroll by the First Generation Patriarch before his fall, had been activated simultaneously.
The Ziwei Emperor Core, formed from the Infant Girl's Remnant Soul, began to rotate in reverse.
Forty-nine Bone-Eroding Nether Nails surfaced on the scroll’s surface, and the Chain of Annihilation entwined around their tips suddenly pierced through the projection of the Xuanwu Sea Suppressing Seal. Lin Xuan sprinted across the collapsing ruins of the Nether Palace dome, the blade’s edge kicking up Star Sand that coalesced into the missing "Separation Fire" chapter of the *Vermilion Bird Heaven-Burning Array Pattern*. The moment the array pattern took form, the Xuanwu projection at the fissure of the White Tiger Star Core suddenly materialized.
Chapter 357