Chapter 393

As the soul-blood from the Bronze Sundial Needle touched the "Xuanyuan Death-Hour" inscription, pale green subterranean flames suddenly surged through the Alioth Burial Ground. Lin Xuan shattered three Black Tortoise Blood-Weeping Stakes; the repentant blood seeping from the soles of his feet resonated with the subterranean fire, coalescing in the void into forty-nine murals depicting the annihilation of the First Star Palace. In the paintings, the First Ancestral Witch held Su Jiuli’s spine as a brush, carving the "Azure Dragon World-Shattering Curse" onto the title page of the "Life-Devouring Heavenly Book"! "Awaken, Curse!" The Black Tortoise Shell fragments sealing the spine suddenly detonated, and the erupting bronze shards condensed into three hundred and sixty Sun-Eclipsing Divination Slips. Lin Xuan cleaved through two of the slip patterns with his halberd, and within the debris, a harrowing truth manifested: what was suppressed at the base of the Alioth Sea-Suppressing Pillar was not Su Jiuli's spine, but a Bronze Armillary Sphere forged by the First Ancestral Witch using her marrow blood—and embedded in the missing "Alioth" position of the sphere was the mourning soul-core of the Stone Statue Infant!