Chapter 394

When the "Xuanxiao Atonement Day" engraving on the bronze Bell of Repentance touched the dark waters of the Return to Void, the Burial Grounds of Alkaid suddenly ignited with world-burning separation fire. The moment Lin Xuan shattered the Xuanwu Sea Suppressing Seal pillar, the "Joy" soul-light bursting from the dual pupils of Su Jiuli's soul shadow resonated with the Bell of Repentance, causing forty-nine Sun-Eclipsing blood curses to surface on the bell's wall—and where the curse patterns extended, they revealed the bloody scene of the First Ancestral Witch gouging out the Xuanwu heart! "Array, activate!" The "Joy" soul-light suddenly condensed into a Vermilion Bird World-Burning Array diagram, its missing core position for "Separation Fire" pointing directly at the Destiny Coffin. Lin Xuan swung his halberd to cleave through three blood curses, the debris of which revealed a horrifying truth: beneath the nine weeping-blood stakes of the Burial Grounds of Alkaid, Su Jiuli's sternum was being pierced by Sun-Eclipsing Chains, the bone surface covered entirely in usurpation Witch Seal Scripts of the same origin as the blood-stained contract—every single script entwined with the residual ashes of the Stone Statue Infant's "Grief" soul!