The moment the Bronze Dice plunged into the Guixu Whirlpool, the inscriptions on the dome of the First Generation Patriarch's tomb suddenly flared. The charred corpse of Su Jiuli in Lin Xuan's arms suddenly raised its hand. The star marks on her fingertips resonated with the bone inscriptions on the little girl's remains, causing the bronze chains on the four walls of the tomb to slither like live snakes, binding Lin Xuan to the Dragon-Slaying Pillar. Blood oozed from the reliefs on the pillar—each drop reflecting the scene where the Patriarch had dug out Su Jiuli's heart!
The Everlasting Lamp lit by Lu Xiaopang's soul blood suddenly flared violently, manifesting the lost Wu Clan's Sacrificial Star Ritual within the flames. The ritual's remnant scroll floated in mid-air, bearing the First Generation Patriarch's handwriting: "Nine generations of Star Remains sacrificed, the Celestial Fox's tears finally run dry." The star marks on Lin Xuan's spine abruptly transformed into a living python, its head shattering the binding bronze chains, but the chain fragments coalesced into a Bronze Divination Bamboo Slip—the slip's oracle pointing directly to the frozen Star Palace Ruins deep within the tomb!
The triple pupils of Su Jiuli's charred corpse suddenly wept Xuanming True Water, the droplets hitting the ground and condensing into a phantom of the Reincarnation Pond. Three hundred child corpses floated up from the pond, each with half a plum branch stabbed into its chest—and seale…
Chapter 40