Chapter 405

The moment the bronze Destiny Soul tome touched the water of the Reincarnation Pond, the cinnabar on its frontispiece suddenly steamed into a bloody mist of Black Tortoise. The remnant threads of the Soul-Devouring Gu wrapped around Lin Xuan’s left wrist suddenly pulled taut. It was not demonic qi manifesting at the tips of the threads, but the Star Sand blood oath that Su Jiuli had carved into the bottom of the pool before her reincarnation—the four characters of the oath, "Survival After the Tribulation," erupted with a ghastly light, dyeing the entire pool of pure water a deep crimson! "The cocoon shatters, the fate is born!" The bronze destiny puppet at the bottom of the pool suddenly opened its peach-patterned left eye, the Jianbing Demonic Qi swirling in its pupil coalescing into the White Tiger Realm-Rifting Halberd. Lin Xuan stepped across the churning pond waves and charged toward the puppet, the Greedy Wolf Mark on his sole rotating in reverse to form a Guixu Whirlpool. Within the pages of the *Destiny Orbit Canon* torn up by the vortex, a bloody scene was revealed: the First Ancestral Witch gouging out the puppet’s right eye to fill the Star Orbit. Yet, the substance dripping from the blade was not blood, but sun-eroding ink refined from Su Jiuli’s "Perception" soul.