The moment the Bronze Dice fell into the Guixu Whirlpool, the triple pupils of The Little Girl erupted with cyan light. Her rotting fingertips grazed the Star Mark on Lin Xuan’s spine, and a Wu Clan parchment manifested from her palm. As the illusion of the Star Palace ruins on the scroll twisted violently, the corpse of the First Generation Patriarch, seated beneath the throne of the adult Female Infant, suddenly opened its crimson vertical pupils!
The ashes of the Everlasting Lamp, formed from Lu Xiaopang’s soul blood, suddenly reignited. Nine bronze chains slithered out from the flames, binding Lin Xuan’s limbs. Within the Ice Coffin tethered to the ends of these chains, the chest cavity of Su Jiuli’s charred corpse split open, revealing a beating Bronze Heart. Engraved upon the surface of the cardiac chamber were the remnants of the First Generation Patriarch’s Marriage Covenant: "When the nine tails are reduced to ash, the starfire shall be rekindled." The Astral Instrument Spirit shrieked from a fragment of the Dragon Bone Sword: "Gouge out the heart! That is the key to the Celestial Fox Ancestral Soul tomb!"
The Little Girl’s fox-like screech shattered the Ice Coffin, and Xuanming True Water gushed from beneath it. Three hundred Bronze Divination Bamboo Slips emerged from the water. As the divinations pierced Lin Xuan’s Star Mark, a Wu Clan Blood Cauldron rose from the depths of the Guixu Eye of the Sea. Boiling within the cauldron was not Star Marrow, but the skinne…
Chapter 41