The moment the Ice Coffin opened, Xuanming True Water condensed into nine chains, binding the remnant soul of Lin Xuan. A hand, as pale as bone, reached out from the coffin. The star marks on its fingertips were identical to the brand on the forehead of The Little Girl—it was the Benevolent Thought of Su Jiuli, which had been stripped away by the First Generation Patriarch! The Little Girl’s bronze fox tail swept across the ruins, its Tail-Tip Gold Bell shattering three hundred blood-red plum trees. From the roots of these trees, a Wu Clan Blood Cauldron emerged, and the star sand boiling within it suddenly transformed into living pythons, snatching Lin Xuan's remnant soul and submerging it into the Guixu Eye of the Sea.
Where Lu Xiaopang’s soul fire had been extinguished, it suddenly reignited, coalescing into a Bronze Divination Bamboo Slip that pierced the spine of The Little Girl. As the slip split open, it revealed a mural from the First Generation Patriarch’s tomb—in the painting, the Celestial Fox Ancestral Soul was nailed to a Bronze Pillar, and beneath the pillar lay half of a blood-stained Longevity Lock. The Little Girl suddenly let out a fox cry, a sound that drew the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale up from the Guixu. Star blood seeped from the fox tail mark on the scale, the droplets forming a phantom image of Su Jiuli at the moment she had gouged out her own heart.
Lin Xuan’s remnant soul was reshaped within the Xuanming True Water, his limbs pierced through by bro…
Chapter 42