As the Reincarnation Boat’s bronze keel crushed the miasma, the new bell hanging from the prow suddenly erupted with a seven-fold sound of soul-shattering resonance. The moment the sonic wave shook open the Glacier of Eternal Tribulation, Lin Xuan caught a glimpse of an ancient bronze mirror dormant at the bottom of the river—the sun-eclipsing pattern on its surface was of the same origin as the scar on Su Jiuli’s finger bone. From the cracks, blood-red sand of the "Ash Oath"—left behind when the First Ancestral Witch had carved out his own heart—seeped out, falling into the sea to solidify into forty-nine Xuanwu lamps. Where the flames licked, the residual echoes of the Peach Blossom Miasma from before the collapse of the Star Palace Main Hall began to emerge!
"First Meeting shadow-reflection!"
Su Jiuli’s phantom of seven emotions triggered the Reincarnation Curse Rune, and the miasma abruptly condensed into Jianbing’s Heaven-Measuring Ruler. Lin Xuan swung the ruler, cleaving the ice, and the Big Dipper patterns on the blade revealed the deepest secret of the Return to Void graveyard—deep within the Wu Tribe Fetal Jade, pierced by the Chain of Annihilation, was sealed the "White-Headed" remnant page torn away when the First Ancestral Witch had tampered with the wedding vows. From the charred corners of the page rose the true form of the Soul-Devouring Gu, never before recorded: within its chaotic abdominal vortex, the source of Su Jiuli’s stripped-away "Obsessive Soul" la…
Chapter 426