The Bronze Casket emitted an ancient, shrill cry amidst the seven layers of soul-splitting light. The moment Lin Xuan’s fingertips touched the heart-gouging pattern on the casket’s lid, seventy-two Star Sand Chains burst from the void, pinning the entropy-increasing core to the Li trigram position of the First Ancestral Witch’s altar. As the chains trembled, they shed crimson rust, each grain burning in the air into the missing hexagrams of the Guixu Compass.
"Nine Luminaries return to their positions; the star prophecy shall be burned!"
Su Jiuli’s phantom invoked the Xuan Bird bone mirror, within which the Marrow Blade used by the First Ancestral Witch to gouge his heart suddenly reversed. Lin Xuan leapt onto the altar, stepping across the mirrored afterimages, and used the White Tiger Realm-Rifting Halberd to shatter the seal of the Bronze Casket. It was not the "White-Headed True Light" that surged from within, but a flow of entropy-fire plasma enveloping the source of the Soul-Devouring Mother Gu. The plasma fell to the ground, congealing into three hundred and sixty Star Remains puppets, their crowns engraved with False God Patterns that resonated with the dome of the Ember Labyrinth.
Chapter 431