As the ancient bronze bell emerged from the depths of the Blood Cauldron of Eternal Calamity, seventy-two tortoise-shell cracks crawled across the vessel’s belly. It was not blood that seeped from these fissures, but the "Vow-Soul Sand" preserved from when the First Ancestral Witch carved out his own heart. As the grains hit the ground, they solidified into three hundred and sixty Calamity-Devouring Bone Mirrors. The reflections in the glass did not show the present, but rather the scene of the blood sacrifice when the Main Hall of the Star Palace collapsed, showing the "Obsessive Souls" of ninety thousand cultivators being stripped from their crowns and fused into the armillary sphere.
"Mirror reflecting the ruins of souls!"
Su Jiuli’s lingering shadow channeled the Celestial Fox Tail Fire, causing the taotie patterns on the surface of the Blood Cauldron to suddenly spin in reverse. Lin Xuan leaped from the cauldron's ear onto the top of the ancient bell. The moment his White Tiger Realm-Rifting Halberd struck the bell’s knob, the bronze slurry surging from within the vessel coalesced into fragments of the *Guixu Compass*. At the edges of these pages, the Vow-Devouring Sundial Needles pierced the void, manifesting the uncorrupted right pupil of the First Generation Patriarch’s remnant soul. Deep within the iris floated half of the "White-Headed" true script!
Chapter 434