When the Bronze God Tree surged from the fissures of the Blood Cauldron, seventy-two sorcery-patterned bells trembled among its branches. The substance falling from the clappers was not copper rust, but "Obsessive Soul Dust" refined from the laryngeal bones of the First Star Palace cultivators. The moment these dust particles touched the god tree’s roots, three hundred and sixty stone sorcery puppets burst forth from the Guixu Ice Crevice. The yarrow stalks wrapped around their bodies suddenly ignited into Star Orbits, and from the knots, "White-Headed" blood dew—a substance not recorded in the "Life-Devouring Heavenly Book"—seeped out.
"The bells are devouring soul dust!"
The phantom of Su Jiuli triggered the Celestial Fox Tail Fire, revealing the First Ancestral Witch's heart-gouging motif within the cracks of the god tree’s main trunk. Lin Xuan stepped upon the burning yarrow stalks, leaping toward the canopy. As the White Tiger Realm-Rifting Halberd struck the sorcery-patterned bells, the tree’s root system suddenly animated into a giant bronze python. Its fangs pierced the False God Pattern on the halberd’s shaft, tearing loose the "Usurped Oath Marrow Smoke" that had been sealed away since the collapse of the Star Palace Main Hall.
Chapter 435