As the bronze Oracular Stele rose from the fissures of the Fallen Star Tomb, three hundred and sixty Star Sand Chains suddenly pulled taut. Blood-colored luminous sand seeped from the ancient shamanic scripts etched into the stele’s surface, coalescing into a "Kun" hexagram oracle not recorded in the Star Vow Bone Slip. Within the depths of the characters, the swimming Star Eclipse Spots vibrated in perfect frequency with the Blood-Patterned Banner, each grain of luminous sand reflecting the "Fate-Usurping Marrow Smoke" from when the First Ancestral Witch gouged out their heart.
"The stele is devouring the Star-Ash Fireflies!"
Su Jiuli’s phantom channeled the Star-Ash into form, the fireflies gathering into a Celestial Fox silhouette that shattered three of the chains. Lin Xuan leaped to the summit of the stele, his toes grazing the falling Star Sand. A Four Symbols Star Blast fueled the Vermilion Bird Burning Feather, and as the wings of flame swept across the reverse side of the Oracular Stele, nine Star Remains sarcophagi suddenly emerged from the base. A Calamity-Devouring Horned Dragon, emerging from the cracks in the lids, clutched a fragment of a Wedding Wine Vessel, still untainted!
Chapter 438