Chapter 445

When the bronze Return to Void cauldron rose from the fissures of the ash core, three hundred and sixty yarrow-stalk ropes pierced the ley lines of the Return to Void. The cracked, prophetic inscriptions crawling across the belly of the cauldron suddenly surged, and the vision of the First Ancestral Witch severing her fingers collapsed within the fissures—the Fate-Usurping Yarrow Disk held in her right palm revealed nine dimensions of tortoise-shell, each layer of shell-markings imprisoning the unscarred "Unsworn Tortoise Marrow" of Su Jiuli. "The cauldron scorches the nine yarrows!" The residual shadow of Su Jiuli stirred the star-ash, condensing it into a yarrow-stalk puppet; the tortoise-shell shards hanging from the puppet's hair severed five chains of blood. Lin Xuan leaped onto the rim of the cauldron, stepping on tortoise shells; the Four Symbols star-venom drove the Vermilion Bird to ignite the prophecy inscriptions. As the wings of flame swept across the cauldron’s handles, the Wu Priest's Blood Sacrifice Pit rose within the vessel—on the surface of the divination bones piled at the bottom of the pit, the jade bell wrapped around the First Saintess's left ankle resonated with the cracks on the cauldron's body, the "White-Headed" tortoise-fire within the bell being repeatedly scraped away by the yarrow disk!