The Bone Tripod roared and trembled within the Scorched Ruins. Three hundred and sixty yarrow-stalk ropes suddenly lunged out from the fissures in the earth, the tortoise shell fragments hanging from them clashing together to produce a shrill, piercing sound. Lin Xuan gripped the hilt of his charred Peach Wood Sword, the stardust embers remaining on the blade’s spine flickering with an intermittent glow. Su Jiuli’s residual projection was even fainter than yesterday, and the Celestial Fox Tail Fire, transformed into flickering fireflies, danced around her nearly translucent fingertips.
"Three inches to the left, at the Kan position!"
Su Jiuli gave a low cry, and the fireflies converged into a beam of light, striking the southeast corner of the Bone Tripod. Lin Xuan leapt into the air, stepping on fragments of tortoise shell, and drove his blade precisely into the crack she indicated. A blinding cyan light suddenly burst from the tripod, and seventy-two Scorched Bone Puppets crawled out from the fissures in its belly, eerie green marrow-fire dancing in their hollow eye sockets.
Chapter 448