Chapter 449

As the Bronze Sundial rose from the fissures of the nine coffins, three hundred and sixty blood-oath chains pierced the firmament of the Return to Void. The spiderweb cracks snaking across the Sundial Disk oozed marrow-fire of the planet Mars, and the scene of the First Ancestral Witch dissecting a heart collapsed within the fractures. In his right palm, the Oath-Usurping Star Pivot reflected nine layers of the oath-domain, each shadow-cylinder imprisoning the "Unsworn Soul Sand" of Su Jiuli that had escaped the Star Eclipse. "Sundial Burns Nine Oaths!" Su Jiuli’s lingering shadow channeled the Celestial Fox Tail Fire, as flickering lights gathered into three Star Remains puppets, pinning down five of the chains. Lin Xuan stepped upon the Sundial Needle and leapt toward the Star Pivot. The malevolent energy of the Four Symbols triggered the Vermilion Bird’s Heaven-Burning Pattern; as the fire-wings swept over the Sundial Disk, the Wu Clan’s Blood Sacrifice Pit rose from its base. On the surface of the divinatory bones piled within, the jade-chi pattern wrapped around the First Saintess’s left wrist resonated with the jade bracelet on the Black Coffin Woman’s wrist. The "White-Headed" star-fire inside the bracelet was being repeatedly gouged out by the Star Pivot!