The moment the Dragon Coffin split open, Xuanming True Water poured into the Nine Heavens. Wrapped around the fox claws extending from the coffin were bronze chains, each tethered to three hundred Wu Clan skulls—in the eye sockets of every skull, Su Jiuli’s residual souls flickered. The Star Mark on Lin Xuan’s spine suddenly transformed into a living python; its jaws crushed the chains binding him, but the fox claws pierced through its throat. The moment the python's blood splattered onto the Dragon Coffin, the ten thousand arrow reliefs on the lid detached, transforming into Bronze Nails that drove into the brow of The Girl’s Benevolence.
"This is the true sacrifice..." The cruel laughter of the Celestial Fox Ancestral Soul echoed from the Guixu Eye. Her nine tails swept across the Star Palace Ruins, and the Tail-Tip Gold Bell shattered the final fragment of the Star Orbit—the shards coalesced into a Bronze Divination Bamboo Slip, its inscription pointing directly at Lin Xuan’s heart: "Star Orbit annihilated, Celestial Fox appears."
The bronze dice in the palm of The Girl’s Benevolence suddenly burst, the debris forming a Wu Clan Blood Banner that shrouded the Dragon Coffin. Wu characters rippled across the banner, revealing the First Generation Patriarch’s deepest conspiracy: he had used the Dragon Coffin as a furnace to smelt the Celestial Fox Ancestral Soul and Lin Xuan’s Star Blood, intending to forge a seed of eternal life. Su Jiuli’s residual souls leaped from the ey…
Chapter 45