Chapter 450

The dragon-gong patterns on the bronze pillars awaken in the bloody rain, and marrow fluid of Yinghuo oozes from the eye sockets of the embossed Star Officials. Treading on the churning black water of Guixu, Lin Xuan leaps onto the third bronze pillar, his broken residual sword splitting open the memory ice crystals frozen on the pillar's surface. Amidst flying crystal shards, the scene of the First Generation Wu Shaman gouging out the eyes of the Black Tortoise is vividly replayed: what seeps from the cracks in the sacred beast's turtle shell is not fresh blood, but the primal source of Guixu carrying star sand. "Marrow surges, stars fall!" Lu Xiaopang suddenly tears open the sleeve of his left arm, revealing the blood-pact totem of the Wu Clan. He uses a bone knife to slice open the center of the totem, and the spurting fresh blood transforms into three hundred crimson qiu dragons, entangling the bronze giant pillar that is about to topple. As the scales of the qiu dragons scrape against the pillar's surface, the peeling copper patina condenses into pages from the *Four Symbols Burial Scripture*. The truth of "The Black Tortoise Weeps Blood" recorded in the scripture is actually that the sacred beast voluntarily allowed its eyes to be gouged out to suppress the sea!