Chapter 461

The roar of the self-destructing bronze chimes had yet to fade when half a scroll of the "Soul-Suppressing Pact" emerged from the fractured chime body. The moment Lin Xuan’s fingertips touched the surface of the slip, a vision of the Black Tortoise Blood-Weeping Stele appeared in the northern sky—the blood rain falling to the earth coalesced into the Return to Void Array Diagram. The missing "Kan" trigram position in the diagram aligned perfectly with the charred fissure on the Azure Dragon Broken Horn! "Blood rain mends the Kan trigram!" The fox fire formed by Su Jiuli’s lingering consciousness flickered, illuminating the Tian Script on the back of the bamboo slip. The characters spread like the cracks in a tortoise shell, resonating with the Heaven-Burning Fire mark on Lin Xuan's right arm. The end of the pattern pointed toward the Ice Abyss in the north, where a bronze sarcophagus floated at the bottom of the chasm, nailed shut by nine soul-suppressing pins forged from the Vermilion Bird Burning Feather!