The sound of scratching against the Ice Coffin fragments mingled with the trembling of chains, sending ripples through the Guixu Eye. As Lin Xuan picked up the Star Blood from where The Girl's Benevolence had vanished, the moment the droplet touched his palm, the Bronze Sundial on the ancient altar suddenly shifted. The Sundial Needle swept across the Star Sand, carving out incomplete Wu Clan blood runes. At the bottom of the blood pool, the spinal patterns of the child corpses began to shift, coalescing into the phantom of the First Generation Patriarch. A half-piece of a Bronze Dice in his hand began to seep Star Sand, which solidified into three hundred bronze arrows, their tips pointed directly at the fissure in the Ice Coffin at the center of the altar!
"The Sundial Needle has shifted; the great calamity begins anew..." the fading voice of the Astral Instrument Spirit echoed from the Bronze Sundial. Bronze Roots erupted from where the Star Marks had peeled away from Lin Xuan’s back, their tips wrapping around the dial. Cracks appeared on the face of the dial, revealing a vision of Su Jiuli pierced by nine chains—the ends of which were tied to the Sundial Needle itself!
The Wu Clan Blood Cauldrons at the four corners of the altar suddenly began to boil, and flayed child corpses surfaced within them. The Star Marks on the corpses' spines detached, merging into a bronze sword that struck at the fissure in the Ice Coffin. The instant the blade touched the surface of the co…
Chapter 47