The moment the lid of the Bronze Sarcophagus shifted three inches, all the Xuanming True Water within the Guixu Eye instantly solidified. Emerging from the coffin were fox claws bound in bronze chains; tethered to the ends of these chains were not skeletal remains, but three hundred pulsing hearts made of Star Sand, each etched with Lin Xuan’s Star Mark. Fragments of the ice mirror, where The Girl's Benevolence had been annihilated, suddenly swirled, piercing the spine of Su Jiuli’s reincarnated Destiny Soul. Amidst the sound of cracking bone, an ancient Wu Clan chant resonated: "The Sundial Needle tilts, the Star Mark fractures, the Nine Heavens calamity rises, and the fox tail turns to ash."
The Bronze Key in Lin Xuan’s hand suddenly erupted with green light. The Star Sand within the key flowed in reverse like a waterfall, pinning him against the collapsing altar’s remaining pillars. Blood beads seeped from the reliefs on the pillars, reflecting the First Generation Patriarch’s deepest lie: what he had knelt before the Celestial Fox Ancestral Soul tomb to gouge out all those years ago was actually the Marriage Covenant between Su Jiuli and the Star Orbit, not the Celestial Fox Ancestral Soul itself!
Nine Azure Dragon skeletons broke through the Xuanming True Water, pus and blood oozing from the dragon-horn and fox-tail markings upon them. The blood coagulated into a Bronze Yue, which slashed toward Lin Xuan. Fragments of the "Soul Burial Formula" engraved on the blade sud…
Chapter 49