Chapter 490

An apparition of Lin Xuan, coalesced from Star Sand, hung suspended at the heart of the armillary sphere, while a half-carved Tian Script flickered in his palm. A bronze divination bamboo slip, fallen from the breast of the First Generation Xuanming stone statue, suddenly ignited. Swirling blue smoke and ash condensed in the void to form the Wu Clan’s star-observing staff. The Xuanwu pupil embedded in the staff head rotated sharply, reflecting shards of a fledgling phoenix's forehead markings curled deep within a Star Gate fissure! "Staff reveals the broken plume..." The armillary sphere’s stalled gears suddenly bit in reverse, grinding the Lin Xuan apparition into a vortex of Star Sand. At the center of the vortex rose the right eye pupil of the Young Xuanming Pure Body. A clear light pierced through the sphere’s structure, carving onto the rock walls of the Jieyuan Earth Vein a star chart that the First Generation had never recorded—in the missing northern sector of the chart, the lines corresponded perfectly to the final stroke of Su Jiuli’s Tian Script!