Chapter 497

As the bloodstained fingerprint on the hilt of the Tribulation-Breaking Pestle erupted with clear light, resonating with Lin Xuan’s tribulation mark, the infantile laughter from the Abyss Embryo Mound turned suddenly shrill. Scab-like bone spurs on Su Jiuli’s spine pierced through her flesh; as the bronze-colored pus dripped from their tips, it solidified in the void into three hundred Star-Devouring Gu Insects—their wing patterns echoing the very script of the lost *Celestial Fox Star-Suppressing Law*! "The Gu-derived laws..." The remnants of the Bronze Divination Pillar suddenly levitated, the calculations on its surface reversing into the incantations of the Star-Suppressing Law. Lin Xuan channeled his tribulation mark, infused with primordial Star Sand, into the Tribulation-Breaking Pestle and plunged its tip into the depths of the embryo mound. As the Star Sand touched the source of the infant’s laughter, it revealed the Primordial Evil Intent of the First Generation Xuanming, curled within the throat bone of a Star-Eclipsing Candle Dragon. Pulsing within its chest cavity was a blood core formed from the fetal soul of a Celestial Fox!