The tear tracks on the Su Jiuli in the mirror suddenly froze, transforming into bronze shackles that bound the Tribulation-Breaking Pestle. The Twenty-Eight Mansions etchings within Lin Xuan's tribulation mark flared with blinding light. Starlight pierced through the ancient mirror, coalescing in the void into a Primordial Era armillary sphere. Embedded in the missing "Ziwei Enclosure" position of the device was the Zhulong egg born from the bone-bud flower; from the cracks in the shell seeped a clear light identical to the tear tracks in the mirror.
"Device, egg, tribulation..."
The sound of scales grinding within the Star Eclipse nest suddenly grew piercing, and the spinal columns of countless Zhulong split open. From the gaps surged a bronze liquid, congealing into three hundred Soul-Devouring Banners that circled the armillary sphere. The blood talismans on the banners were identical to the etchings of Lin Xuan's tribulation mark, with the tail of every talisman tethered to the severed remnants of a Celestial Fox's fetal soul.
Chapter 498