Chapter 509

The blood-red patterns of the "Tribulation Reversal Formation" on the bronze mask suddenly surged, the lines piercing into Lin Xuan’s skull like thorns. Su Jiuli’s wrist scar resonated with the phantom of the armillary sphere on the handle of the Star-Refining Pestle. Star Sand poured from the gap in the sphere's "Celestial Market Enclosure," condensing into three hundred Vermilion Bird Burning Feather arrows. As the arrowheads touched the Black Tortoise monument forest, the Tian Script curses inscribed upon them abruptly reversed, the cursed patterns slithering like live snakes to entwine the primordial Life Scale of the Star-Eclipsing Candle Dragon! "Sand arrows, reversal of curses..." The Star-Refining Pestle suddenly flew from his grasp, spinning as its tip swept a clear light across the Guixu Eye of the Sea. As the light touched the Life Scale, twenty-eight bronze statues of the Celestial Fox Ancestral Corpses emerged from the depths of the whirlpool. At the ends of the chains binding the statues, the severed right arm of the First Patriarch—consumed by the Star Eclipse—was tethered, its phalanges clutching the charred remains of a page from the *Ember Pupil Record*!