Chapter 510

The bronze patterns on the Scale-Examining Boat rippled under the glow of the Star Sand as the nine Star-Eclipsing Springs beneath the hull suddenly inverted. The blood scab that had fallen from Su Jiuli’s wrist plummeted into the spring eye, and from the cracks in the Black Tortoise Soul-Suppressing Monument, Star Sand of the Twenty-Eight Mansions seeped out. In the void, it coalesced into the bronze tears shed when the First Patriarch gouged out his own eyes—the moment the droplets hit the ground, a roar of shattering dragon bones erupted from the depths of the Jieyuan Earth Vein. "Spring Eye, reverse the sand!" The Star Sand stripped from Lin Xuan’s right eye suddenly gathered into a phantom of an armillary sphere. On the plate, in the position of the "Purple Forbidden Enclosure," a tidal rhythm chart—tampered with by the First Generation Xuanming—emerged. The pupil embedded in the hilt of Su Jiuli’s Star-Refining Pestle flared with blinding light. As the tip of the pestle swept across the wreckage of the Soul-Suppressing Bell, the relief of the White Tiger Ripping Claw on the bell’s inner wall began to ooze a viscous fluid mixed with dust from the Dragon Tomb—as the wind caught the fluid, it solidified into the totem for "Treading Stars, Questioning Calamity," the first movement of the Calamity-Breaking Dance!