Chapter 514

The moment the bronze key pierced the Matrimonial Coffin, the pulsation of the Life Scale within the coffin abruptly ceased. The mucus on the jade slip, stained by the White Tiger Ripping Claw Phantom, suddenly boiled, coalescing into the Guixu coordinate—the location where the First Patriarch’s right arm had lost its Star Sand. As the coordinate projected onto the dome of the Jieyuan Earth Vein, it aligned perfectly with a crack in the "Taiwei Enclosure" Star Orbit of the armillary sphere. Three hundred bronze divination bamboo slips tumbled from the crack, their surfaces stained with blood and inscribed with fragments of the original Tide-Bone Covenant! "Key stagnation, hexagram tide!" Su Jiuli’s fingertips traced the blood-inscribed patterns on the bamboo slips, and sharp, reversed scales suddenly sprouted from their surfaces. The tips hooked into the matrimonial token held in the beak of the Fire Phoenix phantom. Within the token, the pulsation of the Life Scale suddenly revived, its frequency shattering the Viper Snake totem on the Tide-Tracing Cauldron. Where the snake’s Blind Scale eyes cracked open, strands of hair—left behind by the First Generation Patriarch when he tampered with the tides—oozed out. The blood-weeping Star Sand at the tips of these strands condensed into a Xuanwu compass, its needle pointing directly to the source of the purple light emanating from the Female Infant phantom’s Calamity Mark!