Chapter 52: Soul Returning to Guixu
The headless fox corpse of the First Generation Patriarch stepped out of the candle embers, and Su Jiuli's Destiny Soul burst with green light from within its chest cavity. The Star Orbits of the Nine Heavens suddenly twisted, and the cluster of Bronze Sarcophagi trembled and shifted, spelling out ferocious Star Marks across the sky. The Bronze Key in Lin Xuan's hand shattered completely, and its fragments condensed into three hundred bone nails that pierced his limbs—wriggling Wu Clan runes covered the nails, manifesting the final chapter of the Sacrificial Star Ritual: "When the soul returns to the Guixu Eye, the star tribulation begins."
Xuanming True Water surged backward from the Guixu Eye like a waterfall, scouring the ruined walls of the Star Palace. Deep within the ruins, a Wu Clan blood cellar emerged, and three thousand bronze lamps inside the cellar suddenly burst into flames, their lamp oil transforming into viscous blood threads that entangled Lin Xuan. The moment the blood threads touched his skin, he saw the most horrifying truth: what each lamp wick was burning was actually Su Jiuli's seven-emotion fragments stripped away by the First Generation Patriarch!
Chapter 52