Inside the Mingsha Tripod, the bronze slurry suddenly reversed its flow, and the molted, crystallized shells of the Soul-Devouring Vipers covering the inner walls shattered and crumbled. The moment the spectral skeleton of the First Patriarch’s right arm gripped Lin Xuan’s Star Palace Remnant, the tripod’s body bloomed with Star Orbit fissures infused with Black Tortoise Tear. From these cracks emerged three hundred and sixty ghostly projections of the Star-Devouring Sundial, their Sundial Needles pointing toward the Blind Scale cipher hidden within the sutra-chanting of the blood-weeping Wu Clan figurines!
"Tripod splits, dial scales!"
Star Sand from Su Jiuli’s fingertips coalesced into a Wu Clan turtle-shell prohibition talisman. As it touched the Mingsha Tripod, a micro-array of the First Generation Xuanming’s eye-gouging altar rose from the bottom of the vessel. The insect egg suppressed at the heart of the altar suddenly mutated; the blood-sacrificed true names of the Wu Clan on the shell inverted into chains of Tian Script, which locked onto the Star Palace totem in Lin Xuan’s right eye. The patterns of the totem locked perfectly with the tidal key found in the bronze silk painting!
Chapter 532