Chapter 56

When the moonlight of the North Sea was slashed apart by dragon scales, Lin Xuan's spine had already transformed into a bronze anchor chain. The phantom images of nine fox tails coiled around his neck, and the child-corpse souls at the tips of the tails gnawed at the star marks on his collarbone. The mournful weeping of the Celestial Fox stone statues pierced the rock walls of Return to Void, shaking down a flurry of bronze rust flakes—those rust flakes ignited upon contact with blood, burning a fierce formation of the Greedy Wolf Star swallowed by the Big Dipper beneath Lin Xuan's feet. The dragon scales in his empty right eye socket began to grow wildly. The reverse teeth along the edges of the scales tore apart his cheekbones, and the blood pooled and congealed into a Xuanwu totem before it could even drip down. Lin Xuan roared and gouged out three dragon scales, the shattered scales melting in his palm into a Bronze Dagger whose blade reflected a terrifying sight: within his shattered chest cavity, the star anchor was fighting the First Generation Patriarch's hair for control of his heart.