Chapter 59

The instant the Bronze Roots pierced the petrified shell, a crisp crack like shattering turtle shell echoed from the depths of the North Sea. Lin Xuan's petrified head turned slightly, and the bronze rust breeding in his eye sockets dropped like tears, corroding star craters of the Big Dipper swallowing the wolf into the seabed. The remnant soul of the First Generation Patriarch coiled around the roots, and amid the spew of rotten soul breath, the bronze lamps in the palms of the nine Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox stone statues suddenly dimmed—within the swaying flame of the wick, Su Jiuli's reincarnated phantom was being devoured by star marks. The roots suddenly grew wildly. Bronze veins spread along Lin Xuan's petrified meridians, condensing into a miniature star anchor within his chest cavity. The instant the anchor tip pierced the stone shell, the seabed altar rose with a roar, and three hundred Wu Clan turtle shells emerged from the bronze tripod at the center of the altar—the soul blood of the First Generation Patriarch oozed from the cracks in the shells, and the blood droplets touched the stone body, actually scorching the reverse text of the *Soul Burial Formula* upon its surface!