Chapter 61

The moment the Bronze Sarcophagus lid slid into the darkness, a crisp sound like cracking turtle shells echoed from the Guixu Eye of the Sea. The waves of blood beneath Su Jiuli's feet froze abruptly, and three hundred Wu Clan turtle shells surfaced beneath the ice—their cracks spreading in tandem with the bronze liquid overflowing from the sarcophagus. From the narrow split of the star mark between her brows, the fox-mask of the First Generation Patriarch protruded halfway, its rotting tongue licking the Xuanwu totem beneath the ice layer, instantly staining the totem's patterns with a foul-smelling copper patina. The bronze liquid swept across the ice, coagulating into nine fox tails that wrapped around Su Jiuli's ankles. The instant the tips of the tails touched the split of the star mark, the cluster of sarcophagi at the bottom of the abyss suddenly resonated. Three hundred sarcophagus lids trembled simultaneously, and miasma mixed with Star Sand seeped from the seams—wherever the miasma passed, the frozen waves of blood transformed into pulsing Wu Clan blood seal-scripts!