The Jiajing Emperor’s corpse let out a maniacal laugh that shook the very foundation of the palace. From his decaying chest crawled centipedes coated in Star Sand, their hundred feet all shaped like human faces. "Shen Cangming swapped the infants using Dragon-Binding Blood, all for this day..."
Shen Xitang’s Silver Silk shredded the centipedes, but their venom corroded the fissures in time and space. As the group plummeted back into the vortex of the Return to Ruins Sea, the wreckage of the treasure ship had already knit together into a massive Armillary Sphere. Embedded at the coordinates of the Twenty-Eight Mansions were skeletons clad in the Flying Fish Garment—the patterns formed by their Xiuchun Sabers were none other than the Dragon-Locking Mark on the nape of Shen Xitang’s neck!
"Would the Lord Thousand-Householder care for another wager?" She tore open her collar, the Big Dipper scar on her heart devouring the Star Sand. "Use this broken body to exchange for the return of the Chiwen Seal to the sea."
Chapter 123