Xiao Heng’s North Star Sword suddenly erupted with golden radiance. Where the blade passed, the Flying Fish Garments of the Brocade Guard wraiths shattered completely, revealing the heavy armor of the Xuexue Army beneath. "Your Majesty’s drama of 'borrowing a shell to return the soul' is performed far less skillfully than your father’s."
Star Sand poured down like a torrential rain at that moment. Shen Xitang’s Dragon-Locking Nails fully detached from her body, plunging into the heart of the Armillary Sphere, slick with black blood. As the instrument began to rotate in reverse, the map of the Juyong Pass secret passage suddenly manifested in reality. Beneath the collapsed city walls, a deeply buried Bronze Tripod was exposed—the liquid boiling within it was the very Elixir of Immortality brewed by Emperor Yuan Zhao long ago!
"Does Miss Shen know the catalyst for this medicine?" Emperor Jiajing’s soul suddenly twisted into the likeness of Yao Guangxiao. "It requires the heart-blood of one’s closest kin, on the night of the Mars-Heart conjunction..."
Chapter 124