Chapter 82

The evening drum at the hour of You shattered the last remnants of the sunset clouds. Shen Xitang’s silver needle traced a perfect astral orbit across the Magnetic Pith Compass. Xiao Heng’s Dark Iron Sword drove deep into the golden tiles in front of the Taiji Hall. The liquid seeping from the blood grooves of the blade mixed with the Sulfur Crystal, igniting a cold, ghostly blue flame in the twilight—this was the "Blood-Induced Earth Fire" phenomenon recorded in the *Chronicles of Ley Lines*. "The Han Faction still has a trump card!" Lin Qi’s iron umbrella suddenly spun open like a shield, blocking three armor-piercing bolts fired from the corner of the hall. The Ryukyu fire-phosphorus quenched on the arrowheads ignited upon contact with blood, burning a charred wolf-head totem onto the umbrella’s surface.