413: The Three Seals

At this moment, the entire wasteland was illuminated by red light, resembling purgatory.

Su Han lay on his back in the hollow, the jade bottle in his palm resonating with his pulse as if it had a life of its own.

An icy blue current surged through his body, every inch of his Meridians freezing into frost, then instantly burning to ash.

“What in the world is this…?”

He coughed up a mouthful of blood mixed with stardust, his vision blurred, yet he could still discern the anomaly in the sky—the mountains to the southeast repeatedly collapsing and reorganizing, the firmament seemingly torn apart by an invisible hand, revealing the trajectories of the stars behind it.

The Gravekeeper half-knelt not far away, the black 紋 on his left arm already spreading to his shoulder, an eerie blue flame flickering around his body, yet it was unable to dispel the Erosion Abyss power that was corroding his Spiritual Qi.

“Su Han! Cut off that light band quickly!”

He roared, his gaze fixed on the jade bottle in the young man’s palm.

The resonance between the bottom of the bottle and the star map had already caused the entire earth to tremble, and the Spiritual Qi in the earth’s Meridians was wildly overflowing, as if some ancient existence was awakening.

Bi Yao stumbled and crawled to their side, her skirt already soaked with blood.

Dark golden viscous fluid overflowed from the corners of her mouth, and the Phoenix True Fire condensed at her fingertips flickered erratically.

“Those Talismanic Incantations aren’t ordinary sacrificial Formations…”

She gasped, golden patterns spreading from her palm to her neck, “It’s reconstructing the star 軌! The Erosion Abyss is mimicking the ‘Nine Heavens Sacrifice’!”

Before her words finished, a crack suddenly split open in the firmament.

Dark black vines hung down from the Void Realm, each node embedded with eye-like black crystals, and golden runes floated on the surface of the vines, identical to the patterns spreading across the little boy’s corpse.

“Step back!”

Su Han instinctively pushed the two away, his Azure Flame Sword held horizontally in front of him.

The moment the sword’s edge collided with the vine, the entire space seemed to freeze.

The runes on the surface of the vine lit up with an eerie glow, actually devouring the Azure Flame and in turn transforming into dark black flames that backfired onto the sword body.

Su Han’s arm went numb, the blade cracked inch by inch, and black patterns spread up his tiger’s mouth.

“This is ‘Spirit-Devouring Corrupt Flame’…the Erosion Abyss’s symbiotic fire!”

The Gravekeeper roared, crushing a Talismanic Incantation, and a deep pit exploded in the ground, sending dozens of vines flying, but they reorganized in mid-air.

“Quickly destroy the jade bottle! That thing is catalyzing the Formation!”

Su Han’s pupils constricted.

The jade bottle did resonate with the star map, but the blue light in the bottle had now transformed into a violent star current; if it were forcibly shattered, it would likely cause an even more terrifying anomaly.

“No! It might be the key!”

He gritted his teeth, forming a hand Seal with his other hand, “Bi Yao, protect me with your Phoenix True Fire—”

Bi Yao nodded, golden patterns igniting from her fingertips, and a blazing flame encircled the two.

However, the moment the flame touched the jade bottle, the bottle suddenly erupted with dazzling blue light, completely devouring the flame.

“Ineffective! Its energy level far surpasses spiritual fire!” Bi Yao exclaimed.

At this time, the mountains to the southeast had completely reorganized into the Three Enclosures star map.

The mountain stones floated in mid-air, each one shimmering with the radiance of its corresponding star.

The little boy’s bloated body suddenly contracted violently, revealing the suspended rune orbits within—a stellar orbit connection far more complex than any Formation in the human world.

“It’s replicating the ‘Ziwei Enclosure Seal’!”

The Gravekeeper suddenly let out a low roar, “Su Han, look at your jade bottle! That’s not a star map groove, but a key indentation!”

Su Han trembled all over. The patterns at the bottom of the jade bottle indeed fit perfectly with the star map, as if they were originally one entity.

“You mean…the Erosion Abyss wants to open the Seal?”

He suddenly looked up, meeting the empty eye sockets of the little boy’s corpse.

At this moment, a blood-red vertical pupil slowly opened there.

“No, it’s not ‘wanting’ to, but ‘already’…”

Bi Yao suddenly clutched her throat, the golden patterns having spread to her jaw, “It’s reversing time…the mist it swallowed three days ago was the bait it scattered in advance!”

At this moment, the ground exploded with a roar.

Seven dark black stone pillars broke through the earth, and bronze chains with the same patterns as the jade bottle floated at the top of the pillars.

Spider-like black vines climbed along the chains, each segment transforming into a human face, emitting a piercing shriek.

“The Three Enclosure Seal…has been tampered with by the Erosion Abyss!”

The Gravekeeper plunged his long saber into the ground, and an eerie blue flame spread along the stone pillars, but it was like a mud ox entering the sea, instantly swallowed. (End of Chapter)