Transforming into a stunningly beautiful fox spirit, leaving a scar on the heart of a prodigy.

Above the frigid abyss, the wind and snow gradually subsided.

Li Changgeng, the skeleton, stood still, half of his bone palm hanging down at his side.

The words of the ancient fox spirit, "Respect my choice, not possess it," are still suppressed within his soul fire.

The blood-red ferryboat hung in mid-air.

The extremely malevolent aura churning beneath the ship was restrained by 372 chains, transforming into wisps of black and red mist that flowed backward into the depths of the icy abyss.

With each wisp of water that flowed back, another crack appeared on Li Changgeng's body.

He did not raise his hand again.

Inside the Black Stone Formation, the Ancient Heavenly Fox was still pressing on the forehead of the young Li Changgeng.

The boy's face was ashen, his breathing was shallow, and although the extremely evil black markings on his chest had been suppressed, they had not disappeared.

The nine tails of the ancient celestial fox lay spread out on the snow.

The black stripes on the tip of the tail have spread to the roots.

There was blood on her lips, and her fingertips trembled slightly as she raised her hand.

Behind the snow slope.

Su Chang'an lay prone in the frozen soil, his face pressed against the cold snow.

She watched this scene, ignoring the skeleton of Li Changgeng, who was almost crumbling into dust.

The old man's obsession has been broken.

But Gu Tianhu's path is still the same old path.

One person risked his life to plug the holes in the land.

"Such a stubborn, inherited trait."

Su Chang'an cursed under his breath.

She braced herself against her frozen arms and slowly moved toward the edge of the icy abyss.

We must not allow the trace of the Celestial Fox essence within our bodies to surface.

The Heavenly Dao is still watching from above.

If she dared to take another breath imbued with spiritual energy, the next bolt of lightning would blast her into snow dust.

Su Chang'an could only do what a real mortal would do: dig through the snow with his hands.

Beneath the snow were pebbles.

Beneath the gravel lies frozen soil.

She peeled away the mud with her fingernails, her fingertips quickly breaking and bleeding, which was immediately frozen by the cold.

The earth veins at the edge of the Cold Abyss had already been cracked by her earlier freezing.

The crack wasn't large.

Just enough for her to see what was flowing underground.

Chains piercing the earth's veins.

Chains extended from the body of the ancient celestial fox.

Some plunged into the icy abyss.

Some crossed the northern permafrost.

Some followed the dead veins underground, heading all the way into the depths of Kyushu.

Blood-red runes floated on the surface of the chain.

With each flow of runes, a trace of life force was drained from the Ancient Celestial Fox.

At the same time, the black mist churning beneath the abyss was also dragged back underground by chains.

Draw your life.

Suppressing the calamity.

Su Chang'an narrowed his eyes.

"He really is a despicable bastard who uses people as pawns."

She originally thought that these 372 chains were all punishments from the heavens.

Lock up the ancient celestial fox.

Drain her life.

Let her suffer the calamity on behalf of heaven and earth.

But after looking at it for a while, Su Chang'an slowly frowned.

wrong.

There are dozens of chains, each with a different pattern.

The remaining chains were cold, straight, and the runes were arranged without the slightest deviation.

Like the Heavenly Laws.

Like an ironclad rule.

Like a group of emotionless creatures, they just follow the rules and nail people to their deaths.

But those dozens of chains were different.

The chain has a slight curve at the edge.

The runes are not arranged in a straight line, but are wrapped in layers, with the ends slightly curled up.

The markings resemble a fox's tail.

Su Chang'an's finger stopped on the frozen ground.

She stared at the chains and slowly exhaled a puff of white breath.

"So there was something else going on."

Those are not the chains of Heaven.

That was the original essence of the ancient celestial fox.

She used her own tail, her own life, to mend the chains of heaven.

The calamity that would have exploded was suppressed layer by layer.

Not completely imprisoned.

She is also actively suppressing it.

She extended the life of this deadly formation by three thousand years.

Above the cold abyss.

Li Changgeng, the skeleton, suddenly raised his head.

He clearly noticed the difference in the chains as well.

The soul fire flickered a little brighter again.

"Master."

He took half a step forward.

"These chains are not entirely formed by the Way of Heaven."

Gu Tianhu raised his eyes.

Li Changgeng, the White Bone, raised his bone palm, and the remaining Primordial Purple Qi in his palm gently rose.

"The fact that you left these marks proves that it is not unremovable."

"I only need to sever the chains of Heaven, leaving your essence intact—"

"stop."

Gu Tianhu spoke.

The voice was not loud.

Li Changgeng, the skeleton, froze.

He didn't stop.

The primordial purple aura drifted forward another inch.

next moment.

hum-

All 372 chains vibrated in unison.

The black mist at the bottom of the icy abyss churned up.

A crack appeared at the edge of the Black Stone Formation, and the Black Fiend emerged from the crack, rushing straight toward the young Li Changgeng.

The black markings on the boy's chest suddenly lit up.

He curled up in his unconscious state, his fingers gripping the fox tail of the ancient fox, a suppressed groan escaping his throat.

The ancient celestial fox with its nine tails pressed down.

boom!

Black Demon was slammed back into the ground.

Her shoulder swayed, and blood dripped from the corner of her lips into the snow.

Li Changgeng, the skeleton, stood still.

The primordial purple aura gradually dissipated.

He looked at his younger self, then at the chains on Gu Tianhu's body, his soul fire flickering uncertainly.

Su Chang'an lay on the snow slope and finally lifted his face off the frozen ground.

"idiot."

She understood.

Chains are not as simple as a cage.

This is a calamity-suppressing formation.

The physical body of the ancient celestial fox is the core of the main formation.

The 372 chains form the pathways for the flow.

The calamities within the death veins of the Nine Provinces were drawn into the Cold Abyss, where they were suppressed and eroded by the origin of the Ancient Celestial Fox.

Cutting the chains is not about saving her.

It's like turning the whole well upside down and putting it on everyone's heads.

The first to die will be the young Li Changgeng.

The second one to die was Gu Tianhu.

Then it was Kyushu's turn.

"They're all willing to risk their lives to plug the holes."

Su Chang'an wiped the blood from his fingertips.

"His brain has been completely devoured by the evil energy."

She continued to explore along the cracks in the earth's veins.

The further you look, the more you'll discover the differences in those fundamental chains.

The chains woven by the ancient celestial fox were not firmly nailed to the main formation.

They left several very subtle turns between the chains of Heaven.

Like a river branching off.

It's like a series of gates that haven't been fully opened.

In those places, a small amount of black evil spirits were once introduced into the earth's veins.

The traffic is just too low.

The vast majority of the calamities still flowed into the body of the ancient celestial fox.

It's not that she can't divert traffic.

She didn't dare.

They dared not bring disaster elsewhere.

We dare not gamble on whether the earth's veins can withstand it.

I dare not gamble that this will result in the death of another person in Kyushu.

So the safest way is for her to eat it all herself.

Su Chang'an stared at those nodes.

Taiyin Moon Amber can freeze cause and effect.

The Nine-Tailed Divination Technique can split one's destiny.

These nodes are ready-made entry points.

The chains must not break.

The key point of the formation cannot be removed.

It can be arranged, and it can be modified.

It is a tribulation that begins with one person.

It was changed to suppress calamities in multiple locations.

At least we need to get Gu Tianhu out of the "sole sacrifice" first.

Su Chang'an lowered his eyes.

"That sounds more like human language."

She raised her right hand.

My palms were already cracked from the cold.

A fingernail scratched the wound, squeezing out a very faint drop of blood.

Blood fell on the snow.

She did not activate the source.

It simply used the wisp of Yin coldness left in the stone wall to gently guide it.

The pale moonlight shone through the snow.

very weak.

It was as weak as a lamp wick that was about to go out.

But it slowly spread out along the chains, the earth's veins, the black mist, and the death veins.

A fragmented array began to appear on the snow.

Li Changgeng, the skeleton, turned his head.

The soul fire fell on that snowy ground.

He did not see Su Chang'an.

But then I saw the nodes marked in the array diagram.

Those nodes are the turning points of the chains woven by the ancient celestial fox with its own essence.

Li Changgeng, the White Bone Master, slightly raised his bone palm.

He suddenly understood.

Master hasn't been left to wait for death all these years.

She had already been patching up the gaps in this formation.

She simply took on all the responsibilities she could bear herself.

Gu Tianhu also saw it.

Her fingers, which were pressed on the forehead of the young Li Changgeng, paused for a moment.

Su Chang'an squatted behind the snow slope and traced the array diagram with his fingertips.

She crossed out the main storyline of Gu Tianhu monopolizing the calamity.

Several smaller branches were drawn out from the Cold Abyss Earth Vein.

A path leads to the permafrost of the northern region.

A deadly path leading to the entire land.

A few remain deep within the icy abyss.

It's not about releasing disaster.

Instead, the power that was originally placed entirely on Gu Tianhu was distributed to areas where the formation could withstand it.

Let the earth's veins bear part of the burden.

Let some of the dead blood vessels be reclaimed.

Let the Cold Abyss itself also bear what it should bear.

The array patterns gradually took shape.

The churning black mist underground suddenly fell silent.

Several chains with fox tail patterns lit up gently.

They no longer just poured black evil into the body of the ancient celestial fox.

A wisp of extremely faint black mist followed the newly drawn branch and disappeared into the frozen soil of the northern region.

The permafrost trembled.

It didn't collapse.

Han Yuan did not roar again.

Li Changgeng, the skeleton, stood in the snow, his soul fire trembling violently.

Gu Tianhu looked at the several lit chains.

A change finally appeared in his eyes.

Not surprised.

It's more like seeing a snow-covered road that has never been trodden by anyone.

"Who?"

She suddenly spoke.

The nine-tailed fox raised its head slightly.

The wind and snow swept towards the snow slope.

Su Chang'an knew he could no longer hide.

She supported herself against the frozen ground and slowly stood up.

The mortal body was already numb from the cold.

She was only wearing an ordinary cloth jacket.

There is no spiritual pressure.

There was no demonic aura.

He has no cultivation whatsoever.

When she emerged from behind the snow slope, Li Changgeng, the skeleton, turned around first.

The Soulfire stared intently at her.

Gu Tianhu did not move.

However, the nine-tailed fox still loomed in front of the young Li Changgeng.

Su Chang'an walked slowly.

Each step left a shallow footprint in the snow.

She stopped after walking about ten steps outside the Black Stone Circle.

We can't get any closer.

If they get any closer, the auras of the two celestial foxes from the same origin might collide.

She opened her palm.

In the palm of my hand was a fragment of frozen soil.

The array patterns that were just deduced are engraved on it.

A pale white light shone through the patterns.

Su Chang'an bent down and gently placed the fragments on the snow.

Li Changgeng, the White Bone Demon, did not make a move.

Gu Tianhu did not stop it.

A gust of wind blew up from the cold abyss, lifting the stray hairs on Su Chang'an's forehead.

She looked up at Gu Tianhu.

"The chains don't necessarily have to break."

Gu Tianhu watched her quietly.

Su Chang'an then said:

"You don't necessarily have to bear this calamity alone."

"Since you can weave chains using your own origin."

"This will leave a second way out for this formation."

The wind and snow swept by.

The array patterns on the frozen soil fragments were clearly visible in the pale moonlight.

Gu Tianhu stared for a long time.

Her fingers, which were resting on the forehead of the young Li Changgeng, paused slightly.

For the first time, no calamity roared from within the icy abyss.

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