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Three hundred hanging coffins plunged into the imperial city, transforming into human forms upon impact. The women clad in the garments of various dynasties opened their frost-laden eyes, and ice blades formed at their fingertips, blossoming into blood-red ice lotuses wherever they passed. I knelt half-heartedly among the ruins, propping myself up with the Dragon-Slaying Sword, as the remaining blue flames of the Butterfly Wings were insufficient to melt the frost between my brows.
"My dear daughter." The voice of Chu Hengdi echoed from each Ice Coffin, his figure flickering among the Bing Ji. "Your final contribution to the Chu Clan Bloodline is to become the offering for the new Venom God."
The Bing Ji suddenly raised their hands in unison, and the tiles of Vermilion Bird Street began to upheave. Those controlled by Jin Chan emerged from the ground, their chests split open as they extended bone claws entwined with ice shards—just as recorded in The Venom Codex's account of Han Gu Lei.
"Your Majesty is quite calculating." I coughed up blood mixed with ice shards. "Feigning to let Chu Tiankuo merge with the Venom God, while actually using him as a vessel to absorb the backlash..." Before I could finish my sentence, the Bing Ji's assault suddenly halted, crescent-shaped birthmarks appearing on their foreheads.
Chu Hengdi's true form finally materialized—he hovered above the Ice Coffin Array Eye, his white hair like snow yet his face youthful, with a heart embedded with a butterfly-shaped amber. This was indeed the object protected by the Holy Maiden at the bottom of Cold Pool, now refined into a soul device controlling the Bing Ji.
"Do you think that the Burning Heart Butterfly bloodline can restrain Venom?" He caressed the Jin Chan within the amber. "Years ago, Murong Chong offered up the Holy Maiden, seeking to use her Burning Heart Bone to refine eternal Venom!" Suddenly, an ice shard pierced through my left shoulder, pinning me against a remnant pillar of the Star Observation Platform.
In excruciating pain, childhood memories surfaced in my mind: Chu Hengdi holding my hand as he traced a Star Map; a secret document slipping from his sleeve that read, "Southern Liang seeks an alliance, exchanging cities for the Holy Maiden." It turned out my birth was a transaction from the very beginning.
The Bing Ji formed a Nine Palace Formation, icy mist coiling into chains that bound my limbs. Chu Hengdi gathered ice spikes at his fingertips: "Rest assured, I will leave you your eyes to witness—using Han Gu Lei to breach Southern Liang Kingdom's capital will save us supplies..."
"Your Majesty seems to have forgotten the time." I deliberately glanced at his sleeve where the Sun Dial Jade Pendant peeked out. "The Hour of the Rat is approaching; that 'one' in Bing Yuan should be awakening soon."
His expression changed drastically as an ice spike veered off course and grazed past my ear. Almost simultaneously, the earth veins of the entire imperial city began to tremble; the remnants of Venom God pierced by Dragon-Slaying Sword suddenly exploded, three hundred Jin Chan soul fires converging towards Bing Yuan—a place emanating a chilling pressure.
"You dare awaken the First Generation Venom God!" Chu Hengdi's amber cracked as the Bing Ji abruptly turned their weapons against me. In their increasingly distinct crescent birthmarks, I glimpsed a turning point: the Holy Maiden's bloodline was rebelling against the soul device!
Seizing his momentary distraction, I hurriedly suppressed the backlash and bit my tongue, spraying my essence blood onto Dragon-Slaying Sword. Blue flames surged along its engravings—not an ethereal fire that incinerates all but a life-infused azure flame—this was the final missing chapter of The Venom Codex, rebirth fire birthed from the Holy Maiden's heart blood.
As the sword tip pierced through the earth veins, Dark River beneath the Ice Layer surged upwards towards the sky. At that moment, Pei Huai Jin's phantom emerged from within the mist; his heart and Jin Tong had turned azure: "Your Highness, use Butterfly Wings to guide Tian He!"
I leaped into the center of the vortex, my broken Butterfly Wings reborn amidst turbulent currents. Each scale and feather reflected scenes from different timelines: Yongchang's Lantern Festival three years ago when Pei Huai Jin inscribed a reversal array in Bing Yuan; three days prior during a bloody battle in Dungeons when he intentionally allowed himself to be stabbed by Dragon Scale Guard at precisely where Venom God's Mingmen...
"So you had long...!" I gazed at his phantom in the mist. He smiled as he faded away, his final spiritual energy infusing into Dragon-Slaying Sword. Tian He poured downwards, washing away Jin Chan within Han Gu Lei. The citizens gradually awakened; their pupils still retaining blue light resonated with Bing Ji's crescent birthmarks.
Chu Hengdi's amber shattered completely; remnants of the Holy Maiden's soul escaped from within Bing Ji. They danced around me in a sacrificial ritual; with each circle they spun, Chu Hengdi aged ten years. By the time three hundred circles were completed, he had become a hunchbacked old man yet laughed maniacally: "You have underestimated Southern Liang Kingdom..."
Suddenly, fissures opened up on the ground revealing an Abyss; wearing a Bronze Demon Mask, National Master Chu Yuanhui rose atop a Bone Dragon. He lifted his mask to reveal a face identical to Chu Tiankuo's: "Thank you for nurturing Venom, Your Majesty; I shall gladly accept it." From within Bone Dragon's exhaled black mist, all Jin Chan converged into the true form of Venom God.
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