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The waters of the Dark River surged, entwining with the Biting Cold that seeped into my bones. I grasped the remnants of a Bronze Box floating nearby, allowing the Turbulence to carry us toward the Unknown Abyss. The Golden Cicada Blue Pattern danced beneath my skin, forming a Star Map that illuminated the riverbed littered with countless white bones—each Skeleton's Heart Cavity bore traces of being gnawed upon.
"Watch your head!" Pei Huai Jin's hoarse warning mingled with the sound of rushing water. As I looked up, hundreds of suspended coffins made of dark ice hung from the ceiling like inverted swords, Cold Iron Chains woven into a Spider Web, their ends disappearing into the Ice Layer where a Giant Serpent Shadow lurked. Suddenly, Lan Wen on my wrist elongated, wrapping around the nearest chain like a Tian Can Si.
As I leaped onto the Ice Platform, crimson liquid oozed from a crevice in the Ice Layer. The viscous Blood Plasma crystallized in the wind, sketching out a Sacrificial Scene from Three Hundred Years Ago... Ninety-Nine Pregnant Women were chained to an Altar, their swollen bellies revealing the outlines of infants clawing to escape.
"This is the true origin of the Chu Royal Family." Pei Huai Jin's voice came from behind an ice pillar. His dark official robes had torn into strips, and his Heart Jin Tong was covered in a layer of dust. "With each awakening of a Venom King, another Suspended Coffin is added to Bing Yuan."
I touched the Mysterious Ice Coffin beside me, its inner lid engraved with countless "正" characters. The moment my fingertip brushed against the ice surface, memories of a woman within pierced my mind like a blade—In the winter of Yongchang's twenty-third year, sixteen-year-old He Jing Princess was lured to the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Her father smiled as he plunged a Golden Blade into her Heart: "Li'er, dear, this is the supreme honor of a daughter of Chu." As she experienced the Golden Cicada Devouring Heart moment, she saw Consort Shu's pregnant belly behind the Dragon Column, identical to her own.
"These Suspended Coffins are living burials." I quickly withdrew my hand as cracks appeared on the Ice Coffin's surface. Pei Huai Jin's Jin Tong bled tears: "They were infused with Venom God's blood to preserve their bodies in extreme cold, becoming nourishment for Venom God."
Suddenly, the Ice Layer trembled violently; the clinking of chains mixed with the sound of scales scraping against ice. The Shadow lurking in the Abyss finally revealed itself—a half-human, half-snake Ice Sculpture, its serpentine tail entwined around the missing White Jade Leg Bone from the Imperial Ancestral Temple Underground Palace. As my blood dripped onto its scales, the surface of the Ice Sculpture began to peel away, exposing its true form with an Azure Face and Sharp Fangs.
At once, Venom God's eight arms began to form seals simultaneously; The Corpse in the Suspended Coffin suddenly opened its eyes. The Jin Chan at their chests burst forth into the air, coalescing into a totem representing Southern Liang National Seal.
"Do you think rebirth is a gift? You are merely pawns for me to break free from my seal!"
Pei Huai Jin suddenly hurled a Bronze Bell; its engravings resonated with those of the Suspended Coffin. Ice spikes falling from Ice Abyss Summit pierced three female corpses instantly; their decayed blood ignited upon touching ground as Azure Ghost Fire erupted: "Quick! Use the Dragon-Slaying Sword to stab its crown! That’s Murong Chong’s Mingmen!"
At that moment, Venom God's serpent tail swept towards me; I hurriedly leaped onto a falling Suspended Coffin. But as I swung down with the Dragon-Slaying Sword to cleave through an ice spike, it suddenly veered uncontrollably towards my own Heart—I saw Jin Chan struggling violently beneath my skin, attempting to return to Venom God.
"Think about those disaster victims at Azure Dragon Square!" Pei Huai Jin's roar echoed in Bing Yuan. He broke chains with his bare hands and pushed the Mysterious Ice Coffin toward Venom God: "Do you wish to be an immortal Puppet or rewrite Chu’s blood curse as a Chess Player?"
I desperately controlled my sword's force; just as it diverted slightly, Venom God's Eternal Flower bloomed instantly on its forehead. In Demonic Red Light, three hundred female corpses wailed in unison; their past memories surged forth...the pain of being sacrificed by fathers and brothers, Jin Chan’s despair as it gnawed at hearts, and each Suspended Coffin bearing half-etched "正" characters—their marks for tracking pregnancy.
"You Chu men steal Venom God's power but make women bear its backlash!" I shouted as I cleaved through red light; finally, the Dragon-Slaying Sword pierced Venom God's crown. What spilled from within was not brain matter but boiling Golden Cicada Larva.
Suddenly, Bing Yuan resonated with booming bells; Chu Tiankuo's laughter echoed from above: "Thank you Elder Sister for clearing the way!" The Chilong Seal in his hand perfectly fit into Venom God's forehead cavity; Consort Shu’s Zhai Niao Step Palanquin floated mid-air adorned with silk embroidered with Lanugo.
The moment the seal returned to its place, Golden Cicada Breaks Free surged within me. In a torrential rain of blood, those larvae greedily devoured my flesh and blood but spontaneously combusted upon touching my Heart Lan Wen. Amidst flames appeared Chu Hengdi—he stood at Ice Coffin Array Eye where The Formation Used Cinnabar inscribed my Bazi beneath his feet.
"Li'er, you did well." He caressed The Face of the Girl in the Ice Coffin—my likeness at age three—"Now it’s time to return Venom God’s power to Chu." Dragon Scale Guards surged from shadows; their Golden Silk Nets were inscribed with Soulbinding Spells.
Pei Huai Jin suddenly crashed through Magic Circle Center's Altar; his Heart's Jin Tong shattered completely: "Run! At Bing Yuan's end there is..." Before he could finish his sentence, Dragon Scale Guard's crossbow bolts pinned him against an Ice Wall. Fresh Blood splattered across ice surfaces forming maps pointing towards Abyss Bottom’s Crimson Vortex.
Then I saw Venom God reborn as an eight-armed giant within Eternal Flower; Chu Tiankuo’s flesh was merging with it. As I leaped into Crimson Vortex, I noticed all female corpses in Ice Coffins raising their hands—they pointed at my Blacksteel Casket that contained The Venom Codex seeping Heiyue.
The rushing waters swept me into Underground Cavern where stone walls depicted Three Hundred Years Ago's truth...the night Murong Chong signed Blood Contract with Venom God—the first hundredth after Ninety-Nine Pregnant Women—the saintess of Southern Liang Kingdom who carried within her womb was truly Venom King’s vessel.
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