As Lin Qiye's chant rose, faint glimmers lit up one after another across the blood-red earth, following the winding, intersecting carriage tracks. They interwove into an intricate Star Mark diagram that made one's scalp tingle at a glance.
These were the paths Merlin had taken while driving the carriage through every inch of Takama-ga-hara with them.
Unseen by all, those routes had long corresponded to the Star Mark trajectories. Every turn, every bend, even the depth of the tracks left by the carriage wheels had been precisely calculated.
Merlin had not merely been driving around aimlessly. He had been using the wheel tracks to draw this immense sealing forbidden spell!
This was one of the three contingencies he had left for Lin Qiye.
Instant-cast sealing forbidden spell, Star Rail Divine Coffin!
As the final syllable left his lips, countless dazzling Star Marks rose like wandering dragons from the carriage tracks across the blood-red earth. In an instant, they pierced through space and intertwined around the charred Susanoo.
The Star Marks wound around him and rapidly solidified, like a deep-blue divine coffin that trapped him firmly within.
Susanoo's mutilated body was sealed inside. Two streaks of bloody tears slid down his cheeks as his surging divine power frantically battered the coffin, spreading fine cracks across its surface.
Atop a distant palace.
Seeing this, King Mask staggered to his feet, and the flow of time around him suddenly accelerated.
With slow, heavy steps, he dragged a continuous afterimage through accelerated time, crossing the surging sea of blood and arriving before the nearly revived Wu Xiangnan in an instant.
Wu Xiangnan's body had already been more than half reconstructed, with only half an arm still regenerating. King Mask swiftly hoisted the unconscious man onto his back and charged toward the sealed Susanoo,