Almost instantly, the entire dome opened to both sides, revealing a brilliant star chart. Countless stars dotted its channels, and at a glance, it looked like a vortex that sucked in every eye.
"Even after seeing it countless times, that depth and vastness still leave me unable to tear myself away."
Lu Wuji couldn't help murmuring.
Su Jiewu formed a spell with his fingers and set the Round Moon Token turning. The star chart seemed to come alive. It had only rotated a few times when a bloody severed finger thrust out of it. The next instant, countless shafts of light came raining down.
"Not good!"
Lu Wuji shouted and formed a spell with both hands. The Eight Trigrams totems on all four walls of the great hall lit up. At once, countless shields of light shot from the glowing totems, weaving together into a net in midair.
Most of the falling light was caught in the net woven by the Eight Trigrams totems. A small portion slipped through and fled out of the great hall.
Before their eyes, the escaped lights took the shape of crystal beasts.
The lights caught in the totem net, meanwhile, became glittering crystal cores, exactly like the strange core Xu Yi had seen being refined in the Purple Domain.
"Twenty-nine, with five slipping out. How did there end up being so many? This isn't normal."
Su Jiewu couldn't help exclaiming.
He wasn't at all surprised by the severed finger in the starry sky.
Strictly speaking, the changes throughout the Barren Frontier had begun when that severed finger appeared in the Void Gate.
It had happened more than a hundred years ago. Crystal beasts had begun appearing throughout the Barren Frontier ever since, and contact with the upper realm had been severed at the same