Within the hall, the dark baleful energy subsided, leaving a thin layer of ash in the corners and between the bricks, only for the precious-metal qi to sweep it away an instant later.
"The Golden Crow's second son."
Xu Xuan gently stroked the soft silver armrest. If Tiantuo was a demon who had gained considerable fame in recent years, then the Golden Crow's second son was someone whose name had truly been recorded in ancient history.
After Zhou, Great Xia had unified the realm, only to perish violently after two generations. Apart from the Golden Crow Divine Emperor's failure to open the heavens, the most important cause had been the Rebellion of the Ten Suns, when the Golden Crow's children slaughtered one another in a struggle over the Greater Yang orthodoxy.
Jiaoyang was the Golden Crow's second son and a leading force in the rebellion. Emperor Zhu Ci had broken his wings and flayed his flesh, leaving only his bones, which were cast into the Baleful Abyss, forever denied rebirth.
This had transformed baleful qi, giving it the property of devouring light and producing the mysterious manifestation of a black sun within the abyss. Traces of it remained in Immortal Foundations even now, and it had also affected Bing Fire's [Yang-Bearing Origin]. Yang Yuanyi of the Fire Crows cultivated precisely this method.
"According to legend, this bone was found by a True Lord wandering the Great Void when Great Li was founded. A mere section of vertebra possessed the strength of the Purple Mansion's peak, almost like an evil creature."
Ru Su explained the bone's origins, which reminded Xu Xuan of something.
The precious armor in his sect, [Baleful Sun], had inexplicably ended up half ruined when Wen Guang refined it. An image had emerged from it-crow bones within an