As the cheers of ten million banquet guests and thirty-six newly restored Rank 8 Early branch prodigies echoed across the nine artificial moons, fifty miles away at the very center of the Galactic Capital—
Inside the dark, blood-misted gorge of the Forbidden Blood-Star Tomb behind the Main Clan Hall, a desperate, sobbing figure with two giant sausage-swollen red lips, a frizzy smoked-dandelion afro. A trail of pickled-garlic fumes wafting from his robes crawled up the ninety-nine obsidian steps on bleeding knees!
It was twenty-two-year-old Golden Heir Gu Wuji (Rank 9 Early, Protagonist Halo at 15%), dragged along by a bald, eyebrow-less Second Uncle Gu Yin!
With every breath Gu Wuji wheezed out of his swollen throat, his [Destiny-Plundering System] flashed another catastrophic red alert across his vision:
*[CRITICAL WARNING! ALL 36 STOLEN IMMORTAL BONES HAVE RE-FUSED WITH THEIR ORIGINAL OWNERS UNDER STAGE-6 TRUE-FOUNDER AUTHORITY! HOST’S SIPHONED LUCK-LINK HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY SEVERED!
IF HOST’S FATHER (PATRIARCH GU TIANBA) DOES NOT DESTROY ‘GU CHANGSHENG’ AND RECLAIM THE 36 BONES TODAY, HOST’S PROTAGONIST HALO WILL DROP TO 0% AND SHATTER FOREVER!]*
“F-Father! Come out of seclusion! Save your son!”
Using the last of his strength, sausage-lipped Golden Heir Gu Wuji picked up a ten-ton bronze war-mallet beside the tomb entrance and pounded it frantically against the [Ancestral Blood-Emergency War Drum]. A drum that had not been struck once in thirty thousand years!
