BUZZ—THUMP! BUZZ—THUMP!
Down in the sacred Ancestral Hall of the Sky-Hilt Sword Sect—and simultaneously across the ancestral shrines of all ten thousand major and minor sword sects spanning Sector 1 (The Eastern 200 Galaxies). The towering black-iron Sect Rule & Ancestral Tablets suddenly began to bulge and throb like diseased hearts!
Thick, foul-smelling black ink oozed from the ancient carved characters on the tablets. Forming ten thousand writhing Soul-Parasite Ink Bombs that threatened to detonate the spiritual veins beneath every sword mountain in the Eastern Sector!
“Grandmaster! The Sect Rule Tablet in the inner shrine is about to explode!”
On Mount Sky-Hilt, an elder in charge of the ancestral shrine stumbled out onto the Grand Ancestral Platform with blood trickling from his ears.
“We tried to suppress it with our righteous sword-qi, but the black ink bomb inside the tablet is drawing endless nourishment from the carved laws of our sect’s own founding charter! Every time we strike it, it grows twice as big!”
Across the two hundred Eastern Galaxies, urgent distress flares lit up the sky-screens of ten thousand sword sects at once:
“Our Blood-Edge Sword Sect’s founding tablet is swelling with black parasite ink too! It says detonation in sixty seconds!”
