Chapter 49: Boat Marks Illuminate the Night; The Immeasurable Calamity Begins

##**Chapter 48: Boat Marks Illuminate the Night; The Immeasurable Calamity Begins**

###**I. The Ash Boat Crosses Realms; Blood-Sky Suspended Coffins**

As the Ash Bone Boat ground across the cracks in the True Frontier, eight hundred thousand claw marks suddenly appeared on its hull. Lin Jin's consciousness awakened within the jade pendant at the prow, seeing bronze giant coffins suspended beneath the scarlet sky—each coffin wrapped in star-sand chains originating from the same source as the First Generation!

"Burial Heaven Coffins, imprisoning the Daoist..." Memory fluctuations of the First Generation suddenly emanated from the boat's hull, "The nine evil corpses I severed back then."

As the bone boat brushed past the seventh coffin, the lid exploded with a boom. An elder with bone wings of the Measuring Ruler sprouting from his back rushed out, holding in his hand none other than the head of Xinghe! Star sand flowed between the elder's fangs: "Junior Brother, Master's boat has arrived."

###**II. Measuring Remains Appear; Calamity Steles Re-inscribed**

The Primordial Desolation trembled, and the blood letter inscribed before the dissipation of Xinghe suddenly materialized. Each character transformed into a scarlet stele inscription, smashing toward the ground:

-The "Dao" stele crushed the Medicine King Valley, and the "Ten Thousand Soul Cauldron" used by the First Generation for alchemy surged from the valley floor;

-The "Boat" stele pierced through the East Sea, exposing the "Calamity Calendar Stone" suppressed on the seabed, its surface carved full of the death dates of Lin Jin's past lives;

-The "Ruler" stele split into nine pieces, embedding itself into the Flowing Cloud Sect's guardian array, reversing the array into a sacrificial furnace!

The infant gestated in Ao Li's heart suddenly opened its eyes, ■■ symbols rotating in its pupils, actually resonating with the Calamity Calendar Stone. Star sand seeped from the latest date appearing on the stone surface, condensing into a countdown:

**"Jiazi Reincarnation; Calamity Ends, Returning to Nothingness."**

###**III. Fishing for Souls in the Ash Sea; Evil Corpses Cast Lines**

The elder of the seventh coffin in the True Frontier cast out the head of Xinghe, which transformed into a fishing rod in mid-air. The star-sand fishing line pierced through dimensions, hooking a Formless Cultivator who was carving a stele somewhere in the Primordial Desolation:

"Come, tell your Uncle-Master about the rules of the present world." The elder grinned hideously as he reeled in the line, and the cultivator collided with the coffin, exploding into a blood mist. Where the blood beads splashed, the truth of the imprisonment of the First Generation's evil corpses was revealed—their spines had all been replaced with fragments of the Measuring Ruler!

Lin Jin drove the bone boat to collide with the fishing line, but the boat marks condensed the blood mist into new stele inscriptions:

**"Those who fish in the Ash Sea are all bait."**

###**IV. Formless Fetal Cry; Immeasurable Calamity Resonance**

Amidst the ruins of the bronze altar, the infant's crying triggered a resonance of the Measuring Ruler fragments. Fragments from all over the Primordial Desolation tore through the air:

-The ruler handle flying out from the Green Cloud Sect's earth veins was inscribed with "Stealing Heaven";

-The ruler body rushing out from the depths of Gui Xu was branded with "Imprisoning Dao";

-The ruler tip rising from the ruins of the Reverse Scale City dripped with Ao Li's heart blood!

The fragments reorganized above the infant's head into a complete Measuring Ruler, but what appeared on the ruler's surface were not scales, but the scene of the First Generation signing a contract with the nine great evil corpses. Lin Jin suddenly realized: the Measuring Ruler was fundamentally the contract signed when the First Generation severed the corpses!

###**V. Boat Marks Inquire of the Dao; Contract Locks Return to Truth**

The bone boat suddenly turned and rammed into the infant, the boat marks carving out the full picture of the First Generation's truth of killing his master in the void:

Eight hundred thousand years ago, the jade pendant of the young Lin Jin (First Generation) was not the weapon for killing his master, but the "Key to Dao Dissolution" passed down by his master on his deathbed. The nine great evil corpses suddenly appeared to seize it, forcing the First Generation to self-sever his soul to seal the Measuring Ruler!

"So you are the ones who betrayed the Dao..." Lin Jin burned the boat's hull, and the pale flames burned backward along the Measuring Ruler's contract text. The elder of the seventh coffin suddenly shrieked, the Measuring Ruler in his back bone snapping inch by inch: "Impossible! Master clearly said you were..."

In the flames appeared the First Generation's final scene: he smiled as he pressed the jade pendant into his chest: "This game of chess has finally waited for the black-piece player."

###**Finale: Black Piece Falls onto the Board**

The blood marks of the True Frontier suddenly converged into a chessboard, and the Ash Bone Boat transformed into a black piece, falling into the Heavenly Yuan position. The Calamity Calendar Stone on the Primordial Desolation land exploded, the rubble condensing into white pieces covering the star positions.

The Measuring Ruler in the infant's hand suddenly softened, becoming the hand of the master who had once stroked the young First Generation's head:

"It is your turn to move, Lin Jin."

And outside the chessboard, from the crack in Ao Li's heart, half a ruler handle carved full of ■■ symbols slowly extended... ===== CHAPTER 50 =====