Chapter 51: Fishing in the Marrow Sea

##**Chapter 50: Fishing in the Marrow Sea; Ash Bones Become Prophecies**

###**I. Marrow Rain Erodes Steles; New Dao First Cry**

Scarlet rain threads fell from the Ash Marrow Sea, and the remaining Calamity Calendar Steles in the Primordial Desolation grew wildly upon contact with the rain. From the cracks in the broken steles at the Xuantian Sect ruins, half-human, half-fish Marrow Demons crawled out, spitting out remnant pages of the First Generation's handbook as their gills opened and closed:

**"Year One of the Marrow Sea; Dao Dissolution becomes Qi; all cultivators shall use Calamity Bones as boats..."**

Cultivators drenched by the Marrow Rain were shocked to find their bones mutating—the finger bones of a Green Cloud Sect female cultivator extended into fishing rods, and the ribs of a Medicine King Valley elder transformed into fishing nets. Even more terrifying was that their pupils reflected the same scene: Ao Li's phantom fishing in the Marrow Sea, with a skull carved full of chess paths tied to the end of the fishing line!

###**II. Nine Coffins Chess Marrow; Calamity Gambles with All Living Beings**

Nine bronze coffins floated to the surface of the sea, the coffin lids transforming into a chessboard. The elder of the seventh coffin tapped the coffin with his finger, and the Marrow Sea surged with wild waves:

"Burial Boatman, it is time to place your bet." He flicked a white piece from his fingertip, which was actually a "Calamity Crystal" refined from the skull of one of Lin Jin's past lives.

Lin Jin placed a black piece using boat marks, and the chess game triggered a dimensional collapse. A town in the Primordial Desolation corresponding to the northwest star position instantly crystallized, the residents turning into Marrow Statues, while their consciousnesses surged into the chessboard to become gambling chips!

"Using the souls of all living beings to play chess..." Pale flames rose from the boat's hull, "Is this your Dao?"

###**III. The Fisher is Not a Fish; Ao Li's Immeasurable Calamity**

Ao Li's phantom suddenly reeled in the line, and what it dragged out was actually the remnant life-star sand of Xinghe. The instant the sand grains fell into the Marrow Sea, they gestated billions of transparent Ash Fish. The fish schools collided with the bronze coffins, each strike splashing up fragments of the First Generation's memories:

-In the 330,000th reincarnation, the First Generation deliberately let Xinghe steal the Calamity Seed;

-In the 690,000th Nirvana, the Measuring Ruler embryo was implanted into Ao Li's heart;

-In the 800,000th Dao Dissolution, Lin Jin's bone boat was originally the coffin prepared by the First Generation!

The fish schools suddenly self-immolated, the ashes condensing into Ao Li's true form: "Brother, it is time to wake up." She pointed her fingertip at the center of Lin Jin's brow, and blood-colored patterns suddenly crawled all over the boat marks.

###**IV. Prophecy Bones Appear; Calamity Boats Cast Together**

A Prophecy Bone Stele rose from the depths of the Marrow Sea, the stele inscription changing in real-time with the chess game:

**"Black 3-6: Marrow Demons appear; White 9-9: Immeasurable Calamity returns to dust..."**

When Lin Jin placed the 17th piece, the stele inscription suddenly burst with intense light. The bones of the cultivators illuminated by it shattered completely, the broken bones reorganizing in the air into miniature bone boats—each carrying the lifelong memories of that cultivator!

The elder of the seventh coffin laughed wildly as he grabbed at the bone boat group: "Good boat material!" but was backlashed by the boat group, his right arm crystallizing into Prophecy Bone Stele inscriptions:

**"Those who covet the game eventually become the game."**

###**V. Ash Fish Swallows Heaven; Boat and Prophecy Return Together**

The Ash Fish fished up by Ao Li suddenly grew giant, its fish belly splitting open to reveal a holographic projection of the First Generation's Dao Dissolution scene. The jade pendant of the young Lin Jin (First Generation) did not pierce out, but rather the master held his hand and pierced it into his own chest:

"Remember, Dao Dissolution is..." The master's last words were chewed up by the fish teeth.

Lin Jin burned the boat's hull and rammed it into the fish eye, seeing the ultimate truth in the pupils: the Marrow Sea was merely the first drop of blood seeping from the master's wound! All reincarnations, immeasurable calamities, and chess games were re-enacted within this drop of blood.

###**Finale: Blood Prophecy Fishes for Cause**

The Marrow Sea suddenly evaporated, revealing a jade box carved full of ■■ symbols at the bottom. Ao Li's fishing line pierced through the nine bronze coffins, fishing out a blood-stained jade pendant from the skull of the seventh coffin elder—exactly the same as the one used by the First Generation back then!

And on the dried-up seabed, the Calamity Calendar Steles collapsed on their own, the rubble piecing together into a new stele inscription:

**"When the calamity ends, only then will you know that the blood prophecy was bait, and the fisher is also in the cage."**

Lin Jin's bone boat began to weather away, the boat debris drifting toward the jade box. The master's voice came from inside the box, carrying unprecedented fear:

"Destroy it quickly... He is about to wake up..."

###**Core Advancements and Suspense**

1. **Dimensional Downgrading**: Reveals that the current world is a microscopic presentation of the master's wound.

2. **Fisher's Dilemma**: Ao Li's fishing behavior itself is an experiment by a higher existence.

3. **Jade Pendant Closed Loop**: The jade pendant used by the First Generation actually originated from the future Lin Jin.

4. **Ultimate Fear**: The "He" warned of by the master points to the Origin Creator. ===== CHAPTER 52 =====