The Bronze Sarcophagus drifted along an underwater current, its surface adorned with Taotie patterns, between whose fangs coral formed from Star Sand had become wedged. Su Jiuli touched the lid with her fingertips; her tribulation marks clung to it like vines, but the moment they made contact, they turned deathly cold—from within the coffin came the sound of a heartbeat, perfectly synchronized with the trembling of her own Star Core.
The seawater suddenly crystallized, refracting a vision from thirty thousand years ago: upon a Wu Clan altar, the First Generation Patriarch was sealing a pulsing fox heart into the Bronze Sarcophagus. The Star Marks flickering across the surface of that heart were, unmistakably, the missing shards of her own heart.
"So, you stole half of my heart..."
Chapter 103