The outline of the jade pendant on the fragment of the Bronze Sarcophagus flickered erratically. The moment Su Jiuli's fingertips brushed against the carvings, the Star Sand at the bottom of the abyss suddenly boiled. The grains coalesced into a Wu Clan bone boat, from the bow of which hung a bronze bell whose clapper was covered in Star Marks, echoing the newly formed tribulation marks along her spine. The seawater surged backward into a whirlpool, at the eye of which floated half the remains of a Black Tortoise True Spirit. Seeping from the cracks in the tortoise shell was not blood, but Bronze Divination Bamboo Slips that had solidified into physical form.
The divination slips came to life the moment they touched the water, the text swarming toward the bone boat like locusts. Su Jiuli waved her star banner to parry them; wherever the tail of the banner swept, the seawater froze into translucent Star Sand crystals. The crystals refracted visions of the past: the First Generation Patriarch stood before a bronze altar, embedding half a jade pendant into the skull of the Black Tortoise True Spirit. The cracks in the tortoise shell had begun to spread from that very moment!
"Using the pendant to suppress the sea... stealing three millennia of lifespan..."
Chapter 104