Chapter 110

The moment the fox tooth pierced her back, the star sand bursting from the jade fragment wrapped around her cardiac meridian like venomous vines. Su Jiuli staggered and fell to her knees, the tribulation marks on her palms having already crawled up her neck. The bronze droplets seeping from the marks dripped down into the star sand, condensing into a collapsed bronze altar. The nine soul lamps at the center of the altar had long since extinguished, yet their cracked bodies were now oozing Wu Clan funeral dirges. The singing shattered the floating bridge remaining at the bottom of the abyss, exposing the Black Tortoise remains deeply buried beneath it— Embedded within the cracks of the turtle shell was half a Sundial Needle. At the base of the altar, right where the needle tip pointed, a faceless corpse was shockingly nailed in place. The bronze chains extending from the spine of the skeleton were of the exact same origin as the fox tooth in her chest! "So you were the puppet string all along..."