Chapter 135

The moment the Bronze Roots pierced the Blood Sacrifice Pit, a jet of dark golden blood erupted from the old injury at the base of Su Jiuli’s spine. As the spray touched the sarcophagus at the bottom of the pit, the nine Celestial Fox steles shuddered in unison, their inscriptions flaking away into three hundred Bronze Divination Bamboo Slips. Where the ends of the slip inscriptions met, her own visage emerged—the "self" slumbering within the coffin suddenly opened its eyes, Netherworld Ghost Fire dancing in its pupils! "The sea of tribulation is boundless... one can only ferry oneself..." The whisper from the coffin stirred a foul wind, and the Bronze Roots at the bottom of the pit coalesced into an armillary sphere. Scales suddenly sprouted over the wound where Su Jiuli’s tail had been severed; the pattern of the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale resonated with the copper rings of the armillary sphere, revealing a truth long buried: when the First Generation Patriarch had extracted her Ancestral Blood years ago, he had sealed half a soul-shard within this surrogate coffin. The true seed of tribulation... was the spine of the woman in the coffin!