Chapter 144

The shockwaves from the closing Giant Bronze Gate rocked the Star Ruins, casting Su Jiuli into a fractured rift in the void. Countless shards of Bronze Sarcophagi streaked past her like meteors, each one reflecting the heart-wrenching pain of her past incarnations. She reached out and grasped a scorching fragment, which suddenly sprouted Bronze Roots that pierced her palm. At the end of the roots hung a miniature Four Symbols Pillars altar, and suspended in its center was half of Lin Xuan’s heart, now refined. "Sister… cut it out…" The lingering voice of Lin Xuan seeped from within the heart. Su Jiuli channeled Tribulation Fire toward the roots, but the flames backflowed along the pulse-like fibers and poured into the altar. The Four Symbols totems on the altar’s surface suddenly opened their blood-red eyes. An Azure Dragon Reverse Scale peeled away from the eastern pillar, its razor-sharp edge slicing into her wrist. As her blood dripped into the altar’s grooves, it coalesced into a new line of the North Sea Blood-Weeping Stele Inscription: [The day the Tribulation Gate finally opens, the Star Remains shall feed their master.]