The Bronze Sarcophagus cracked within the Ancestral Fire, and crimson blood threads slithered out from the tribulation marks on its surface. Su Jiuli’s residual embers entangled with the fissures, only to glimpse a horrifying vision upon touching the markings: on the Qingqiu altar three hundred lifetimes ago, the First Generation Patriarch was plunging half a jade tablet into the spine of a young Lin Xuan. What seeped from the cracks in the tablet was not blood, but Star Sand wrapped in a marriage contract!
"So you were refined into a key long ago..."
She channeled the Ancestral Fire within her embers to incinerate the phantom of the jade tablet, but the flames backflowed along the Star Sand. A roar of chains snapping echoed from the depths of the sarcophagus as nine bronze chains burst forth. The Blood-Weeping Script of the North Sea Flood Dragon Clan etched on the links was of the same origin as the burn marks on her own wrists! The ends of the chains held not instruments of torture, but three hundred Glazed Hearts of the Celestial Fox elders.
Chapter 154