Chapter 155

The Bronze Sarcophagus crashed, shattering the ice of the Return to Void, and Su Jiuli’s residual embers drifted along the Destiny Pattern etched into the coffin’s surface. The waters of the North Sea soaked through her soul fire, the glow illuminating a horrifying scene within: Lin Xuan’s soul was suspended by bronze chains, and the fragments of an astrolabe embedded in his spine were piecing together the Destiny Pattern of the First Generation Patriarch. She curled her fox tail to strike at the chains, but the moment the icy blades touched the links, they dissolved into Star Sand. The grains coalesced into a phantom of an armillary sphere, with half a blood-stained jade pendant floating at its axis. "Only by feeding the instrument with a soul can the truth be revealed..." The First Generation Patriarch’s low murmur seeped from the cracks in the jade, and the armillary sphere suddenly reversed its rotation. Lin Xuan’s soul turned abruptly translucent; the astrolabe fragments tore free from his spine, transforming into three hundred Bronze Divination Bamboo Slips that pierced toward Su Jiuli! The slips shredded her embers, but upon touching her soul fire, they revealed a memory of the Celestial Fox—a young Lin Xuan kneeling before a bronze tripod, driving a bell tongue engraved with her name into his own brow!