Star sand seeped from the fissures of the Giant Bronze Gate, and Su Jiuli's lingering ashes drifted closely against the door cracks. Between the grains of sand, the reassembled body of the First Generation Patriarch emerged, his ancient vessel covered in Marriage Pact Chains, while the Star Key embedded in his chest shared the exact same origin as the Destiny Pattern Lin Xuan had possessed before dissipating! She channeled the last wisp of Ancestral Fire within her lingering ashes, but the flames flowed backward along the chains, scorching a horrifying scene within the gate: deep within the Star Palace Ruins, the skeletons of three hundred boys and girls were being refined into a new astrolabe.
"Tribulation ash, return to your place..."
The low chant of the First Generation Patriarch shattered the star sand in the door cracks, and Su Jiuli's lingering ashes were blasted away by the shockwave. She collided with the Black Tortoise Blood-Weeping Stele beside the gate, and Bronze Divination Bamboo Slips suddenly drilled out from the cracks in the stele—the moment the bamboo slips pierced into her lingering ashes, an illusion abruptly appeared: the young Lin Xuan kneeling before a bronze tripod, while what boiled within the tripod was actually her own glazed bones!
Chapter 157