Azure flames burst from the fissures in the remains of the Soul-Devouring Gu Insect. Su Jiuli’s fading embers tumbled into the abyss of Tribulation Magma, only to freeze abruptly the moment they touched the gaze of the Heavenly Fox stone statues—the Wu Clan markings cracked across the statues' surfaces were of the same origin as her own Netherworld Decree Mark, and from every fissure oozed the scent of blood-rust from when the First Generation Patriarch had gouged his own heart! The nine stone statues suddenly groaned in unison, the sound waves shattering the Tribulation Magma at the core of the Star Remains to reveal a bronze altar buried beneath: the carvings on its surface were not star orbits, but the scorched traces of the fox fire she had unleashed when she took her own life three hundred lifetimes ago!
"Sister... the stone pupils reflect the fire of reincarnation..."
Lin Xuan’s telepathic voice seeped through the cracks in the altar, wrapped in the lingering echoes of a dragon’s roar. Su Jiuli’s embers surged, and the light from the stone statues, soaked in Ancestral Blood, suddenly boiled over, condensing into nine pillars of Heaven-Burning Fire that pierced straight through Return to Void. The instant the pillars touched the Star Remains, the remnant soul of the First Generation Patriarch shrieked. The Soul-Devouring Gu Insect remains, crushed by his withered hand, transformed into a rain of Bronze Needles. In the terrifying scene revealed by the tips of the needle…
Chapter 190