The moment the First Generation Patriarch’s fingertips touched the ground, the bronze chains throughout the Guixu began to writhe like living creatures. Su Jiuli’s fractured tailbone was recast within the Sundial Needle. A drop of blood fell from the needle’s tip into a fissure in the earth’s veins, awakening the slumbering dragon bone altar. What seeped from the cracks in the altar’s surface was not magma, but fragments of Star Orbit solidified over three hundred kalpas.
"Sister, the altar is devouring your Ancestral Blood!"
Lin Xuan’s Destiny Soul, manifested as a blade of green scales, struck toward the altar, but the blade was ensnared by the fragments of the Star Orbit. Within the light refracted by the shards, a ghostly scene from the time of the First Generation Patriarch’s heart-extraction flickered into view: what he had pulled from Lin Xuan’s chest was not a Dragon Heart, but a Bronze Divination Bamboo Slip engraved with the Marriage Pact Curse Script!
Chapter 202