The Fire Blade hovered three inches from the Fate Core.
The moment Su Jiuli’s fingertips touched the carved blood-vines, sacrificial drumbeats from the Primordial era erupted within the chest of the giant bronze statue. The vines strangling the blade suddenly tightened, and every carved groove began to seep scarlet-gold blood. These droplets reflected a vision of the Celestial Fox Ancestor carving words with her own tail bone: nine blood-stained fox tails dug deep into the leyline, their tips gouging three thousand six hundred incantations into the bronze wall.
"With Ancestral Blood as the pact... burn the heart, suppress the calamity..."
Chapter 235