Su Jiuli’s fox tail swept across the tomb passage, the Heaven-Burning Fire refracting thousands of starlights against the bronze mirror surface. The Bronze Key in Lin Xuan’s hand suddenly turned scalding hot; what poured from the keyhole was not soul power, but regret, viscous and tangible—each drop a fixation left behind from the times he had abandoned the world throughout his reincarnations!
"You carry her scent..." Su Jiuli’s Astrolabe revolved, the Twenty-Eight Mansions transforming into chains that tightened around Lin Xuan’s throat. "But the blood debt you bear is far heavier!"
Her fingertips ignited with the sacred flames of Qingpu, the light revealing scenes of the massacres Lin Xuan had committed in every life. The bronze mirrors on the tomb walls began to resonate; the vertical pupils of every "Lin Xuan" reflected in the mirrors wept blood simultaneously, condensing into a rain of Star Sand arrows that struck toward his true form.
Chapter 25