As the girl in the Ice Coffin sat up, the snow of Star Sand suddenly came to a halt. Her fingertips brushed against the charred fox tail, and the Tail-Tip Gold Bell let out a crisp, humming chime. From the resonance of the bell, a phantom vision of the Star Palace mountain gate from three hundred years ago unfolded: the young Lin Xuan was fastening a Longevity Lock around the neck of a young Su Jiuli, while her soul was being forcibly stripped away and sealed into an Astrolabe!
"Do you see clearly now?" The girl’s pupils split into two colors; her left eye reflected the Heaven-Burning Fire pattern, while her right eye pulsed with the Forbidden Seal of the Star Palace. "The promise you made was the first step in this chess game."
She tore through her swaddling clothes, and the Heaven-Burning curse inscribed on her spine detached, solidifying in the air into the original manuscript of the "Twin Calamity." As the pages turned, the Star Mark scars on Lin Xuan suddenly burned with agony—every glyph corresponded to a memory of him carving out his own heart to save others across his cycles of reincarnation!
Chapter 26