Chapter 265

When the tremors of the bronze bell tore through the firmament of Guixu, the fetal stirring of the Heaven-Burning Fire Seed suddenly ceased. The moment the female infant’s fingertips brushed against the blood curse on the bell, a weeping, blood-choked roar erupted from within—the cry of the First Generation Patriarch in his youth. The sound waves coalesced into thirty-six thousand Star Mark copper coins; the birth dates inscribed upon them matched the frequency of her own cries at the moment of her birth with terrifying precision! The young manifestation of the Wu Clan High Priest stepped forth from the ashes of the Star Orbit. He cradled a bronze Soul Lamp in his palms, its wick flickering with the final tear Su Jiuli had shed before being turned to stone. As the light of the tear touched the Heaven-Burning Fire Seed, the Qilin Skeleton at the bottom of the Guixu abyss suddenly stood upright, its rotting bone claws tearing open its own chest. Suspended within the hollow of its exposed heart was a bronze bell core, the patterns upon it perfectly identical to the cracks in the female infant’s Nine-Layered Pupil!