The embers of the Heart-Burning Bone Bell coalesced into a Star Orbit upon the altar, and the Bronze Divination Bamboo Slip embedded in the female infant’s right eye suddenly erupted with blood-red light. From the fractured skull of the First Generation Patriarch, thousands of Soul-Devouring Sundial Needles surged forth; the viscous liquid dripping from their tips solidified in mid-air into twelve depictions of the destruction of the Star Palace—in every image, the Star Palace Saintess whose heart had been gouged out bore a striking, seventy-percent resemblance to the infant.
"Nine Orifices offered to the heavens... in the end, it cannot be escaped..."
The fingernails on the infant’s left hand suddenly elongated by three inches, slicing through the patterns of the divination slip in her right eye like razor-sharp blades. From the cracks in the slip surged star chains formed of silver marrow, their lengths adorned with the baby teeth of every Qingqiu royal fox that had died in infancy throughout the ages. The sound of the teeth colliding shattered three of the Star Palace images, and the Resentful Spirits of the saintesses within them transformed into flowing fire, plummeting toward the suspended bronze coffins.
Chapter 269