Chapter 287

The moment the bronze warship crushed the rift in the Star Dome, the Seventy-Two Peaks of Qingqiu collapsed with a thunderous roar. The falling crags congealed into nine thousand arrows inscribed with Star Eclipse runes, their tips pointing collectively at the statue of the First Generation Patriarch at the prow. A Female Infant stepped upon the falling, scorching embers of the Star Eclipse, the tribulation mark in her palm solidifying into a bone blade of Tribulation Fire. As the edge tore through the void, a horn from the Primordial Era suddenly blared from the warship’s formation—the sonic waves shattered three dying Greedy Wolf Stars, their Star Remains falling like tears to congeal into blood-colored war drums upon the land of Qingqiu. A vertical pupil formed of eclipse runes cracked open in the center of the First Generation Patriarch statue’s forehead. Wherever the light of the pupil swept, the fallen star war drums began to beat of their own accord. A star map of the Celestial Fox Ancestor’s campaign through the Nine Heavens emerged upon the drum surfaces; the Yaoguang Star Position, erased from the chart, corresponded chillingly to the tribulation mark burning on the Female Infant’s heart. Bronze chains erupted from the warship’s keel, the eclipse runes at their tips molding into divine-binding shackles, their barbed surfaces aiming straight for the pulse points on the Female Infant’s wrists.