The moment the blood-stained tears of the bronze funeral bell seeped into the Star Pupil, the ice-sealed chamber at the base of the Tower Reaching the Heavens exploded. The Destiny Pattern Star Pupil hovered in the void, its radiance piercing the nine-tiered tower and illuminating the mottled war reliefs on the surface of the Return to Void Star Gate. In the relief, the Heaven-Rending Claw of the Celestial Fox Ancestor was piercing the destiny core of a star; the Star Marrow pried out by the claw tips had condensed into a bronze pardon decree, and the missing pardon seal at the end of the decree matched the totem on the female infant’s forehead exactly!
The final roar of the First Generation Patriarch’s lingering soul seeped out from the verdigris on the tower’s body.
The Tower Reaching the Heavens suddenly tilted, and bronze ritual chains extended from the cracks in the Star Gate at its summit. The Sun-Eclipsing Wheel tethered to the ends of the chains began to spin in reverse, its razor-sharp edges slicing through the void and hacking the pupil’s light into thirty-six thousand shards of stardust. The moment the stardust touched the pardon totem, a Primordial Era astrolabe appeared beneath the female infant’s feet, its vacant Greedy Wolf Star Position being filled by the glow of the Star Pupil.
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