Chapter 30

The Bronze Dice vibrated violently in Lin Xuan’s palm, the six phantom female infants on its faces opening their eyes in unison. The blood-stained fragments of the Longevity Lock in their hands suddenly spun, coalescing in mid-air to form a complete Star Mark—it was the very forbidden curse the First Generation Patriarch had carved into the bottom of the Ice Coffin on the night Su Jiuli’s heart was gouged out. Sticky Star Sand surged from the rifts in the void, carrying with it the snows of three hundred years ago. The plum branch in Lin Xuan’s hand suddenly took root, burying itself into the bottom of the Reincarnation Pond. The withered plum tree grew frantically, and as its branches split, bronze tree rings were revealed, each circle sealing the wails of a female infant. "This is the true Reincarnation Lock..." The Astral Instrument Spirit manifested from the plum branch, the old man in the star-patterned robe tracing his fingertips over the rings. Blue blood seeped from the gaps in the wood, condensing into a funeral procession of the North Sea Flood Dragon Clan—inside the bronze coffin they carried lay a Wu Priest with the exact face of Su Jiuli!