The moment the Eye of Eternal Tribulation solidified, bronze chains from the nine prisons erupted from the deepest abyss of the Return to Void. The tribulation mark in the right pupil of the Stone Statue Infant held in Lin Xuan’s arms began to spin violently, condensing into three hundred and sixty Netherworld Soul Lamps in the void. What flickered within the wicks was not flame, but the mournful cries of Star Officials, extracted from their very roots of speech and refined by the First Ancestral Witch. Each cry caused the bronze chains to shudder, and the Abyss-Devouring patterns rising to their surface synchronized perfectly with the pulse of the Eye of Eternal Tribulation.
"Chains binding the Primordial Era..."
Su Jiuli’s remaining spiritual consciousness suddenly transformed into crimson gold flowing fire, burning along the bronze chains toward the true spirit of the Ancestral Witch. The Eye of Eternal Tribulation emitted a sudden, turbid light; wherever the beam swept, the Star-Eclipse Fluid congealed into forty-nine Heavenly Punishment Platforms. Ziwei Imperial blood seeped from the cracks in the platforms, each droplet reflecting the scene of the First Ancestral Witch smelting the spines of the Twenty-Eight Mansions: with every strike of the bone hammer, a star fell into the furnace of the Return to Void!
Chapter 343