The moment the Black Tortoise Sea-Suppressing Cauldron shuddered, the "Confession of Sin" inscriptions flaked off its surface. As Lin Xuan’s fingertips touched the cauldron’s core, which sealed the Emperor Soul’s blood, forty-nine bronze heavenly punishments suddenly shifted. The destiny fragments, enveloped in lightning, condensed in the void to form a phantom of the Reincarnation Pond—the surface did not reflect the present, but a lingering image of Su Jiuli kneeling in the Star Palace Ruins, carving a monument with her own heart’s blood.
"Reincarnation reflected by tribulation..."
The remnants of the Stone Statue Infant suddenly detached from the Jianbing Tribulation-Measuring Mace, and tadpole-like scripts on its fontanelle erupted with green light. The Greedy Wolf Sundial Needle suddenly flew from the astrolabe, its tip drawing the Black Tortoise Tear through the phantom of the Reincarnation Pond. The instant the water boiled, it revealed a grisly scene: the First Ancestral Witch, clutching a carving knife, was engraving the final chapter of the "Life-Devouring Heavenly Book" into Su Jiuli’s spine.
Chapter 383