As the bronze Stellar Sundial rose from the fissures in the turtle shell, seventy-two Obsessive Soul bells trembled along the rim of the dial. The star sand falling from the clappers wove into three hundred and sixty cocoons made of Star Remains—the Guixu hexagrams etched upon the shells were identical to the fragments of the Star Vow Bone Slip, and each crack exuded "Vow-Soul Fireflies" shed when the First Ancestral Witch had gouged out her own heart.
"Bells resonate, cocoons emerge!"
Su Jiuli’s residual shadow stirred the Star-Ash Fireflies, and the ancient sacrificial dance motifs suddenly appeared upon the surface of the Stellar Sundial. Lin Xuan leaped onto the dial, his foot landing atop a cocoon, and unleashed the Azure Dragon phantom with his Four Symbols Star-Burst starter move. The moment his blade struck the dial's markings, the cocoons suddenly animated into a giant serpent of Star Remains, its fangs piercing the void to tear open the "Usurped Vow Star-Marks" sealed away during the collapse of the Star Palace Main Hall.
Chapter 436