As the Bronze Star-Ruins Mirror rose from the cracks in the Vow Core, three hundred and sixty crystal-sand chains pierced the Guixu Firmament. The nine-fold mirage reflected in the mirror surface suddenly collapsed. The Marrow Blade used by the First Ancestral Witch to gouge the heart shattered into nine crystal galls within the mirror. Deep within each gall, the "Unsworn Soul Sand" of Su Jiuli, from before she was cast into the mold, lay curled in agony.
"Mirror Devours Nine Galls!"
The phantom of Su Jiuli stirred the Star-Ash Fireflies, and the ends of the crystal-sand chains abruptly coalesced into three crystal puppets. Lin Xuan stepped upon a puppet’s shoulder armor and leaped to the mirror's edge. The spine of his Star Eclipse sword absorbed the vow-sand spilling from the mirror, and the Xuanwu sea-suppressing pattern on the blade suddenly awakened. As the phantom of the tortoise shell crushed two of the chains, a Star-Ruins Ritual Niche rose from the back of the mirror. The object enshrined within was no ordinary artifact, but the crystallized skull of the First Saintess. From its seven orifices flowed the "White-Headed Marrow Light," a substance of the same origin as the White-Headed Covenant Scripture!
Chapter 440