As the Bronze Time-Tombs Stele rose from the rift of the scar-core, three hundred and sixty chains of temporal scars pierced the firmament of the Return to Void. The Soul-Devouring seal script shifting across the face of the stele suddenly froze, and the scene of the First Saintess’s neck being broken fractured within the inscriptions—the Time-Usurping Stellar Sundial held in her right palm refracted nine layers of time, each layer imprisoning Su Jiuli’s un-crystallized "Unvowed Time-Marrow."
"The stele devours the time-sundial!"
Su Jiuli’s phantom shadows triggered the Star-Ash, condensing into five temporal-scar puppets; the time-sand erupting from the pupils of these puppets melted seven of the chains. Lin Xuan stepped onto the puppets' spines, leaping to the top of the stele. As the spine of his Star Eclipse sword absorbed the temporal scars from the stele's surface, the Azure Dragon time-tracing pattern on the sword-spine awakened. When the dragon's shadow coiled around the seal script at the apex of the stele, a cocoon of Star-Ash time emerged from the base—the scars protruding from the shell were, in truth, the wailing remains of severed fingers from when the Ancestral Witch smelted the finger bones of ninety thousand cultivators to cast the sundial!
Chapter 443