As the Bronze Scar-Dome Instrument rose from the rift in the temporal core, three hundred and sixty grains of Star Sand burned through the sky of Return to Void. The eclipse-time seal characters roaming the instrument's disk suddenly boiled, and the scene of the First Saintess being heart-dissected collapsed within the seal-fire. In her left palm, she held a Star-Usurpation Hourglass, which projected the Nine Heavens; each level of the hourglass image held the "Unsworn Sky Marrow" of Su Jiuli, which had not yet been scarred.
"The Instrument incinerates the nine leakage layers!"
Su Jiuli’s lingering shadow channeled Star-Ash to coalesce into seven Scar-Dome Puppets. Dome-fire erupted from the puppets' ribs, melting nine time-chains. Lin Xuan stepped on a severed puppet arm, leaping toward the instrument’s pivot. As the Star Eclipse sword spine absorbed the burning sand from the instrument’s face, the Vermilion Bird ash-dome pattern on the blade grew violently hot. As the fire wings swept across the seal marks on the instrument wheel, a Star-Ash celestial cocoon rose from the base. The dome scars protruding from the cocoon’s surface were actually the agonizing, heart-rending screams of ninety thousand cultivators, transformed into matter when the Ancestral Witch smelted their hearts and bones to cast the leakage!
Chapter 444