The roots of the blood-weeping plum tree shredded the altar's floor tiles, coiling around Lin Xuan’s limbs to drag him into the fissure. From the depths emerged a forest of deeply buried Bronze Pillars, each engraved with the harrowing scene of Su Jiuli’s heart pierced by nine chains, with the skulls of Wu Clan children tethered to the ends. The Star Marks remaining on Lin Xuan’s spine suddenly flared, and Star Sand coalesced into a Bronze Dagger to sever the roots. The moment the blade touched the surface of a pillar, the Xuanming True Water sealed within surged forth. Floating in the water was a phantom of the First Generation Patriarch carving out a heart: the dagger in his hand was actually fashioned from Su Jiuli’s severed tail!
Where the Girl's Benevolence had been annihilated, Star Blood suddenly congealed, forming an ice mirror among the plum tree's roots. The mirror reflected a secret chamber deep within the Guixu Eye, where three hundred Everlasting Lamps surrounded a Bronze Sarcophagus; the lamp wicks were burning with the tears of regret from all of Lin Xuan’s past reincarnations. As the lid of the sarcophagus shifted a fraction, the half-corpse of the First Generation Patriarch crawled out, clutching half a die in its palm, which dripped Star Sand to corrode Su Jiuli’s reincarnated Destiny Soul.
The forest of Bronze Pillars suddenly trembled, and the reliefs on the pillars came to life. The phantom images of Su Jiuli, pierced by chains, wept blood in unison, th…
Chapter 48