The bronze mask fused with the facial bones of Su Jiuli within the mirror, and the star-gazing vertical pupils erupted with a light of the Star-Eclipsing Candle Dragon that pierced the void. As the tribulation mark peeled away from Lin Xuan’s chest, it revealed naked Star Orbit scars, each one resonating with the wreckage of the Armillary Sphere. Between the ruins, the Wu Clan’s long-lost Star-Suppressing Drum emerged, its skin revealed to be the very dragon scales stripped from the spine of the First Patriarch!
"Drum wakes, scales tribulate..."
The Star-Eclipsing vertical pupils suddenly constricted, the light within them condensing into bronze chains that coiled around the Star-Suppressing Drum’s mallets. Su Jiuli’s pure Destiny Soul shrieked from within the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine, and the *Celestial Fox Star-Suppressing Law* inscribed on the blade’s back suddenly detached, weaving into a nine-fold Star Lock Array in the void. At the heart of the array floated an embryonic bell formed of Star Sand, sealing within it the tears of regret shed by the First Generation Xuanming at the moment of their heart-gouging sacrifice!
Chapter 499