The Star Sand at the base of the hourglass of destiny suddenly trembled, and the phantom of a parallel spacetime reflected within was shredded by a curtain of bronze rain. The tear tracks beneath Lin Xuan’s mask took root upon touching the ground, blossoming into three hundred Mandala flowers of eclipse-script. From the mist exhaled by the centers of these flowers, a secret unrecorded in the Wu Clan’s "Star-Feeding Covenant" manifested: the "Void-Peering Mirror," refined by the First Generation Xuanming from his own gouged-out eyes, was actually embedded deep within the pupil membrane of the Star-Eclipsing Candle Dragon egg.
"Flowers exhaling the mirror void..."
A scar on Su Jiuli’s tailbone suddenly burned with searing pain. Dragon-scale patterns peeled away, coalescing into bronze shackles that locked the hourglass. As the chains touched the Dragon-Binding Seal, a rain of blood mixed with shards of dragon horn descended from the dome of the Jieyuan Earth Vein. The raindrops gouged through the earth, revealing a deep-buried Star-Devouring Gu Basin. Within the basin, the compound eyes of ten thousand Gu Insects all mirrored the lingering shadow of the vertical pupils hidden beneath Lin Xuan’s mask!
Chapter 500