Chapter 517

The spring at the tip of the bronze wedge pin vibrated, its resonance piercing the void with the breathing frequency of the Life Scale of the Star-Eclipsing Candle Dragon. The polluted Tian Script tokens of the Twenty-Eight Mansions matrimonial keepsake regenerated and reorganized, their patterns fusing into a tidal master key that inserted into the dial of the tide-suppressing pestle—the moment the gears meshed, nine abysses ripped open across the Jieyuan Earth Vein, and from the bottom rose the skeletal remains of the First Patriarch, carved with his own gouged-out eyes into the star-sand mineral veins! "Key opens, bones cry!" Su Jiuli's fingertips condensed star sand into an ancient Wu Clan sacrificial blade, slicing across the surface of the dragon bone remains. Bronze slurry mixed with Black Tortoise Tears oozed from the bone fractures, condensing in the wind into a primordial tsunami phantom—the crest of the wave bore the matrimonial coffin polluted by the star eclipse, its cover's Tian Script suddenly spawning reverse scales whose barbs hooked onto the residual bronze threads of the Fire Phoenix feather arrow!