Chapter 60

As the moonlight over the North Sea was swallowed by the bronze Soul Lamp, the ripples at Su Jiuli’s fingertips solidified into ice blades. The ice blades sliced through the sea surface, revealing three hundred bronze Sarcophagi lurking in the abyss below. Star Marks shaped like child corpses on the lids began to ooze beads of blood, which flowed upward against gravity to converge beneath her feet into the lethal formation of the Greedy Wolf Devouring Moon. The fox fire of the First Generation Patriarch flickered deep within her pupils; where the flames licked, the crumbling stone-soul fragments of Lin Xuan wailed inside the Soul Lamp. Suddenly, the nine bronze Soul Lamps erupted. The flames transformed into chains that coiled around Su Jiuli’s ankles; the Wu Clan runes on the links were of the same origin as the Star Marks on the child corpses. As she reached up to touch the newly emerged Star Mark on her forehead, a thunderous sound of a Xuanwu shell shattering rose from the seabed. From the cracks in the Return to Void rock strata, half of a broken Star Palace stele surfaced, its inscriptions being rewritten by the First Generation’s fox fire!