As the Bronze Sarcophagus sank to the depths of the Guixu abyss, the cracks in the anchor shard embedded in Su Jiuli’s heart had already spread across her entire body.
Star Sand seeped from these fissures, congealing in the pitch-black water into a dense spiderweb, adorned at each intersection with the lingering souls of Star Palace cultivators from three hundred years ago. The soul essence of the First Generation Patriarch clung to her like maggots to bone, tracing the web’s veins to erode her Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox life essence. Yet, as it reached her spine, it stopped abruptly—deep within her nine vertebrae, Lin Xuan’s Star Sand had formed a Big Dipper containment array.
The web suddenly contracted. The screeching remnant souls were dragged into Su Jiuli’s seven orifices, while the First Generation’s soul essence poured into her meridians like molten bronze. Curled inside the sarcophagus, she dug her fingertips into the Star Mark etched into the wall. As the fragments peeled away, they revealed a line of Wu Clan blood-script: "The Greedy Wolf devours its master, the nine tails serve as sacrifice."
Chapter 65