Chapter 66

As the bronze fluid seeping from the North Sea reefs congealed into streams, the finger bones of the first child corpse climbed onto the reef at the water's edge. Su Jiuli knelt in the center of the Guixu Whirlpool. The divination patterns of the "Lianshan" traced by her fingertips in Star Sand crumbled inch by inch. As she gazed at the reflections of the three hundred child corpses emerging from the divination, she suddenly coughed up a clot of blood mixed with bronze shavings. The moment the blood droplets fell into the whirlpool, nine bronze lamps surfaced from the silt of the seafloor; the flickering wicks were, in fact, the remnants of the First Generation Patriarch’s seven emotions, cast off and burning! The group of child corpses suddenly froze. The Star Marks on their foreheads peeled away, turning into bronze fluid that dripped into the fissures of the reef. Su Jiuli used her remaining fox tails to coil around the bronze lamps. The moment the lamp flames touched the seawater, the entire North Sea fell into an abrupt silence. In that silence, a delicate sound of grinding joints arose; all three hundred child corpses turned their heads in unison, their hollow eye sockets fixed upon the anchor-shaped crack in Su Jiuli’s heart.