When the reefs along the coast of the North Sea were etched into a honeycomb by liquid bronze, the fingertips of the first child corpse had already touched land.
Su Jiuli knelt at the water's edge, fragments of her petrified fox tail rising and falling with the tide. She stared at the dimming Star Mark on her palm, suddenly noticing that the child corpses climbing ashore moved with rhythmic precision. As the primary Star Marks on their foreheads flickered, a Bronze Divination Bamboo Slip emerged from the sand with every step they took.
When the ninety-ninth slip burst from the sand, the child corpses suddenly froze. Droplets of liquid bronze trickled from their eye sockets, coalescing into miniature altars upon hitting the ground. A sharp pain pierced Su Jiuli’s right eye; her gaze penetrated the phantom altars, revealing a horrifying sight: three hundred child corpses had been transformed into bronze figurines, refining the spiritual energy of the North Sea into Star Sand, which was then poured into the skull of the slumbering First Generation Patriarch.
Chapter 67