As the Bronze Divination Bamboo Slip plunged into the rift of Return to Void, the clouds at the peak of the Nine Heavens were already dyed the color of blood.
Su Jiuli stepped upon a staircase condensed from Star Sand, climbing toward the firmament. With each step she took, a bronze lotus pattern bloomed beneath her feet. Three hundred Bronze Sarcophagi were suspended above the sea of clouds, their lid surfaces' Star Marks lighting up one by one as she drew closer, the tips of all the patterns pointing toward the unhealed anchor scar on her heart.
The moment the first gust of wind swept across the group of sarcophagi, Su Jiuli felt a sudden, piercing pain in her spine.
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