The moment the Giant Bronze Gate’s eye opened, the sea of clouds in the Nine Heavens congealed into bronze-colored ice crystals.
Su Jiuli’s fox fire burned through the petrified shell covering her right eye. Wherever the flames touched, the void cracked like a spiderweb. She sprinted toward the Netherworld rift, stepping over shards of ice, but the lotus pattern formed by Star Sand beneath her feet suddenly backfired. From the heart of every lotus emerged the fox face of the First Generation Patriarch, whose fangs sank into her ankles, dragging her toward the abyss.
As she plummeted, the gaze of the Giant Bronze Gate swept across her body.
Chapter 72