When the waves of the North Sea congealed into bronze-colored ice ridges, the last of the child corpses stepped onto the reef.
Su Jiuli stood upon the remnant clouds of the Nine Heavens, her right eye reflecting an appalling vision through the Star Sand—the newly formed Star Marks on the foreheads of the child corpses were resonating with her own bloodline. As each mark ignited, a Bronze Pillar deep within the North Sea let out a dragon-like roar. Beneath the ice, the remains of the Xuanwu suddenly stirred. From the cracks in its shell, it was no longer Xuanming True Water that surged forth, but molten bronze infused with Star Sand!
The first jet of magma burst through the ice, piercing three of the child corpses.
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