As the jagged teeth of the Azure Dragon’s remains pierced the seabed, Su Jiuli’s spine was impaled by the dragon’s horn.
Blood flowed down the grooves of the dragon-patterned bone, scorching the mark of the Big Dipper into its surface. Suddenly, her remaining right eye revealed a horrifying vision: deep within the dragon’s horn lay a Soul Lamp, its wick flickering with the sealed Destiny Soul of Lin Xuan. The soul-fire licked at the Wu Clan blood-script etched onto the lamp’s wall, the characters dancing with the droplets of blood to manifest the truth of the night the Star Palace fell: young Lin Xuan, kneeling before a Giant Bronze Gate, carving his own Destiny Pattern into the gap of the door, using his soul as a wedge to delay the descent of the existence lurking behind it.
"Brother... you used your own body as a lock..."
Chapter 76