The moment the Bronze Divination Bamboo Slip tore through the waves, the female infant in the altar’s embryo began to wail.
The sound waves shattered the remaining ice of the North Sea, and the nine Xuanwu skeletons collapsed in response. Their shell fragments fused into three hundred Bronze Nails, which struck toward Su Jiuli. She stumbled backward, the lotus patterns formed by Star Sand beneath her feet crumbling piece by piece. A waterfall of liquid bronze flowed in reverse from her hollow right eye, searing a line of blood-red Wu Clan characters into the void: "Only when the ashes of calamity return to the Return to Void can the true self be seen."
As the Bronze Nails touched her skin, Su Jiuli’s spine erupted with a thunderous crack.
Chapter 80