As the bronze liquid swept over the remains of the altar, the crying of the Star Core female infant had already faded into the silence of a myriad ghosts.
The last speck of Su Jiuli's petrified left eye peeled away, and bronze roots growing from her hollow eye socket plunged into the void, their tips wrapping around the delicate hand of the child near the miniature gate door. The star core grasped in that hand suddenly flared, and the Star Mark on the infant's forehead wriggled like a living snake, actually crawling along the roots toward Su Jiuli's skull!
The very instant the Star Mark touched her forehead, nine forests of bronze steles surfaced from the depths of the North Sea.
Chapter 81