The moment the liquid bronze beads condensed into a spectral image of a gate, a crisp cracking sound erupted from Su Jiuli’s spine.
Tribulation marks slithered like living snakes toward her pupils. Her remaining right eye was stained bronze, its gaze piercing the void to glimpse the truth behind the gates: trillions of Giant Bronze Gates were arranged in a formation, and behind every gate curled a "Su Jiuli" with a Star Core embedded in her body. Their hearts were pinned to the doorframes by bronze stakes, and the chains wrapped around the stakes were refining the dying sun’s soul into Star Sand, injecting it into the chaotic vortex at the heart of the formation.
From the depths of the vortex emerged the intact corpse of the First Generation Patriarch.
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