Chapter 90

The moment the Bronze Ring embedded itself into flesh, the sky above the North Sea cracked open with Star Marks. Nine pillars of bronze light rose from the Return to Void, their surfaces etched with blood-sacrifice motifs of the Wu Clan—and the sacrificial victim whose heart had been gouged out in the mural was none other than Su Jiuli, her face fully intact from three hundred years ago! Where the pillars intersected, the phantom of an Astrolabe condensed, the missing star positions on its surface aligning perfectly with the divination trigrams on the inner side of her ring. A female infant phantom leaped forth from the Astrolabe, its forehead tribulation mark plunging like a key into the pillars, causing them to collapse with a roar into a rain of bronze— The raindrops struck the sea surface, solidifying into countless miniature coffins.