Chapter 91

The moment the bronze mask embedded itself into her cheekbones, the sky over the North Sea collapsed into the size of a bean. Star Sand poured down from the fissures of the Return to Void, congealing into a nine-tiered bronze dais. The surface of the dais was carved with the Wu Clan's funerary scriptures, and blood mixed with copper rust seeped from the gaps in the characters, staining Su Jiuli’s tribulation mark a dark red. The Buried Star Formula inscribed on the inner wall of the mask slithered like a living snake, its tip piercing into her eye socket. Amidst the blinding agony, a vision emerged: the First Generation Patriarch stood before a bronze furnace, boiling three hundred Star Cores. He held a bone ladle, scooping up the boiling Star Marrow and pouring it over a floating bronze mask—the patterns on the inner wall of that mask were identical to the one she wore at this very moment!