Jiang Ye supported Ye Shuli's nape with his left hand, the palm of his right hand branded with the Big Dipper pattern by the burning bronze powder.
The bronze fragments embedded in his tailbone for three years were awakening, climbing vertebra by vertebra along his spine, exploding between his ribs with the intertwined, freezing and burning agony of ice and fire.
"An ant that should have died three months ago." The Power of Darkness reassembled its body from particles of light, three claw marks fracturing its dark iron mask. "I underestimated the gift of the Bronze Sluice."
Chapter 557