Chapter 38: Star Sand Erodes Time, Coffin Keeper Bone

##**Chapter 38: Star Sand Erodes Time, Coffin Keeper Bone**

###**I. Scale Abyss Blood Boiling, Dragon Roar Severs the Soul**

Ao Li knelt in the ruins of the Supervision Hall, golden blood seeping from her fingers into the cracks of the floor tiles. Those blood droplets stained with star sand suddenly floated, piecing together a broken star map in the moonlight—it was exactly the nine-coffin array in the depths of the Sea of Chaos!

"Master, my blood..." she discovered with horror that star sand was shimmering in her wounds. Lin Jin ignited the Burial Fire on his fingertips, and as the flames licked the blood, the Star River Immortal Venerable's cold sneer came out: "Little Phoenix, you thought your rebirth was a stroke of luck?"

Memory fragments suddenly flooded in: eight hundred years ago, when Ao Li was undergoing Nirvana, star sand had been mixed into the core of the phoenix tree. The Burial Fire burned along her bloodline, and behind her appeared the phantom of chains condensed from star sand—the ends were actually tied to the tailbone of the First Generation Coffin Keeper!

###**II. Time-Eroding Insect Nest, Immortal Venerable's Chessboard**

To solve the mystery of the star sand, Lin Jin ventured alone into the space-time rift. The space gnawed by the Time-Eroding Insect swarm was full of crystallized folds, and every step he took trod on fragments of different eras:

-The ice layer on the left sealed the scene of the First Generation Coffin Keeper gouging out his eyes; what flowed from him was not blood but star sand;

-The sea of fire on the right surged with the scene of the Ninth Generation Coffin Keeper burning himself; from the ashes flew a wine gourd identical to Xiaoyaozi's;

-The ground beneath his feet suddenly collapsed, and he fell into the ancient residual image of the Star River Immortal Venerable playing chess with Xiaoyaozi.

"Is it worth it to spend eight hundred thousand years cultivating a container?" The Star River Immortal Venerable played a piece, the chessboard actually being the bloodline pedigree of the Coffin Keepers. Xiaoyaozi drank the wine in his gourd, his drunken eyes reflecting Lin Jin's face: "It's worth it... waiting for that child to burn through your star sand chains."

###**III. Reversing Time to Burn the Heart, Nine Coffins Share the Sorrow**

Following the star sand's resonance, Lin Jin found the true burial ground of the First Generation Coffin Keeper. Nine ice coffins hung in the river of time flowing in reverse, each coffin sealing the moment of a Coffin Keeper's self-destruction:

1. The Third Generation was eroded by star sand in both eyes, and after carving the final chapter of the "Burial Fire Art" with his ribs, he severed his own heart pulse;

2. The Fifth Generation discovered the star sand puppet lines in his bloodline and used heavenly thunder to shatter his entire body, but still could not break free;

3. The Ninth Generation left a blood letter on the surface of the ice coffin: "The true Chaos Eye is Xiaoyao..."

When the Burial Fire touched the blood letter, space-time suddenly collapsed. Lin Jin saw himself as a child being placed in an ice coffin by Xiaoyaozi, the old man's fingertips shimmering with star sand: "Go, child, you will burn out a new path."

###**IV. Sand Erodes the Heavens, Jin Starts Nirvana**

A dragon roar came from beneath the Supervision Hall, and Ao Li, eroded by star sand, began to mutate. Where her reverse scales peeled off, star sand tentacles extended, and they were devouring the ruins of the entire Reverse Scale City. Lin Jin crushed the ice coffin fragment he had brought back from the space-time rift, and the resentment souls of the nine Coffin Keepers turned into Burial Fire chains:

"Since my life was written by star sand—" the chains pierced through his limbs, actually refining the star sand into liquid fire seeds, "then I will use this fire to rewrite the laws of the heavens!"

The Star River Immortal Venerable's projection twisted in the fire: "You actually dare to use the sword I forged..." Before he could finish, Lin Jin had already crushed the star sand core. The heroes of the Primordial Desolation watched in shock as the sky burned, and the Burial Fire trajectories of all Coffin Keepers from the past eight hundred thousand years appeared in the ashes, finally converging into two words:

**Nirvana**

###**V. Gourd Swallows the Star Sea, Dark Currents Surge**

Xiaoyaozi sat fishing at the edge of the Chaos Eye, the end of his fishing line tied to the star sand eye newly born from Ye Yan. The shattered Star River chessboard fell into the gourd, and the splashed wine reflected a brand new prophecy:

**"When the sand exhausts the false Heavenly Dao, the fire casts true carefree. Until the nine coffins burn..."**

The old man suddenly flicked his rod, piercing through the void and fishing up You Lu, who was in the middle of shedding his skin: "Thunder Savage kid, tell Star River—his soul-slaying thunder talisman makes for a good wine."

And in the depths of the Supervision Hall, Ao Li cut open her chest in front of a bronze mirror, the star sand floating in her golden blood gradually gathering into a miniature Chaos Eye. She smiled lightly at herself in the mirror, her pupils turning into star sand whirlpools identical to Ye Yan's.

###**Finale: Sand Eyes Reflecting Shadows**

The Star River Immortal Venerable reorganized his divine body in the star sand, holding a broken star sword in his hand: "What a game of reincarnation..." He suddenly crushed the dice, and a shocking scene appeared in the star sand torrent:

"You think you can swallow me..." He let the star sand devour his divine body, "But you forget—"

Deep in the sea of sand, the ninety-nine thousandth ice coffin suddenly opened its eyes. ===== CHAPTER 39 =====