Chapter 39: Star Sand Casts Me, Jin Illuminates the Heavens

##**Chapter 39: Star Sand Casts Me, Jin Illuminates the Heavens**

###**I. Reverse Scale Becomes a Prison, Blood Sand Devours the Master**

Ao Li's screams tore through the sky, and the star sand tentacles had already spread into a blood-colored cage. Each bar was cast from reverse scale fragments, and the surface displayed reliefs of past Coffin Keepers being tortured. When Lin Jin's Burial Fire touched them, it was backlashed by the star sand, leaving charred cracks—this cage was burning his own bloodline!

"Master... run..." Ao Li's left eye suddenly shed star sand tears, while her right eye ignited with Phoenix True Fire. She tore off the tentacles on her chest in a tremble, and the flesh brought out contained half a star sand compass: "Xiaoyaozi is... at the place where the nine coffins burn..." Before she could finish, the star sand suddenly condensed into chains around her throat.

The ruins of the Supervision Hall began to collapse, and nine star sand steles rose from the cracks in the ground. The stele inscriptions were the general outline of the "Burial Fire Art" that Lin Jin had carved himself eight hundred years ago—but the handwriting was being rewritten by the star sand!

###**II. Time Ruins Asking for Wine, Fishing Through the Ages**

At the edge of the Sea of Chaos, Xiaoyaozi's fishing rod suddenly went taut. The fishing line pierced through thirty-three layers of space-time, dragging You Lu, who was covered in star sand, from the depths of the Thunder Abyss. This Thunder Savage clan leader had shed nine layers of thunder skin, and his newborn skin was covered in ice coffin patterns identical to Lin Jin's.

"How does it feel to have star sand erode your bones?" Xiaoyaozi flicked his finger, shattering the seal on You Lu's brow. What gushed out was not thunder spirit but a star sand torrent, "When you stole from the Chaos Spring back then, did you taste this grit?"

You Lu's fangs spat out the Star River Immortal Venerable's voice: "Old ghost! You actually used my star sand to feed a Thunder Savage for eight hundred thousand years!" He suddenly tore open his chest, and the heart he pulled out was half a Star River chessboard—the pieces were all carved from the finger bones of Coffin Keepers!

###**III. Jin Burns the Star Steles, Nine Generations Share the Sorrow**

Lin Jin stepped on the star sand steles, and nine Coffin Keeper residual souls rushed out from the steles. They used star sand as thread to mend their shattered souls, singing a desolate soul-calming song:

"Sand erodes the reincarnation bone, fire burns the carefree path—"

The Burial Fire suddenly went out of control, turning into nine fire phoenixes that pecked at the residual souls. When the last wisp of soul breath dissipated, the fire phoenixes actually let out mournful cries identical to Ao Li's! Lin Jin's pupils contracted, and the truth appeared in the phoenixes' eyes: every time a Coffin Keeper fell, a wisp of star sand was injected into Ao Li's Nirvana fire!

The void split open, and Xiaoyaozi's wine gourd poured out blood wine, drenching the burning star sand steles. The wine vaporized into a blood-colored star map, marking nine space-time coordinates—exactly the places where the Coffin Keepers had committed suicide!

###**IV. Sand Eyes Reflecting Delusions, I Bury the Star River**

Following the star map's guidance, Lin Jin stepped into the space-time rift where the First Generation Coffin Keeper had fallen. Here, time surged like shattered mirrors, each fragment reflecting a different ending:

-In one fragment, Ao Li turned into star sand and devoured the heavens;

-In another fragment, Xiaoyaozi used his wine gourd to collect all living beings in the Primordial Desolation;

-In the largest fragment, the Star River Immortal Venerable dragged a golden body nine-tenths similar to Lin Jin from ten thousand ice coffins.

The Burial Fire suddenly condensed into a blade, and Lin Jin slashed through all the illusions. The star sand gathered into a giant eye at the wound, and sitting in the pupil was his childhood self, imprisoned by ten thousand bone chains. The ends of the chains extended into the void, and the one holding the chains—was Xiaoyaozi, who was fishing!

"Good disciple, still not awake?" The old man chuckled, the fishing line suddenly tightening around Lin Jin's neck, "You are the most perfect star sand puppet I have!"

###**V. Fire Nirvana All Phenomena, True Self Without Prison**

The star sand giant eye burst, and ten thousand ice coffins opened simultaneously. Every Lin Jin reached out and snapped the fishing line around his neck, the Burial Fire burning back along the line toward Xiaoyaozi. The old man laughed instead of getting angry, letting the flames devour his body, and a star sand die floated out from the ashes.

The six sides of the die were engraved with the same sentence:

**"The one who imprisons you is you, the one who buries the heavens is not heaven."**

On the ruins of the Supervision Hall, the star sand on Ao Li's body suddenly fell off, condensing into the phantom of the First Generation Coffin Keeper in the air. She touched the phantom's face in a tremble—the brows and eyes were seven-tenths similar to Lin Jin's, and the black mole on the lip was identical to her own!

###**Finale: Sand Eyes Reveal Chess**

The Star River Immortal Venerable's remains reorganized in the star sand, holding a blood-stained half-die in his hand: "What a plan to kill three birds with one stone..." He suddenly crushed the die, and a shocking scene appeared in the star sand torrent:

Eight hundred thousand years ago, the young Xiaoyaozi and the young Star River were refining star sand together. And behind them stood a white-clad man who looked exactly like Lin Jin, holding in his hands—Ao Li, the First Generation Phoenix undergoing Nirvana!

The Sea of Chaos suddenly boiled, and all the star sand began to flow backward. And beneath the Supervision Hall, the First Generation Coffin Keeper's ice coffin was seeping blood, and three characters slowly appeared on the coffin lid:

**Lin Jin's Tomb** ===== CHAPTER 40 =====