Chapter 40: Boundless Blood Sea, Jin Bones Become a Boat

##**Chapter 40: Boundless Blood Sea, Jin Bones Become a Boat**

###**I. Star Sand Erodes Steles, Phoenix Feathers Fall into the Abyss**

The ruins of the Supervision Hall trembled incessantly, and the star sand chains that had bloomed behind Ao Li suddenly pierced through her phoenix wings. Golden-red feathers fell like rain, each feather creating a space-time whirlpool upon touching the ground—the memories of her Nirvana rebirths over the past eight hundred years surged in the whirlpools:

-During her seventh rebirth, she picked up a star sand fragment engraved with Lin Jin's name in the Sea of Chaos;

-After her eleventh rebirth, the scene of the First Generation Coffin Keeper gouging out his heart appeared in her Nirvana fire;

-The feathers that fell most recently actually sealed the scene of Xiaoyaozi planting star sand seeds for her!

"So I am the key..." Ao Li suddenly tore open her chest, pressing her beating Phoenix Heart onto the "Lin Jin's Tomb" characters on the First Generation ice coffin. The coffin lid opened with a roar, and what gushed out was not remains but a monstrous blood wave—the Primordial Desolation forbidden ground "Boundless Blood Sea" was actually hidden in the coffin!

###**II. Blood Sea Asking for Bones, Jin Illuminates the Past**

The moment Lin Jin stepped into the blood sea, a bone boat woven from star sand and Burial Fire condensed beneath his feet. Countless star sand steles floated in the waves, the inscriptions recording a shocking truth:

**"In the 30,000th year of the Immortal Calendar, Star River stole the Heavenly Bone from the Boundless, Xiaoyao stole the Star Marrow from the Return to Ruins, and together they refined star sand to balance the Heavenly Dao."**

The blood wave suddenly turned into a giant palm, supporting the bottom of the boat, the palm lines actually being the destiny chart of the First Generation Coffin Keeper. Lin Jin cut his wrist and injected his Burial Fire into the blood sea, and the boiling seawater reflected the secret history of eight hundred thousand years ago:

The white-clad man (First Generation) had his divine bones stripped by Star River and Xiaoyao, who worked together, and the extracted spine was refined into a star sand mother core. He sneered before he fell: "You use my bones and blood to forge shackles, but you don't know that the true prisoner is..."

The scene cut off abruptly, and nine star sand pillars rose from the blood sea, each pillar sealing the residual remains of one of Lin Jin's past lives!

###**III. Silent Bell Rings, All Laws Return to Sand**

A bell sound came from the end of the blood sea, and a twelve-tier bronze bell tower broke through the waves. Hanging from the eaves were not bronze bells, but skulls of Coffin Keepers eroded by star sand! At the top of the bell tower, the Star River Immortal Venerable was wiping a bone sword—the sword body was clearly made from the spine of the First Generation Coffin Keeper.

"You think burning through the ice coffin is breaking the game?" Star River slashed through the blood waves, and a shocking scene appeared on the seabed: ten thousand Lin Jin ice coffins formed a massive array, devouring the spiritual energy of the heavens, "These are the true star sand furnaces!"

The bone boat beneath Lin Jin's feet suddenly disintegrated, and star sand surged into his meridians through his pores. He realized with horror that he was being refined into a new star sand mother core, and Xiaoyaozi's sigh came from the depths of the blood sea: "The time has come..."

###**IV. Myriad Phenomena Sundial Shatters, Reversing Fate to Burn the Heavens**

At the moment of life and death, Ao Li's residual soul burned her original essence and blood, rushing into the blood sea. She crushed her Phoenix Heart, igniting all the star sand steles with Nirvana fire. The inscriptions reorganized in the flames, spelling out the true last words of the First Generation Coffin Keeper:

**"Sand erodes the nine realms, fire buries the thief who stole heaven. Wait until the Return to Ruins ends, then you will know who I am!"**

Lin Jin's spirit shook, and the memories of his past lives poured into him like a blood wave—he was actually the "delusion" stripped away by the First Generation Coffin Keeper! The Burial Fire suddenly transformed into a ghostly blue, and the blood sea formed a whirlpool ten thousand miles in diameter with him at the center.

"So that's it..." He reached into his chest with his bare hand, pulled out the heart eroded by star sand, and crushed it. What burst from the minced flesh was not blood, but the "Silent Sundial" sealed by the First Generation Coffin Keeper!

The moment the sundial needle turned, the ten thousand ice coffins exploded simultaneously. The Star River Immortal Venerable's bone sword shattered inch by inch, and the bell tower began to collapse: "You actually dare to awaken the forbidden artifact of the Return to Ruins!"

###**V. Return to Ruins Gate Opens, Eternal Night Approaches**

Under the illumination of the Silent Sundial, the blood sea split open a mouth of the abyss. Lin Jin saw the truth buried by star sand: twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty corpses of Xiaoyaozi were soaking in the depths of the Return to Ruins, each corpse holding a star sand die in its palm!

"Good disciple, do you recognize this die?" All the corpses suddenly opened their eyes, their voices overlapping like thunder. The Silent Sundial in Lin Jin's hand trembled violently, and childhood memories appeared on the sundial face: when Xiaoyaozi taught him to roll the dice, all six sides of the die were engraved with the character "Prison"!

The blood sea suddenly solidified into amber, and Ao Li's residual soul was sealed within it. The Star River Immortal Venerable turned into a star sand torrent and surged into the Return to Ruins, his voice filled with manic joy: "Eternal night descends, you and I are both..."

Before he could finish, Lin Jin pierced his own brow with the Silent Sundial needle. The ghostly blue Burial Fire burned his spirit along the needle, and the First Generation Coffin Keeper's chanting came from the flames:

**"Using my Jin bones as a boat, ferrying all the prisoners of star sand—"**

###**Finale: Sundial Buries the Heavens**

Above the ruins of the Supervision Hall, the living beings of the Primordial Desolation watched in horror as the sky split open a giant mouth. Star sand poured down like a waterfall, but turned into ghostly blue fire rain upon touching the ground. Shocking scenes appeared in the fire rain:

Lin Jin stepped on the spine bone sword of the First Generation Coffin Keeper, fighting the ten thousand Xiaoyaozi corpses in the depths of the Return to Ruins. Every time the bone sword shattered a corpse, a star sand stele somewhere in the present collapsed.

And in the deepest part of the Boundless Blood Sea, Ao Li's Phoenix Heart suddenly pulsed. Each pulse gave birth to a lotus of twin blossoms, where star sand and Burial Fire blended, and in the heart of the lotus sat half a broken die—

The side facing up was the "Jin" character that the First Generation Coffin Keeper had failed to finish carving. ===== CHAPTER 41 =====