Standing at the top of the snow-lotus-covered steps of the Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Pillar, Gu Changsheng stood less than an arm’s length from his wife.
Up close, the thirty-six black Heavenly Script Chains binding Empress Luo Qingxue looked even more sinister than they had from the vault doorway. Each link was forged from dull, light-swallowing black star-iron, covered in tiny, wriggling blood-red Script characters that bit deep into the frost-coated silk over her collarbones, wrists, waist, and ankles.
Whenever Gu Changsheng’s warm breath brushed against the metal links, the thirty-six chains let out a low, metallic hiss—like thirty-six venomous vipers coiling tighter around their prey.
“Dad, wait—don’t hit those chains with a sharp edge!”
Thirteen-year-old Ye Xiao hurried up the steps right behind his father, holding [Dad’s Plot-Spoiler Notebook] open under his reading lamp as the golden warning text flashed across the page.
“Look at the structural footnote on the chains’ forging method!” Ye Xiao whispered urgently, pointing a steady finger at the glowing script. “Warden Tianfa didn’t forge these thirty-six Heavenly Script Chains out of ordinary star-iron! Three hundred years ago, he extracted the resentment, grief, and coldness from Ten Thousand Broken Families across Sector 6 and smelted them into a cursed Rebound Law Matrix!”
