Across the vast, snow-swept plain of Floor Seven: The Hall of Erased Timelines, one million towering Mirrors of the Original Script floated in midair like jagged shards of black graveyard ice.
As Gu Changsheng, Empress Luo Qingxue, the five children, and the three elders stepped across the threshold into the blood-red snowfall, the million black mirrors suddenly lit up at the same instant!
Up on Floor Nine, the Chief Author of Fate had wired every mirror on Floor Seven to project the unedited. Canonical tragedies from the original three-thousand-page draft of Record of the Nine Heavens Sword God. Designed to ambush the five Gu children’s minds with the horrific fates they had been meant to suffer before Gu Changsheng woke up in Frost-Pine Town!
BUZZ—FLASH!
To the left of thirteen-year-old Su Nuannuan, three hundred thousand black mirrors flared with sickly green poison light, playing the sight from Original Page Eighty-Six:
Inside the glass, a starving, terrified version of little Su Nuannuan—who had never met a dad with strawberry milk candies or a pink watering can. Was locked inside a bubbling bronze poison-refining jar by the Chosen One Lin Fan, her small hands scratching at the lid. Meanwhile, her body was melted down into a “Hundred-Poison Immunity Pill” while she cried for a daddy who never came!
