On the bloody plateau, the red star rock wall was broken like a spider web, and the aftermath of the flames was still lingering in the air.
Su Yue stood on the scorched earth after the collapse of the Life Fire Abyss. The red-patterned battle armor had not yet faded, and the oath seal on the palm of her hand slowly rotated, and seven golden red lock marks spread like starlight.
Heres was already seriously injured and unconscious. He was picked up by Ethan and tied up, and thrown into a rock crevice for temporary hiding.
"Are you okay?" Ethan tried to get closer, but stopped one step in front of Su Yue.
That was instinctive fear.
Su Yue slowly raised her head, her eyes were clear, but she seemed to have some kind of divine indifference.
"I'm fine." Her voice was slightly hoarse, but she couldn't suppress a certain inner burning feeling, "It's just... there are a lot more things in my mind."
"The memory of the life fire is like fragments smashing in... I'm trying to put them together."
She looked at the end of the broken plateau in the distance, with light and shadow intertwined in her eyes.
"Seven of the Soul Oath Rings have awakened."
"But I know - there are still two that have not returned."
They did not stay for too long.
Although the Black Robe Organization was temporarily shocked, the "Life Fire Resonance" in Su Yue's body was already running at a high frequency, which is likely to attract deeper tracking.
It is necessary to leave the Red Star Plateau as soon as possible and go to the next place where the Oath Ring awakens.
That is the ruined palace located in the "Ancient Land of Forgotten Shadows" - "Fire Sacrifice Hall".
It is said that it was the place where the previous Oath Master was sleeping, and it was also one of the most serious nodes of the Oath Soul.
On the way, Ethan asked in a deep voice: "What does each of the 'seven lock marks' you just mentioned... represent?"
Su Yue pondered for a moment and answered in a low voice:
"Represents the 'Original Seven Principles' of the Oath Master."
"Guard, judge, burn, swear, mark, blood, memory."
"Each unlock is a reshaping of the deep memory of the Life Fire - and the key to awakening the power that was once sealed."
"But this is just the beginning. I feel that there are 'eighth principles' and 'ninth principles', hidden under some kind of more ancient oath seal system."
Ethan's face changed slightly: "Ninth principles... Is the legend true? The Oath Master fell because he tried to awaken the 'ninth principles', causing the backlash of the natural moat?"
Su Yue did not answer, but took out the fragment of crystal obtained in the Life Fire Abyss from his arms.
In the crystal, a wisp of red-gold spiritual fire quietly jumped, reflecting a vague phantom.
It was actually a figure - covered in blood, holding a broken battle flag, his face blurred by time, but giving people an indescribable pressure.
"He... may be the previous oath master." She said in a low voice, "But he is not dead, but is... forever imprisoned in the lock of the Ninth Righteousness."
At the same time, in the main oath hall. In the shadow of the hall, more than a dozen priests wearing silver-patterned sacrificial robes were surrounding the shaking sealed sarcophagus, muttering the oath.
"The oath master's seal moves, and the old soul returns."
"The Seven Righteousness appears, and the Nine Rings open."
The leader is called Seran Noin, the chief priest of the "Inscription Sect" of the oath hall. He has always advocated that the inheritor of the life fire should be recalled, and the "Soul Locking Secret Ceremony" should be used to completely control it and recast the oath master.
"She has completed the fusion of seven rings." Seran's eyes were deep. "If she continues to grow, the Ninth Righteousness will not be able to stop her."
"It's time for us to take action."
He turned to look at the sealed coffin and whispered coldly: "Release the Soul Hunter and restart the Sky Lock Ceremony."
"I want her to lose her qualifications to be a human forever before she steps into the position of the Oath Master."
At night, Su Yue and Ethan arrived at a desolate mountain range at the edge of the Forgotten Shadow Ancient Realm.
The former "Fire Hall" has turned into broken bricks and walls, and only a few remaining stone pillars are still engraved with complex oath ring patterns, which emit a low and empty sound with the night wind.
"It's very quiet here." Ethan looked around vigilantly, "Too quiet."
Su Yue looked at the remains of the circular oath formation in the center.
"That is... the resonance field of the eighth ring."
Before she finished speaking, the ground suddenly shook, and the entire stone formation emitted a pulse like the beating of blood.
The next second, five black shadows suddenly rushed out from the periphery of the ruins, with dark red chains wrapped around their bodies and their faces completely covered by blood-red masks.
——Soul Sworn Hunters!
They are a secret force specially set up to hunt down the holders of the out-of-control oath seal, and only obey the orders of the three councils of the main oath hall.
"Retreat!" Ethan shouted angrily.
Su Yue did not move, and slowly spread out her right hand.
The oath seal rotated violently, and the seven lock marks lit up at the same time, and the red-lined phantom behind it appeared again.
"You want to end me before the eighth ring awakens?"
She sneered: "You are too late."
Boom!
The entire stone formation suddenly rose with red-gold flames, like a rolling sea of stars, and the entire "Fire Sacrifice Hall" ruins turned into a super-large oath ring, and the fragments, spell patterns, and bones inside were all sucked into the void.
Su Yue was suspended in the center of the ring, her oath soul was reconstructed, and her life fire was burning wildly!
A new inscription pattern appeared on her body, unfolding like a phoenix feather——
The eighth principle, the ring of burning memories, opened.
A low hum resounded through the sky.
A memory spear made purely of oath fire appeared in Su Yue's hand and stabbed straight down.
Two of the five oath soul hunters were killed on the spot Burned, the three of them counterattacked frantically, but were stopped by Ethan at the periphery.
The flames faded, Su Yue slowly landed, and the third oath fire mark appeared on her forehead.
After this night, rumors about the "reincarnation of the life fire oath master" spread rapidly.
And the three councils of the Lord's Oath Hall also officially launched the "Oath Lock Plan" that had been silent for a hundred years.
Eight of the nine oath seal rings have appeared, and only the last one remains.
But the ninth ring - is not in any relics, memories, or inheritance.
It only exists in "Su Yue's death".
Because that lock should not have been opened.