When the black fog dissipated, Bai Xing found herself standing on the top of the Astrology Tower. Moonlight shone through the broken dome, illuminating the girl lying in the glass coffin - that was the body of her "sister" Bai Yue, whose skin was covered with tentacle-like cracks.
"Welcome to your altar." Xizel's fingertips touched the silver needle on the back of her neck, and Bai Xing's dress instantly turned into a black thorn armor, "Now, it's time for you to see the truth."
He snapped his fingers, and the glass coffin suddenly rose, revealing a bronze altar engraved with cuneiform underneath. Bai Xing's astrology dagger automatically flew to the center of the altar. The moment the silver blade inserted into the rune, the entire tower began to twist, and countless eyes opened in the wall.
"Shen Yanzhi needs your soul to open the abyss." Xizel ripped open his shirt, and the astrology needle on his chest emitted a faint blue light, "And I... need you to become the new abyss container."
Bai Xing's astrological ability was fully awakened. She saw that in the millennium reincarnation, every "White Star" was sacrificed in the astrology tower, and Xizel betrayed her at the last moment every time and threw her soul fragments into the abyss.
"Why?" She put her dagger against Xizel's throat, but found that her reflection was flowing in his pupils.
"Because only in this way will you take the initiative to find me in the next life." Xizel suddenly grabbed the blade, and blood dripped along the silver lines, "In every life, I will make you hate me to the bone, so that when you finally want to kill me..."
The whole tower shook violently, and Bai Xing felt a burning sensation on the back of her neck. Her reflection split into twelve layers in Xizel's pupils, each wearing a different style of wedding ring.
"You have finally collected all twelve abyss marks." Xizel's voice became hoarse. He suddenly pushed Shirahoshi against the altar, and licked the star track mark on her collarbone with his hot lips and tongue. "Now, it's time for my bride to ascend the throne."
Outside the window came a chant that did not belong to the human world. Shirahoshi's dagger suddenly flew out of his hand and formed a seven-pointed star array in the air. Xizel's silver mask reappeared, covering the skin on his left face covered with star tracks: "Kill me, and you will gain the power to control time and space. But..."
He lowered his head and bit her earlobe, and his fingertips pierced the silver needle on the back of her neck: "You will always remember how I tore your soul apart, and how I knelt at your feet and begged for forgiveness."
Shirahoshi's consciousness was suddenly dragged into the abyss. She saw countless of herself being nailed to the bronze altar at the same time, and Xizel was saying the same thing in every time and space: "Please, let me bear this pain for you."
"You begged me for this." The real Xizel grabbed her waist and pressed her on the altar, "In every life, you begged me to make you forget the pain of being betrayed by your loved ones, so I can only make you hate me."
Bai Xing's dagger suddenly turned to her heart. Xizel's pupils shrank suddenly, but at the last moment, he grasped the blade with his hand: "Think clearly, if you kill me, you will never know..."
The shadow of Bai Yue emerged in the black fog. The real Bai Yue knelt on the edge of the abyss and threw the "Astrology Scroll" into the flames: "Sister, run! Shen Yanzhi wants to sacrifice you to the Lord of the Abyss!"
The real Bai Xing trembled all over. Her dagger fell to the ground, and Xizel took the opportunity to imprison her in his arms, and his fingertips stroked the newly emerged seven-pointed star mark on her forehead: "Now, you have two choices ——"
Twelve bells rang outside the tower. The ends of Bai Xing's hair turned blue. She saw in the future that Xi Zeer was nailing her to the throne of the abyss, and her eyes were flashing with the same star tracks as his.
"Become my queen, or become the nourishment of the abyss." Xi Zeer's silver mask was completely shattered, revealing the boundary between the star tracks on the left face and the human skin on the right face. "No matter which one you choose, you will always belong to me."
Bai Xing suddenly bit his Adam's apple, and the tip of her tongue tasted the rusty blood. Her astrological dagger flew up automatically and accurately pierced the astrological needle in Xi Zeer's heart. Before the black mist poured out of the wound and swallowed the two, Bai Xing saw the last thing Bai Yue's body in the glass coffin opened his eyes, and there were countless rotating star maps in his pupils.