"Cough." Lie Zhua opened his mouth and coughed up blood.
But this pain was far inferior to the raging blaze burning in his heart.
Below the platform, the silence was death-like, yet he could "hear" beneath this silence the sound of thousands of hearts pounding madly in extreme fury.
His clansmen looked at him with anger and sadness.
The acute pain made his thoughts somewhat scattered.
Death was about to arrive, but there was no fear within him.
In the final moments of life, he recalled Teacher Blue Star's stories about the fall of Star Valley, stories of exile and sacrifice that he never lived through but were recorded in history.
Back then, the ancestors used their flesh and blood to pave a path of survival for the generations to come.
Which birthed the prosperity of today's New Star Valley.
Now, it was his turn.
The Supervisor of the Bone Shattering Clan, "Shui Ya," had once said to him in the dungeon:
