The ruins of Yuxu Palace collapsed with a deafening roar as the innate gourd vine broke through the soil. Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye swept forth a silver beam like a sword, slicing through the tangled vines to reveal the Wu Clan's blood-sacrifice runes carved all along the stems—each rune brimming with the lingering resentment Gonggong carried when he struck Mount Buzhou! "Watch out!" Xiaotian Hound suddenly lunged forward to tear at the vine roots, the characters for "Sheng-Sheng" engraved upon its canine teeth bursting with azure light that melted the entangling Mother Tree root system into ash. Seven gourds tumbled down in response; from the mouth of the purple-golden gourd, the primordial spirit of Donghuang Taiyi suddenly spewed forth, its remnant soul wreathed in true solar fire as it lunged straight for Nezha's face!
Stepping upon his Wind and Fire Wheels, Nezha retreated in a flash, his Yin Wheel freezing the true solar fire while his Yang Wheel's fierce flames condensed into the phantom of Zhurong: "Mere remnant soul, how dare you act so wildly!" The Spirit Pearl mark abruptly detached itself from his body, channeling the power of the Twenty-Four Heavens into the Fire-Tip Spear. The instant the spear tip punctured the remnant spirit, Taiyi's dying words shattered the void: "Beware... the gourd... Hongjun..." Where the remnant soul dissipated, the surface of the purple-golden gourd blossomed with the formation diagrams of the Zhoutian Star Formation!
Sun Wukong swung …
Chapter 103