The Ancestral Dragon Reverse Scale burned like a branding iron in the palm of the Little Monkey, its blood-red veins suddenly swelling into relief and coalescing into a three-dimensional projection of the Three Realms. The location of Guixu in the East Sea flickered continuously, each flash and fade revealing a different slice of space-time—when Dayu measured the Four Seas, when Gonggong crashed into Mount Buzhou, when Sun Wukong seized the Sea-Pacifying Divine Needle... Salty, bloody seawater seeped from the edges of the scale, fusing with the Little Monkey's blood to etch a living nautical chart onto his arm!
"Follow the blood tide..." A roar echoed from the depths of the sea as Gonggong spoke, and the Little Monkey leaped straight into the East Sea. The water parted automatically, exposing a cluster of deep-sea altars hidden for ten thousand years. Twelve basalt altars were arranged in the pattern of the zodiac, and the altar of Suiren suddenly erupted with terrestrial fire, out of which strode a giant with three heads and six arms—the fire-drilling stick in his left hand drifted with the primordial blue smoke of the creation of chaos, while the half-section of the Immortal Execution Sword in his right hand dripped with fresh blood!
"You're late!" the giant suddenly blurted out, pointing the tip of his sword at the Mending Heaven Stone in the Little Monkey's arms. Three hundred sword qi beams suddenly erupted from the broken edge of the Immortal Execution Sword, each beam wrapping around a lost soul executed at the Execution Immortal Platform. The third eye between the Little Monkey's brows opened instinctively, and as the golden light swept across the ghosts, it revealed a horrifying truth: every single one of these alleged violators of heavenly law had fragments of the Mending Heaven Stone embedded in their glabella!
The Suiren giant slammed his fire-drilling stick fiercely against the altar, and the resulting sparks ignited the wreckage of the Immortal Execution Sword. The rust on the blade peeled away, revealing dense layers of demon-clan script underneath—it was none other than the modified array method of the Immortal Execution Sword devised by Master Tongtian before his imprisonment! In the visions emerging from the flames, Master Tongtian infused the origins of the four swords into Suiren's fire-drilling stick, roaring, "The hearthfire of the human race shall burn away all false paths!"
The Little Monkey was suddenly entangled by the roots of the Chaos Green Lotus, the heavenly soldiers' armor hanging from the roots clattering noisily. Black mucus oozed from the gaps in the armor, hitting the ground and transforming into nine-headed insect fiends. Every single head of this primordial beast wore a shattered spirit-official cap, and what spewed from their mouths was not venom, but the refined obsessions of heavenly soldiers: "Your Majesty... why did you extract our immortal bones..."
The Immortal Execution Sword suddenly flew up on its own, severing the Green Lotus roots. What spewed from the severed roots was not sap, but Heavenly River Weak Water! The flow of water revealed scenes of Yang Jian's campaign against Flower-Fruit Mountain: the armor of those fallen heavenly soldiers had been secretly collected and melted into the root system of the Chaos Green Lotus. At that moment, the Weak Water engulfed the Little Monkey and surged toward the abyss of Guixu, where fragments of the Mending Heaven Stone suddenly emitted Nuwa's sigh: "Child, it is time to see the truth..."
The Weak Water condensed into a water mirror at the entrance of Guixu, reflecting the arcane secrets from the creation of heaven and earth. The Ancestral Dragon Reverse Scale suddenly detached from the Little Monkey's palm, embedding itself into the mirror to act as a key. The moment the mirror surface cracked, it revealed a scene of Hongjun preaching—beneath the rush mats of the three thousand guests in Zixiao Palace were actually pressed the vertebrae of the Ancestral Dragon! The true story of the initial calamity of dragons and phoenixes shattered all perceptions: the Ancestral Dragon had not died in battle; instead, he had been refined by Hongjun into enlightenment tea used for lectures!
"So that's why the reverse scale resonated with the Chaos Green Lotus..." The Little Monkey touched the remains of the Ancestral Dragon in the mirror, and the dragon skeleton suddenly opened its hollow eye sockets. Two streams of dragon soul essence fire surged along his fingertips, condensing behind him into an illusory avatar of the Ancestral Dragon. At that moment, the entire cluster of seabed altars activated, and the Divine Farmer's Whip flew out from Shennong's altar, its whip-shadow concealing the truth of Shennong's death by poison tasting—the heartbreaking grass he swallowed at the very end was actually transformed from the jade beads on the Jade Emperor's crown!
The roots of the Chaos Green Lotus suddenly went berserk, thousands of heavenly soldiers' armor pieces reassembling into a giant puppet. The energy core embedded in the puppet's chest was precisely the Spirit Pearl Fragment that had been extracted from Nezha back then! The broken Immortal Execution Sword in the Little Monkey's hand suddenly let out a mournful cry, and a bloodshot eye opened at the hilt—it was actually the Heavenly Eye dug out from Master Tongtian! This eye suddenly glared toward the Nine Heavens, and wherever its gaze reached, the glazed walls of the Thirty-Three Heavens shattered with a deafening crash, exposing the writhing network of Green Lotus roots pulsing within...
"So the so-called Heavenly Court..." Blood gushed from the Little Monkey's third eye as he saw the cruelest truth of all: every single layer of the Thirty-Three Heavens was a lotus node of the Chaos Green Lotus, and the Jade Emperor's Hall of Miraculous Mist was none other than the lotus seed pod itself! At that moment, Guixu beneath his feet began to spin, forming a massive whirlpool, and from the center of the whirlpool slowly rose half a dragon corpse—it was actually the severed lower half of the Ancestral Dragon, and the reverse scale was the key to unlocking this dragon corpse!