The moment Nezha’s fingertips touched the blood river, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire suddenly recoiled like a venomous snake. Tongues of fire burrowed through his Lotus Root Body joints into his chest, burning his heart into a transparent crystal—and locked within that crystal was the lingering soul of Lady Shiji, scorched away when she was refined by the Nine Dragon Fire Canopy! "No... this cannot be true..." The waves of fire erupting from Nezha’s seven orifices coalesced into an Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram in the air. The fire spirit bead hovering at the center of the formation suddenly detached from his body, and from within it came the panicked shout of Taiyi Zhenren: "Disciple, retreat at once!"
Yang Jian’s Three-pointed Double-edged Blade cleaved through the curtain of fire, only to reveal the Karmic Fire merging with the blood river and Weak Water into a violet, toxic flame. The green light of his Heavenly Eye pierced through the poison, illuminating a secret from the days at Mount Qianyuan: when Lady Shiji’s original life-spirit stone was cast into the alchemy furnace, a fragment of the Immortal-Binding Rope hidden at the bottom of the furnace had been tied to Nezha’s umbilical cord! "Third brother!" Shattering the silver armor on his left arm, Yang Jian watched as his violet blood congealed into a silver moon that slashed toward the fire spirit bead. The moment the moonlight touched the bead, it projected an image of Lady Shiji shattering her own primordial spirit…
Chapter 223