The glaciers of Northern Lüzhou shattered with a deafening roar as the Heaven-Patching Stone Fetus shards unearthed by the Xiaotian Hound burst forth with a blinding crimson light. From the surface of the fragments, where the inscription "Jade Emperor Zhang Bainren" was etched, gold-and-red liquid oozed out, hitting the ground to transform into three hundred and sixty blood cicadas that flapped their wings and flew into the chaotic void. Amid the shrill cicada cries, the Ancestral Dragon Reverse Scale, frozen for ten thousand ages, broke free from the ice. Its surface reflected a horrifying scene: Hongjun, holding a pen made of a dragon spine and dipping it in the Weak Water of Kunlun Ruins, was writing the first Heavenly Law upon the original manuscript of the Investiture of the Gods—and that "pen" was none other than the living-extracted spine of the Ancestral Dragon!
"Woof! Woof!" The Xiaotian Hound suddenly stood upright on its hind legs, its claws tearing open its own chest. What flew out from the chest cavity was not a heart, but half a scroll of Hetu and Luoshu! The tattered scroll enveloped the reverse scale, piecing together the starry array in the void. At the eye of the array appeared a scene from when Yaoji was imprisoned in Peach Mountain: her collarbones were pierced by dragon teeth, with curses reading "Suppress the Wu Clan Forever" carved into every single tooth.
The Sea-Pacifying Divine Needle of the Little Monkey suddenly went berserk. The remnant will of …
Chapter 23