The fox tails torn apart by Xiaotian Hound exploded into a sky of green phosphor within the bloody waves of the Celestial River. As nine fox corpses surfaced, the incense at the Nuwa temple was suddenly extinguished. I swung my Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear to sever the third fox tail wrapped around Nezha’s ankle; through my Heavenly Eye, I saw half of a broken red embroidered ball embedded deep within the fox fur.
"This stench is even more pungent than the old fox from Mount Jilei!" Sun Wukong stirred the river of blood with his Ruyi Jingu Bang, but his seventy-two avatars were pinned in place by the saintly memorial tablets hoisted by the fox tails. Fragments of the Hunyuan Golden Container oozed from the cracks in those tablets, each shard reflecting the image of the Nuwa Palace collapsing.
Nezha suddenly let out a beast-like growl, his Wind and Fire Wheels plowing charred furrows into the blood-soaked water. Black lotus patterns bloomed where a fox tail had pierced his left arm, and his Fire-Tip Spear turned to point directly at his own brow. "Yang Jian... the fox demon is awakening the Black Lotus..." The Universal Heaven Ribbon bound his trembling wrists, while the runes of Yuxu Palace on the Universe Ring burned through his skin.
Chapter 243