As the Ruyi Jingu Bang shattered the ninth Chaos insect, insect blood traced a perfect Taiji Diagram upon the jade tiles of Yaochi. Sun Wukong’s seventy-two avatars suddenly froze, each pair of Fiery Eyes of Truth reflecting a horrific scene within the eyes of the Yin and Yang fish—statues of Laozi and Yuanshi were locked in a game of chess, the board set with the names of the three hundred and sixty-five stars from the Investiture of the Gods.
"The holy blood is tainted!" Nezha’s Wind and Fire Wheels suddenly spun out of control, the Universal Heaven Ribbon coiling around his demonized right arm. The moment the roots of the Black Lotus pierced the Yin fish's eye, the sound of snapping chains reverberated throughout the Heavenly Court. My Heavenly Eye flared with golden radiance, revealing that the flat-bladed staff slipping from the sleeve of the Laozi statue was actually engraved with the mark of the Seven-Treasure Miao Tree of the saint Jieyin.
Xiaotian Hound shifted into human form and leaped into the Yang fish's eye, his dark iron folding fan parrying the Jade Ruyi of the Yuanshi statue. From the spray of shattered jade burst half a page of the Investiture of the Gods, where the name at the top—Qingyuan Miaodao True Lord—was being eroded by demonic blood. Sun Wukong’s true form staggered, and the Ruyi Jingu Bang displayed the hexagrams from Lord Laozi’s furnace five hundred years ago, Six-Ding Divine Fire erupting from the staff.
Chapter 248