The moment the Taiji Diagram unfurled, the flat-staff falling from the sleeve of Lord Laozi’s phantom suddenly became demonized. I swung my spear, severing the Karma Thread coiled around Nezha, and my Heavenly Eye caught the memories overflowing from the cracks in the staff—the cores of the treasures Hongjun had bestowed upon the Three Pure Ones at the Treasure-Dividing Rock were all embedded with shards of Luohou’s skeletal remains.
"A fine performance by you three old men!" Sun Wukong’s Ruyi Jingu Bang shattered the phantom of the Pangu Banner, though his seventy-two avatars were corroded by the chaotic qi pouring from the banner’s surface. Beneath Nezha’s feet, the Wind and Fire Wheels erupted with monstrous flames. The instant his Fire-Tip Spear pierced the phantom of Master Tongtian, the Universal Heaven Ribbon suddenly coiled around his neck: "Yang Jian... the Immortal Execution Sword is devouring my primordial spirit..."
Xiaotian Hound transformed into human form and leapt onto the Taiji Diagram; blood-colored lava surged from the eyes of the Yin-Yang fish split open by his iron-black folding fan. When the phantom of Lord Laozi raised his hand to manifest the Exquisite Pagoda, the truth revealed at the base of the tower made the heavens tremble: what was suppressed within was not a demon, but Nuwa’s severed right arm, clutching half a broken Mending Heaven Stone in its palm.
Chapter 254