When the nine blood-red suns rose at the edge of the East Sea, the branches of the Fusang Tree pierced through the core of the solar star. I swung my spear, severing the solar-flame chains that bound the Xiaotian Hound. My Heavenly Eye revealed witch runes emerging on the surface of every Golden Crow egg—the very curse inscriptions left behind by arrows when Hou Yi shot down the suns all those years ago.
"Yang Jian! Look at the trunk!" Sun Wukong’s Ruyi Jingu Bang split the ninth solar corona, and his Fiery Eyes of Truth illuminated the remnants of Yaoji’s soul, bound to the boughs of the Fusang Tree. The golden divine blood flowing from where her scapulae were impaled by the roots was being absorbed by the trunk and transmuted into scorching solar essence. Nezha stepped onto his Wind and Fire Wheels, breaking through the solar flames. The moment his Fire-Tip Spear touched the roots, the Universal Heaven Ribbon suddenly coiled around his left arm: "This tree is devouring my lotus..."
The Xiaotian Hound transformed into his human form and leaped onto the branches. Beneath the bark split by his black-iron folding fan, the mummified corpse of the Daoist Lu Ya was revealed. The solar essences that should have belonged to the Golden Crow Crown Prince were now being pinned into the seven orifices of the corpse by twigs of the Seven-Treasure Miao Tree. When the third branch was pulled out, the entire East Sea suddenly surged with heat, and three hundred and sixty fire dragons erup…
Chapter 258