The moment the Heavenly Venerable of Morality unfolded the Taiji Diagram in his elderly form, chaotic black light erupted from the eyes of the Yin and Yang fish. Yang Jian’s petrified remains suddenly trembled as fragments of his Heavenly Eye coalesced into silver needles, piercing the fish’s eyes. They revealed that the Yin and Yang fish were actually manifestations of the primordial spirits of Lu Ya and the Ancient Buddha Dipamkara! The Yang fish, formed by Lu Ya, was entirely crimson gold, its wings ablaze with the Great Sun Golden Flame; the Yin fish, formed by Dipamkara, was black as ink, its scales covered in netherworld ghost fire. Where the two fish bit at each other, it was not sparks that flew, but shattered Hongmeng Purple Qi.
"So the seventh strand of Purple Qi was here all along!"
Sun Wukong rode his Somersault Cloud into the fray, his Ruyi Jingu Bang churning the Yin and Yang Qi. The instant the staff touched the Yang fish, Lu Ya’s primordial spirit revealed its true form. The Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger descended from the void, its blade-light reflecting the secret of the Investiture of the Gods: back when he used the Nail-Head Seven-Arrow Book to curse Zhao Gongming to death, every time Lu Ya bowed to the straw effigy, he was siphoning the fortune of Jiejiao to complete the Purple Qi!
Chapter 279