Yang Jian’s petrified body had been overtaken up to his throat; the silver light bursting from the cracks in his neck began to solidify. The handle of the Heaven-Opening Axe plummeted from the newly formed firmament, and the Mending Heaven Stone embedded in the notch of the blade suddenly detached, transforming into a stream of light that vanished into Sun Wukong’s brow. The Xiaotian Hound transformed into a youth in silver armor, his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd drawing upon the power of the celestial stars to strike at the void—yet the blade of the halberd struck only the palm of his petrified master.
"Go!"
The final sound erupted from Yang Jian’s throat as the fragments of his Heavenly Eye merged entirely into the Heaven-Opening Axe. The trajectory of the axe’s light perfectly mirrored that of Pangu opening the heavens in ages past. The new firmament shattered like an eggshell, revealing a world of blood-red deep within the Chaos. A phantom image of the Six Paths of Samsara disc rose from the axe’s glow, and saintly essence blood seeped from the cracks in its surface, congealing into six hideous characters: "Countdown to the Next Tribulation."
Chapter 290