Gonggong’s severed head fell like a collapsing mountain, and the moment its pitch-black skull struck the seal of Guixu, the Celestial River overturned. As Nezha streaked past the South Heavenly Gate on his Wind and Fire Wheels, he witnessed the rift that spanned across heaven and earth—Xuanming True Water, surging with dark green toxic miasma, erupted into the sky, while the thirty-three tiers of the white jade heavenly ladder dissolved at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Watch out, Third Prince!" Golden light flared violently from the Heavenly Eye on Yang Jian’s forehead. Xiaotian Hound transformed into his human form and yanked Nezha back by his Universal Heaven Ribbon. A torrent of True Water grazed the Wind and Fire Wheels, eroding a cavernous hole a hundred miles wide into the clouds, through which the East Sea in the lower realms could be seen boiling instantly.
Sun Wukong raced from the other side of the rift on his Somersault Cloud, his Ruyi Jingu Bang churning the gale. "This cursed dark water is monstrously foul!" The moment the rod touched the True Water, the refined iron let out a mournful cry, its dark gold engravings twisting and recoiling as if alive.
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