The twenty-four Sea-Calming pearls whistled through the air, transforming into bronze Dragon-Prison Pillars that hammered into the East Sea. Inside each pillar, a Dragon King was locked, stripped of his scales and tendons; the reverse scale of Ao Qin, the Dragon King of the South Sea, was pierced by iron hooks, while the dragon horns of Ao Run, the Dragon King of the West Sea, were riddled with bone nails of the Wu Clan. Nezha sped across the formation on his Wind and Fire Wheels, the Karmic Fire on the wheels burning away the dragon-imprisonment curses, but the incarnation of the World-Destruction Black Lotus opened a cavernous mouth of chaos, devouring the resentment spilling from the dragon souls.
"The breach in the stars is at Flower-Fruit Mountain!" Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye shot a silver light that pierced the clouds; the alignment of the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper perfectly overlapped with the arrangement of the Dragon-Prison Pillars. Suddenly, the Xiaotian Hound stood on its hind legs and struck the base of a pillar with its paw—embedded there was a shard of the Haotian Mirror, which reflected the Jade Emperor using the God-Locking Chain to gouge out dragon hearts. Sun Wukong swept his Ruyi Jingu Bang across the formation, the ancient seal of "Sea-Calming" on the staff melting into liquid gold, writing the demon-clan forbidden spell "Dragon Soul to Guixu" in the air.
Ao Guang’s remnant soul roared from the top of a pillar: "Quickly, destroy the core of the formati…
Chapter 36