Seven stars of the Big Dipper, wrapped in the Heavenly River Weak Water, plunged into the East Sea. The instant the starlight touched the sea, the right eye of Pangu, sealed deep within Guixu, trembled violently. Nezha stepped on the Wind and Fire Wheels, charging upstream against the stellar torrent. The wheel axles were corroded into mottled rust by the Weak Water, while the Black Lotus seized the chance to devour the starlight, its lotus platform blossoming with three hundred and sixty blood-red pupils of the Wu Clan. "The star orbits have shifted by three inches!" Silver blood streamed from Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye, sketching a damaged Hetu and Luoshu in the void—the Tianquan star position was unmistakably pointing toward the Mending Heaven Stone before the Water Curtain Cave!
Xiaotian Hound crossed the rifts of the stellar array, its paws sinking into the quicksands of the Shang-Zhou battlefield. A young Haotian was suspended from a bronze pillar by locking-heaven chains, the "Slay-Sage" incantation on his palms absorbing the grievances of fallen soldiers. "Woof!" The canine bark shattered the illusion, bringing back half a blood-stained fragment of the Investiture of the Gods. Sun Wukong's Ruyi Jingu Bang stirred the stellar torrent, the memory of the Mending Heaven Stone flashing within the staff: Nuwa had once used the Big Dipper stars to pin down the severed head of Gonggong, and this stellar fall was the harbinger of a loosening seal!
The roots of the Black Lotus …
Chapter 37