When Yang Jian's petrified Pillar of Heaven collapsed, the Celestial River above the Nine Heavens suddenly poured down. Nezha, riding his Wind and Fire Wheels, cleaved through the turbulent waves, seeing in every droplet a reflection of the Chaos before the world was created—within the three-inch gap where the Pangu Axe’s blade had veered off course, the unextinguished primordial spirits curled in slumber.
"The Judicial True Lord's final seal..." Sun Wukong thrust his Ruyi Jingu Bang into a crack in Guixu. The Mending Heaven Stone veins on the staff suddenly flaked away, revealing 999 Tribulation marks carved underneath. His Fiery Eyes of Truth stung as he saw that what flowed within Yang Jian’s petrified body was not blood, but a solidified River of Time; at the river's bed lay the Meishan wine gourd he had gifted Yang Jian during the Conferment of the Gods.
The Pillar of Heaven shattered into 129,000 pieces, the largest of which plummeted toward the East Sea. Nezha’s God-Slaying Spear pierced through the air to intercept it. The moment the spearhead touched the fragment, his primordial spirit was dragged into a vision: a young Yang Jian stroking the Xiaotian Hound on the peak of Kunlun, his fingertips entwined with a scrap of the Universal Heaven Ribbon he had begged from Nezha. Suddenly, the vision shattered, and the golden light erupting from the fragments began to recast the damaged butt of the God-Slaying Spear!
Chapter 419