Deep in the Guixu abyss, a ten-thousand-zhang chasm split open as one hundred thousand dragon corpses bowed toward the depths. Their rotting dragon horns struck the seabed, emitting earth-shattering laments. From the whirlpool stirred by their wails, a bronze Investiture Platform rose. Its base was wrapped in fossilized Ancestral Dragon spines, with Chaos Lotus Seeds embedded in every joint, the lotus hearts pulsing to the rhythm of Wu Clan war drums. Nezha's malevolent avatar stepped onto the platform atop a black lotus, its roots piercing the dragon bones to siphon the dragon clan's fortune. With every fraction it absorbed, a blood-red "Slayer of Saints" Dao Pattern etched itself across the platform's surface.
"There is something strange about Ao Guang's dragon horns!" Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye flashed with a sword-like silver beam, piercing straight through the East Sea Dragon King's remains. The inner side of the fractured dragon horns was covered in Wu Clan incantations, sealed at the end with the golden imperial seal of Emperor Haotian! Sensing the fluctuation of the spells, the God-Slaying Spear automatically shifted its direction and stabbed toward the dragon horns, only to be snared by bronze chains shooting from the Investiture Platform. Amid the clanging of the links, Wukong's lingering soul suddenly clutched his head—memories of the Heaven-Patching Stone flashed with the scene of Nuwa gouging out her eyes. When blood from her fingertips fell into the sea, it lande…
Chapter 48