The essence of the three, brilliant as a rainbow piercing the sun, splashed onto the Investiture of the Gods, igniting a radiance that spanned ten thousand zhang. Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye shattered completely; his silver blood congealed into the God-Slaying incantations Yaoji had imparted during her life. Each stroke triggered thunderous storms across the nine heavens. Where Nezha’s dual lotuses merged, a primordial blue light erupted, and the Spirit Pearl Fragment transformed into three hundred and sixty dragon scales, surging against the current to encase the words "God-Slayer" inscribed on the scroll. Sun Wukong thrust his Ruyi Jingu Bang into his own chest, the essence of the Heaven-Patching Stone flowing along the staff to carve Nuwa’s dying words into the void: "The one that escapes." The East Sea boiled like a crucible as twelve ancestral altars broke through the waves, the God-Binding Chains coiled around the bronze pillars atop them snapping in unison.
The Haotian Mirror tumbled from the Thirty-Three Heavens, its surface reflecting the scene at the dawn of the Hongmeng: Hongjun and Luohou sat opposite each other on the Chaos Green Lotus, the former placing a white piece upon the "Investiture Platform," the latter pressing a black stone toward the "God-Slaying Tribulation." The ripples of their wager manifested as chains of the Three Thousand Daos, extending from the mirror to shackle the mother scroll of the Investiture of the Gods. Ao Guang’s remnant soul suddenly …
Chapter 49