The Executioner Sword Formation Diagram suddenly surged ten thousand feet, dragging everyone into a blood-red vortex. Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye cast a silver light that pierced the void, revealing the truth of the Battle of the Myriad Immortals: when Master Tongtian’s Qingping Sword cleaved the Chaos, Yuanshi Tianzun, Jieyin, and Zhunti had signed a blood covenant with the Heavenly Dao—the souls of the Jiejiao Myriad Immortals were to be injected into the Investiture of the Gods, and their physical bodies would be turned into fertilizer for the Flat-Peach Mother Tree. Nezha’s Wind and Fire Wheels crushed the blood-colored illusions underfoot, only to witness Guang Chengzi wielding the Immortal Execution Sword to pierce the crown of the Holy Mother of Golden Spirit. The soul teased out by the sword tip was refined by the Yuxu Bottle into a blood-red nectar, all of which was poured into the Flat-Peach Garden on Kunlun.
"So that's how it is!" Sun Wukong’s lingering soul roared, his Ruyi Jingu Bang smashing toward the core of the diagram. The Dao Patterns of the Mending Heaven Stone on the staff resonated with the blood-weeping incantations of the Jiejiao Immortals, and mysterious yellow primal energy seeped from seventy-two cracks. The diagram suddenly came alive, revealing a scene of the Daoist Zhunti brushing the Holy Mother of Turtle Spirit down with his Seven-Treasure Miao Tree—as her true spirit fell into Samsara, it was suppressed by Jieyin using the twelve-petaled golden …
Chapter 69