A half-leaf from the Flat-Peach Mother Tree fell into the underworld, surging to a height of a thousand feet the moment it touched the ground. Its roots, like writhing dragons, tore through the earth, piercing the rocky strata of the eighteen levels of hell. The giant bronze saws of the Sawing Hell were crushed by the roots, and the fragments of the Mirror of Retribution seeped into the tree’s rings as nourishment. Nezha hovered above the canopy, stepping on his Wind and Fire Wheels, and unleashed the flames of the Yang Wheel upon the branches. The moment the fire touched the bark, it transformed into a verdant, poisonous blaze: "This peach tree is feeding on the Karmic Fire!"
Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye shone with a silver light like a blade, piercing through to the tree's core—Yaoji’s Mending Heaven Bone was entwined by the roots of the Flat-Peach Mother Tree, with the birth dates of Jiejiao disciples carved into every root tip. Xiaotian Hound bit into a root, and the "Yaochi" miniature carved into his canine teeth burst with divine light, etching the weeping, bloody face of the Queen Mother of the West onto the root: "Yang Jian... the blood your mother drank in secret back then... was the heart-blood of a young Wu Clan girl..." Before the words could finish, the root system surged, wrapping around the Xiaotian Hound’s hind legs and dragging him toward the depths of the ley lines.
Sun Wukong’s soul remnant was attached to a fragment of the Ruyi Jingu Bang, and the spider lil…
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