The branches and leaves of the Flat-Peach Mother Tree rustled, and the fruit hanging from the canopy suddenly split open into gaping, blood-red maws. The God of Plague, Lü Yue, bore the brunt of the assault; his true spirit was ensnared by vines around the throat and dragged bodily into the pulp. Bai Jian swung his Soul-Guiding Banner to cleave the vines, but the moment the chain on the tail of the banner touched the peach skin, it was corroded into wisps of green smoke. Lü Yue’s distorted face emerged from the fruit pit, a blood-colored flat-peach floral mark embedded in his brow: "Spirit Pearl... run..."
Nezha stepped onto his Wind and Fire Wheels, charging upward against the canopy as his Yang Wheel blazed, knitting into a tornado of Samadhi True Fire. The moment the flames licked the branches, the surface of the flat peaches suddenly reflected a vision of the Queen Mother of the West with roots piercing her heart—three thousand root filaments burrowed out from her seven orifices, their tips entwining the Mending Heaven Bone of Yaoji! Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye shed silver blood that froze into ice blades; he thrust the God-Slaying Spear toward the core of the vision. As the spearhead touched the phantom, the Queen Mother of the West suddenly opened her eyes: "Yang Jian, is the peach grown from your mother’s marrow and blood sweet?"
Sun Wukong swept his Ruyi Jingu Bang across the field, the Dao Patterns of the Mending Heaven Stone on the staff grating violently against the…
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