Nine chimes of a bell atop Mount Kunlun shattered the sky, the sound waves surging like a tide to grind the illusion of the Flat-Peach Mother Tree into dust. A phantom of the Donghuang Bell rose from the foot of the mountain, its bronze surface etched with blood-red inscriptions of the Great War between the Wu Clan and the demon tribes. Within the churning primal yellow energy erupting from the point where Di Jun had once used the God-Slaying Spear to cleave the spine of Mount Buzhou, the Mending Heaven Stone lay ensnared and being devoured by the roots of the Flat-Peach Mother Tree! Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye shed silver blood that coalesced into an icy blade, slashing toward the bell. The moment the steel touched the inscriptions, a roar erupted from within: "Hongjun, you treacherous old thief! You tricked my brother into establishing the Heavenly Court, all to nurture this evil tree!"
Nezha stepped onto his Wind and Fire Wheels and shot into the sky, the flames of his Yang Wheel scorching the knob atop the bell. The instant the tongues of fire touched the bronze, an ancient scene manifested: Taiyi’s lingering soul, pierced by three thousand Chaos Chains, with the other ends of the chains tethered to the bleeding, weeping souls of the Jiejiao Myriad Immortals! Sun Wukong thrust his Ruyi Jingu Bang into a fissure in the mountain; the fragments of the Donghuang Bell embedded in his staff suddenly began to resonate, and the Dao Patterns of the Mending Heaven Stone scraped viole…
Chapter 76