The Bridge of Merit beneath Laozǐ’s feet shattered with a deafening roar, and the eyes of the Taiji Diagram erupted with Chaos Divine Light. The diagram suddenly recoiled, dropping a puppet of Daoist Randeng that clutched a broken God-Whip—the whip was entwined with fragments of the golden bodies of Jieyin and Zhunti! Nezha, stepping on his Wind and Fire Wheels, ground through the void, his Yang Wheel flames incinerating the golden body of Jieyin. Yet, the Nine-Petaled Lotus Platform suddenly self-detonated, and within the bursting Buddhist light, a terrifying truth emerged: the Western Paradise had long since become a pool of nutrients entangled by the roots of the Flat-Peach Mother Tree!
"Senior Brother... we were wrong..." Zhunti’s golden body roared before disintegrating, his Seven-Treasure Miao Tree exploding into three thousand bodhi leaves. The moment the leaves touched the tip of the God-Slaying Spear, they revealed the scene of the secret pact made between the two Western Sages and Yuanshi during the Myriad Immortals Formation—the contract text was written in the vital blood of a witch-child, and every stroke was tethered to the root nodules of the Flat-Peach Mother Tree! Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye shed silver blood that congealed into an icy blade, slashing toward the contract, but the blade was blocked by the sudden manifestation of Yuanshi’s avatar: "Rebellious disciples! You are all mere pawns in the schemes of the Heavenly Dao!"
Sun Wukong swung his Ruyi Jingu B…
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