"Ha ha ha, I'm back, I'm back..."
With Yin-Yang Daoist dead, both the Upper Realm and lower realm fell into a weird calm. At that moment, the Small Pagoda atop Shi Hao's head transformed into a streak of Immortal Light and flew out.
The two-tiered pagoda body shimmered with crystalline radiance. This was the part of its body it had lost, shed during the Primordial War. Now was the perfect time to merge them. It gave a faint tremble, its pagoda body white and translucent as the sections sharing the same origin drew toward each other.
Patterns of myriad spirits emerged within the white light—Taotie, Golden Crows, Pi Xiu, and more. The Taotie roared and devoured all things, while Golden Crows crossed the sky like blazing suns...
"Buzz, buzz..."
Yin-Yang Qi surged forth, immensely powerful. The two-tiered bone pagoda possessed a spirit and refused to be reclaimed by the Small Pagoda.
"Return!"
The Small Pagoda cried out in surprise and called to it. Yet the consciousness within that pagoda body ignored the summons. With a violent tremor, it shattered the Void and attempted to flee.
During the Primordial War, two layers of the Small Pagoda's body had been knocked off and later acquired by Yin-Yang Daoist, who nurtured a new deity within them. Though Yin-Yang Daoist was now dead, the deity's will remained, which was why it resisted the Small Pagoda.
However, this deity had ultimately been nurtured later and was far inferior to the Small Pagoda's True Spirit, the original source. In terms of absolute strength, it could not contend with it at all and was eventually suppressed.
"Merge!"
The Small Pagoda's True Spirit suppressed the deity consciousness within the two layers. Glimmering white radiance spilled down as the six layers of the pagoda body forcibly united, Chaos Qi