Battle Heavenly Emperor!
In the sky.
Xie Daoling suppressed the Reincarnation Heavenly Book, keeping it from moving.
Although the Reincarnation Heavenly Book struggled desperately, Skeleton Woman manipulated the Water of Forgetfulness beside her, sweeping a pillar of murky yellow water back and forth across the sky to scour the book again and again.
--After struggling for a long time, the Reincarnation Heavenly Book was ultimately no match for the combined might of Xie Daoling and Skeleton Woman.
It stopped moving, and a dull, ashen gray gradually spread across its surface.
"Almost there!" Skeleton Woman exclaimed with delight.
Xie Daoling's hands flew through a series of hand seals. "Don't let your guard down. I'm going to suppress it with all my strength now. Qingshan isn't here, so help protect me."
Just then, a voice suddenly rang out from the far reaches beyond the heavens:
"Xie Daoling, you actually think you can take my heavenly book?"
The sky split open, forming a vast hole. Boundless winds of turbulent flow poured through it into the Yellow Springs World.
"The Previous Heavenly Emperor!" Skeleton Woman cried out.
Xie Daoling changed her hand seals, swiftly forming another mudra.
Immortal Light streamed from her hands, transforming into nine layers of thick palace walls that braced the depths of the firmament.
Heaven's Law: Nine Heavens Palace!
"We're safe for the moment. We need to hurry," Xie Daoling said.
Skeleton Woman grumbled, "Why did he have to show up right now of all times--"
The next instant.
Rumble--
A deafening roar suddenly shook the earth.
Xie Daoling and Skeleton Woman looked over together.
The Great Iron Encirclement Mountain was slowly rising from the ground, and the Eighteen Levels of Hell beneath it emerged one after another across the Yellow Springs surface.
At the same time, the Reincarnation Hall,