"Ptooey! You vile Tongtian! Don't spout nonsense and mock me!" Zhunti snapped, embarrassed and furious. "I said I'd choose option two—the second path! I'll see which side is stronger, you or the Sanqing!"
"You're the one who's two! Your whole family's two!"
Zhunti was so furious he could barely take it.
"Ahem, Elder Zhunti, how can you blame me?" Tongtian tried hard not to laugh. "You were the one who said you were two!"
"You chose the second path, so you said you chose two. Was I the one who made you leave out the word 'choose'?"
"And now you're blaming me for mocking you. That's rich!"
"I..." Zhunti was left speechless.
"Hmph. Junior Brother Zhunti, don't waste your breath on Tongtian. Just fight him!"
Then Jieyin burst out laughing and retreated several thousand zhang, putting distance between them. "Three senior brothers of the Sanqing, this humble monk Jieyin pays his respects!"
"Today, we'll see whether you three are stronger, or the Two Sages of the West!"
At that moment, Taishang Laojun sat cross-legged in the void atop a vast cloud, then rose into the air and floated above the Two Sages of the West. He recited, "When chaos first divided, the Dao came first; it comes and goes, abiding in nature. Purple qi comes from the east for thirty thousand miles—beat the two sages till they've nowhere to hide!"
As his Daoist voice rang out, thirty thousand miles of purple qi rolled forth in ranks, constantly transforming. Across the heavens, it formed an endless array of weapons, as vast as a sea of smoke.
Every weapon glimmered with purple killing light, like a great formation encompassing every Daoist art, its murderous intent boundless!
The endless killing purple qi pointed straight at the Two Sages of the West, while