As he spoke, the ferocious ape reached for the Absolute Blade. The Golden Cudgel turned into a slender needle and flew into his Ear Aperture.
"Roar!"
The mindless Meng Qi sensed the change and instinctively tried to shoot out a web of strange, demonic blood vessels to entangle the other party. But Gu Xiaosang stopped him in time, then nodded in approval to the Absolute Blade.
Meng Qi froze for a moment. A dark red glint flashed in his eyes, and his madness grew even stronger, but in the end, he managed to calm down.
The Golden Chainmail was stained black. The ferocious ape gripped the Absolute Blade, raised his head, and looked up at the sky with eyes that would never yield. He gazed at the finger devouring everything, his thoughts surging. For an instant, he seemed to have returned to the past, when he had trampled the Celestial Court and behaved with wild, defiant arrogance.
He suddenly burst into laughter, pointed his blade at the flawless, perfect circle of precious light hanging beyond the Nine Abysses, and roared:
"You're not even as good as that old Heavenly Emperor from back then!"
"Take a slash from Old Sun!"
The blade light swelled, revealing all the Heavens' Thunder, the Yin Yang Fulcrum, and the mysteries of life and death. Then it abruptly contracted, all the Dao Patterns and colors condensing into a single streak of violent, terrifying, dazzling purple radiance. It draped over the Great Sage Equal to Heaven as he surged forth to meet that pure white finger, an otherworldly object.
Beneath the ferocious ape's feet, one Pitch-Black Peak after another collapsed. Twisted rivers vanished like illusions, and Demons and Spirits burst apart with a thunderous roar. All things crumbled layer by layer, while above his head stretched a