Just as Shen Luo and the others were still reeling in shock, a thunderous rumble erupted from within the black-and-white vortex. A massive shadow slowly emerged, its interior hazy and indistinct, as though it concealed an enormous exotic beast.
"What demon dares make trouble before Old Sun!" Sun Wukong had been cautious moments ago, but when danger arrived, he showed not the slightest fear. He grabbed at the air with his right hand.
A piercing whistle shot into the sky, and a golden staff appeared in his grasp. It was the Ruyi Jingu Bang, which he brought down upon the shadow.
A thunderclap burst through the clear sky!
Beneath dazzling rays of light, a colossal phantom staff over a thousand zhang long descended from the heavens. In a flash, it smashed into the shadow like a divine weapon holding up the sky.
Little White Dragon also flipped his hand and produced a silver-white Dragon Spear adorned with pink tassels. With a shake of his arm, a sheet of cold, surging spear-light burst forth like an enraged flood dragon and struck the shadow.
Shen Luo likewise swept his sleeve. The Minghong Saber flared with brilliant light as he slashed at the shadow.
The strike appeared sluggish and entirely devoid of force, yet an incomparably thick green blade-light, over a hundred zhang long, suddenly appeared above the shadow. Like a blade propping up the heavens, it fell with apparent slowness but astonishing speed.
After the Chaotic Black Lotus absorbed part of the Golden Light Restriction's power from within the Minghong Saber, the saber's might had grown ever stronger, faintly showing signs of surpassing the Heaven-Turning Seal.
A shrill howl came from within the shadow. Two gigantic bone wings, each several hundred zhang long, shot out like lightning and collided with the staff