The valley spirit never died; it was called the Mysterious Womb!
Poison Venerable looked startled as the Mysterious Womb Pearl flew straight toward him, but his surprise quickly turned to delight. "If I enter the Mysterious Womb Gate, I may prove no less than that Human Emperor!"
"She Bishi, what have you been hiding? At a time like this, both the world within and the world beyond face calamity, yet you're still keeping secrets!"
Mysterious Maiden's voice rang from within the Mysterious Womb Pearl, brimming with anger and indignation!
"Heh! What do your calamities have to do with me?" Poison Venerable sneered and reached out to seize the pearl. "If Lü Shang hadn't stirred up trouble, which of you from Beyond the Mundane wouldn't still be looking down on us, suppressing and driving us Ancient Gods away at every turn? Truth be told, if the Eighth Path didn't implicate so much, nothing would please me more than watching you dogs tear each other apart!"
As he spoke, wind sprang from his hand, wrapped around the pearl, and drew it before him!
"Though the one here is only an Incarnation of mine, there's a reason this Incarnation could be refined into form. Now that I have your Mysterious Womb Pearl, perhaps I can finally succeed and rebuild my Grotto-Heaven!"
At those words, Mysterious Maiden's voice vanished entirely from the Mysterious Womb Pearl!
The others watched, their expressions varied.
But everyone who knew Mysterious Maiden's methods was full of questions. Tingyi was no exception.
"How could Mysterious Maiden, who commands the law of Cause and Effect through the Mysterious Womb Sage-Seeding Method, fall into She Bishi's hands?"
Just then, the pearl Mysterious Maiden had become burst into radiance. Light engulfed Poison Venerable's grievously wounded body and formed a massive cocoon!
Boom!
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