The Great Void shifted, and violet lightning rioted, sweeping through the gray qi.
An Azure-Gold Warship sailed toward the water curtain surrounding Heaven Pool. Three Bronze Horned Serpent Heads lined either side of the Treasure Ship, spewing ren-gui radiance and stirring up poison rain that corroded the formation of Great Southern Grace Temple.
Demon soldiers crowded the [Netherglow] warship, most of them scaled creatures or Featherfolk. The Azure Dew and Flame Feather guards stood ready, their ranks flickering between substance and illusion, led respectively by a youth in green robes and a man in red armor.
They were none other than Mo Xi and Yang Yanlu, commanders of the Azure Horned Serpent and Fire Crow tribes. They had been ordered to clean up what remained, and when Xu Xuan's command reached them from afar, sharp light flared in their eyes.
"Raise the steles!"
At Mo Xi's stern command, the demons lifted several heavenly steles engraved with images of Scale Serpents, so lifelike that they seemed ready to come alive at any moment.
The [Six-Scale Steles], which recorded the true forms of the Scale-Kin subordinate to Mist Marsh, were now mounted on the warship.
Netherglow had already regained its Purple Mansion grade. Once activated, it manifested the forms of scaled creatures, which fell from the sky onto the temples and battered the formation.
Standing among the clouds, Xu Xuan slowly withdrew his divine ability and flicked his sword upward. A severed arm shrouded in hazy gray qi lay upon its edge, cut cleanly off at the shoulder. It belonged to True Person Kongming.
He twisted the blade, and the severed arm instantly burst apart, falling in a rain of blood that stained the sea red.
The formation below had already been broken, and most of the monks had fled. He had