The origin net fused with Mars, radiating ten thousand layers of Li Fire brilliance that illuminated the battlefield in the east.
They fought and slaughtered one another, sometimes manifesting Dharma Forms that spanned heaven and earth, sometimes becoming mustard seeds too small to see. Size, height, direction, weight-such measures meant nothing before them.
Deep within the void, the ghost god steadied himself.
He rubbed his Bronze Ghost Mask and peered into the battlefield.
Li Fire had won a sweeping victory!
The Azure Wood Coffin was covered in flames and axe marks. Yellow sand continually leaked from its cracks, falling from the heights of the Great Void all the way to Green Pond and turning the once-clear seawater utterly turbid.
The corpse surrounded by monstrous spirits was burning, this Golden Core cultivator's Dharma Form continually collapsing within the Li Fire.
"Death Tower, the taboo wood retainer position, a True Lord of Penglai... Why hasn't True Lord Peach Blossom acted? Have they fallen into a complete slumber?"
When he had visited Penglai in the past, he had learned that taboo wood now had two lords: the fruit position [Peach Heaven] and the retainer position [Death Cen]. Judging by this manifestation alone, the one acting was undoubtedly True Lord Death Tower!
What Xu Xuan found even stranger was that the Mysterious Coffin kept pouring out yellow sand, clearly indicating a connection to "nurturing earth."
He watched carefully, bringing Void Zheng's powers of observation fully to bear, solely to see what lay inside that Mysterious Coffin.
It was a youth.
The youth's complexion was rosy, eyes tightly closed, seemingly breathing faintly. They wore an immortal robe patterned with mystic azure leaves, upon which scenes of azure wood growing and annual rings changing appeared, like the calendar of all wood virtue.
The Dao of jia