The White Silver Buddha Wheel slowly rose.
It passed above Xuanzang's head and hung before the Main Hall.
Humm-
The silver radiance filling the sky abruptly flared.
It was as though a silver moon had risen, shedding ten thousand streams of pure light, gently cloaking the entire Royal Palace in silent moonlight. The white jade steps took on a clear, lustrous sheen, while the eaves, palace walls, and distant rooftops all sank into the silver glow.
High above, the Gray Sun still hung heavy in the sky.
But the fine threads descending from the Gray Sun and connecting to the women had already shed every trace of black, leaving only a clear, silvery white.
The White Silver Buddha Wheel completed another turn.
A sudden change erupted.
First, a single silver thread flicked upward.
Then a second, a third, and more and more followed.
The threads that had dangled from the Gray Sun, tethering everyone, began peeling away from their bodies one by one and curling back toward the sky.
On the long stairway, inside the palace gates, beyond the palace walls, and even farther away, countless silver threads surged upward at once. Bundle after bundle converged on the White Silver Buddha Wheel and vanished into it.
With every swath it absorbed, the Buddhist wheel shone a little brighter.
The Wind and Moon Demon swept her gaze over the scene below.
"No..."
The threads were still coming loose. Faster and faster.
"Stop!"
The White Silver Buddha Wheel kept turning.
At last, the expression on the Wind and Moon Demon's face changed.
She spun around, thrusting the Trident toward the Gray Sun overhead.
"I said stop!"
Boom-!
The Gray Sun shuddered violently.
A heavy wave of force thundered down from above.
The masses of silver threads rising toward the Buddhist wheel