The bright moon shone that night, illuminating more than just the sea of clouds in the Third Heaven. Its light also spilled across the mortal world, shining clear over ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers.
In the lower realm, in the Miao Borderlands.
Just as Green Robe's incarnation was pierced through the chest by the Nether Capital, a thought stirred in Cheng Xinzhan's true body atop the high altar on Redwood Ridge. At the bottom of the Peach Blossom River, on the edge of Redwood Ridge's Dao sanctuary, the Taiyin Emperor immediately sensed it. He formed a hand seal and chanted, "Heaven and earth in motion, essence of moonlight.
"Light shines through the Four Seas, severing and extinguishing demonic miasma.
"Cleanse defilement and banish calamity, let body and dwelling shine bright.
"Once the divine water is made, let ten thousand ghosts bow in peace.
"Swiftly, in accordance with the decree!"
As the incantation ended, the moonlight above the Peach Blossom River basin was summoned over. Moonlight throughout Southeastern Guizhou slanted toward this place, illuminating the river's surface in snowy white, as though a thick layer of frost had formed upon it.
The white frost of moonlight suffused the river and rapidly spread downstream. The Black Dragon's magical power, which had been contending against the Great Yin magical power in the river all this time, was instantly scattered, collapsing for more than fifty li. Cheng Xinzhan's Dao Domain expanded accordingly, and the Taiyin Emperor moved downstream with it, reaching the sanctuary's edge once more before continuing to suffuse the river with Great Yin magical power.
Thus the cycle repeated.
Hold by day and advance by moonlight: this was Cheng Xinzhan's strategy. He knew he lacked Primordial Lord Zixu's ability and could not slay a dragon in a single move, so