Arc 88The Zodiac Trials
The Shangguan Lineage escaped a deadly trial after Gongpiluo Huang and the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion destroyed each other, then gathered with other survivors on twelve platforms. The story shifts to the Chi Lineage, which faces Vajra Radiance’s Illusory Generation and counters it with a formation powered by the elders’ cultivation.
- Elder White Brow released the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion to protect the failing Shangguan Lineage formation, and the Scion challenged Gongpiluo Huang.
- The Scion destroyed the gray-white umbrella and fought Gongpiluo Huang while Shangguan Wan'er and Elder White Brow shielded the survivors from the battle’s devastation.
- Gongpiluo Huang’s Beginningless Ancient Rhyme disrupted the Scion’s thoughts, but the Scion used Unthought Source Burial to mark Gongpiluo Huang and interrupt his ancient rhyme.
- The Scion ruptured the Shangguan Lineage’s evacuation passage, and Elder White Brow forced the remaining disciples through before the passage collapsed.
- Gongpiluo Huang used Initial Cause Severance to erase the Scion’s underlying causes, but the Scion’s Jin Beginning Absolute Nothing—Return to One Void destroyed Gongpiluo Huang before the Scion also vanished.
- Shangguan Wan'er and the surviving Shangguan Lineage members reached the twelve ancient platforms, learned that only thirteen elders, nine stewards, and one thousand disciples remained, and crossed into the Gray-Gold Barrier.
- Vajra Radiance confronted the Chi Lineage with Illusory Generation, weakening its Dao foundations and Fate Souls as Chi Tongyue and Chi Tianhong tried to resist.
- Chi Tongyue, Chi Tianhong, and eight elders sank their Eternal Silence cultivation into the Myriad Illusions Return to Truth Pool, then used it to contain Vajra Radiance’s renewed assault.