Heaven-Defying Rebel Sage

"Damn it, how did this Nine-Headed Beast get so powerful?" Wukong cursed inwardly.

Laughing loudly, the Nine-Headed Beast taunted, "Sun Wukong, with such abilities, you think you can be the Green Emperor?"

With that, its nine heads shook, and from within the Mustard Seed it pulled out nine Great Banners. It tossed them into the sky where they formed a Nine Luminaries Yin Soul Great Formation, rooting itself within the void, immovable even by the heavenly winds. On each Great Banner were depicted terrifying things such as fierce ghosts, yin spirits, poisonous snakes, ferocious beasts, zombies, demon heads, poisonous scorpions, infant ghosts, and the Impermanence.

Yuan Hong frowned and murmured to himself, "The Nine Luminaries Yin Soul Great Formation? It seems this fiend must be connected to the Ghost Chariots."

Fluttering in the wind, the nine Great Banners grew to the height of nine zhang, instantly casting a chilling and ghostly air that darkened the skies and triggered a palpable sense of dread.

Wukong furrowed his brow and dared not be negligent, taking the World-Cleansing Dust Whisk in hand.

This World-Cleansing Dust Whisk, grown from a seed that fell from the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree of Zhun Ti Taoist and refined from a Bodhi Tree, was incredibly powerful. Moreover, being rooted in Buddhist Sect practices, it was most suitable for countering these sinister entities. The methods of Buddhist Sect were indeed the bane of these malicious ghosts and fiends, especially to the myriad demon kings of the Asura Blood Sea.

The Nine Luminaries Yin Soul Great Formation laid out by the Nine Yin Banners was exceedingly elaborate to create. One banner required the souls of those who died tragic deaths to be refined into fierce ghosts; another banner gathered souls born on the darkest days and nights; one was made from three hundred and sixty-five types of venomous snakes; one was made from fierce beasts that devoured yin spirits; one contained souls that committed suicide, refined into supreme zombie corpses; one captured the souls of those who went mad from cultivation... In short, crafting these Nine Yin Banners was tremendously difficult.

Without needing Yuan Hong’s reminder, Wukong already knew the trouble he was in—the nine Great Banners were certainly formidable!

At the Nine-Headed Beast’s gesture, a spell shot out toward the sky, entering the Nine Luminaries Yin Soul Great Formation. In an instant, ghostly winds arose, fierce ghosts howled, dark clouds gathered, and yin energy covered the heavens.

From the banners emerged numerous fierce ghosts, zombies, ferocious beasts, and poisonous snakes... but these beings were not made of flesh; they were Yin Gods, specializing in depleting the yang energy of people and harming their Primordial Spirits.