Forbidden! The Elixir Refined by Taiyi Zhenren Himself Turns Out to Be...

When Nezha dredges up a mysterious iron staff inscribed with the words “Great Sage” from the depths of the Eastern Sea, memories sealed inside the Golden Cudgel surge forth like erupting magma. The one suppressed by the Buddha five hundred years ago was never Sun Wukong: it was Nezha, who had willingly taken his punishment in his place. The truth behind the corruption of the Celestial Court gradually comes to light through ancient murals in the underwater Dragon Palace. The Jade Emperor used the frigid energy of the Nine Netherworlds to forge an immortal puppet army, Zhen Yuanzi used the Ginseng Fruit Tree to absorb the earth’s spiritual energy, and a black hole that devoured divine souls lurked among the thirty-three levels of Heaven. Guided by the Black Lotus Sect Master, Nezha joins forces with Sun Wukong, whose memories of the Celestial Court have been erased, and Yang Jian, who bears the name of a kinslayer, to uncover the mystery of Patriarch Hongjun’s death. When the sages of the Three Teachings lay a deadly formation at the Execution Immortal Platform, Nezha burns his primordial spirit to unleash a forbidden art, reducing the entire Celestial Court to dust amid the tolling of the Chaos Bell. Yet the day a new god is born marks the beginning of the twilight of the gods...