SWDnovel Chapter 48 The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Arrives Demanding a Defeat! The Three Princes Die Unto t
Chapter 48 The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Arrives Demanding a Defeat! The Three Princes Die Unto t
Li Jing stood outside the manor gate, looking at the crooked plaque.
"Wuwu Mountain Villa".
His gaze lingered on those four words for two seconds.
Then move it under the plaque.
Nezha leaned against the gate frame.
Arms crossed over chest.
The Universe Ring hung at his waist, the Hun Tian Ling draped over his shoulders, and the Wind and Fire Wheels stood beneath his feet.
He stared straight at Li Jing.
No expression.
The father and son looked at each other from a distance of ten feet.
Everyone in the courtyard stopped what they were doing.
Red Boy squatted by the fire, looking up at the doorway.
The jade rabbit huddled beside the flower field, hugging its knees.
Pigsy poked half his head out of the vegetable garden.
The broom in Sha Wujing's hand stopped in mid-air.
Princess Iron Fan stood at the kitchen doorway, her hands still covered in flour.
Sun Wukong flipped off the roof and landed in the courtyard, his golden cudgel planted on the ground, leaning against it without moving.
Lu Chen sat on a stone stool, holding a bowl of tea in his hand.
Everyone was watching the doorway.
Nezha.
Li Jing spoke first.
The sound was deep and muffled, like thunder.
Nezha remained silent.
"The Heavenly Court has decreed that you return to your position."
Nezha remained silent.
Li Jing's lips moved slightly.
He knew that the words "a decree from Heaven" were no different from farting to his son.
Nezha never dared to disobey before.
Because the tower was in his hands.
In the blink of an eye, it could shake Nezha's three souls and seven spirits, causing him to writhe in pain on the ground.
The tower is now in Lu Chen's hands.
All he had left in his hand was the Overlord Spear.
The Overlord Spear can fight demons, kill enemies, and charge into battle.
But he couldn't control his own son.
"Nezha," Li Jing called out again, his voice carrying a hint of pleading that he himself was unaware of.
"return."
Nezha finally moved.
He straightened up from the door frame.
I slowly walked to the door.
Stand still.
Looking at Li Jing.
What are you doing here?
"I'll take you back."
"Who sent you?"
"The Jade Emperor."
"Did the Jade Emperor send you, or did you choose to come yourself?"
Li Jing opened his mouth.
He hadn't thought about that question.
Or rather, he never distinguished them.
Having spent hundreds of years in Heaven, he could no longer distinguish between what he wanted to do and what he was ordered to do by his superiors.
"We have them all," Li Jing finally managed to say.
Nezha nodded.
"Then go back and tell the Jade Emperor."
"I'm not going back."
Li Jing's hand tightened slightly.
He gripped the shaft of the Overlord Spear so tightly it made a cracking sound.
The four heavenly generals behind him looked at each other, unsure whether they should step forward.
"Nezha," Li Jing said in a low voice, "what kind of behavior is this, standing outside like this? The Third Prince of Heaven living in a mortal's dilapidated courtyard... if word gets out..."
"So what if it gets out?"
"Shameful."
Nezha smiled.
The laugh was short and light, with an indescribable quality.
"Shameful?"
"Do you think it's shameful for me to live here?"
Li Jing did not answer.
But his expression said it all.
Yes, it's shameful.
The Third Prince of Heaven, instead of returning to Heaven to report and obeying the Jade Emperor's orders, stayed in a dilapidated manor run by an unknown mortal, mingling with a group of monsters and runaway immortals.
This is unacceptable in terms of the Heavenly Court's reputation.
Nezha looked at Li Jing's expression and slowly stopped laughing.
"OK."
"Then let's make things clear today."
The air in the courtyard grew heavy.
Even the wind has died down.
Red Boy squatted by the fire, not daring to make a sound.
Pigsy retreated back into the vegetable garden.
Sun Wukong, leaning against his golden cudgel and chewing on a blade of grass, showed no sign of leaving. Like fantasy novels? Come and read more!
Lu Chen held his teacup but didn't move.
"father."
Nezha spoke.
When that word came out of his mouth, Li Jing's shoulders involuntarily trembled.
Nezha hasn't called him "father" in a long time.
When they were in Heaven, Nezha called him "father".
A formal, polite, and distant "father".
I called him "Dad" today.
This only made Li Jing more panicked.
"I have a few questions for you," Nezha said in a low, steady voice. "Answer me."
Li Jing remained silent, which was taken as tacit agreement.
"Back then," Nezha's gaze was fixed on Li Jing's face, "I caused trouble at Chen Tang Pass. The Dragon King came to you demanding an explanation."
"You're telling me that killing you won't save the people of Chentang Pass?"
"So you want me to return my bones to my father and atone for my sins with my death."
Li Jing's lips moved slightly.
No sound was made.
"I believe it."
Nezha's tone remained calm.
"I'll take a knife and remove my bones one by one to give back to you. I'll cut off my flesh piece by piece to give back to my mother."
"When they were removing the last rib, I was in so much pain that I couldn't see anything. But I didn't cry. Because you said that doing this would save Chen Tang Pass."
"I am dead."
"My master used lotus flowers to reshape my body. I came back to life."
"After I came back to life, I came home to find you. Do you know what you did?"
Li Jing's hands were trembling.
"You're using the tower to suppress me."
These five words fell in the courtyard like five stones thrown into the water.
"I just came back to life, and my injuries haven't fully healed yet, and you're already using a tower to crush me."
You called me a monster.
"You said that a body made of lotus flowers is not a human body."
"You say that my act of returning my bones to my father is a heinous crime."
"Am I being rebellious?"
Nezha's voice finally showed a slight rise and fall.
Just a trace.
"You're the one who told me to pick them out."
"You told me yourself that only by killing me could Chen Tang Pass be saved."
"I did as instructed."
"I am dead."
"You told me yourself that only by killing me could Chen Tang Pass be saved."
"I did as instructed."
"I am dead."
"I'm alive."
"Then you use the tower to suppress me."
"How many years has it been suppressed?"
Nezha held up a few fingers.
"Several hundred years."
"For hundreds of years, that tower has been hovering over my head day and night. I cannot go far, cannot do what I want, and cannot have the slightest thought of disobeying you."
"Because once you have it, you will recite it."
"The moment you utter a single thought, it feels like my soul and spirit are being stabbed with nails."
"She was in so much pain she was rolling on the ground."
"It hurt so much that I picked my nails off."
"Do you know what this kind of pain feels like?"
Li Jing's face had turned ashen.
It's not white, it's gray.
A gray that has lost all its color.
His lips trembled, as if he wanted to say something.
He couldn't utter a single word.
"I don't hate you for making me return my bones to my father," Nezha said. "It was for the sake of the people of Chentang Pass. I accept it."
"What I hate is that you used the tower to suppress me."
"From the day I came to life, you have never treated me like a son."
"You treat me like something that needs to be suppressed."
"A monster that could spiral out of control at any moment."
"You're afraid of me."
You don't love me.
"You're afraid of me."
When he said this, Nezha's eyes reddened.
But she didn't shed any tears.
He held back.
He has endured this for hundreds of years.
It won't make a difference if we do it this time.
Li Jing stood there.
The four heavenly generals behind him had already lowered their heads to the lowest point.
They dared not look.
You shouldn't have looked at it either.
This is a matter between the Li family father and son.
The debts between a father and son, accumulated over hundreds of years, are being settled one by one today.
"I'll ask you one more question," Nezha's voice returned to calm. "One last one."