Nezha Did It

Human Emperor Xin pondered for a moment, the corner of his mouth curving into a cold smile.

"Since they want to drag you into the game, we might as well beat them at their own plan. Just pretend Biyun has already been shot dead by this arrow. Take the 'corpse' to Chentang Pass and demand an accounting from Li Jing, the one who loosed that hidden arrow!"

With that, Human Emperor Xin pressed two fingers together like a sword, took a section of crystal-clear spirit lotus root from his storage space, and unleashed supreme fortune-forging magic power. In mere moments, he transformed it into a "fake corpse" identical to Biyun Boy, even making the Heaven-Shaking Arrow look as if it had truly pierced the heart.

Lady Shi Ji looked at the ghostly, godlike craftsmanship before her, and the adoration in her eyes deepened even further.

She reined in the tenderness she showed before Human Emperor Xin, put back on that icy, wrathful immortal-maiden mask, and, carrying the fake corpse and the Heaven-Shaking Arrow, rode a cloud in grand procession straight for Chentang Pass.

At that moment, inside the Commander-in-Chief's Mansion of Chentang Pass.

Li Jing was alone in his study, pouring bitter wine down his throat.

The imagined scenes in his mind grew even clearer.

"Yin Shiniang... you stayed for so many years in that palace of wine, women, song, and hounds in Chaoge. How could you possibly still be pure?" Li Jing smashed a wine bowl to pieces, his eyes bloodshot.

Again and again, he replayed the scenes he had conjured up himself—Yin Shiniang "toiling" beneath Human Emperor Xin—until rage made his whole body tremble.

Just then, a terrifying pressure belonging to a Daluo Golden Immortal descended over the Commander-in-Chief's Mansion like Mount Tai crushing down.

Li Jing only