Real Person Taiyi could hardly be blamed for feeling frustrated. It had originally been a simple task, but Shen Gongbao's meddling had turned it into this mess.
Yuanshi Tianzun had handed the Spirit Pearl and the Demon Pill to Real Person Taiyi. To put it bluntly, he had been looking after him. Any idiot could have completed this task: take the items to Li Jing's home, then, when Madam Yin gave birth, reincarnate the Spirit Pearl's power into the newborn Nezha.
What could possibly be difficult about such a simple task?
That was also why Shen Gongbao had refused to accept it.
Wasn't this blatant favoritism?
And not even disguised favoritism!
How was this any different from directly making Real Person Taiyi a Golden Immortal? Yet he had hypocritically made him go through the motions of completing such a simple task. Wasn't that bullying an honest man?
Naturally, Shen Gongbao had refused to accept it. That led to everything that followed: stealing the Spirit Pearl, reincarnating the Demon Pill into Nezha, replacing him with Ao Bing as the Spirit Pearl's reincarnation, and taking Nezha's place in the future Investiture of the Gods War. Then Shen Gongbao could make a name for himself before Yuanshi Tianzun and make his master reconsider the candidate for Golden Immortal.
Was Shen Gongbao a villain? Not necessarily.
"I gave the Spirit Pearl to the Dragon... the Dragon Clan's third prince, Ao Bing. He is my disciple now."
Shen Gongbao did not hide it. First, there was no need to. Second, given the current circumstances, he did not dare conceal anything.
He could not afford to provoke Chen Mu and the others.
Xiao Qing had pulled out a gun. Who was to say the others could not do the same? And who knew whether that gun