Outside Lingxiao Palace, Tongming Hall.
The Tianpeng Battleship fleet carrying the vast majority of the Three-Party Allied Army's forces had docked outside Tongming Hall, surrounding it so tightly that not even water could pass through.
The Heavenly Soldiers had originally thought the atmosphere between Li Jing and Nezha, father and son, was the most awkward possible. But they had not expected there to be an even worse pair: the relationship between the Bull Demon King and Red Boy was clearly far more hostile—at least on the surface—than that other father-son pair.
Yet that was merely an appearance.
Red Boy's seemingly harsher attitude toward the Bull Demon King had originally stemmed from their differences of opinion while resisting Heaven. Now that the old bull had joined the expeditionary force, their objectives had become aligned, and in theory, there was no reason for them to remain hostile.
Still, having been beaten up by the Arcade Great Sage, then forcibly made to call him "Seventh Uncle," along with a trace of guilt over making a move on his younger sister from different parents, not to mention the intense pride brought by being Yaksha's sole descendant—all of that left Red Boy unable to save face. So this so-called hostility only needed a reasonable excuse to fade away.
Li Jing and Nezha, on the other hand, appeared calm on the surface, with only an awkward atmosphere between them. But every Heavenly Soldier knew that once this Great Expedition was complete, if their commander dared set his pagoda aside, Nezha's Fire-Tipped Spear would stab straight through him without a word—wherever was fatal, that was where it would strike.
To use an inappropriate analogy that might get someone stabbed: it was the quiet dogs that bit the hardest~
The allied army's composition was now exceedingly complex. Although