Li Jing was actually feeling both wronged and furious.
Indeed, as a father, he had failed this specially treated biological son of his in every possible way. That was why he constantly held up the Exquisite Pagoda, terrified that the moment it slipped from his hand, this biological son of his would poke a hole through him.
...But blaming him for things he had never done was a little too unreasonable, wasn't it?
Yes, when all was said and done, it was Black Heavenly Court's Black Li Jing's fault. That Headless Knight had caused everything before them. Though he had overwritten Black Li Jing's folder and could theoretically inherit the position of Military Region Commander-in-Chief of the Outer Heavenly Court, surely he did not have to inherit the other man's blame as well?
Glared at by his son, Li Jing subconsciously tightened his grip on the Exquisite Pagoda twice.
Fortunately, although Nezha was venting some misplaced anger, he rationally understood that this was a problem with the substitute. He did not actually intend to do anything, merely venting his emotions.
He first carried the Lotus Root Humanoid, which was gripping his ankle with all its might, onto the deck of the Hellfire warship. Then he took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed his emotions, and spoke to it.
"Don't worry... Today, I will bury all of Black Spirit Mountain with you!"
As Nezha's words fell, the lotus-root hand that had clung to him like a drowning man clutching at a straw slowly loosened.
A wound suddenly split open across the featureless lotus-root face, and it released a rising, falling tone, as though someone were playing a xun.
It was not language, merely a tone. Yet in Nezha's ears, it corresponded to actual words.
"Be careful in all things... my other self..."