Nezha left the Zhou Camp without the slightest delay, his crimson fire escape light shooting into the sky as he headed straight back to Golden Light Cave on Heavenly Origin Mountain.
His purpose was clear: to find his Master, True Man Taiyi, and seek a means of defeating the enemy.
Inside the cave, True Man Taiyi had long sensed his disciple's escape light drawing near. He shook his head helplessly, secretly laughing bitterly.
In the Three Realms, only this one could be so lawless and unfettered. He never returned to the mountain without reason, and whenever he came calling, it was always because he had encountered some thorny problem.
Since the great battle at Boundary Tablet Pass ended, the immortals had each returned to their Cave Abodes to recover and cultivate in peace. The state of war across the realm had gradually stabilized. Unless some enormous upheaval had occurred, Nezha would never have rashly returned to the mountain.
With this thought in mind, True Man Taiyi came out to greet him. Looking at Nezha as he landed, he asked, "Nezha, why have you suddenly returned to the mountain? Has Morning Song produced another peerless expert, or has the Western Religion emerged once more to cause trouble?"
Not daring to delay, Nezha immediately recounted in detail everything that had happened at the Mengjin front with the two fiends, Gao Ming and Gao Jue. From their strange escape techniques and spying upon military intelligence to the failure of the Eight Trigrams Formation, the uselessness of the Peachwood Divine Nails, and the inability of Divine Fire to destroy their bodies, he reported every bizarre occurrence truthfully.
True Man Taiyi's brows immediately drew together. His fingers formed seals as he calculated the secrets of heaven and traced the matter to its source. A moment