"As long as Nezha comes with me to the Heavenly Court once and settles this matter before the Jade Emperor..."
Before the old Dragon King could finish, Jiu Ming interrupted him. Tilting his head slightly, he blinked. "Settle it? Pay with her life?"
"...How would I dare?" A flicker of unwillingness passed through the old Dragon King's eyes as he spoke in a low voice. If he could, he definitely would have done exactly that. But he was clearly being threatened now; if he still insisted, he would likely lose his own dragon life as well. He had more children than just the Third Prince of the East Sea.
"Well, didn't you say it yourself? 'If a son is not taught, it is the father's fault.' Did you ever stop to think what kind of trash your son usually was?"
The old Dragon King let out a deep sigh. He had indeed indulged the Third Prince of the East Sea far too much in ordinary times; otherwise, he would not have raised him into someone so arrogant and overbearing. If he had kept a tighter rein on him, perhaps today's events would never have happened.
Some things only brought regret after they happened. His son had bullied humans in the past, and the old Dragon King himself had never thought much of humans either. Humans were simply too short-lived; even an entire human lifetime was no more than a drop in the ocean of his long existence.
"Ao Guang yields. I can forgo having Nezha pay for my son's life, but from now on, she must never appear near Chentang Pass... no, near the East Sea!"
Pain flashed through the old Dragon King's eyes. No matter what, that had been his son—though he had run wild without restraint and taken