Within White Bone Cave, Azure Cloud Attendant was silently cultivating. Yet he was caught within the tribulation, his physical body utterly gone, with only a lotus-forged incarnation remaining.
Unlike Nezha, he did not possess such talent, and his cultivation advanced slowly.
When he saw Daoist Lingguan and Huang Chou arrive, he hurriedly invited the two into the cave.
Once both sides had taken their seats, Daoist Lingguan said, "Senior Brother Azure Cloud, now that the Investiture Tribulation has arrived, Martial Uncle Shi Ji has sent me to invite you and Junior Brother Dao Chou to Western Qi, to answer the calamity."
Azure Cloud Attendant said joyfully, "I have waited a long time for this." He immediately rose and headed for Western Qi with Huang Chou.
Within the Cheng Tang army camp, before Zhang Guifang had received Wen Zhong's reinforcements, a report came from outside: "Two Daoists have come to pay their respects."
After the two were invited in, they proved to be Azure Cloud Attendant and Huang Chou. Once they had exchanged names and understood the situation, Azure Cloud Attendant said, "Perfect. I share the grudge of an arrow with that Nezha, and I have come here precisely to repay him.
"Wait for me to enter the field and capture him, then seize Huang Feihu as well and hand him over to the general to be escorted back to Morning Song for merit."
With that, Azure Cloud Attendant and Huang Chou led a troop of soldiers out through the camp gates to challenge the enemy. "Nezha, come out and face me!"
Although Nezha's fleshly body had been formed from incense offerings, leaving him unable to guard against Zhang Guifang's art of calling a name and unhorsing a general, the technique did not damage his foundation after it struck him, and