Chapter 742: The First Emperor Passed Away (Two-in-One)
Nezha had thought the small favor Sun Wukong mentioned really would be small. He had never expected it to be so enormous.
Annul the engagement between Bai Suzhen and a member of the Iron-Eating Beast Clan? Forget him-even his master, True Person Taiyi, could not accomplish that!
Holy Mother Wudang had held the marriage contest on Penglai in Jiejiao's name. Members of many great clans of the Primordial World had attended, including the Demon Race, Dragon Race, Black Tortoise Race, and Asura Clan. With a member of the Iron-Eating Beast Clan emerging as the final victor, an engagement settled under those circumstances could only be annulled without a valid reason if someone whose words carried enormous weight, someone no other beings dared provoke, intervened. Clearly, he did not carry that much weight.
If he declared that Bai Suzhen's engagement to that Xiong Meng should be annulled, neither Jiejiao nor the Iron-Eating Beast Clan would pay him any attention. If they did, it would certainly be to give him a vicious thrashing.
So this is one favor I can't do!
With that thought, the corners of Nezha's mouth twitched several times before he said to Sun Wukong, "Monkey, you're deliberately making a fool of me, aren't you? You call this a small favor?"
"You can't do it?" Sun Wukong asked instead of answering.
Nezha sat up and replied irritably, "In the Primordial World today, nobody except the Heavenly Emperor could do something like that, all right?"
Then Nezha offered him a suggestion. "If you ask me, just go plead with the Heavenly Emperor. That's the most direct way."
The Heavenly Emperor.
Sun Wukong recalled the fat Iron-Eating Beast he had met on the Cloud Grassland a few days earlier. He sat up too