Nezha: Little Loach, You've Got Some Nerve

Soon, Qian Renxue reached the foot of Five Finger Mountain and was stunned by the sight before her.

"Great Sage Equal to Heaven?"

The once proud and glorious Handsome Monkey King now had dust-gray fur. His entire body was pinned beneath Five Finger Mountain, leaving only his furry head exposed.

Dirt and debris kept falling from the mountain, turning the Handsome Monkey King into a mud monkey.

Qian Renxue almost seemed to hear music rising from the horizon. "Five hundred years~~ mulberry fields turn to seas~ even stubborn stone grows thick with moss..."

Sun Wukong noticed Qian Renxue then and chuckled.

"You little earth deity, taking over my Flower-Fruit Mountain was one thing, but now you want to take over my new home too?"

Qian Renxue's face darkened, and what little wistfulness she felt vanished without a trace. Why did it really have to be this troublemaking Great God?

By now, how could she fail to understand? Five Finger Mountain had probably been built specifically for this monkey. He really had been right-she had come to his home again.

Did she have so little standing? She was practically becoming the monkey's housekeeper. Though it seemed she was the one basking in his reflected glory.

"Thanks to your good fortune, Great Sage, this minor deity has now been promoted to Mountain God of Five Finger Mountain."

"Since you know it's thanks to me, hurry up and bring out a thank-you gift, eh?"

Sun Wukong blinked his golden eyes. Though his tone was flippant, he put Qian Renxue under immense pressure.

Qian Renxue felt that this monkey had changed. Even his eyes were different from before, far more intimidating.

"Hurry up, don't just stand there. Old Sun has already smelled that Peach of Immortality. Hehe, since you're not eating it, give it back to Old Sun."

Qian Renxue: "..."

Who took back a gift they had already given away?

Yet she did not dare refuse. Fallen on hard times though this monkey was, Qian Renxue now fully trusted her own conjecture. There would definitely come a day when he got out.

"Please take it to quench your thirst, Great Sage."

With an ingratiating smile, Qian Renxue took out the peach, her heart aching terribly.

She had meant to save the good stuff for last. Now she had really lost out.

Never mind, never mind. She would consider it building a good relationship with the Handsome Monkey King. Befriending a Great God like him certainly would not be a loss, and he had given her this thing in the first place anyway.

Qian Renxue consoled herself.

"Hehe, don't worry. Old Sun won't eat your peach for nothing. Once I get out, I'll go up to heaven and pick you another."

Sun Wukong shook his head from side to side and shouted at Di Tian behind Qian Renxue.

"Hey, you dark fellow! I haven't settled accounts with you for pissing in front of Old Sun just now. How can you be so clueless? Can't you see Old Sun has no hands free? Bring that peach over here!"

Di Tian flushed scarlet. Under Qian Renxue's probing, astonished gaze, he took the peach and held it to Sun Wukong's mouth.

"Please enjoy, Great Sage."

Just hurry up and eat. Stop talking. All the Soul Beasts of Douluo are watching.

Sun Wukong took a bite, and the peach's fragrance spread. Qian Renxue and Di Tian's tears disgracefully flowed from their mouths.

"Ahh, that feels so good!"

Sun Wukong savored it again and again.

"I knew you were a shameless monkey, taking back a peach you'd already given someone!"

Suddenly, a childish voice rang out. Immediately afterward, Qian Renxue sensed the temperature rising around her.

Nezha slowly descended on his Wind-Fire Wheels, his hands tucked into his sleeves.

"Shoo, shoo. It's not like Old Sun won't repay her. Don't disturb me while I'm eating my peach."

Sun Wukong paid no mind to Nezha's teasing, and Nezha ignored him too.

His fierce eyes settled on Di Tian, and he frowned with some distaste.

"I've killed True Dragons, and I've killed flood dragons. As for those mixed-blood hairy dragons, I've killed more than I can count. So how come I've never seen a dragon as watered-down as you? If I hadn't dealt with dragons so much, I really wouldn't have noticed that tiny trace of dragon aura on you."

By this point, Nezha could no longer conceal the ferocity on his face.

Anything carrying dragon aura interested him.

"Little loach, you're very brave, daring to appear before me."

As Nezha spoke, he tugged at his waistband, seemingly casually, revealing several gleaming Dragon Tendons wrapped around his waist.

Di Tian's legs gave out at once, and he collapsed to the ground, his head once again landing right in front of Sun Wukong.

Sun Wukong finished the last bite of peach and grinned at Di Tian.

"You dark fellow, you're done for. This kid ripped out the third prince of the East Sea Dragon Palace's Dragon Tendon when he was seven, and he nearly beat that old dragon, the East Sea Dragon King, to death too. Hehe, want Old Sun to put in a word with the Underworld so you can get a good reincarnation?"

Di Tian wanted to cry but had no tears. Why had Qian Renxue's promotion day become his day of suffering?

He did not even have the courage to look directly at Nezha's waistband, let alone deal with Sun Wukong offering to put in a word with the Underworld.

Sun Wukong had smashed up the Underworld! Wouldn't his putting in a word only make things worse?

Just as Di Tian sank into utter despair, Qian Renxue bravely stepped forward.

"Great God Nezha, Di Tian comes from the same Small World as I do, and he is now my temple keeper. He has committed no evil, either. Please judge this clearly, Great God."

Di Tian immediately looked at Qian Renxue, deeply moved. This was what a good boss should be like-far better than the Silver Dragon King.

"Tch~"

Nezha curled his lip disdainfully, then turned to Qian Renxue.

"I was so busy looking at him that I forgot to look at you. Now that I do, something's not right with you either."

Nezha felt that the amount of Yin Virtue on Qian Renxue was indeed abnormal.

Qian Renxue, however, clearly misunderstood him and promptly dropped to her knees.

"Please see the truth, Great God Nezha! This minor deity is a pure-blooded member of the Human Race and worships Great God Nuwa."

"You worship Great God Nuwa?"

Nezha laughed and planted both hands on his hips. "Then do you know my origins?"

"I am Lingzhuzi beneath Goddess Nüwa's throne, given form. You worship Goddess Nüwa, yet you don't even know me?"

"Outsiders really are ignorant."

Nezha pointed at Qian Renxue and Di Tian. An immense flood of information immediately struck their minds, leaving them rooted to the spot.

Nezha moved the two aside with distaste and looked at Sun Wukong.

"These two gatekeepers of yours are really interesting. One can't take a scare, and the other has so much Yin Virtue she's almost become a spirit."

Nezha did not like this sort of situation. He only liked fighting.

Fighting felt great!

He disliked anything that kept him from fighting.

Qian Renxue and Di Tian had no idea what Nezha was thinking now. At that moment, they were completely immersed in the information he had transmitted.

Everyone on the Douluo Continent also saw the information Nezha had transmitted.

It was a scene.

A woman with a human head and a serpent's body wandered through the great wilderness. Her bearing seemed gentle and gracious, and her appearance was so naturally perfect that not a single flaw could be found.

There was something maternal about her, and her eyes always held compassion for heaven and all living things, making others feel close to her.

"What exactly is missing from this world?"

The woman's voice was like a murmur in a dream. Following her footsteps, Qian Renxue and Di Tian saw the Primordial World of countless primordial assemblies ago.

They saw giants a hundred zhang tall upon the earth, their voices like thunder, and myriad demons slaughtering one another across the land.

They saw those giants fighting the bizarrely shaped members of the Demon Race in the sky, yet none of this affected the woman in the slightest.

Qian Renxue and Di Tian gradually understood that this scene showed a tribe called the Witch Clan fighting the Demon Race.

And this woman was a mighty figure of the Demon Race.

Wherever she went, the fighting would skirt around her. Some even came forward to pay their respects, addressing her as "Sovereign Wa."

At this point, a terrifying conjecture had already formed in Qian Renxue's heart.

Finally, after walking through the Primordial World for an unknown length of time, the woman suddenly stopped before a ceaselessly flowing river.

"So that's it."

At that moment, the woman's eyes were perfectly clear, without the slightest trace of bewilderment.

On the Douluo Continent, everyone also felt something stir in their hearts.

"Could it be..."

At that moment, everyone held their breath and clenched their fists.

If their guess was correct, they were about to witness a truth so absurd that it defied belief.

But she was Sovereign Wa of the Demon Race.