"Hey, can you find another place to grind monsters!"
"It's just the two of us in this game, why are you avoiding me? Is this even fun?"
"But I'm used to grinding monsters alone, and besides, you always disrupt my grinding rhythm."
"I'll just grind monsters right next to you, okay?"
Seeing two children, one big and one small, squatting and sitting by the lake playing on their phones, I inexplicably felt a sense of déjà vu that this was how it should be.
Nezha is carefree Unconstrained by Trifles, while Ao Bing is proud, sensitive, and cautious.
The two played until sunset before reluctantly parting ways and going home.
Let's leave Ao Bing aside and talk about Nezha.
Just as they left Hundred Demon Valley, they were stopped by a figure.
Nezha stopped and curiously examined the person in front of him. No matter how he looked at it, he felt that this guy was not human.
Although I didn't sense Demon Qi from this guy, he looked too much like an animal.
"Tall and skinny with no flesh on your bones, a pointed mouth and monkey-like face, who are you? What are you doing here, following in my footsteps?"
"My name is Shen Gonggong..."
" Shen Gonggong, Eunuch Shen!"
"Pah! What Shen Gonggong? I am Shengonggong Bao, I am... your martial uncle!"
Although Nezha and Taiyi Zhenren are master and disciple, Taiyi Zhenren has not taught Nezha any skills or magic so far.
Therefore, in Nezha's heart, he didn't really acknowledge Taiyi as his the Final Master.
And then there's Shen Gonggong, who clearly doesn't look like a good person.
"Speak your mind, or shut up! I'm busy!" Nezha's attitude was clearly getting impatient.
"How dare you speak to your martial uncle like that? I'm here today to tell you the truth."
Nezha frowned, but remained silent, becoming even more wary.
Generally, people who actively come forward to tell you the "truth" are definitely not good people; they're either Digging or framing you.
Nezha's lips curled into a smirk; he was curious to see what this Shen Gonggong was up to.
"Do you know your true identity...?" It took Shen Gongbao half an hour to tell Nezha that Nezha was Demon Pill and would be destroyed by heavenly tribulation three years after his birth.
The reason it took half an hour was simply because Shen Gongbao's stuttering was just too touching.
Nezha seemed completely unfazed; his reason told him not to believe the words of this suddenly appearing so-called uncle.
But he instinctively felt that perhaps what Shen Gonggong said was true.
Although Nezha was young, he possessed extraordinary intelligence and Innate knowledge!
With a little thought, you'll discover many problems.
He just hadn't thought about it that way before.
Why did his parents lock him up in the mansion, surrounding him with Formation, and forbidding him from leaving?
Why is there always an inexplicable sadness in his parents' eyes when they look at him?
He used to think his parents were just angry that he was naughty.
But now that I think about it, that's not true at all.
Perhaps it is precisely because they know they will eventually die that they feel sorrow.
"Hehe, that's a good story you made up!" Nezha rolled his eyes.
"This... is not a story, everything I said is true."
"Fine!" Nezha shrugged. "Even if what you're saying is true, so what? What's the point of telling me all this?"
"I, your senior uncle, just want to tell you the truth. I know you can't accept it yet, but the truth is the truth."
"If you don't believe me, just take off the Universe Ring around your neck, and you'll know the truth."
"I can't remove this Universe Ring. Do you know the incantation to break Universe Ring?"
"Of course!" Shen Gongbao said, and then recited the incantation.
Although Shen Gongbao stuttered when he spoke, he didn't stutter at all when he chanted incantations.
Of course, Shen Gongbao deliberately reversed a few syllables, otherwise the Universe Ring would have been completely untied.
He had no desire to face the Demon Pill when its power was fully unleashed.
"The last three syllables of the incantation, if you just reverse them, that's the complete incantation to unlock the Universe Ring. Do you remember it?"
"Alright, I got it. This incantation is so simple, I can recite it backwards in a minute."
Shen Gongbao sneered twice and said, "If you want to live, you must unleash the power of the Demon Pill and completely control it; otherwise, you will surely die in a year and a half!"
"Furthermore, it would be best to unlock the Universe Ring on your birthday, as only then can the Demon Pill's power be unleashed to its fullest extent."
"Uncle-Master, I'm doing this all for your own good."
Nezha shrugged, giving him a "guess if I believe you" look, and asked, "Anything else?"
"I hope you do well!" Having achieved his goal, Shen Gongbao naturally didn't want to linger. His figure slowly faded and then disappeared.
Nezha stood there, stunned for a long time.
" Demon Pill? Born to be a demon? And what demon, what immortal? Whether I'm a demon or an immortal, I decide for myself."
Nezha, hands in his pockets, strode out of the Hundred Demon Valley with his short legs.
What is Shen Gongbao plotting?
He simply wanted to prove that he was stronger than Taiyi and that he deserved a place among the Twelve Golden Immortals.
Instead of giving it to Taiyi, who was idle, had no morals, and whose abilities and cultivation were inferior to his.
To prove you're stronger than Taiyi, you only need to do two things.
The first is destruction, the second is cultivation!
Taiyi's goal is to cultivate Nezha, or more precisely, to cultivate Nezha who Fusion the Spirit Pearl.
However, due to Shen Gongbao's sabotage, Nezha became Demon Pill, and the Spirit Pearl was taken away by Shen Gongbao and given to Ao Bing.
Such a huge oversight will surely lead Primordial Beginning Heavenly Venerable to punish Taiyi, and may even directly disqualify Taiyi from becoming one of the Twelve Golden Immortals.
Shen Gongbao executed this move very successfully.
The second step is training.
What should we cultivate? Of course, we should cultivate the Spirit Pearl. The more outstanding the disciple we cultivate, the more it proves that our abilities are stronger than Taiyi's.
After careful consideration, he finally chose Ao Bing.
Tell Nezha about his identity Demon Pill and the incantation to break the Universe Ring, so that when Nezha falls into demonic possession, Ao Bing can appear and turn the tide.
In the original storyline, the plan succeeded.
Ao Bing did indeed gain the people's approval, and they grew increasingly fearful and disgusted with Nezha.
But he only acknowledged Ao Bing for a moment.
But as Ao Bing revealed his true form, the situation took another turn.
In this world, people don't seem to have a very good attitude towards the Dragon Clan.
Or rather, they looked down on the Dragon Clan.
The mighty Dragon Clan, ruling over the Sihai, an ancient divine beast race, has become a domesticated creature of the Heavenly Court.
They were either used as livestock or as food.
Not only do Dragon Clan Kami, immortals, and demons look down on the dragon race, but ordinary people also despise Dragon Clan.
The people's Taunt was a huge blow to Ao Bing.
The original plot's setting was a bit too rigid.
Even if the Dragon Clan is weak, ordinary people have no right to point fingers at the Dragon Clan.
Ao Bing was deeply affected by this, and Shen Gongbao took the opportunity to say to him, "Prejudice in people's hearts is like a mountain..."
It was precisely because of this sentence that Ao Bing completely stood on the opposite side of Nezha.
They drew water from the East Blue and condensed it into a towering iceberg atop Chentang Pass, intending to completely bury Chentang Pass and conceal all the truth.
This plot setup works fine in a movie.
However, in the real world, it is riddled with flaws.
At this moment, Shen Gongbao had already appeared in the center of Hundred Demon Valley. He had come to see Ling Yi, or rather, to kill Ling Yi.
Shen Gongbao didn't know Ling Yi's identity, but at this time, his appearance here and his contact with Nezha and Ao Bing made him, in Shen Gongbao's eyes, a Ling Yi.
Unfortunately, he didn't know that Taiyi had already come to see Ling Yi, nor did he know about Ling Yi's special status.
Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to come looking for Ling Yi.
Ling Yi was not surprised at all to see Shen Gongbao appear.
"No matter who you are?" Shen Gongbao asked, staring at Ling Yi.
"Forget it, who you are is not important!" Shen Gongbao wasn't here to waste time talking; he wasn't curious about Ling Yi's identity.
In his eyes, Ling Yi was already a dead man.
With a flick of his right hand, a black mace whip appeared out of thin air, crackling with what appeared to be Lightning, and he swung it at Ling Yi.
[ Shen Gongbao (950 AD), Middle Golden Immortal Stage, Strength 5500, Agility 8200, Constitution 4500, Intelligence 1900!]
"Really, why bother?" Ling Yi hadn't originally intended to do anything to Shen Gongbao.
But this guy went all out from the start, and Ling Yi wasn't going to tolerate that.
The mace whip pierced through Ling Yi's body, but Ling Yi's body was merely a projection.
The next moment, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed.
Shen Gongbao discovered that he was already in a cage.
"A mere trick!" Shen Gongbao scoffed, knowing it was Illusion Technique.
It's just Illusion Technique; what's so scary about it in his eyes?
However, when the mace struck the cage, it produced a crisp metallic clang.
That's not the point. The point is that Shen Gongbao discovered that none of his spells were working anymore.
"No, this can't be! What's going on?"
At that moment, Ling Yi was not far away from him, watching Shen Gongbao jumping up and down in the Illusion Technique cage and shaking his head.
In terms of insight, Shen Gongbao is far inferior to Taiyi.
At least Taiyi saw the key point at a glance.
But Shen Gongbao was merely in a state of impotent rage.
"Keep it locked for now!" Ling Yi waved his hand, and the Illusion automatically disappeared.
If no one gets close, no one would know there's a Prison here, and inside that Prison is a leopard spirit who stutters.
Turn around, go back to the castle, and go to sleep.
The next morning, when Ling Yi woke up, he found that Nezha and Ao Bing had already arrived at the castle.
The two were eating breakfast made by a robot.
Nezha was still introducing the names of each breakfast item to Ao Bing.
Nezha is very outgoing and doesn't act like an outsider at all.
Especially after passing Ling Yi's so-called test, he considered Ling Yi to be one of his own.
After visiting many times, I naturally learned about some of the good things inside the fortress.
What Nezha likes most is the food here.
After Li Jing released Nezha from his confinement, Nezha would run to Ling Yi almost every day.
Occasionally, they would bring back some food for Li Jing and his wife.
It seems that Nezha was not affected by Shen Gongbao and remained carefree.
Ao Bing, on the other hand, seemed quite reserved.
Upon seeing Ling Yi, he immediately stood up and respectfully greeted, "Senior!"
"No need to be so polite!"
"Yes, senior!"
Well, it was all for nothing.
"Brother Ling Yi, my second birthday is in a month, and I would like to invite you to my birthday banquet at the Li residence."
"This is also what my parents wanted!"