Upon hearing this, Ye Mujiu simply shook her head and said, "I'm afraid we don't have a future."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Mu's expression changed drastically, and he was greatly shocked. His eyes widened suddenly, and he immediately hugged Xiao Jiu tightly, his voice filled with fear.

"Xiao Jiu... what do you mean? Don't you want a future with me?"

After hearing these words, Zhou Mu seemed somewhat frightened.

However, Xiao Jiu remained unusually calm. Faced with Zhou Mu's fear and extreme insecurity, she smiled gently and said, "Because..."

She slowly turned her head, the flesh and blood on her face receding rapidly, gradually revealing a skeletal skeleton. "Because... Ye Mujiu is dead..."

hiss!

Upon seeing this scene, Zhou Mu was utterly horrified and instinctively took several steps back. The drastic change in the person in front of him was something he couldn't accept for a moment. When he calmed down, a chill ran down his back.

"Then who are you? Why are you impersonating my Xiao Jiu? Who sent you here? Tell me!"

Zhou Mu's teeth were clenched as he took several more steps forward, his gaze fixed on the skeleton that was now just bones.

"Who I am is not important, what's important is that you will never see each other again, hehehe..."

After the skeleton let out a terrifying laugh, it emitted a strange cry. Once the cry subsided, the eerie white skeleton turned into a wisp of white smoke and vanished.

"Nezha, hurry and chase after them! I want to see them alive or dead! I want to see who has the audacity to impersonate my Xiao Jiu... They're really asking for trouble."

Just as Zhou Mu was gritting his teeth, Nezha did not react at all. Zhou Mu looked over in confusion and saw that the skin and flesh on Nezha's body were slowly receding, revealing a horrifying skeleton.

Zhou Mu felt a chill rush straight to his mind, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

hiss!

He suddenly felt everything go black.

He then lost consciousness.

The next moment, he slowly opened his eyes. Beside him was Nezha, who looked at him with concern. Seeing Zhou Mu wake up, Nezha was overjoyed and started to dance with excitement.

"I was... unconscious just now?"

Feeling his head spinning, Zhou Mu shook his head, but his thoughts remained a tangled mess, incredibly complicated.

Nezha was a little unhappy. He snorted and said, "You have the nerve to say that? You just let me touch the golden light, and then you fainted. Luckily you woke up, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do."

Seeing Nezha's complaints, Zhou Mu seized on the key point, "You mean, after I let you touch the golden light, I fainted, and there wasn't a single gap in between?"

Nezha frowned and thought carefully for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No, you fell very quickly. I didn't even realize you were falling until you hit the ground."

His words carried a hint of guilt, so much so that with each sentence he spoke, Nezha's little head drooped even lower.

At first, Zhou Mu thought the baby was feeling guilty for not protecting him properly, but then he suddenly felt a burning stinging sensation on his face, followed by a sharp tearing pain in his chest.

The feeling was like being crushed by a 500-pound heavyweight; it was very uncomfortable, and I could barely breathe.

He had been preoccupied with other things and hadn't realized what was wrong until now. At that moment, he finally realized something was amiss, and a searing pain shot through him like waves crashing down, one after another, catching him completely off guard.

In a daze, he was in so much pain that he almost started to hallucinate.

you……

Zhou Mu gritted his teeth, wanting to say something, but as soon as his lips moved, a tearing pain shot through his lower body, causing his face to contort slightly.

"You... what did I do? Tell me the truth."

Zhou Mu endured the pain and said.

Nezha lowered his head even further, and his voice gradually became softer as he said, "I wanted to save you, but I was too hasty and didn't pay attention when I ran over. As a result, I stepped on your chest. I'm sorry... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

Sensing that Zhou Mu's temper was becoming increasingly unstable, Nezha apologized repeatedly, but even so, he still couldn't calm Zhou Mu down. He said coldly, "So, you're saying that nothing happened to me after I fainted, but you caused me a lot of harm?"

Nezha nodded guiltily.

A blush crept onto her fair, delicate face, and her clear, large eyes were already brimming with tears.

"I was wrong..."

By the end, she was almost crying from feeling wronged.

The feeling was like that of a child caught doing something wrong by an adult.

I was terrified and extremely fearful.

Seeing this, Zhou Mu said nothing more, only smiled helplessly.

Fortunately, his body recovered remarkably quickly, preventing the excruciating injuries from lasting long, and he is now showing signs of recovery.

He slowly got up and looked at Nezha, asking, "Has the golden light disappeared?"

Only now did Zhou Mu notice something amiss.

The dazzling golden light from before has not been seen for even a moment, let alone the full moon that hangs quietly in the sky.

"have no idea……"

Nezha shook his head and said, "The golden light disappeared after you fell into a coma."

Actually, it wasn't that Zhou Mu was unconscious; rather, this situation only occurred after Nezha realized that Zhou Mu was unconscious.

Because at that time, the powerful Nezha had already absorbed all the golden light.

Only a few scattered starlight remained, but it quickly disappeared into the air.

Seeing this, Zhou Mu didn't know what to say for a moment. So he stood in the same spot and tried to stroke his back, but he still couldn't feel anything.

Even the slight tingling sensation from before has disappeared.

It seemed that in that instant, everything returned to normal.

But Zhou Mu didn't believe it. If things could return to normal so easily, then the name of the Gate of Life and Death would be meaningless.

Just as Zhou Mu was wondering, the appearance of someone dispelled his doubts.

That was the Six-Eyed Lion Monkey.

Just like the one he had seen in his dream, the six-eyed lion-like monkey emitted a faint, pure light, not a magical beast, but more like a divine beast.

Zhou Mu was taken aback, and his gaze immediately fell on the six-eyed lion-like monkey. After a moment, when he was sure that what he saw was not an illusion, he looked at Nezha beside him and said, "Did you see it?"

Nezha nodded and said, "I saw it."

"What did you see?" Zhou Mu asked in return.

Nezha shook his head and said, "I saw an idiot."