Chapter 144: Cutting Bones to Return Father and Daughter, Wa Niangniang and the others leave...
After Nuwa and the others left, Fuli didn't stay long. She had one more trip to Kunlun Mountain, this time to meet Yuanshi Tianzun.
Yuanshi Tianzun had expected his coming. When Fuli was pressing down the clouds at the foot of the mountain, a white crane flew down from the mountain, landed in front of her, and turned into a handsome boy.
"Senior Sister, the master asked me to take you up the mountain."
"Thank you, Junior Brother Baihe."
The two of them continued chatting and laughing all the way, using their magical power of shrinking the earth into an inch, and rushed like stars across the river. Before long, they arrived outside the Yuxu Palace.
"Senior Sister, please go in. The master said there is no need to inform."
Fu Li nodded, took a deep breath, and strode in.
She walked to the center of the hall, lifted her skirt, and knelt down, kowtowed, and said, "I have disobeyed the command of the Saint, and I have come to apologize."
Yuanshi Tianzun asked, "Why don't you obey my orders?"
Fu Li said, "The Heavenly Emperor is unjust, commanding the Ten Golden Crows to appear simultaneously. The earth cracks, rivers dry up, and countless lives, left with nowhere to hide, burn to death. Unable to bear the sight, I gave up my secret efforts to rescue the Yang brothers and sisters and appeared to punish the Ten Golden Crows."
Yuanshi Tianzun smiled faintly: "If that's the case, what crime have you committed? Good boy, get up quickly."
Fu Li smiled and stood up: "Thank you, Second Master."
Yuanshi Tianzun said, "You probably expected that I wouldn't punish you for this, didn't you?"
Fu Li smiled and said, "I don't dare to presume to speculate on the saint's thoughts, but I know that although the three religions each have their own doctrines, they ultimately share the same origin and their essence remains unchanged. While the Chan Sect certainly has its own rules and taboos compared to the Jie Sect, I personally believe that 'disregarding the common people' is the greatest taboo!"
"Good, good, good!" Yuanshi Tianzun laughed heartily and clapped his hands, saying, "With you in my Xuanmen, you can ensure prosperity for another kalpa."
After hearing this, Fu Li was moved and asked directly, "Sage, do you know my aspirations?"
"I know." Yuanshi Tianzun was also very direct. "Since you have such ambition, as your teacher, how can I not lend a helping hand?"
At this point, Fu Li was completely certain that the reason why Yuanshi Tianzun gave her the List of Investiture of the Gods and asked her to refine it was definitely to support her efforts to become the top of the gods.
After figuring this out, Fu Li, who was already strong, became even more confident.
——What about the immortal way, what about the Shinto way? In this eon, my Xuanmen sect is the leader in the immortal way, and in the next eon, we will be the leader in the Shinto way!
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After bidding farewell to Yuanshi Tianzun, Fu Li stood in front of Yuxu Palace and hesitated for a moment: should he go back to Chentang Pass first, or go to the underworld first?
But this entanglement was really unnecessary. She had deliberately made herself not think about it before. Now that she thought of Nezha, how could she care about anything else?
She couldn't even wait to get to Chentangguan, so she used the mirror to contact Jiang Ziya, asking him if Nezha was doing well these days and if Li Jing was causing trouble.
Ever since Fu Li exposed the truth about Li Jing's "fatherly love" to Yin Hua, Yin Hua had rebuked him several times and made his displeasure clear. Li Jing, concerned about Yin Hua's status as a member of the imperial family, had stopped deliberately suppressing Nezha, either publicly or privately.
As long as the Shang Dynasty was not destroyed and her identity as the daughter of Yin Huazong remained, Li Jing had to endure no matter how dissatisfied she was.
Therefore, Fuli is actually not too worried.
But the sight of Jiang Ziya's face in the mirror startled Fu Li, and she hurriedly asked, "What happened? Where is Nezha?"
Jiang Ziya's face was serious, with two dark bags under his eyes, and he looked very tired.
"Teacher, don't go to Chentangguan, come directly to Cangzhou."
Cangzhou is adjacent to Chentangguan, but it is not under the jurisdiction of Li Jing and his wife. What happened that made them run to Cangzhou?
Fu Li's heart sank, and her hands trembled. She tried to remain calm and said, "Send me your location on your phone, and I'll be right there."
After receiving the location information sent by Jiang Ziya, Fu Li turned on the navigation and arrived at a mountain west of Cangzhou City from Kunlun Mountain in just half a day.
Chentang Pass is located to the east of Cangzhou, but its location is to the west of Cangzhou, clearly trying to stay as far away from Li Jing as possible.
Although Fu Li was reluctant to stick to the original novel, she couldn't afford to dwell on it any longer. It wasn't until she saw Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao, and the newly built temple behind them, with the words "Nezha Temple" on the lintel, that she felt dizzy.
"This...what's going on? What's going on? Who built a temple for Nezha? Why did they build a temple for him?"
Even the eloquent Jiang Ziya could only ask her to mourn.
She walked past the two of them and hurried into the temple, where she saw Yin Hua holding a clean piece of gauze and carefully wiping the clay sculptures on the shrine.
The clay sculpture was brilliantly embroidered, but it lacked any of Nezha's spirit. Fu Li stumbled forward, placed her hands on the altar, and stared at the clay sculpture for a long time before asking, "Madam, what happened to Nezha?"
Yin Hua was in a daze, wiping her son's statue until she heard Fu Li's voice. She seemed to have found her backbone all of a sudden, and burst into tears with a "wow".
"Master, Master, my poor Nezha! Please save him, please save him!"
Fu Li went forward and hugged her, letting her cry and vent.
After an unknown amount of time, Yin Hua wiped away her tears in embarrassment: "I'm sorry to have laughed at you, Master. I just thought of Nezha, and I..."
Thinking of his son who died so unjustly and miserably, Yin Hua couldn't help but choke up and sob.
At this time, Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao also came in. With Jiang Ziya's words and Shen Gongbao and Yin Hua's supplementary remarks, Fu Li finally pieced together the cause and effect.
Nezha still killed Ao Bing of the East China Sea.
A few days ago, ten suns appeared together. Although they were defeated by Fu Li not long after, the impact was still far-reaching and brought a terrible drought to the world.
Although Chentang Pass is close to the East China Sea and has a relatively humid climate, under the scorching sun for ten days, except for a few large streams, the streams and irrigation canals evaporated almost instantly and dried up.
Li Jing and Yin Hua were busy pacifying the people, and Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao also came to help. Nezha, naturally unwilling to stay home alone, came out and stayed with Yin Hua, Jiang Ziya, and Shen Gongbao.
As for Li Jing, although Li Jing did not deliberately suppress him in the past two years, Nezha's intuition told him that his father did not like him, so he simply did not bother him.
As he went out more often, he ran into other children who had come with their parents. We were all the same age, so it was easy for us to play together. Furthermore, Nezha was both talented in literature and martial arts, and had a good temper. The children, young and old, respected him and elected him as their leader.
The smaller canals had dried up completely, but the larger ones still had some mud in them. Hidden in the mud were still-dead fish, loaches, and snails. Children, armed with clay pots or bamboo baskets, flocked to dig out the loaches and touch the snails.
Nezha did it purely for fun, but other children really relied on it to supplement their family's income. Once they gained something today, they would not want to give it up tomorrow.
So they walked farther and farther, and before they knew it, they arrived at the edge of the East China Sea.
It was there that they encountered Ao Bing, a small green dragon who liked to eat people.
For demons who enjoy eating humans, young boys and girls taste the best and are the most nutritious. For Ao Bing, these children running to the East China Sea were like takeout delivered to his doorstep. How could he not eat them?
Nezha has a natural hatred for evil, and having been taught by Fu Li since childhood, he deeply detests evil people and evil demons.
Ao Bing's cannibalism was actually stepping on Nezha's minefield. After being stopped by Nezha, he not only did not feel any remorse, but became even more arrogant.
Can Nezha tolerate him?
He immediately summoned the Qiankun Circle and Hun Tian Ling, tied up Ao Bing, threw gold bricks at the dragon head, smashing it into pieces.
His head is rotten, he is definitely not going to survive.
Fu Li shouted, "Well done!"
Because there are many secondary creations in Fengshen, Ao Bing's good and evil are the same as Shen Gongbao's, and each secondary creation has its own characteristics.
It is obvious that Ao Bing in this world is evil.
"Ao Bing was the first to devour people, and Nezha eliminated the evil later. I've dealt with the Dragon King of the East China Sea before, and that old dragon is quite reasonable. He wouldn't force Nezha to death, would he?"
Yin Hua burst into tears again.
Fu Li sighed and said firmly, "It's Li Jing."
As Yin Hua cried mournfully, Jiang Ziya continued, "The Dragon King of the East Sea came to cause trouble, saying he would lead the other Dragon Kings to flood Chentang Pass. Fortunately, Princess Hongxin arrived just in time and whispered something in his ear, but the Dragon King's expression changed several times before he left with a flick of his sleeve."
Hong Xin also went out of her way to appease the three members of the Li family and the people of Chentang Pass, saying that the fault lay with Ao Bing and that Donghai would not cause trouble again.
But after she left, Li Jing refused to give in and scolded Nezha for being restless and bringing disaster to the family.
But the people were sensible. After returning home, the children told their parents that it was the evil dragon Ao Bing who wanted to eat them, and that Nezha had taken action only after he failed to dissuade him.
The people all spoke well of Nezha, which made Li Jing even more ashamed and angry, and he wanted to punish Nezha according to his family rules.
Nezha had tolerated him for a long time, and now he could no longer tolerate it. He said angrily that he would cut off his bones to repay his father and cut off his flesh to repay his mother, and he would no longer be Li Jing's son. No matter how big a disaster he caused in the future, it would not bring trouble to their Li family.
If Li Jing could control his temper at this moment, not asking Nezha to yield, but just asking him to shut up, then with the persuasion of Yin Hua and the people, the fire in Nezha's heart would eventually be extinguished.
But Li Jing just added fuel to the fire, pointing at him and cursing him as a rebellious son, mocking him for only using such words to threaten his biological father.
Fu Li was not there at the time, and neither was Taiyi Zhenren. No one present was a match for Nezha, so how could they stop him?
Not until Nezha's ghost flew away could they get close and collect his body.
Yin Hua was so angry that he pointed at Li Jing's nose and cursed him. Shen Gongbao changed his usual cautious attitude and pounced on Li Jing, breaking all his limbs.
If Jiang Ziya hadn't stopped him, Shen Gongbao would have beaten him to death.
"Well done!" Fu Li gritted her teeth and questioned Jiang Ziya dissatisfiedly, "Why did you stop him?"
Jiang Ziya explained, "No matter what, Li Jing is still a minister of the Shang Dynasty, appointed by the King of Shang himself. Killing him without thinking will backfire."
He was afraid that Li Jing would affect Shen Gongbao's future fortune.
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