Although Ne Zha had an appearance as a boy, his position in the heavens was very high. He is the upper-class god.
Moreover, he was also one of the most powerful war gods. He has directly fought with The Monkey King - Sun Wu Kong before. In terms of capacity and position, Bi Shui Yu - Shui is totally not his opponent.
Another but, despite being so powerful, Ne Zha is still a child.
From a young age, he only knew how to fight. When little older, he followed his father to punish King Zhou of Shang. And finally, he was deified. So the love stories in folklore he did not understand completely. But for a kid, the more they do not know, they will be more interested and curious.
"Aha, I'll tell Black Tortoise that you escaped to the human world to play!"
"Third Lotus Prince, can you forgive me this time?" - when they were in heaven, Shui gave Ne Zha a lot of toys. She hoped that he would respect those toys and let them go.
"Okay, I won't. But who is that?" - Ne Zha pointed his Fire-tipped Spear at Little Yu, causing Shui to reflexively take a step back, and she leans slightly to use her shoulder blades to block the tip of the spear.
This anomaly attracted the attention of the Third Lotus Prince.
"Just my good friend."
Little Yu quietly released a small sigh with the "good friend" word.
"Aha, good friends these days is kinda weird, huh? Hugging each other like the groom and the bride." - Ne Zha sneered, full of meaning.
In addition, Little Yu is very good at illustrating those words. Her arms holding Shui's neck automatically hug a little tighter.
Although Ne Zha does not understand how two girls can be in a relationship, he still finds it very interesting. Initially, he was not the type of person who liked to follow the laws of heaven.
The poorest thing here is that Shui is still anxious and scared when teased by one side and hugged tightly on the other. Her cheeks were already red, and she could not breathe well.
"She... her legs... got hurt.. so... we... I took her to find a doctor."
"Oh, that's it". - Ne Zha nodded and replied - "Okay, then you go. I still have to do some tasks. But be careful, it's okay when you meet me, but it's not if my father saw you."
Shui secretly felt glad and wanted to leave quickly. But she could not stop her curious feeling, and she still stayed to ask one more question.
"What's the mission? I saw a lot of heavenly soldiers passing by earlier."
"Don't you know? It's such a big deal... Ah, no, my father told me that the divine plan could not be revealed."
"Come on, I am one of The Twenty-Eight Mansions, and you said you can't tell me anything?"
"No, this is top-secret. I can only tell you that this time I came to the human world to defeat demons."
"Which demon that you have to mobilize such a large number of soldiers."
"All." - Ne Zha snorted, suddenly he realized something.
His gaze fell on Little Yu again.
Noticing the change in Ne Zha's eyes, Shui raised her guard more, wrapping her arms around the person in her lap even tighter.
"Your good friend... Can I have a look?"
"For what? She is easily embarrassed."
For a while till now, Little Yu felt very curious about the person talking with Shui. She really wanted to turn back to see what his face looked like, but her head was already kept by Shui, her mouth was still pressed and stacked in the crook of her neck, even if she wanted to speak, she couldn't.
"Are you stingy with me? I don't even want to get your beauty." - Ne Zha grumbled.
"No... I didn't mean that." - Shui thought again. If she showed Little Yu's face to Ne Zha, it might not be a problem. He does not have Fiery Golden Eyes anyway.
Moreover, the girls need to leave out of this place quickly. If she keeps firmly refusing, they will get increase the suspicions, it will be more challenging to escape safely.
Shui put Little Yu down and immediately stood in front of her with his body.
As soon as she saw Little Yu's face, Ne Zha privately exclaimed. Indeed, a little beauty is not inferior to the lady fairies at Celestial Queen Mother's place. That is why Bi Shui Yu is trying so hard to protect her.
"Have you seen enough?" - Shui said coldly. Suddenly her heart was a little uncomfortable. She was not used to someone staring at her "little princess" like that.
"Yeah... that's strange." - Ne Zha still could not take his eyes off Little Yu.
"What's strange?"
"Actually, I've sensed some devil qi here, so I spewed my fire. And now, there are still some..." - The Universe Ring on Ne Zha's hand suddenly vibrated. - "Or is she..."
Little Yu did not understand what was going on.
But when she saw a kid floating on two fire wheels, and both hands were armed, Little Yu automatically crouched behind Shui's back.
"Don't talk nonsense. She is just a human. It's just that I... you know, I sneaked to the human world to play... so I have to hide my fairy qi. Back there, I was in a hurry, so it was slightly exposed. Which causes you to mistake it for devil qi."
Admittedly, Ne Zha felt that what she said was not believable at all. But when he saw Little Yu, he thought that she was too pure; she did not look like a demon. In logic, Ne Zha knew that Bi Shui Yu was trying to hide something. On the other hand, he did not expect this little beauty is a demon.
"Okay, I believe you this time. You can go now. But as I told you before, you better shouldn't leave this Red Stone Village. My father has sealed off all around here a hundred miles away. Whether you're a fairy, god or a demon, stepping out of that circle is only death."
Ne Zha paused to look at Little Yu for a moment and then continued.
"If she really is human, it;'s okay... but if she is a demon, you'd better hide her carefully. And don't let me see you again. This is the order of the Jade Emperor, I can't argue."
"Thank y-..."
Before Shui could finish her sentence, a flash of metallic light grazed towards her from nowhere and shot toward Ne Zha. And quickly used the Universe Ring to defend.
Fortunately, the arrow just barely grazed Shui's shoulder, tearing her shirt a bit.
"Shui, are you okay?" - Little Yu hurriedly checked.
The cut was just enough to touch the skin, leaving a trail of blood. Turning to look at the arrow, it was only a tree branch.
"Who is that? Come out here!" - Ne Zha flew up higher and shouted loudly.
There was another series of arrows in all directions, all of which were aimed at Shui. This time, she had time to prepare a defence. She quickly hugged Little Yu and erected a protective barrier of sand and earth.
Bi Shui Yu's power inherently comes from water, and she also can control the earth because water is in the soil. But because of the recent drought, there was not much water in the ground, and her shield quickly collapsed.
As if the enemy was just waiting for it to happen, another series of arrows of flames rushed towards Shui. She quickly used the water in the air to form another shield. But still, as before, because of the drought, there was not much water in the air. Besides, the fire from arrows made the water-barrier thinned and thinned. And finally, there was an arrow that pierced the shoulder of Shui.
"Aaaaaaaa..." - Shui cried out in pain.
The fire-arrow made the injury even more terrible.
"Shui" - Little Yu was in Shui's lap, seeing that in pain face, her heart ached as well, she was both scared and worried.
Another rain of arrows fired over. Now Shui no longer had enough power to cast any spells. Ne Zha was too far away to be able to save her at this time.
The fire on her back was still smouldering, and she could smell the burning smell of flesh.
Shui has never thought of death, even less thought that death can come so suddenly and carelessly. Her arms still held Little Yu tightly. In the end, she decided to use the little remaining strength to form a barrier just enough to protect her little princess.
"Shui, please don't die" - She heard the inner voice screaming just before all those arrows were about to nail into her.
And, no arrow could touch her. Even the fire on her shoulder was extinguished. Shui slowly opened her eyes and found herself in the middle of a giant whirlpool.
Ne Zha looked down from above and saw a giant water ball that blew away all the thousands of red burning arrows coming.
Actually, Ne Zha could have come down to help Shui since her sand barrier collapsed, but he did not.
Because Ne Zhe saw it. The one who was behind the rain of fire-arrows was Jing Mu An - The Well Mansion, one of The Seven Mansions of Vermillion Bird and The God of Vermillion Bird.