"Without my order, Nezha is forbidden to step outside the residence!"
In military attire, the valiant Yin Shiniang glanced at Nezha, who was lying on his side with his back facing her, and said resolutely.
Nezha, without even looking at Yin Shiniang and showing some impatience, waved his hand and sang a heart-wrenching song with a deep voice:
"I am a little demon, carefree and at ease, killing without blinking, eating without salt. Swallowing seven or eight at a time, about to burst my belly…"
…
The deep song, the lonely expression.
Yin Shiniang's eyes instantly moistened.
She instinctively stretched out her arms, wanting to embrace Nezha.
However, she immediately hardened her heart, turned around, wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes, and commanded in a firm tone:
"Barrier Beast, seal the entire residence!"
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
As Yin Shiniang stepped out of the General's residence, two Barrier Beasts, only as tall as an adult's knees and greenish like bronze, carrying curtain hooks taller than their bodies and topped with crescents, hopped over.
With a slight collision of their hooks, a transparent barrier, like an inverted net, covered the sky above the General's residence. The entire residence was instantly enshrouded by the barrier.
The two little creatures then collapsed, leaning against the hooks, boasting proudly.
"In this world, no one can escape from the barrier."
"Indeed, no one can!"
"Has she left?!"
"Finally, she's gone!"
As Yin Shiniang's horse's hoof sounds faded, Nezha, lying on the ground with a face full of loneliness, suddenly leapt up, transformed into a streak of firelight, and sped out at an unimaginable speed.
However, the power of the barrier far exceeded his expectations.
Bang!
A loud noise!
Nezha's face smashed against the transparent barrier, his cheeks instantly twisting and deforming.
"Ah, it hurts!"
"What? What sound?!"
The lazy Barrier Beasts, upon hearing the sound, immediately rose and cautiously scanned the surroundings.
However, the mischievous Nezha had already hidden behind a rock. Thus, no matter how the Barrier Beasts patrolled, they found nothing amiss.
"Oh, it's so tense! It's too tense!"
"We are so tense that we are hallucinating!"
"Ah... Taiyi, he must be drunk again, otherwise, why hasn't he come after so long?"
"Ah, we are really so pitiful!"
"Let's rest for a while, I'm exhausted!"
The square-faced Barrier Beast nodded heavily, collapsed on the ground, leaning against the curtain hook.
Falling asleep.
Bang!
Suddenly, a fist-sized rock flew out, hitting the square-faced Barrier Beast on the back of the head.
The rock shattered, and the square-faced Barrier Beast couldn't help but stagger, glaring at the long-nosed Barrier Beast:
"You! Why did you hit me?"
"Hit you!? When did I hit you?"
"You, are you sure it wasn't you who hit me?"
"Nonsense! Why would I hit you?"
"Oh, maybe I was wrong then!"
The square-faced Barrier Beast rubbed the back of his head, sounding a bit disgruntled.
But just as he sat down, another rock heavily knocked on the back of his head.
"You! Can you stop hitting me!? Otherwise, I'm really going to get angry! Let me tell you, when I get angry, even I'm afraid of myself! Humph!"
The long-nosed Barrier Beast was bewildered upon hearing the square-faced beast's words: Who can tell me, what's going on here?
Peng!
Suddenly, a rock flew up, striking the back of the square-faced Barrier Beast's head once again. Already furious, it could no longer control its anger and viciously pounced on the long-nosed beast.
The two Barrier Beasts, only the height of a human's knees, tangled into a ball. A long curtain hook was carelessly thrown aside.
Dressed in a red bellyband, hands in his pockets, with a smug smirk, little Nezha appeared beside the curtain hook.
He tiptoed for a look, making sure the two fools hadn't noticed him, then hurriedly tore through the barrier like a bird escaping its cage.
"Ha, I'm out again! Think you can trap me? Don't even think about it!"
However, the moment he left the barrier, the two fighting Barrier Beasts suddenly stopped, the curtain hook on the ground, as if influenced by some unknown force, slowly flew into their hands.
The barriers, previously parted, closed up again.
"The person has already run away, why close the barrier?!"
Hearing that calm and magnetic voice, the two Barrier Beasts jumped in shock, blinking a few times before realizing that the dignified and imposing Li Jing was already standing behind them.
"General Li... General Li!"
"We... we didn't mean to let Nezha escape."
"It's true, Nezha escaped on his own! It really has nothing to do with us."
Li Jing merely nodded noncommittally and floated away without saying a word.
The two Barrier Beasts were left staring at each other.
"Square-face, what do you think the General meant?"
"Me? How would I know?!"
"Who cares! Just don't tell Lord Taiyi!"
Just then, the square-faced Barrier Beast seemed to have discovered something, his eyes suddenly brightening. The long-nosed Barrier Beast followed his gaze, and saw a bottle of unopened Elixir where Li Jing had just been standing.
"This!"
"This!"
The two Barrier Beasts, looking at each other, threw the curtain hook aside, and pounced like hungry tigers.
"I saw it first, long-nose, back off!"
"Hmph, whoever grabs it first keeps it!"
The two little ones tussled again, but unlike before, this time they really started fighting.
Li Jing paid no attention to what was happening outside. His gaze was fixed only on a small tower with a thirteen-story eaves dougong adorned with wind chimes.
"Zhua'er, since I have the fortune to be your father in this lifetime, then I won't allow anyone to harm you."
"Not even the Heavenly Venerate's Heavenly Tribulation Curse!"
That's right!
Li Jing is a Reincarnator.
In his previous life, his name was also Li Jing. Because of a small tower, he mysteriously arrived in the Divine Enthronement universe and became the father of the demon child Nezha.
He had thought himself merely a passerby, feeling a strange detachment and unfamiliarity towards Chentang Pass and towards Nezha.
He had not left yet, only waiting for the beginning of the Divine Enthronement. However, as he spent more time with Nezha, he was slowly moved by Nezha's purity and sincerity, and gradually, he came to view him as his own son.
With this thought, Li Jing no longer hesitated.
"Linglong Tower!"
"Burn the fate, traverse the worlds!"
As soon as the words were spoken, red fate above Li Jing's head suddenly ignited, visibly diminishing at a speed discernible to the naked eye.
Just as the color of the fate became dim and seemed barely sustainable, the mud-like small tower suddenly brightened...
From the dark window, golden light shot out, soaring to the sky...
Thanks to the existence of the Barrier Beasts, the phenomena here did not alarm anyone nearby.
Nezha, who was playing pranks, subconsciously turned his head, his face full of confusion:
"Uh... what just happened?"
Li Jing disappeared in the golden light.
When he awoke again, he had transformed into someone else.
...