22. XXII

"Nezha, without that monkey, you have spent tens of thousands of years." Taiyi Zhenren patted Nezha's back, comforting her like a father.

Nezha raised her head when she heard the sound, and her gaze jumped over the body of Taishang Laojun and glanced at the immortals.

She looked at their young and immature faces, at the various magic weapons in their hands.

Suddenly more upset.

The human world likes to compare the man who does not touch the fireworks of the world to a fluttering fairy, and likes to compare a beautiful woman to a fairy concubine.

It seems that the immortals are the beings they yearn for, but the long time, the long years, the rolling rivers, the towering mountains, everything in the world is changing, and the only thing that remains unchanged is them.

The days are changing, the seasons are changing, and all the uncommendable wonders of the world have become normal for them.

They counted the years with hearts that were too old to grow old anymore, and they never ended.

"Master......" Nezha's eyes met Taiyi Zhenren's eyes, and the words that gently spit out from his lips made Taiyi Zhenren slightly distracted.

"Are you lonely?"

Taiyi pursed the corners of his lips and smiled, and said, "Lonely...... Speaking of which, I don't think I've felt that way in a long time. ”

Nezha looked at his master when he said this, his eyes were thoughtful.

She smiled with tears, looking at Taishang Laojun, who had a slightly jealous expression among the immortals, and knew it in her heart.

The glow at the end of the clouds dissipated, and the Buddha walked away with his soft and surrendering aura, leaving behind a lotus-shaped Buddha lamp, burning slowly.

"Third Prince Nezha."

Outsiders leave, and in the heavenly court, the rest are their own people.

The Jade Emperor gritted his teeth and slapped his palm on the jade case, ready to settle the score.

"Tianzun Jade Emperor ......" Taiyi Zhenren followed the voice and looked over, and through the thick stratus clouds, he still couldn't see the face of the Jade Emperor.

"Do you know what's wrong?" The Jade Emperor asked aloud.

Nezha bit his lip and refused to admit his mistake.

"Li Jing!" The Jade Emperor is not obsessed with Nezha's admitting mistakes or not.

"Yes!" Li Jing immediately stepped forward, the pagoda in his hand gradually became larger, and flew straight towards Nezha.

Nezha slowly stood up, staring at his father's eyes, with a heroic tragedy and stubbornness in his expression.

"Third brother!" Yang Jian called.

Pagoda pressed down.

Taiyi Zhenren closed his eyes, his long eyelashes fell on his face, trembling slightly.

Yang Jian's hands clenched into fists.

"Little god, send the dog to the prison." Li Jing opened his mouth for foolish loyalty.

"No, it's locked up in your Seven Treasures Exquisite Tower." The Jade Emperor categorically refused Li Jing's suggestion that Nezha was sent to the ninth layer of the Heavenly Prison.

He didn't say how long it would be closed or when it would be released, he just collected Cong Yun and disappeared immediately, otherwise the immortals would have the opportunity to spy on his face.

The monkey was taken in, Nezha was imprisoned, and the heavenly court seemed to be calm, but in fact it was much more depressing than usual.

However, no one dares to mention these two names now, for fear of touching the mold of the other.

Since then, few people in the Heavenly Court have seen Yang Jian, and he no longer goes to the South Heavenly Gate to accompany Tianpeng to practice, nor does he appear in the Ninth Layer Heavenly Prison.

No one knew what he was up to, including the canopy.

"Eh, why are you here?" On this day, Taishang Laojun leaned on the glazed couch, the green silk was half scattered, half covering his pointed face.

Taiyi Zhenren didn't speak, and walked towards the back of the alchemy furnace.

"Come in." He clasped his hands together and made an enchantment behind the alchemy furnace, and he stood inside the enchantment and stretched out his hand to Taishang Laojun.

Taishang Laojun put his hand up with a smile and walked in.

The two sat cross-legged.

"I've got a hexagram." Taiyi real people get straight to the point.

"Well, Taiyi, you're amazing, are you talking about me?"

"Just like you, do you still use hexagrams to tell fortunes, wasting my energy in vain."

"Then why did you come to me, sue me for a while, and found out that this year's life ~ bring ~ peach blossoms, are you angry with me?" Taishang Laojun rolled his eyes and asked.

"I have a lot of peach blossoms, and I'm tired of being angry with you."

"You, you, you ......"

"What am I, tell you to get down to business, you talk to me, and then pull me away."

"Don't, you say." Taishang Laojun pulled Taiyi Zhenren's sleeve.

"Cheng, what I'm going to say next, you can listen up."

"You say."

"I calculated a hexagram, in the near future, the Dragon King of the West Sea will send the jewel given by the Jade Emperor, you will either destroy it or hide it, in short, if the Jade Emperor sends someone to get it, you must not give it."

"What did you figure out?" Taishang Laojun looked at Taiyi Zhenren and asked.

"After giving, the Lord is the culprit. That jewel can increase people's mana if swallowed, so I suspect that what the hexagram says will fall into the hands of bad people. Taiyi Zhenren frowned and slowly finished finishing the hexagram he had calculated.

"Well, when it comes to the matter of the treasure bead, I will inform the pill, how to say that if it is sent by the Dragon King of the West Sea, it is for him in the end."

"Okay. Your apprentice, you can do it without worry. After Taiyi Zhenren finished speaking, he withdrew the enchantment and flew out.

"Master, Father...... Taiyi Zhenren, why didn't he stay and drink tea? Maruko ran in with a tea tray, but only saw the back of the person who left in a hurry.

"Who knows what he's up to?" Taishang Laojun shook his head and said, "Maruko, let me tell you something. ”

"Master, you say~" Maruko held Taishang Laojun with a pair of round eyes.

Taishang Laojun told Taiyi Zhenren what he said unreservedly.

Maruko nodded after hearing this, he looked at Taishang Laojun and said, "Master, if there is really such a jewel, and it was given to me by my father, can Maruko deal with it himself?" ”

Taishang Laojun pursed his lower lip and finally nodded.

He looked at the corners of Maruko's eyes and eyebrows, unfolded the purple bamboo fan in his hand, and said in a whispered tone: "Maruko, you are indeed my apprentice, and we are very similar in some places." ”

"Master, Father......" Maruko raised his round face and said with a smile: "Master, Master, I'm not like you, if only Maruko had such a face as Master's." ”

"You, even if you don't have this face, what you want has been achieved."

"What do you want, you just want to eat it." Maruko tugged at Taishang Laojun's sleeve and climbed onto the gourd on his waist.

"Then starving!" Taishang Laojun hugged the gourd tightly in his arms, pouted and turned his head not to look at the balls.

"What Master and Father want, they will get." Maruko turned his back to Taishang Laojun and smiled with a smile, no longer in a cute appearance, but with a maturity that was not quite the same as his image.

"I believe you about the orb." Taishang Laojun covered his entire face with a purple bamboo fan and said in a muffled voice.

Maruko nodded, and when he looked around, he found that his master had fallen asleep on the glass couch.

Maruko sighed leisurely, took out a white velvet blanket from the room, and carefully covered it for his master.

"Ayu !!" Not long after Taishang Laojun fell asleep, he heard someone calling the name of his apprentice.

With half of his lazy eyes open, he saw a young man dressed in black, with big eyes drooping at the tips of his eyes, as cute as a puppy.

He closed his eyes as if he hadn't seen or heard anything.

"Xiao Hei, you're back~" Maruko stretched out his little paws and ran out happily.

"Hey, hey, Ayu, did you block the mysterious power in your body like this?" The Howling Dog crossed his waist with one hand, and kept holding his head up and down to look at the four or five-year-old boy in Tsing Yi in front of him.

"Guess!" Maruko said as she led the Howling Dog to a sparsely populated place.

"Ayu, I don't like you like this, can you transform quickly, quickly break the seal in your body, and fight the world with me." What the Howling Dog said was simply fascinating.

Maruko rolled his eyes silently, spread his palms upwards with his hands, and white light rolled out of his hands continuously.

When I looked at it again, a boy of about seventeen or eighteen years old landed on the ground, the baby fat on his cheeks had dissipated, the lines of his face had taken the fortitude of an adult man, and there was a young pheasant between the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.

The young man was dressed in white, with a crown of double dragons grabbing pearls on his head, and his skin was like white jade, and he smiled at the black-clothed young man next to him.

"We're back in black and white!" The Howling Sky Dog is very satisfied with Maruko's appearance.

"Anyway, Ayu, have you been poisoned by the old goblin of Taishang Laojun, only by becoming a child can you avoid being ravaged~ !

Maruko was a burst of chestnuts at the roaring dog, kicked him again and said, "Have you been pretending to be Erha for too long, and you can't find a home for stupidity." ”

"Ayu, if you have any suffering, just say it, and I will save you. Although the appearance of the weak young man being crushed under the body of a bewitching infatuated man and being put on fire is beautiful to think about, but given that your heart belongs, I, the hero who saves the world, will save you. ”

"Young man, you are still too young, how can you say that I am also a dragon, I am still a little bit more powerful than you." Maruko said.

"Is it so powerful that you have become a child and become the apprentice of Taishang Laojun?"

"I'm calling it a pig and a tiger." Maruko nodded, her expression pleased with her wit.

"I don't understand pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, but as a hero, I don't need to understand these intrigues."

"You're sick in the middle of nowhere!"

"Yo, you still know about the second disease, Ayu, you know a lot in Heavenly Court, anyway, this hero thinks that the one you want to eat as a pig may not know who you are, after all, that one is still good to you."

"It would have been better if he had known. Knowing that I want to eat him, he is still good to me, this is called mutual flirting. ”

"Tut-tut, don't you meet the male version of the White Lotus Green Tea or something, it's fun."

"Little Black ......" Maruko pinched his wrist at the Howling Dog, and the sound of the bones moving made the Howling Dog take a few steps back.