"You, you, you... are you General Li Jing's Madam Li?"
Yin Shiniang's sudden appearance made Deng Chanyu's mouth drop open into an 'O' shape, completely stunned.
She became incoherent.
"Miss Deng Chanyu."
Yin Shiniang cautiously glanced behind her, then after a few seconds, she approached Deng Chanyu.
"Madam Li, shouldn't you be at the banquet right now? Why have you suddenly come here?"
"Could it be..."
"Yes, yes, I came for something." Yin Shiniang nodded repeatedly and quickly said, "Miss Deng Chanyu, although I know eavesdropping is rude, please, Miss Deng Chanyu, can you tell me about Nezha?"
"Nezha? So that's it!"
Deng Chanyu suddenly realized, understanding in that instant.
"During the day, I seemed to vaguely hear Miss Deng Chanyu mention Nezha's name."
"Ah, yes, I did mention it."
Deng Chanyu looked at Yin Shiniang suspiciously, marveling at her keen hearing while also thinking, "Does Madam Li have some unspeakable difficulty?"
There must be a problem in General Li Jing's household.
Otherwise, Yin Shiniang wouldn't have avoided Li Jing to visit at night.
"It's a long story, but please, Miss Deng Chanyu, believe me, Nezha is my son, and I would never do anything to harm him."
"I just want to see where he is, how he's doing now, and if he's being bullied."
Ever since she abandoned Nezha in Feihu Ravine, Yin Shiniang couldn't eat or sleep well after returning home.
She even became a vegetarian on ordinary days.
She stayed in front of Nüwa Palace, offering sacrifices daily.
"This..." Deng Chanyu hesitated for a moment and said, "To be honest, I don't know where Nezha is either."
"When I found him, he was unconscious, floating downstream in the river. I only pulled him out because I saw him wearing a tattered general's uniform armor."
"Floating downstream in the river?" Yin Shiniang immediately became anxious, her eyes turning red. "How could he be unconscious in the river? Is he okay? Is he injured?"
"I'm not sure about that, but what I can confirm is that Nezha was in a very sorry state."
"His clothes were tattered, and there seemed to be bloodstains on them."
Deng Chanyu tried to recall the situation at the time: "He was also holding an arrow, very big and long, but it looked very crude. I suppose it was just a wooden stick made for self-defense."
"Where is he? He, he, he..."
Yin Shiniang's emotions were uncontrollable, her voice choked.
Just from Deng Chanyu's description, she could imagine how hard her child's life was.
When the decision was made to abandon Nezha, she had vehemently opposed it.
But as a woman, how could she go against Li Jing's decision? In the end, she could only resign herself to fate.
After all, Li Jing had originally planned to kill Nezha directly.
Being able to abandon him in Feihu Ravine was already a glimmer of hope for Nezha.
It was Li Jing's biggest concession.
It's laughable, a tiger won't even eat its own cub.
But with Li Jing...
Although part of it was due to Nezha being the reincarnation of Fire Virtue Star Lord, no matter what, they were father and son.
"I don't know either. He just asked for my name, said he would look for me in the future, and then he left."
Deng Chanyu didn't dare to say 【repay】, but changed it to Nezha would come to find her.
"From today's location, he went north."
"North?"
Yin Shiniang trembled all over, her facial expression changing rapidly.
Then her gaze gradually became firm.
"I'm going to find him," she said.
........
Late at night, within the forest three hundred li from Chaoge City.
Nezha sat alone in front of a bonfire, staring at the divine arrow stuck in the flames before him, deep in thought.
"Crackling, crackling!"
On the bonfire, the hind leg of some fierce beast was roasting.
This "crackling" sound was the oil seeping from the hind leg dripping into the flames.
"Why can't I activate the Fire Tipped Spear?"
"Is it because I haven't been able to use magic yet?"
Nezha took the divine arrow into his hand again.
"The fluctuation on the divine arrow has always been there, but why can't it enter the form of the Fire Tipped Spear?"
From the moment he obtained the divine arrow until now, Nezha has always been able to feel the Fluctuation emanating from the arrow shaft.
He also tried to communicate.
But he just couldn't use the Fire Tipped Spear form.
"Does it really require magic?"
Frowning, Nezha could only think of this possibility.
After all, the true Nezha had already studied magic with Lei Zhenzi and Yin Shiniang in West Qi for some time when he encountered the Fire Tipped Spear.
Suddenly, a silver bell-like laugh rang out, charming and seductive.
Under the moonlight, a black aurora projected from afar onto the ground, forming a figure. With each stretch and retraction of her long legs, she covered several meters.
"Who are you?" Nezha was vigilant.
"I never thought that the one who could snatch the ancient Xuanyuan Arrow from the Qingluan Fire Phoenix would be an underage little child."
She smiled, bringing with her an intoxicating fragrance as she approached Nezha.
"Don't come near me."
Nezha stared at her, his cheeks slightly puffed out, the Samadhi True Fire divine ability already brewing.
This was a warning.
To appear without a sound, and then to approach him instantly with such a strange gait.
She was definitely not a simple person.
The woman appeared to be in her early twenties at most, and her face was incredibly beautiful.
This exquisite appearance was enough to overturn all the female figures in Nezha's memory.
He even wanted to exclaim that perhaps even the Nine Heavens Xuannü of the Heavenly Court was no more than this.
"Oh, you little human cub are quite fierce."
Facing Nezha's warning, the Millennial Fox Spirit didn't care at all, saying with a smile, "Actually, I have no ill intentions towards you. Speaking of which, you are the culprit who caused the great fire at Xuanyuan Tomb."
As she spoke, she pointed to the divine arrow in Nezha's hand, then to herself.
"Actually, I am from the fox spirit clan of Xuanyuan Tomb. During the time of ancient Xuanyuan Huangdi, our fox spirit clan had ancestors who had many ties with Xuanyuan Huangdi."
"As for these three divine arrows, we actually have a part in guarding them."
"It's just that with the passage of time, and with the two divine birds, Qingluan Fire Phoenix, occupying the cave, we then gave up on these three divine arrows."
"Guard? What, do you want to take back this divine arrow!"
Nezha tightened his grip on the divine arrow, and the Qiankun Circle on his wrist immediately glowed and expanded, grasped in his hand.
"You're so guarded. I have no intention of attacking you."
"Then what do you want to do?" Nezha took a step back, temporarily creating distance from the Millennial Fox Spirit.
Her cultivation was undoubtedly far superior to his.
He couldn't fight head-on; he could only use divine abilities for assistance and look for an opportunity to leave.
"Don't worry, since you've obtained the divine arrow, it's yours." The Millennial Fox Spirit waved her hand, revealing a helpless expression and saying, "Besides, we can't use this divine arrow. They only allow you humans to use them."
"State your purpose."
Nezha was still uneasy.
fox spirits are cunning and untrustworthy, especially the prettier ones, who are more deceitful.
Moreover, she was a demon.
Once he relaxed his guard, he might be swallowed whole by her in the next moment.
Nezha thought that the reason she hadn't immediately acted was probably because she was wary that he had a trump card.
"You human cub are truly disobedient."
"Whether I'm obedient or not is not for you to judge." Nezha no longer wanted to entangle with her. The longer it dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be for him. "Since you have no ill intentions towards me, please leave immediately."
