Nezha: The Demon Child's Diary, Tricking the Immortals Every Day

“The gods all begging for mercy.”

Ao Bing's ice blade hovered three inches from the deer boy's throat. Frost flowers drifted from his fingertips onto the crane boy's trembling eyelashes.

Behind them, the Barrier Beast squeezed its chubby face into two meatballs. “You said three seconds! It's already three seconds and one!”

“The Three-Second Concept Gods said we can hold out for three seconds, not that we can only last three seconds!”

“But yesterday you said we'd automatically lie flat after three seconds!”

“You heard wrong!”

Nezha sped over their heads on his Wind Fire Wheels, using his Fire-Tipped Spear to knock the jade liquor from Taiyi Zhenren's hand. “Old geezer, trying to hit me with a bottle again?”

The wine jar traced an arc through the air and landed perfectly in the open mouth of Ao Guang. The Four Dragon Kings coiled around the white jade pillars of the Ninth Heaven's palace, while Ao Run's rending claws tore through the third layer of the defensive barrier.

“Ao Bing!” The East Sea Dragon King's roar rattled the glazed tiles. “You dare kill your father?”

The ice blade suddenly burst into ten thousand snowflakes. Ao Bing's pupils reflected the cracks in his father's horns. Three years ago, during the heavenly tribulation, he had used the Ten Thousand Dragon Armor to take a bolt of lightning meant for Nezha.

“Father, you said the dragon clan must protect all living beings.” Ao Bing's voice was colder than his ice blade. “But what are you doing now?”

Ao Guang's whiskers bristled, and his tail swept through three coiling dragon pillars. Ao Shun's jointed blades gleamed in the shadows, while scarlet flames rose from Ao Qin's palm.

“Unfilial son!” Ao Shun's blades suddenly extended by three feet. “Have you forgotten the humiliation of the dragon clan's thousand-year imprisonment by the Heavenly Court?”

Nezha's Red Armillary Sash suddenly wrapped around Ao Shun's neck, while his Wind Fire Wheels smashed through Ao Qin's wall of flame.