[All the relationships belong in Journey to the West, but this is the territory of Investiture of the Gods!] Daji runs off to Chaoge to help the tyrant, and the Dragon King dares to stir up trouble. Over a petty personal grudge, he refuses to make it rain ever again, leaving timber everywhere shrunken, spoiled, and cracked. Even Master Lu’s tools are howling: “This wood’s so hard I can’t even saw through it!”
※ With his famous signboard about to come crashing down, the Jade Emperor and Buddha are off in Journey to the West, so only Nezha is any use: “You’ve harmed all the creatures of the four seas, and now even the wood has lost its vitality? Nezha, you were right. Let’s go beat the whole Dragon King family until they spray water!”
※ The climax is here: Master Lu leads an army of living tools to help Nezha wreak havoc in the sea...
Keep reading for a shock~~
[The divine carpenter Lu Tian made the board that the Tathagata used to smack the monkey’s palm. The pinnacle of carpentry, personally titled “Master Lu” by the Jade Emperor and stamped “The Greatest Carpenter in History” by Buddha. Who’s he supposed to be afraid of? While others rely on their eyes for fine carving, he uses wood to cheat: he chops ten-thousand-year-old spirit trees, planes the essence of heaven and earth, and can carve wood with his eyes closed so that it comes alive. (A tree that has cultivated for ten thousand years is already alive, all right? That’s exactly why he’s doing this~)]
My own book can only be praised [already planted]