The Investiture: Unlimited Blade Works Nezha
Chapter 181 - 180 Meeting the Mother-in-law

Chapter 181: Chapter 180 Meeting the Mother-in-law

Turning a corner only to bring a gift for the mother-in-law, you can’t just take advantage of Hao Tian like that with your mother-in-law.

The Lord of Doushuai Temple is still not home, even when the monkey comes he’s not around, no idea what he’s busy with every day?

According to Jin Jiao and Silver Horn, he’s gone playing chess with someone.

Nezha used the Furnace of Eight Trigrams to refine a Red Fire Glaze Lamp with the finest Dragon Bone obtained from Yuan Feng, intending it as a first meeting gift.

This lamp is of high grade, on par with the Golden Jiao Scissors, but its power isn’t even close. It’s not because Nezha’s craftsmanship is poor, but because all the points of this treasure are spent on special effects.

Nothing else, just splendid, just beautiful.

Also gave Jin Jiao and Silver Horn some new toys, and some Taisu Heaven grass to the Green Bull in the backyard, then Nezha bid farewell to Doushuai Temple and headed to the Turquoise Pool.

It’s Nezha’s first visit to the Turquoise Pool, mainly because it’s full of female immortals. Nezha needs to mind his reputation so he seldom approaches, definitely not because he fears seeing his mother-in-law!

Reaching outside the Demon Pool, soon a very beautiful female immortal came out to greet him. After a slight bow and a quick assessment of Nezha, she smiled and said, "Lord Thunder Emperor, please follow me. I am Feiqiong, the maid of the Goddess."

Her demeanor is dignified, and her language is appropriate, truly a high-quality female immortal from Primordial times.

Nezha nodded without much speech, better to be honest under the eyes of the mother-in-law.

With Xu Feiqiong leading him into the Turquoise Pool, Nezha kept his eyes straight, not daring to glance at the many graceful and well-tempered female immortals around.

Inside the main hall, Queen Mother Yaochi was seated on the throne, and Nezha hurriedly paid his respects: "Minister Li Nezha greets Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother spoke in a very flat tone: "You may rise, you are not an outsider."

"You might have heard about the theft in the Immortal Peach Orchard, where that thief stole seventy percent of the Immortal Fruits and swept all the Peach stock, truly rampant."

Nezha almost couldn’t manage his expression, how could he not know about the situation in the Peach Garden?

"Goddess, please rest assured, I have some clues regarding this matter, and I will go to the Great Venerable after this. I’ll definitely give you an account!"

"On this demon-exorcising trip, I acquired some treasures. Given my short cultivation period, I’d ask the Goddess to appreciate them."

With that, he took out the Red Fire Glaze Lamp.

The lamp appears like a red fire jade, with golden True Sun Fire swirling around, accompanied by a layers-opening red dragon-colored dragon dancing, the whole process is breathtaking, illuminating the entire Turquoise Pool a fiery red.

The magnificent red light was seen across the Thirty-three Layers of Heaven.

Quite a few female immortals were also captivated by the beauty of the Red Fire Glaze Lamp.

The Queen Mother has apparently surpassed the age of valuing appearances; she sees in this treasure the sentiment, the material is top-notch, craftsmanship is top-notch, and creativity is still top-notch.

She couldn’t help but nod, feeling that her Peaches weren’t wasted on this little rascal.

Women are such sentimental beings, the Peaches Nezha squandered couldn’t possibly compare to the value of this Glaze Cup filled with special effects, yet the Queen Mother thought it worth it.

The Palace of the Polestar apparently wasn’t aware of Nezha’s ascent to the heavens, Hao Tian felt somewhat choked, why don’t you know how to please me like that?

He didn’t think he was mean or ungrateful at all.

Nezha presented the Red Fire Glaze Lamp to the Queen Mother, and after a brief chat not mentioning Long Ji, Nezha bid farewell.

Just as he stepped out, he saw Xu Feiqiong waving to him secretly from the side.

Nezha followed quietly without raising a commotion, taking turns and twists to a secluded temple, where Xu Feiqiong pointed to the great hall and then vanished into a stream of light.

Entering the hall, Long Ji, who had been stripped of the title of Garden Guardian Immortal, was lying in bed, looking entranced with a Memory Stone, not knowing what she was watching.

She kept squirming and sometimes letting out ’hehe’ sounds.

Nezha sneaked up to the edge and suddenly shouted, "Long Ji! What are you watching?"

Long Ji: "!!!"

Then she burrowed into the covers and a muffled voice came out, "I wasn’t watching anything!"

After pausing for a moment, she seemed to realize something was off, lifted a corner of the blanket, and saw it really was Nezha.

Long Ji directly threw the blanket and Memory Stone aside, grabbed Nezha onto the bed immediately, and wrapped around Nezha’s body like an octopus.

"Nezha, how did you get in here? My mother said I couldn’t see outsiders during confinement."

Nezha patted her little head: "That just means the Goddess doesn’t regard me as an outsider!"

Long Ji chuckled, "Mom is still the best to me."

Nezha was a bit curious and asked, "What were you just..."

Before finishing, his mouth was already sealed with Long Ji’s lips.

They shared a brief moment of affection, Nezha ultimately didn’t dare to go too far on Queen Mother’s turf, he still had a bit of wariness.

This seems to be the natural suppression brought by the mother-in-law’s identity.

Saying farewell to Long Ji, Nezha then leisurely left the Turquoise Pool to head for the Palace of the Polestar.

Hao Tian had known Nezha was back for a while, but to save face, he pretended not to know.

He opened by saying, "Minister, was your demon-exorcising mission successful?"

Nezha responded with a worn-out appearance, "Of course, successful. As soon as those devils and demons heard Your Majesty’s name, they were all scared out of their wits."

Hao Tian: "..."

I don’t know you? I’d be grateful if you didn’t badmouth me behind my back!

Then Hao Tian spoke about the peach theft case.

Nezha found it somewhat amusing, this matter could be both easy and tricky, mainly depending on who’s handling the case.

"Minister, you are the pillar of our Heavenly Court, do you have any thoughts?"

Nezha coldly snickered inside, this Old Deng wouldn’t outright assign the task, clearly trying to get information from me to let someone else handle it. How could I possibly spill the beans to you?

He responded perfunctorily with yes and ah.

"Well, I don’t know, who could have such Divine Skills to elude Your Majesty’s and the Goddess’s Dharma Eye?"

"Oh dear, isn’t anyone targeting Your Majesty? The peaches shouldn’t be of much use to those Great Experts either, right?"

"Could they be taking the Peaches back to raise an army? Your Majesty should plan ahead!"

Hao Tian’s eyelid twitched at this, not afraid of the unexpected, just afraid of the remote possibility; the most critical point is, he had no clue about this case, he genuinely couldn’t fathom who would steal the peaches. Could someone capable of avoiding his probes really need to steal? Why not just come and ask?

And what if Nezha’s damned mouth speaks the truth?

He finally couldn’t hold back and commanded sternly, "Western Thunder Emperor, hear my decree! Some demons have audaciously trespassed the heavenly court, stealing Peaches from the Immortal Peach Orchard, an unforgivable crime. I hereby order you to thoroughly investigate this case and identify the perpetrator within ten days!"

The official appointment was made, Hao Tian couldn’t back out even if he wanted to.

"I accept the decree, I will certainly work diligently to uncover the criminal and not betray Your Majesty’s trust!"

Hao Tian said with a straight face, "You may leave."

Nezha turned and left, believing this Old Deng feared that it would be too easy for him to set records, so he added a time limit.

Well, then don’t blame me for being unprincipled, even if I know the answer, I won’t tell you right away!

Old Deng, you just wait! I’ll go find your daughter for a little fun first!