At Nezha's suggestion, Ao Bing, Nezha and Hua Ling formed a circle on the beach and chatted.
After hearing Ao Bing talk about his father's unusual behavior yesterday, Nezha looked at Ao Bing in confusion: "Ao Bing's father doesn't like the fire element? Why?"
Ao Bing shook his head and said he didn't understand either.
Hua Ling sat cross-legged on the beach, and Lu Ya fell on Hua Ling's knees. When Lu Ya heard Ao Bing say that his father didn't like the fire element, he looked at Ao Bing and thought for a moment, then asked: "Your father is Ao Guang."
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Ao Bing looked at Lu Ya and nodded doubtfully.
Lu Ya also nodded: "That's it. I had a fight with him hundreds of years ago. After he lost, I pulled out a dragon scale from him."
Lu Ya jumped up and down from Hua Ling's knees to his thighs. He used his beak to pull out a beautifully carved piece of ornament from Hua Ling's clothes on his chest. It was the dragon scale.
Hua Ling took the dragon scale from Lu Ya's beak and looked at it: "This...is actually Ao Guang's dragon scale?" The dragon scales emitted colorful lights under the light.
Lu Ya nodded proudly.
Ao Bing also came over to check the dragon scales: "These are indeed my father's scales." Then he looked at Lu Ya in surprise: "Is Lu Ya so powerful?"
Hua Ling raised her hand and touched Lu Ya's head: "The three-legged Golden Crow is the only divine beast in the world, and its strength can be imagined... By the way, how did you and Ao Guang get into a fight?"
Lu Ya's eyes rolled around as he recalled: "We just didn't like each other."
"Don't you like it?" Ao Bing and Nezha asked at the same time.
Nezha reached out and took the dragon scale from Hua Ling's hand, and found the uneven carvings on the scales. They were very careful carvings. After picking them up and looking at the sun, he could see the clear carvings.
Ao Bing also leaned over to observe, and read out the name of the carving: "Su, Da, Ji? Are you from up there?"
Nezha put the scales in Ao Bing's hand. When he touched Ao Bing, Nezha suddenly held his hand: "Wow, your hands are so cold!"
"Nezha, let go, this is very rude." Hua Ling lightly tapped the back of Nezha's hand with her finger.
Nezha took his hand back carelessly: "Sorry, sorry."
Ao Bing didn't take it seriously and continued to observe the dragon scales in his hand: "Has Lu Ya only fought with his father? Where are the other dragon kings?"
"We've seen each other once or twice, but not in fights. We're both disgusted by each other." Lu Ya waved his wings, not caring.
"Also, who is Su Daji?" Ao Bing handed the scales back to Hua Ling, pointed at the woman on the scales and looked at Hua Ling.
Hua Ling held the dragon scale in her hand and looked at Ao Bing with a smile: "A human girl, nothing special."
Ao Bing tilted his head slightly: "Since there is nothing special, why should it be engraved on the dragon scale? Master told me that you can predict. Do you know anything related to this girl?"
Hua Ling smiled bitterly and rubbed the dragon scales in her hand: "It's not certain, it remains to be seen."
Ao Bing stared at Hua Ling with wide eyes, but Nezha looked puzzled: "What are you talking about, why can't I understand?"
Hua Ling touched Nezha's hair: "Don't understand, this has nothing to do with you."
Nezha and Ao Bing looked at Hua Ling together. After looking at Hua Ling for a second or two, Ao Bing sighed and both of them looked away.
Nezha suddenly thought of something and took out the found pendant and held it in his hand to show it to Ao Bing: "You helped Wushuang find this, right?"
Ao Bing raised his eyes to look at Nezha, then looked at the pendant in his hand, and nodded.
"You helped me, how about I give this to you? Although it may not be worth mentioning to you..." Nezha put the pendant into Ao Bing's arms, and Ao Bing shrank his arms and took the pendant.
Ao Bing was puzzled: "Why is this?"
"Let's make friends, you're not a bad person." Nezha stretched out his hand to shake hands with Ao Bing.
Ao Bing was a little flattered when he looked at Nezha's outstretched hand: "You won't do it just because I'm a demon..."
"Then what?" Nezha interrupted Ao Bing, "I think, isn't it because the demon race thinks that the human race is weak, so it is dismissive? Why do you look so flattered and incredible?"
"The human race has been rejecting aliens since its birth. There have been many campaigns against other races. When making friends, they only choose those who are weaker than themselves." Hua Ling saw Ao Bing purse her lips and was speechless.
He explained for him, "I don't know why. Maybe the human race's basic strength is too weak, so they turn their noses up at other powerful races?"
After hearing Hua Ling's explanation, Nezha nodded clearly: "No wonder - then, Ao Bing, do you accept me as your friend? Or do you just want to be my fellow disciples?"
Ao Bing held the pendant Nezha gave him in his hand and reached out to hold Nezha's hand: "Accept."
"Master said that dragons have a long lifespan, so your appearance will not change in more than ten years, right?" Nezha looked at Ao Bing's appearance, crossed his arms and grinned.
Ao Bing heard Nezha's words and didn't know what he wanted to express. He looked at Nezha blankly, and Nezha continued: "Then I won't be able to be as good as you in a few more years, and then I can climb the ladder to heaven——
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"The ladder to heaven is not that easy to find." Hua Ling interrupted Nezha's daydream with her chin in her hand.
Nezha argued in frustration: "But Master said that God would help find it?"
"Unless you have privileges, Lu Ya and I are both privileged. It's just that Lu Ya walked up the ladder twice, and God helped us the second time."
"But Master said..."
Hua Ling raised his eyebrows: "If Taiyi told you that the ladder to heaven is easy to find, don't believe it. He only said that to encourage you to practice. If it were easy to find, he would no longer look like an old man with a white beard.
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"Hey -" Nezha huddled on the beach dejectedly, his whole body seemed to have faded.
Ao Bing chuckled when he saw Nezha's appearance. After hearing what Hua Ling said, he couldn't help but be curious: "Lu Ya left twice, why?"
Hua Ling touched Lu Ya in her arms and poked his beak: "The ladder to heaven needs to be climbed step by step. You cannot fly up. He was disobedient and violated the rules. In the end, he was struck down by lightning."
Lu Ya listened to Hua Ling's words about his wrongdoings in Hua Ling's arms, shrinking in shame.
"Ha! That's really what you deserve!" Nezha suddenly became energetic.
Lu Ya turned around and glared at Nezha fiercely, and Nezha shrank again.
Ao Bing found it interesting watching the interaction between one person and one bird, and couldn't help but laugh out loud. Nezha raised his head and looked at Ao Bing with a resentful look, and pursed his lips and said "hum".
"You better be good, otherwise Lu Ya won't be the only laughing stock in the world." Hua Ling stroked Lu Ya's feathers and comforted him.
Ao Bing paused to think and then looked at Hua Ling: "Shangshen."
"Huh?" Hua Ling raised her head after hearing Ao Bing calling her, with a smile on her face and questions in her eyes.