Nezha died.

Before he died, he came to Guanjingkou to find me and said he finally had a clue about the Twelve Golden Immortals.

"I need to quickly finish the Jade Emperor's arrangements, find the pinhole wormhole to the Sea of Death, and leave early to search for the Twelve Golden Immortals. I want them to come and save the Heavenly Court and the Three Realms."

The last time the Norse gods came to the Three Realms through the wormhole, the Jade Emperor issued twelve edicts. Six edicts invited the Supreme Lord Laozi from the Doumu Palace, and six edicts invited the Buddha from the Western Heaven. However, neither of them came.

The Jade Emperor was disappointed and desperate because the Norse gods not only threatened the Heavenly Court but also threatened the countless beings of the Three Realms. However, the Buddha and the Daoist Ancestor ignored the situation.

Nezha suggested to the Jade Emperor that they could find the Twelve Golden Immortals from the War of the Gods.

The Jade Emperor thought it made sense, but finding the Twelve Golden Immortals was too elusive. Since the War of the Gods, the whereabouts of the Twelve Golden Immortals have been unknown. For so many years, no one has known where they are.

Therefore, the Jade Emperor asked Nezha to first find the pinhole passage to the Sea of Death and then find the Twelve Golden Immortals!

Like other deities, Nezha searched meticulously in the Sea of Death for five years but gained nothing. After that, he asked the Jade Emperor for a three-day leave to search for the Twelve Golden Immortals.

"Yang Jian, you and I are the only ones left who can contend with them! If something happens to me, the safety of the Heavenly Court will depend on you." Nezha seemed to have a premonition.

But I didn't take it seriously at that time because, according to what Nezha said, only the Buddha knew the whereabouts of the Twelve Golden Immortals. How could anything happen to Nezha when he saw the Buddha?

I looked at Nezha and thought he was being overly nervous and exaggerating.

After that, Nezha left.

By the time I heard news about Nezha again, three days had passed.

His limbs were like they had been gnawed on by monsters, tattered and broken, with blood dripping from the corners of his mouth.

Nezha's eyes, unable to close, stared emptily upward—not at the sky, but at the sea that extended from the Ninth Heaven all the way to the Netherworld—the Sea of Death.

This sea hangs upside down in the midst of the Three Realms, from the Netherworld to the outer reaches of the Ninth Heaven.

We cannot cross this sea. Anyone, be it human, god, demon, or Buddha, as long as they touch this sea, they will immediately turn into ashes and smoke.