That day, Nezha was following the orders given by the Jade Emperor, searching for the pinhole passage in the Sea of Death, when the Jade Emperor arrived.

Upon seeing the Jade Emperor, Nezha hurriedly bowed.

"Have you found it?"

Nezha shook his head, "This is truly like finding a needle in the ocean. However, I've learned from the Tathagata about the whereabouts of the Twelve Golden Immortals, but..."

"But?"

"After the enfeoffment of the gods, they went to another realm beyond the Ninth Heaven," Nezha said, "but I can't go there."

Outside the Ninth Heaven, there is another realm, but the immortals in the Heavenly Court cannot reach it because most of them only have souls and no physical bodies. Only a few immortals in the entire Heavenly Court can traverse the Nine Heavens.

Nezha can't go because he lacks a physical body, he is just a lotus flower.

In the battle of enfeoffment, few souls entered the enfeoffment platform, and most of them, except for me, were killed by the Nordic gods.

"I can't go either," the Jade Emperor sighed, "although I'm called the Jade Emperor, my cultivation is not comparable to that of the Tathagata."

Nezha remained silent.

"What does death feel like?"

"Death?"

"You've died once."

Outside Chentang Pass, the Four Sea Dragon Kings' army pressed in, and Nezha, to avoid harming the innocent, committed suicide.

"It's like lying on a white sandy beach without moving. I could see the blue sky above my head, and I felt an inexplicable emptiness, as if every moment passed felt like a century, very long," Nezha said, "the taste of death is not pleasant."

The Jade Emperor sighed and said, "The Nordic gods will come back, the Old Lord and the Tathagata will still sit idly by. What will we do when the time comes? Sun Wukong is buried in Flower Fruit Mountain, you can't defeat him, Yang Jian might not be their match either. I'm not afraid of being captured alive by them, but what about the Three Realms? What about all living beings?"

"So, I must find that pinhole passage for Your Majesty!" Nezha looked at the Jade Emperor and said, "I will personally come to defend it when the time comes. Even if they want to come over, they'll have to step on my corpse to get here!"

"And then?" the Jade Emperor said, "even if we know they're coming and where the pinhole passage is, what then? The Three Realms no longer have the Buddha to fight, and there's no more Nuwa Empress. What should we do?"

"So, I want to quickly complete Your Majesty's task and ask Yang Jian to find the Twelve Golden Immortals."

"If the Twelve Golden Immortals are like the Old Lord and the Tathagata, and don't help us, what should we do?"

Nezha fell silent.

"So!" The Jade Emperor looked at Nezha, "I want to borrow something from you."

"What?"

"Your life!"

Nezha was shocked.

"I want to refine you into an elixir to enhance my cultivation. The Three Clears outside the Ninth Heaven will not care about our affairs here. The only ones who can save the Three Realms are ourselves."

Nezha remained silent for a long time, while the Jade Emperor looked at him.

"I know this request is very selfish, but I have no other choice!" the Jade Emperor said with a desolate expression.

Nezha died, and the culprit turned out to be the Jade Emperor!