"It seems Leader Xia knows a great deal about me, but..." Feng Rui wore an awkward, embarrassed look before continuing, "I still ask that Leader Xia show more respect to our Eastern Emperor Sovereign. Please do not call him by his name again. Even if you and the Eastern Emperor Sovereign are biological brothers, you are ultimately leaders of two different forces, each representing a different camp. Would you agree, Leader Xia?"
"The Eastern Emperor Sovereign? Heh. So he really became the leader of the Four Emperors." I pretended not to know and asked, though I had wanted to complain about that name for a long time. The Jiejiao faction differed from many other forces. Its outer territories were governed by political bodies such as the Four Emperors, while the one supervising those political bodies was the Jiejiao Grandmaster. It was a single force made up of two different systems: government and religion.
So now that Xia Ruize had become the Eastern Emperor and unified the Four Emperors' forces, he had appointed himself the Eastern Emperor Sovereign. In other words, he was the one wielding supreme authority within the political system. The only person who could supervise and control him now was the Jiejiao Grandmaster. And since he was rumored to be the reincarnation of the Jiejiao Grandmaster, what he wanted was naturally supreme divine authority. At the peak of that divine authority, he could supervise the entire Jiejiao and control its core. How could Xia Ruize possibly give that up?
Given his personality, he would inevitably try to unite government and religion in the end. After all, that fellow had been a top student back then, an elite in everyone's eyes. He had received formal training in governing countries and forces, making him completely different from an unorthodox path