Ever since Ye Zhen had rejected Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long's demands and fallen out with him last time, Ye Zhen had avoided coming to Luoyi unless absolutely necessary.
Under certain circumstances, a person could sell everything in order to survive, in order to keep living.
And for an emperor, in order to stay alive, the bottom line would sink again and again, until he would stop at nothing.
Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long's earlier dispatch of Tong Fu, a Creation Realm Divine Being from the imperial court, against him was proof enough.
Clearly, given Great Zhou's foundations, the number of Creation Realm Divine Beings controlled by the imperial court and royal family could not possibly be just one or two.
Even a small race like the Phoenix Spirit Race, with a population of barely over a million, had accumulated thirty or forty Creation Realm Divine Beings over countless years. Let alone Great Zhou.
Even if the Great Zhou Imperial Clan possessed only a portion of all the Dao Realm experts among Great Zhou's human race, their numbers would still be in the hundreds, perhaps even the thousands.
Under such circumstances, if Ye Zhen voluntarily ran to Luoyi and Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long went mad again in his desperation to live, it would be no different from walking into death.
However, Ye Zhen had first determined that Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long had not yet gone mad.
Secondly, the Sun Moon Divine Lord of the Heaven Temple's prohibition was still in effect.
Although the Heaven Temple's Creation Realm Divine General had merely watched without intervening during yesterday's battle against Yu Su of the Wa Ling Race, which was an extremely bad sign.
Ye Zhen was certain that, given the Heaven Temple's usual ways, even if they secretly lifted the ban on Creation Realm