How did you think Ye Zhen had slain Lei Qi and Xuan He, the two Creation Realm Divine Generals of Lightning Prison Mountain?
Lei Qi in particular had been a disciple of a Divine King as well. His combat strength had been anything but ordinary.
In truth, it was also due to the actions of Lei Qi and Xuan He.
Within the Yizhi Sand Sea, Ye Zhen did not yet dare reveal his true identity.
The Heaven Temple might tolerate the Yizhi Temple having a Divine Envoy.
But it would absolutely not tolerate the Yizhi Temple's Divine Envoy being Ye Zhen, King of North Sea of Great Zhou!
No matter how many Divine Envoys the Yizhi Temple produced, so long as they stirred about within the Sand Sea, they would not threaten the foundations of the Heaven Temple.
But if their tentacles reached beyond the Sand Sea, and Great Zhou's undefeated King of North Sea became the Divine Envoy of the Yizhi Temple, the changes brought to the Sand Sea would no longer be one plus one—it might become ten times ten!
Should that happen, the Heaven Temple might utterly cast aside all pretenses and deploy its true strategic forces to strategically annihilate Ye Zhen!
A power that others lacked while you possessed it—that was true strategic power.
The Heaven Temple's strategic power might be Divine Lord Realm experts, or it might even be Dao Ancestors!
As for dignity?
Going by the Heaven Temple's usual shameless ways, when they needed that thing, they would plaster it on their faces; when they did not, they would toss it aside and stomp on it a few times. Nothing strange about that.
Therefore, whether dealing with Lei Yi, who had openly entered the battle before, or Creation Realm Divine Generals like Mu Dai