Ji Bang's identity was far too special to the Mystic Gate Sect.
Master Lu Li's son-in-law.
Fourth Senior Sister Lu Man Ge's husband.
The traitor who had sold out Lu Li's whereabouts.
As they said, one night as husband and wife brought a hundred days of grace. Ji Bang and Lu Man Ge had been husband and wife for a hundred thousand years; such ties could not be measured.
Compared to that, Ji Bang's current identity as the Human Emperor was nothing.
Before the battle at Gazing Cloud Platform, Ji Bang's status as Human Emperor had been an immensely intimidating talisman of protection. Even the Heaven Temple's three Dao Ancestors had not dared to make a move against him lightly.
If they struck ruthlessly, they would inevitably suffer the backlash of the Heavenly Dao.
Only when Ji Bang had left Luoyi for the Nine Heavens, and the protection of human Power of Faith had weakened drastically, had they dared to lay hands on him.
Previously, the Heaven Temple's three had feared Ji Bang's identity as Human Emperor. But to Ye Zhen now, Ji Bang's status as Human Emperor no longer amounted to much.
The path of the Heaven Temple's three Dao Ancestors was to use the Heavenly Dao to govern the human path. Ye Zhen's path was to use the human path to prove the Heavenly Dao. Their essences were fundamentally different.
And what was the essence of a Human Emperor?
The essence of the Human Emperor was the human path. The human path was the Heavenly Dao!
With that comparison, it became very clear.
For the Heaven Temple's three Dao Ancestors to deal with Ji Bang would be like an invasion by foreign enemies. If they succeeded, the backlash of the human path would be incomparably fierce.
The human