The Heavenly Emperor's Emissary and the Current World Heavenly Master were, without question, two positions of immense rank and authority. Back in ancient times, countless people would have fought until their heads were bloodied for them.
In the present age, these two positions still carried a certain amount of gold content, but in the past, the major sects of the heavens had offered only surface-level respect and had not taken them too seriously.
The reason was simple: a position was a position, and authority was authority. If these two positions had fallen into the hands of two Tier 7 Dao Master Level beings, then all under heaven would naturally submit and welcome their superiors with kowtows. But if they fell into the hands of Su Qing and Tong Chang?
One had once been a Tier 4 Nascent Soul and later a Tier 5 Deity Transformation. Even if he had stumbled into good fortune and advanced to Tier 6 Void Refinement, he had only just earned a seat at the table and still had to sit obediently at the very end. Give him face, and he was the Heavenly Emperor's Emissary. Refuse him face, and Su Qing was merely a puppet peddler hawking wares everywhere and begging for orders!
Tong Chang was even harder to take seriously. A puppet by origin, he had only obtained the position of Current World Heavenly Master because Ancestor Heavenly Master had favored him. Even if the Four Great Heavenly Masters had bestowed all their fortune upon him, he would still be a hopeless Adou that could not be propped up. How could he possess the illustrious achievements of the Ancient Four Heavenly Masters, whose every word and deed made heaven and earth tremble three times over?
Because Su Qing and Tong Chang themselves were not