"The Black Lotus Holy Envoy can win such high regard from Master—his future prospects are limitless!"
Great Emperor Changsheng sighed with feeling, and the killing intent in the depths of his eyes deepened by several shades.
In that case, this Black Lotus had to be eliminated as soon as possible.
Otherwise, Wutian would have him continue to control the Heavenly Court. When that time came, what would become of their agreement?
If he wanted to sit upon the Heavenly Emperor's throne he had dreamed of day and night, wouldn't he have to wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse?
He was one of the Heavenly Court's higher-ups and also an innate deity, so he knew a little more of its secrets.
From ancient texts and the like, he had learned that in the earliest times, Heavenly Venerables and Heavenly Emperors had in fact been of the same rank. After the Ancestor Realm, if one wished to go a step further, besides the path of the Heavenly Venerable, the Way of the Heavenly Emperor was also an option.
When Haotian had first ascended the throne, he had only been at the Daluo Golden Immortal realm. Among innate deities, he had not even counted as outstanding—at best, he had been middling to lower-tier. Naturally, Great Emperor Changsheng had been unconvinced, so he had instructed Fuyuan to scheme up the matter of Fairy Yunhua privately matching with a mortal.
For a god to pair with a mortal was the foremost great crime under Heavenly Law. He had originally thought he could use this to push Haotian off the throne, but he had not expected Haotian to pull a righteous severing of kin...
After that came many tens of thousands more years. Seas turned to mulberry fields, and