"Your subordinate knows his mistake."
Holy Envoy Lu, who had failed to escape, awkwardly stopped in his tracks and turned back.
If he could have gotten away, he could have gone to the Heavenly Court and swapped Giant Scorpion back!
When the time came, he would be able to go to the Heavenly Court and settle the karma between him, Taishang, and Red Boy, surpass the fate Heaven and Earth had arranged for him, and advance to become a Daluo Golden Immortal.
"Black Lotus, This Seat hopes you understand that there are not many people under This Seat whom This Seat can rely on."
Wutian said seriously, "But you are one that This Seat has high hopes for. The matter over at Ten Thousand Demon Mountain is the most important of all priorities after we occupy the Three Realms. You must train that group well for This Seat. Do you understand?"
If that group of men and horses were trained well, then after he occupied the Three Realms, he would be able to steal the sky and swap the sun at once, letting these demons take the places of gods and Buddhas without causing turmoil in the Three Realms.
His purpose had always been only one thing: to drag this group of hypocritical gods and Buddhas down from their heights, trample them underfoot, and then use his own power to change this world into the shape he envisioned.
"Your subordinate... understands."
Lu Chuan probed, "Then about Protector Giant Scorpion..."
Wutian said, "You need not concern yourself with that matter. Just do the things in your hands well."
Lu Chuan probed, "As for the scripture pilgrim..."
"Yes, that side too!"
At his words, Wutian's eyes narrowed, and he said with a cold laugh, "Jade Emperor, Tathagata, you went to such great