The moment Venerable Celestial of Primordial Beginning left, the matter of signing and sealing the Investiture of the Gods Scroll could no longer proceed.
Though this had long been within Li Changshou's expectations, and he had previously used phrases like "perhaps" to go over the various ways the Five Saints might negotiate with Your Majesty Jade Emperor.
Now that it had truly happened, however, it still left one feeling rather helpless.
Writing a name onto the Investiture of the Gods Scroll was tantamount to decreeing that person would be surrounded by the tribulation's fate. Among the Saints, only the Saints of the Western Teachings might do such a thing.
Whose disciples were not disciples? Had they not been cultivated through lecture after lecture, their doubts dispelled, to inherit their master's legacy?
Lord Tongtian treasured his disciples, and Venerable Celestial of Primordial Beginning also valued his disciples greatly. There was nothing wrong with that.
That was why Li Changshou and the Jade Emperor had repeatedly mentioned just now that "being listed would let them survive the Great Cataclysm"... but the effect had been exceedingly slight.
Well, being able to secure control of the Investiture of the Gods Scroll and the God-Beating Whip today was already quite an ideal result.
Venerable Celestial of Primordial Beginning had said, "Each shall rely on their own fate." In truth, this was a method rather favorable to Chan Teaching. After all, Chan Teaching possessed treasures that suppressed the destiny of its teachings, and most within it were Golden Immortals of Virtue.
The three principles Venerable Celestial of Primordial Beginning followed in accepting disciples—origins, good fortune, and fate—had indeed laid more than sufficient foundations for Chan Teaching in the face of the Great Cataclysm.
As for why Venerable Celestial of Primordial Beginning had met with Daoist Jieyin,