Lu Ren did not take it to heart. Though he wanted to pin the Jade Emperor and Tathagata to the ground and beat them to death, the two of them together were genuinely rather troublesome.
Now that he looked, the two were growing younger and younger, and their cultivation had even reached the Late Celestial Immortal. Neither was an ordinary Late Celestial Immortal. If they truly made a move, with his strength on the verge of entering the Celestial Immortal Pinnacle, he would not be unable to defeat them, but he still had to fear whatever trump cards they might possess.
It would not do to capsize in a gutter when the time came.
As his thoughts raced, Lu Ren calmed himself. He merely stopped and watched as the Jade Emperor and Tathagata sped away without pausing, vanishing from his sight in the blink of an eye. The next second, they had left even the range of his Hyperdimensional Perception.
He could not help clicking his tongue and shaking his head slightly. "It seems these two truly can't stand me!"
Having said that, he turned to look at the Queen Mother of the West, who stood there calmly and unhurriedly, and sighed. "The Queen Mother is still reasonable. Look at those two—they'll never amount to much. One calls himself the Jade Emperor, while the other goes by Tathagata."
Seeing Lu Ren put on such an act, the Queen Mother of the West, despite inwardly complaining without end, smiled. "My two senior brothers have made a fool of themselves before you, Fellow Daoist."
Lu Ren was quite courteous. After all, the Queen Mother of the West had left behind a legacy among the human race of China, and he remained rather polite out of respect for that connection.
He even held