The Azure Emperor Was Just Like That

The Azure Emperor's death was far too suspicious. Any Quasi-Emperor could calculate that the Immortal Ascension Road would open in this lifetime, let alone Great Emperor Wan Qing, who had lived only ten thousand years before it.

Almost every Quasi-Emperor and Supreme Being suspected that the Azure Emperor was lying low somewhere, secretly plotting. Once everyone else had fought themselves to exhaustion, he would leap out and seize the fruits of immortality.

Now that the formidable Eastern Wasteland Heavenly Court had appeared, Sakyamuni felt no doubt at all. Instead, he breathed a sigh of relief and thought, This is how it should be. Exactly how it should be.

Only by founding a Heavenly Court and plotting across myriad ages could the Eternal Green Lotus's hidden move live up to its name.

"Now it all makes sense. Perfectly reasonable." The Divine Spirit of the Demon-Subduing Pestle nodded too. If an emperor was behind it, then no matter how extraordinary Lin Xian was, it made sense.

The Azure Emperor plotting to take the Immortal Ascension Road was only natural.

Surely all beings under heaven and the ancient Supreme Beings could not lie dormant for myriad ages, come to this lifetime to fight over the Immortal Path, and slaughter one another—

While the Azure Emperor, the closest to this lifetime and in the best condition, slept soundly at home, lay flat, and paid the Immortal Path no mind?

That would be too ridiculous. No one would believe it.

Lin Xian opened his mouth, then stopped. He desperately wanted to explain that the Azure Emperor was not the farseeing mastermind they imagined, with every pearl of wisdom in his grasp. The man was simply stubborn as iron. He had employed world-shaking wisdom, only to choose world-shaking strength.

It made no logical sense, but it