"Well... Fellow Daoist Zhen Yuanzi, please explain a little more clearly."
Looking at Zhen Yuanzi's strange expression and Fuxi's look of sudden understanding, Lu Ya felt as though he would burst with anxiety.
Seriously, why couldn't you just tell me the facts outright?
Did you have to do this?
"Fellow Daoist, although you now hold the title of Jade Emperor and can exercise the Jade Emperor's authority, the Heavenly Court has not acknowledged you."
Zhen Yuanzi looked at Lu Ya. Though he found the matter rather amusing, he also felt that it should never have happened.
Lu Ya had led them in establishing the Heavenly Court, after all. Why would the Heavenly Court refuse to acknowledge his position as Jade Emperor?
"In other words, I'm effectively just holding this position temporarily, and I could be replaced at any time. Is that right?"
Lu Ya immediately grasped the meaning behind Zhen Yuanzi's words.
Lu Ya felt utterly sick at heart. What was going on?
Why had the Four Emperors he had invited all successfully assumed their positions, while he alone could not?
If cultivation was the deciding factor, the Human Race's Three Sovereigns were not even as powerful as he was!
Why had they successfully taken up their positions among the Four Emperors?
In truth, under normal circumstances, cultivation at the level of the Human Race's Three Sovereigns would not have been enough to shoulder the position of one of the Four Emperors.
However, all three of them bore the concentrated fortune and merit of the Human Race.
The Human Race was now Heaven and Earth's Protagonist, while the Heavenly Court existed to uphold the Heavenly Dao.
It was these circumstances that had allowed the Human Race's Three Sovereigns to truly become members of the Four Emperors.
Zhen Yuanzi had shouldered