Chapter 446: Gungun and Ao Yue Discuss River Styx
A quarter of an hour later, Gungun and Ao Yue left Golden Turtle Island with Duobao seeing them off. Gungun told him to prepare properly and ascend to Heaven in half a month to receive his appointment. Duobao bowed repeatedly and agreed.
After leaving Golden Turtle Island, Ao Yue asked Gungun, "Fellow Daoist, when you established the Five Elders, you originally intended to bring Renjiao, the Expounding Teaching, Jiejiao, the Western Religion, and the Asura Religion into the Heavenly Court. Now that all five seats are filled, what do you intend to do about River Styx?"
Gungun scratched its head and said, "That's been troubling me too. But to be fair, Soaring Serpent really does bring us more benefits than River Styx would. He's Lady Nuwa's most valued subordinate and can represent her to a certain extent. By accepting our invitation while we're governing without Haotian, he's effectively announcing to all living beings that the Empress is on our side. When Haotian returns, seizing power will be much harder for him."
"Mm, that makes sense, but the Asura Religion's strength can't be underestimated either!" Ao Yue nodded, frowning.
"How about... giving River Styx a Great Emperor's position?" Gungun tentatively asked Ao Yue.
"A Great Emperor?" Ao Yue froze.
"Yes. Didn't Zhenwu receive the divine position of Northern Great Emperor? We could make River Styx a Great Emperor too."
"Zhenwu became a Great Emperor because he's the reincarnation of Zhiming's divided soul. Zhiming is the northern Sacred Beast, so his divided soul becoming the Northern Great Emperor is entirely legitimate. But River Styx..."
"All right, then what do you suggest?" Gungun kicked the question back to Ao Yue.
Ao Yue glanced at Gungun and sighed. "Ah, if we'd known Soaring Serpent would