Yang Jian remained utterly unconcerned by the Queen Mother of the West's outburst.
Without giving it a moment's thought, Yang Jian said, "Your Majesty, you've forgotten about the Lotus Lantern."
"If we can't resolve the issue of the Lotus Lantern, capturing and subduing the Third Holy Mother will be all but impossible."
"As the Judicial God, I certainly wouldn't bend the law out of personal favoritism. The problem is that I'm no match for the Third Holy Mother."
"Unless we resolve that issue, finding the Third Holy Mother won't do us much good, will it?"
After hearing him out, the Queen Mother of the West was instantly left speechless by his retort.
What Yang Jian said was the truth. Unless she could resolve the issue of the Lotus Lantern, she could forget about having him capture the Third Holy Mother.
But the problem was, how could the Lotus Lantern be dealt with so easily?
Although treasures more powerful than the Lotus Lantern did indeed exist in this world, the Queen Mother of the West simply couldn't produce any of them.
On the other hand, even if the Queen Mother wanted to send someone else to capture the Third Holy Mother, that was hardly possible either.
After all, there was practically no one in the entire Heavenly Court whose abilities surpassed Yang Jian's.
This wasn't the Heavenly Court of the Primordial World, with its emperors of the four directions, Six Sovereigns, and heavenly lords of the various ministries.
In this world of the Lotus Lantern, the strongest were essentially people like Yang Jian and Nezha. Beyond them, there was no one.
The others simply weren't worth considering.
Thus, helpless though she was, the Queen Mother of the West could only sigh. Unable to think of a way to force Yang Jian's