Yang Jian kept turning things over in his mind.
For the moment, however, he truly could not find a good solution. After all, he had only recently entered the Great Luo realm. Although the Great Emperor Seal had broadened his horizons somewhat, he was still sorely lacking in the methods at his disposal.
All of that would take time to develop.
And time was precisely what Yang Jian lacked most.
From the scattered words within the Great Emperor Seal, Yang Jian could deduce how the Jade Emperor would have handled the matter before him, but he had no intention of using the Jade Emperor's old methods.
To put it bluntly, he thought them beneath him.
In some respects, the Jade Emperor truly had nothing to fear from Tathagata because he controlled the Great Emperor Seal. But that was largely thanks to the seal itself, which kept Tathagata from acting too brazenly.
In reality, however, the Jade Emperor was no match for Tathagata.
Over all these years, it had always been the Heavenly Court that suffered trouble, and Tathagata who plotted against it. Yet the Heavenly Court could only endure in silence, sometimes even being thrown into a frantic scramble. As for striking back, that was out of the question.
At the very least, the Jade Emperor had never struck back in all those years.
That was also what Yang Jian despised most about the Jade Emperor. With the Great Emperor Seal under his control, he had effectively been placed beyond defeat from the outset.
Yet even under those circumstances, he had allowed Tathagata to drive him into such a corner. Yang Jian could only lament that without the Great Emperor Seal, the Jade Emperor was nothing but a useless fool!
Naturally, Yang Jian had no respect for the Jade Emperor's