However...
Although Yang Jian and Wutian did not care, the many immortals and gods from the Heavenly Court could not do the same.
At the very least, their faces now showed helplessness and despair. Under the Buddhas' accusations, they could barely hold their heads up.
Indeed, it was rather humiliating.
They should all have stood on the stage that represented justice in the Three Realms. Even if they ultimately died, they could honestly have said that theirs was an honorable defeat, that they had done everything they could for all living beings in the Three Realms.
But what about now?
They were all immortals and gods of the Three Realms, yet every damn one of them now stood in the camp of evil.
Thick-skinned as they were, even they felt unable to hold their heads up now.
It was truly far too awkward.
Sometimes, they kept wondering whether they should rebel against the Heavenly Court, then unite the forces of the Three Realms for a Heaven-Slaying campaign.
Just as Yang Jian had done before.
But they only entertained the thought.
At the very least, when it actually came time to do it, as it had now, they all ultimately chose to back down.
The reason was simple: there was not the slightest damn chance of success.
After all, while they might not have known that Yang Jian possessed the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, they did know the fundamental reason he had been qualified to challenge the Jade Emperor and actually succeed: his cultivation had already reached the level of a Daluo Golden Immortal.
That was the most basic requirement.
Unless your cultivation had reached the level of a Daluo Golden Immortal, you had no right whatsoever to challenge for the position of ruler of the Three Realms.
Yet throughout the Three