And most importantly...
The Evil Demon Alliance was openly hostile to both Emperor Qin and the Emberfire Heavenly Emperor. There was basically no possibility of communication or contact between the two sides.
So Qin Feng's move had effectively poured fuel on the fire of their already hostile relationship.
For a time, all kinds of temple missions appeared one after another.
The Emberfire Heavenly Emperor sensed something was wrong, but with a temple member killed outright by Wansteadamian, he could hardly do nothing.
After all, in the Highest Heaven, there was actually an unwritten treaty between the grand authority successors: barring special circumstances, none of them were allowed to directly attack ordinary members of another's temple.
If they were attacked and took no action or made no response, the impact would be enormous.
Because in the temples of the Highest Heaven, many players held more than one minor authority.
If a temple was bullied and did nothing... many players would naturally lean more toward the temple corresponding to another minor authority they possessed.
The effects could not even be called gradual and subtle. Results would become apparent within just a few days.
Once players lacked confidence in a temple, they would become less willing to accept its missions, reducing the temple's overall resources and even causing some important figures within it to turn against it and shift their focus for development to other temples.
It could be said that in the Highest Heaven, the temples were not organizations like empires or nations.
Instead, they were more like companies, and the same player could hold positions in several companies.
And a company's overall earnings and resource taxes were closely tied to its employees' missions and efforts.
That made it understandable why grand authority successors could not compromise on certain matters of face,