Chu Tiange quietly watched the densely packed heavenly soldiers and generals in the sky, and the Heavenly Emperor among them, whose expression was utterly different from before. He sighed inwardly.
He was becoming more and more like that monkey Sun Wukong. When the Heavenly Dao wrote these Heavenly Realm storylines for him, it must have been mining Journey to the West for material.
How Chu Tiange wished the Heavenly Emperor would choose to attack the Dao Venerable... He might even have helped the Heavenly Emperor fight him.
Yet Chu Ge had guessed correctly after all. The first people the Heavenly Emperor went after were still their bunch of "ascenders from the Mortal Realm." They were the softer targets, after all, and could be dealt with quickly.
The Dao Venerable was difficult to fight, and Heaven Beyond Heaven was not that important. The Heavenly Emperor would not abandon the easy option for the hard one.
Sure enough, he had come here, and the immortal grace and refinement Chu Tiange had once seen in him were nowhere to be found.
Though he had known this would be the outcome, Chu Tiange still found it very hard to bear.
A protagonist characterized by "loyalty and affection" often had to suffer something like this... Chu Tiange also knew this was the standard plot setup for "the protagonist defying Heaven." Within the Heavenly Dao's framework, as long as he won this battle, he, Chu Tiange, would be the next Heavenly Emperor.
Chu Tiange did not want to be the Heavenly Emperor. He would much rather the Heavenly Emperor, who had previously shown him something that could be called kindness and favor, had not become so calculating.
Yet Chu Tiange could not blame the Heavenly Dao's arrangements. After all, the Heavenly Dao had not made the