Chapter 1021: Chapter 313 Against Eastern Emperor Tai Yi_2
The expression on Eastern Emperor Tai Yi’s face froze.
It turned out to be for this reason that the Elder Lord did not intervene to stop them from returning. It wasn’t that he couldn’t stop them, but because he remembered their merits in guarding Heaven and Earth, so he didn’t take action.
They initially thought that the Elder Lord was unable to prevent it.
Thinking of this, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi finally had some doubt.
“Are you really that good? Or, put another way, are you that compassionate?”
Lord Taishang glanced at him and said calmly: “It’s not about compassion or lack thereof, it’s just that I don’t want those who contributed to Heaven and Earth to be aggrieved. You were expelled not because we wanted to seize your power, but because you were harming the living beings between Heaven and Earth, so we took action to expel you. The Three Realms must develop, and living beings are the foundation. If only beings as lofty as you exist, the Three Realms would eventually perish.”
Upon hearing Lord Taishang’s words, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi was speechless.
Although he was somewhat dismissive of Lord Taishang’s words,
he had to admit they made sense. At least back when his persecution of living beings wasn’t so extreme, the other side indeed had no intention of taking action against him.
In fact, many times they even provided assistance to him.
Could it be that his expulsion was truly because of the persecution of living beings, affecting the development of the Three Realms?
All along, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi believed that Lord Taishang and the others only did it for power and authority.
Seeing Eastern Emperor Tai Yi’s face filled with disbelief, Lord Taishang continued: “If we needed power and authority, we could have become the Heavenly Emperor ourselves, ruling over the entire Three Realms. Who could stop us? Why support others to ascend? Isn’t it better to control power ourselves?”
Indeed, it has always been the case that the Three Pure Ones supported others to rise to power,
while they themselves remained hidden in the background.
Looking at it this way, they really did not care much about power.
On Huaguo Mountain, Sun Wukong couldn’t help but sigh: “I finally understand, Haotian God is not the biggest deceiver in the Three Realms; it’s this Lord Taishang. Clearly mortal enemies, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi and Emperor Jun were duped by Lord Taishang just like that.”
Nu Ba, with a peculiar look, smiled and said: “The Great Saint is the formidable one. The Elder Lord has never gotten an upper hand over the Great Saint.”
Yet Sun Wukong shook his head, saying: “I can’t be that confident. Old Sun has a feeling that maybe even I have been deceived by Lord Taishang. This guy is too terrifying; what he says makes so much sense that you have no ground to argue, and in the end, you even respect him. Look at Eastern Emperor Tai Yi’s expression, isn’t he somewhat respectful to the Elder Lord?”
Nu Ba: “…”
She indeed did not expect that after the return of the Ancient Gods, it would be such a scene.
At least up to now, the so-called great battle has not been seen.
One only sees Lord Taishang using his words to deceive the two ancient Heavenly Emperors.
The Elder Lord’s words are indeed too powerful.
“Would Eastern Emperor Tai Yi really believe him?”
Nu Ba said, finding it hard to believe.
Sun Wukong thought for a moment and then said: “However, I also think that Eastern Emperor Tai Yi is acting. An ancient Heavenly Emperor, such a cunning and domineering person, how could he be fooled by a few words? They are both testing each other’s attitude. If I’m right, neither of them wants to fight, at least not before understanding each other, now they don’t want to fight.”
“Then I’m relieved.”
Nu Ba said with a smile.
Looking at Nu Ba, Sun Wukong said with a wry smile: “What is there to be relieved about? You should be worried. If they don’t fight, once Emperor Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi establish themselves between Heaven and Earth, what do you think will happen?”
Upon hearing Sun Wukong’s question, Nu Ba was startled.
“Isn’t it the Human Race that will suffer? The Human Race occupies the largest space between Heaven and Earth, so they might as well fight. This way, it can weaken their power, and in the future, it will be much easier for you to protect the Human Race.”
So that’s it, it seems she was too naive.
With this thought, Nu Ba looked at Eastern Emperor Tai Yi and the others, unable to help praying: “Oh heavens, gods, and Buddhas, please let them start fighting quickly, they must fight, and preferably all kill each other.”
Sun Wukong looked at Nu Ba speechlessly.
Is she serious?
Praying to all gods, Buddhas for blessing?
Among all these gods and Buddhas, ninety-nine percent aren’t as strong as her.
The few who are stronger are all old acquaintances.
As for who would dare to bless Lord Taishang and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi to start fighting, Sun Wukong couldn’t think of anyone.
At least, he did not have that ability.
“You might as well ask Lord Taishang to bless them to start fighting.”
Sun Wukong teased.
Nu Ba also realized her mistake and became a little embarrassed.
Seeing her face flush with embarrassment, Sun Wukong smiled slightly and pulled Nu Ba into his arms.
They pointed and commented on the powers facing off in the sky, joking continuously, without any tension from an imminent great battle.
Anyway, it’s not going to happen.
In fact, if they were to fight, that would be even better.
It would perfectly fulfill Nu Ba’s wish.
Unfortunately, both parties were very rational.
Apart from Emperor Jun clashing once with Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate and striking at the Elder Lord,
there was no other conflict between the parties; they were quite restrained.
Although the killing intent on Eastern Emperor Tai Yi and Emperor Jun was almost uncontrollable,
this showed how much they hated the Lord Taishang and the others.