Haotian God and Hongjun Old Ancestor who have a higher status has always been a topic of people talking about.
HaoTian God is the head of the Heavenly Court Group, equivalent to the Jade Emperor of the Journey to the West, and as you know, the Jade Emperor is the ruler of the Three Realms, the person of the Three Realms, and the subject of the Jade Emperor.
Hongjun Laozu was a top Heavenly Dao sage and was known as a saint among saints, because his three disciples, Lao Tzu, Yuan Shi Tianzun and The Master of the Tongtian Sect, were all saints.
Some people believe that the status of Hongjun Laozu is higher than that of Haotian God, because Haotian God does not have much sense of existence in the Fengshen God World, and Hongjun Laozu has been clearly set as a top god like Zushiye. Although Yuan Shi Tianzun was the planner of the list of gods and could be called the protagonist among the saints, he also showed great respect in front of the Hongjun Old Ancestor.
But some people also believe that no matter how low the sense of existence of the Haotian God is, it is also higher than the hongjun old ancestor. Because the political power is always greater than the religious power, no matter how high the status of hongjun old ancestors is, he is only a sect leader, and Haotian God is the lord of the three realms, can't Hongjun old ancestor not bow down to Haotian god?
In the journey to the west, Taishang Laojungui is one of the three supreme gods of Taoism, and the Jade Emperor is only a Taoist god, but when Taishang Laojun sees the Jade Emperor, he still has to respectfully call the Jade Emperor His Majesty, the reason is nothing more than that the power is greater than the religious power, and the lord of Taoism is not as big as the lord of the Three Realms.
In the World of Fengshen Gods, don't look at Hongjun Laozu and Yuan Shi Tianzun can plan the list of fengshen gods, control the fate of the immortals in the three realms, and rob whoever they want, but they are just the workers of the Haotian God. Because the ultimate purpose of the great cause of fengshen god is to send talents to haotian god's heavenly court group. Therefore, Hongjun Lao Zu and Yuan Shi Tianzun were just the personnel director and personnel manager of HaoTian God.
This statement seems to make a lot of sense, and if placed in the Journey to the West world, it can be said to be completely true. However, it does not fit the character setting of "Fengshen Yanyi".
In the world of fengshen gods, the status of Hongjun Laozuzu was obviously higher than that of Haotian God, and even the status of Yuan Shi Tianzun might be higher than that of Haotian God, which we can see from the first sentence of Jiang Ziya's fengshen god.
In the ninety-ninth time of the original work, Jiang Ziya went to the Fengshen Platform to preside over the sealing of the gods, worshiped the Book of Prayers, first ordered the Qingfu God Bai Jian, listened under the altar, and then began to read the Yuan Shi Tian Zun Zhen, the first sentence was: Feng Taishang Wuji Mixed Yuan Yuan Sect Leader Yuan Shi Tian Zun Edict.
Edict refers to a special kind of holy will of the emperor, mainly used to seal civil and military officials, since Jiang Ziya mentioned the edict, shouldn't the main language before the edict be haotian god, the lord of the three realms? Why do you say that you want to say that you have been entrusted with the edict of The First Heavenly Ancestor?
Sealing the gods is related to the great cause of the Three Realms, such an important ceremony, of course, Jiang Ziya cannot make a mistake in wording, the truth can only be, the order of Yuan Shi Tianzun is equivalent to the edict, Yuan Shi Tianzun was no different from hao tian god at that time, so Jiang Ziya dared to leave hao tian god and say that he was honored by yuan shi tian zun.
Since the status of the Haotian God was not higher than that of the YuanShi Tianzun, how could it surpass the Hongjun Old Ancestor?
Some people must be curious, why is the Jade Emperor in the Journey to the West World the Lord of the Three Realms, and the status of the Haotian God during the Fengshen Period may not be as good as that of the disciples of Hongjun Laozu?
The reason is simple, strength determines status. During the period of fengshen shen, the Tianting Group was still in the initial stage, and it was difficult to say that it was still a grass platform team, and there were not many heavyweights standing on the platform, so the influence and dominance of the Tianting Group were very limited. As the head of this grassroots group, the status of Haotian God naturally would not be too high.