On this day, many people were looking up at the sky.
A cloud was missing from the sky over Western Capital City.
That cloud had shrouded Western Capital for a full eight months, growing from nothing and expanding until it became a cloud of gloom over everyone's heart, difficult to ever clear away.
When the cloud first arrived, the official circles of Western Capital suffered an earthquake: the Senior Grand Eunuch resigned, the Chief Grand Secretary resigned, the Three Ducal Ministers, Grand Preceptors, Grand Tutors, and Grand Instructors resigned, the Left and Right Commanders-in-Chief of the Five Chief Military Commissions resigned, the Left and Right Pillars of the State for both civil and military resigned, the Left and Right censors-in-chief resigned, and nearly half of the ministers of the Six Ministries resigned!
After that cloud arrived, quite a few people truly died in Western Capital. Some failed to escape it even after resigning their posts, turning into wanderers within the clouds and hanging lifelike in the sky dozens of miles away.
The people of Western Capital were panic-stricken, and everyone wanted to find the ultimate culprit and hand them over to avoid being implicated themselves. Yet regarding the events of eleven years ago, they did not know much either.
Under such pressure, they had survived for a full eight months.
Now, this cloud had finally left.
Many people felt a sense of relief.
The Director and Vice Directors of the Sitianjian hurriedly ordered the morning-watcher officials and various scholars and minor clerks under their command to bustle about, searching for the whereabouts of that cloud.
Innumerable Sky Listeners became even busier. Whenever one looked up, they could always see several Sky Listeners with oversized ears flying back and forth in the air. Outside Western Capital City, many ears sprouted from