Black Impermanence was fairly easy to talk to, but White Impermanence was another matter. Relying on her long-standing relationship with Zhou Xuan, she spoke and acted with a certain bureaucratic air. [Burning^Text Repository] That simply wouldn't do.
Now that she had been dismissed, what did it have to do with me? Had she come to ask me to plead for her?
"What happened?"
The Ghost General who had brought the news was Dai Mei's trusted aide. He had met Zhou Xuan before, back when we had fought her tooth and nail.
"Last time, weren't you the one who fought City God Zhou head-on? After returning, City God Zhou believed that Black and White Impermanence had mishandled the matter and intensified the conflict, making the situation too strained. That led to what happened this time. Besides, I heard that the two Impermanence generals' cultivation was too low, and they were gradually becoming unable to handle their work beside City God Zhou. So City God Zhou demoted the two ghosts to the Twenty-Four Departments, where they became ordinary civil officials. As luck would have it, they encountered Madam sending people undercover into the City God's domain to poach talent and recruit workers. The two felt that serving as minor officials would gradually bury their abilities, and that they might as well come out and work for you, so..." her aide explained.
"Where's Dai Mei?" Only then did I realize that Dai Mei was nowhere to be seen. She seemed to have rushed off again over the matter of Miao Xiaoli's tent. She personally handled even these sundries. It seemed that none of my affairs were minor to her.
Therefore, after sending off the ghost of Impermanence, I had no choice but to handle the matter personally. With a casual wave, I summoned