Too Shameful

Lu Chuan suddenly raised his head and looked deeply at the Jade Emperor.

He remembered.

Among the Four Sages of the North Pole, Tianpeng, who headed them, had the worst luck, but the one ranked Fourth Brother had the best fate. He had first been a marshal, but later, because he was responsible for slaying demons and sweeping away fiends in the human world, he was called the Nine Heavens Demon-Sweeping Patriarch, and was also known as the True Martial Great Emperor, the Heavenly Venerable Who Relieves Suffering at the End of Kalpas.

Lu Chuan remembered that when the title True Martial Great Emperor appeared, it meant True Martial would become one of the giants of the Heavenly Realm, replacing Gouchen as a new member of the Four Sovereigns.

Later, he presided over Wudang Mountain in the human world, where the incense offerings to him were astonishingly flourishing. Even emperors had to take the lead in worshiping him, and he was also one of the immortals most revered and welcomed by emperors throughout the ages.

By quite a coincidence, that True Martial Great Emperor's predecessor had been in charge of Spirit Officials. Could it be that he...

"Your subject obeys the decree!"

Lu Chuan wore a look of unwillingness yet helplessness, drawing secret laughter from certain gods.

Lu Chuan curled his lip inwardly. I'm going down there to polish my résumé, you bunch of fools. Do you really think I've been demoted?

"Only, the Ministry of Finance is a pity," Lu Chuan thought.

All these years, he had painstakingly managed the Ministry of Finance. It could almost be said that all his effort over these years had gone into it. Originally, among the Eight Ministries of the Heavenly Realm, the Ministry of Finance did not hold a high status, and