The bee Lu Chuan had transformed into edged closer. "Master, speaking of which, after so many years apart, have you and Jiang Ziya been together all this time?"
Among immortals, there was a distinction between heavenly gods and earthly gods, but there were also many gods of Heaven who had to roam the mortal world. Day-Roaming God and Night-Roaming God, for example—their work had to be completed among mortals.
The same was true for Shen Gongbao and Jiang Ziya. Their duties were to examine merit and fault, good and evil, in the mortal world, to govern human life and death, fortune and disaster, rewarding good and punishing evil.
Southern Dipper recorded life; Northern Dipper recorded death!
Their actual job was to wander the mortal world—returning to Heavenly Court when there was business, roaming among mortals when there was none—so in Lu Chuan's eyes, the two of them had truly picked a cushy post.
Shen Gongbao said, "More or less. But disciple, there is one thing I do not understand."
Lu Chuan said, "What is it?"
Shen Gongbao said, "I took a look just now too. Aside from those seven great devils, there aren't any formidable figures on Flower Fruit Mountain, so why doesn't Heavenly Court simply send people to wipe them out and take the chance to establish its authority? Why bother recruiting them?"
"This is rather troublesome to explain..."
"Mm?"
"But this disciple is still willing to explain it to Master."
"Speak!"
"Master, it isn't that they don't want to. It's that they can't. Look at where Flower Fruit Mountain is."
"The East Sea?"
"Exactly. The East Sea has just fallen into the Ancestral Dragon's hands. If they make a move and alarm that shit-stirring rod, while the two Great Emperors Qing Hua and Changsheng were both injured in