When Bian Zhuang changed into this brand-new, gleaming silver armor and stood by the calm yet vast Celestial River, awaiting inspection from the Sea God and Dong Mugong, he...
His feelings were incomparably complicated.
Back then, when he, Bian Zhuang, had come to the Heavenly Court, it truly had only been for that fairy maiden.
—Though he still did not know the beauty's name, and had already given up on her, his original intention could not be obscured.
Yet in such an environment, the Heavenly Court had forcibly used merit and official rank to give him, Bian Zhuang...
The ambition to strive upward in his career!
How long had it been? He, Bian Zhuang, had gone from the joke that was Marshal Tian Dou to Deputy Commander of the Celestial River Navy!
How long had it been? The Power of Merit he had accumulated already exceeded by several times the merit Tianya Pavilion had amassed after so many years of operation!
Of course, opportunities to accumulate merit by operating a place for "temporary Love Tribulations" had never been plentiful.
Nowadays, as Bian Zhuang walked through the Heavenly Court—within the areas where he was allowed to move about—he called the heavenly generals brothers, and even heavenly soldiers addressed him as "General" or "Marshal."
That one word, Marshal, truly made him feel a thousand times better than a hundred cries of Young Master!
More importantly, whenever he occasionally passed groups of fairy maidens, most of them cast curious, admiring looks his way rather than looks of disgust and revulsion.
And those were only the benefits he could see. The other benefits were too numerous to count!
The most obvious example—cultivation had become easier to advance, and his former bottlenecks seemed to have vanished without a trace...
He, Bian Zhuang, now sincerely aspired