Look at all the things that had happened lately. What even were they?
Ksitigarbha making trouble could be set aside for now. That fell within the normal scope of clashes between the Dao Sect and the Western Teachings; overall, each side had won and lost. An ordinary struggle between factions.
But immediately afterward...
First, his own master's romantic fate had run into trouble, and the Saint Empress had tied a Red String around him;
Before that wave had settled, Your Majesty Jade Emperor had suddenly decided to descend to the mortal world to temper himself, pursue the perfection of the Great Dao, and experience the birth, aging, sickness, and death of postnatal beings...
Even with Li Changshou's abundant reserves of standard tactics, this gave him quite a headache, leaving him too powerless even to complain.
They were all too idle!
Ahem. One involved the Saint Empress, while the other was his immediate superior, so he could not say much.
Fortunately, his master's matter still appeared to be only a small issue, while the Jade Emperor's matter, though significant, had followed his advice and adopted a relatively safe plan:
His divine soul would descend.
When postnatal beings were born, they all possessed souls. Once they entered the path of cultivation, those souls could transform into demon souls or immortal souls, condensing into Primordial Spirits.
Innate beings like the Jade Emperor were already Primordial Spirits within immortal bodies when they took form by nature. Most referred to their Primordial Spirits as divine souls.
Originally, the Jade Emperor had planned to truly pass through the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and walk the mortal world once. After undergoing a few tribulations and gaining some insight, he would immediately restore his true body as the Jade Emperor and return to the Heavenly Court.
But that