Every day, newcomers came to seek refuge in the Bright Realm. Those on land were placed under Turtle and Snake and housed in the right courtyard of Shenzhe Palace, while those in the water were placed under Gun and Origin Alligator and housed in the underwater Crystal Palace. When the existing quarters could no longer accommodate them, Divine Gun came to consult Shi Feiyang. Shi Feiyang gave him plans and taught them to excavate two more underwater residences on either side. Those who had largely attained human form would live in the southern residence; those who had yet to succeed would live in the northern one.
Divine Gun had only eight thousand-odd years of cultivation. Yu the Great had once stripped away his cultivation and suppressed him beneath Wild Goose Lake for four thousand years, leaving his divine abilities and magical power far inferior to Origin Alligator's. Yet Shi Feiyang had appointed him chief commander of the Crystal Palace, with Origin Alligator as his deputy. Origin Alligator possessed formidable magic and a violent temper, frequently defying him and even threatening to eat him.
Divine Gun was so furious that he ground his teeth and went to complain to Shi Feiyang. Shi Feiyang would not even let him enter the bounds of Qianling Mountain, merely transmitting his voice from afar: "Do you still remember what happened with Red Snake?"
Divine Gun froze where he stood. When he and Red Snake had jointly commanded the nonhuman beings, he had bullied and threatened Red Snake in precisely this way. Only now, with their positions reversed, did he finally understand the humiliation Red Snake had endured. After standing stunned for a while, he lost all courage to argue with Shi Feiyang and could only return with his head hanging.
Back at the Crystal Palace,