Leaving aside Chen Wei and his son as they faced the tangyuan.
Two flowers bloomed, each on its own branch; let us follow the other.
On the main Cloud Road leading to the Heavenly Court's Lunar Mansions Government Office, a lone Cloud drifted slowly along.
Standing atop it was none other than Sun Immortal Officer.
This debt-collecting assignment was a dead end, but he had no choice but to carry it out.
Hundreds of minor gods from the Mortal Realm had watched and listened. Wude True Lord had laid everything bare and blown up every avenue of retreat. Sun Immortal Officer had to make a scene at the Lunar Mansions Government Office and show that he was demanding their merit back.
However slowly the Cloud moved, it would arrive eventually.
A short while later, the imposing gates of the Lunar Mansions Government Office came into Sun Immortal Officer's view.
Compared with the Military Affairs Government Office, the Lunar Mansions Government Office was positively grand.
Its gates stood open. Immortal qi swirled within, pavilions and towers rose in elegant arrangements, and even the ground was paved with starlight stones untouched by a single speck of dust.
Sun Immortal Officer lowered his Cloud and stopped before the steps, not daring to venture inside. He looked up at the duty Jade Tablet hanging beside the gate. Three large characters were written on it: Lian Zhen Star.
That took the cake.
Of all people, the one presiding over the Lunar Mansions Government Office today was Lian Zhen Star Lord-the most hot-tempered, sharp-tongued, and difficult of the Six Stars of the Southern Dipper.
There was no way around it.
In the past, whenever Sun Immortal Officer accompanied Martial Virtue Star Lord to the Lunar Mansions Government Office, he had always trailed behind like a groveling