Hearing Heavenly General Sun read the name on the document, Chen Xiang lifted his chin and answered.
"That's right!"
"This..."
Chen Xiang was about to use his customary form of address for himself when Chen Wei's reminder before he left home came back to him. He rolled his tongue and shouted, "My name is Yang Sannian!"
"Your surname is Yang?"
Heavenly General Sun held the document, his brows knitting slightly.
When serving in the Heavenly Court, especially in a lucrative recruitment post that held others by the throat, the most important thing was not cultivation, but memory.
Yang Sannian sounded familiar. He felt sure he had heard it somewhere before.
He vaguely recalled that, some years back, there seemed to have been an Immortal Official at Tongming Hall named Yang Niansan.
The characters in those two names were reversed, and they sounded similar. This old hand of the Heavenly Court could hardly help reading into it.
"Go check the underlying records." Heavenly General Sun remained where he was, merely glancing sidelong at the clerical Immortal Official beside him as he gave the order in a low voice.
The junior Immortal Official was quick-witted and understood at once.
He hauled a thick stack of jade-slip registers out from beneath the desk. They listed every immortal in the Heavenly Court, great and small, on the official rolls or otherwise.
Half a cup of tea later.
The junior Immortal Official looked up and shook his head at Heavenly General Sun.
Meaning he had found nothing.
The jade-slip registers contained no record whatsoever of an immortal named Yang Niansan, much less this Yang Sannian standing before them.
Naturally, nothing would turn up.
Ultimately, the Heavenly Court's archives remained under the supervision of the Discipline Inspection Court.
If Chen Wei wanted to erase or seal