After the gods set out and the hundred ghosts paraded through the night, the entire Han Empire began to panic.
The divine City Gods, who had always maintained order in the Mortal World while remaining above worldly affairs, actually made a great show of piloting hundreds of airships south that day.
The various powers entrenched within the Han Empire were all at a loss.
The imperial capital issued twelve edicts in succession: closely monitor the movements of the divine City Gods and report to the capital at any time. The Demon-Slaying Bureau must immediately investigate exactly what had caused so many deities to travel through the skies!
To ordinary living beings, however, a few hundred airships drifting overhead probably meant some noble was making a lavish outing again. Such things were not common in Great Han, but neither were they rare.
It merely gave them a little more to talk about over tea and after meals.
But to the various powers within the Great Han Empire, the deities and Yin Offices across its entire territory had almost never gathered together.
The local Land Gods each guarded their own little patch of ground and governed the reincarnation of living beings. They had not the slightest interest in worldly power and even shunned it like snakes and scorpions, claiming it would affect their purity as deities!
Yet so many deities and City Gods had now gathered. What on earth was it for?
Not only the powers operating openly in the Great Han Empire, but even the monsters and fiends, wandering souls and stray ghosts, evil creatures and specters out in the countryside kept far away at the sight of this procession, afraid that the deities protecting these airships might take a dislike to them and send them on to the next life