Yang Youtian's choice of when to make an enemy of Little Bad King, and when to leave the secret realm, could both be called remarkably farsighted.
Before Little Bad King and the others entered the Myriad Spirits Garden Secret Realm, news of the impending "calamity" in the Migration Land had already spread like wildfire through the Three Great Factions. Almost everyone knew about it. The New Year's Watchers had made ample preparations as well. The Ministry of War and Vermilion Bird Academy jointly issued an order-those without duties were to enter Heavenly Capital and serve in September.
The order meant that anyone in the ministry or academy who had not entered a secret realm or received a proper assignment could now try their luck in Heavenly Capital. They were to take assignments and travel early, occupy as many Order assignment slots as possible, then wait for calamity to descend in September and serve as New Year's Watchers.
They were all adults, workhorses well versed in worldly affairs. Slacking off or running little speculative businesses was one thing on an ordinary day, but with calamity descending in September and the old Divine Court hanging by a thread, this was a matter of the utmost importance to the entire Order Faction. More importantly, the ministry and academy had explicitly summoned those "without duties." Even the lazy bastards who would not take a shit until it was already at their assholes, along with the "Low-Key Kings," knew there was no escaping it. They could only report on time and head to Heavenly Capital together to make their fortunes.
Neither the ministry nor the academy had kept strict counts of how many New Year's Watchers entered Heavenly Capital over those two months. But according to Brother Second Fan, Huaxia's fifth God, currently serving in