"Guardian Yuyue, you will be responsible for taking Minister Chen to the Divine Excursion Department to assume his post." Violet Firmament Venerable turned toward one side of the hall.
"Yes, Sect Master."
Yuyue answered solemnly, then looked at Chen Beiwu and deliberately winked. "Please follow me, Minister Chen."
Chen Beiwu smiled, allowing Guardian Yuyue to summon escape light and carry him into the sky.
Along the way, Yuyue discussed the general situation in the Divine Excursion Department.
"The Divine Excursion Department doesn't have many cultivators-only eight, all told.
"Although Deputy Minister Liu Chenxing is a half-step Spirit Transformation cultivator, he only holds a nominal post and rarely concerns himself with departmental affairs. The only ones who actually do any work are those seven Nascent Soul peak True Lords."
"Wait, apart from the minister, the Divine Excursion Department has no other Spirit Transformation Venerables stationed there?" Chen Beiwu was rather surprised.
"Of course. Do you think Spirit Transformation Venerables are giant pandas you can find everywhere?" Yuyue raised an elegant eyebrow, taking the initiative to joke with him.
Ranked by the importance of its duties, the Divine Excursion Department stood among the Sect's higher departments, but the same point still held: anyone who became a Spirit Transformation Venerable was already among the Immortal Alliance's upper echelons.
Even though the Jade Purity Immortal Sect had quite a few Spirit Transformation Venerables, it could not possibly assign several of them to a single department.
However, considering the dangers the Divine Excursion Department might face, the Sect's leadership imposed rather stringent
requirements on its minister.
For example, the Divine Excursion Department's previous minister had been a mighty Spirit Transformation peak cultivator. His strength had ranked among the very best of Jade Purity's Spirit Transformation Venerables, and he had been only a step away from