As morning light first broke, Lingyu was already standing before the Ascension Platform at the South Heavenly Gate.
The newly appointed "Celestial Household Registration Officer" rubbed his throbbing temples, gazing at the queue that wound deep into the sea of clouds, and regretted taking on this chore for the one-thousand-and-first time. More than nine hundred years ago, when he was finally freed from the Silence-Binding Chain, he had thought he could finally live the carefree life of an immortal. Who would have known that old fox Ye Wuchen would turn around and saddle him with such a wretched job.
"Next!" Lingyu shouted listlessly.
Chapter 47