Hearing the words of Black and White Impermanence, the Ghost General felt a surge of excitement in his heart. If he could truly become an official ninth-rank official in the Underworld with an official payroll position, that would mean he had finally made it!
As for whether a ninth-rank official might be too small—nonsense! No matter how small it was, it was still an official government position in the Underworld! A proper civil servant! Wasn't that infinitely better than his current status as a wandering lone ghost?
To put it bluntly, while he called himself a Ghost General and commanded over five hundred followers, in the eyes of the Underworld, he was just a wandering ghost. Worse yet, precisely because he had those five hundred subordinates, he might easily be classified as a mafia-style syndicate violently resisting the law!
Chapter 556