A Bureaucratic Demon on Mount Wutai

First of all, I'm a spirit.

Then, I'm a government-employed spirit with a steady income from incense offerings.

I work at the administration office that oversees all of Mount Wutai, the golden realm renowned throughout the Buddhist world.

In short, the Mountain Office.

As the saying goes, wherever there's someone breathing, there's a world of its own.

The holy mountain is filled with spiritual energy, and its residents range from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to all sorts of strange spirits. There are plenty of breathing souls around,

and every last one of the damn lot is powerful and arrogant, gathering followers and setting up factions. They all want to dig in their heels and refuse to leave, making them a real headache.

Poor me, a little spirit who just landed a secure job at the Mountain Office, has to deal with these big shots every day and beg them not to cause trouble.

What? It's Bodhisattva Manjushri's birthday, and there'll be tons of pilgrims, so we need traffic controls? Oh! Tomorrow is that old fox immortal's festival, so we need to notify the whole mountain to resist temptation and avoid getting tricked! And Third Master Dragon, who's terrible with directions, got caught in a human's net after making it rain yesterday, so I have to negotiate with the humans and buy him back...

The Mountain Office is made of gold, but its staff come and go like water.

Ah, steady income from incense offerings, please don't leave me...