...Hou Niao was hoisted up because he committed theft!
To the Goddesses, these men were mere possessions that could be gifted away; they didn't care. However, if you were caught indulging with another Goddess before the handover, that was a grave sin.
The higher the rank, the more this held true, and the stricter the rules were.
For a man of the West Temple, to have indulged with an Eastern Goddess after the Heavenly Sacrament ceremony—of course, the Goddess was not to blame, but rather it was he, a Divine Servant, who bore the guilt.
Being suspended was merely for show, a warning to others—the real punishment was yet to come.
Three days later, a famished Hou Niao was carried and thrown between Yuan Magnetic Mountain, tied to a large Shi Zhu.
This was the Goddesses' punishment for a Divine Servant who rode both sides of the fence and failed to abide by the rules; regardless of how hard he worked to patch leaking roofs, pleading with pillow talk was of no use.
