"Never in my wildest dreams did I expect that, at this Flat Peach Dharma Banquet, this old man would be seated together with little brother Lingyuan."
"The Heavenly Court's seventh seat—this position is anything but ordinary."
Fuyun Immortal Monarch looked at Jiang Sheng with meaningful interest, his words full of praise and sentiment.
It was not that Fuyun Immortal Monarch was deliberately flattering him. Jiang Sheng's seat truly was astonishing.
One had to know that among the Heavenly Court's immortals and gods, those qualified to take seats at the Flat Peach Banquet were all Orthodox Gods. For instance, the chief ministers, left and right assistant ministers of the Heavenly Court's Thirty-Six Departments, as well as the Emperor Lords of the Fifty-Six Palaces. Although the chief officials of the Seventy-Two Academies and One Hundred and Eight Mansions possessed Integration cultivation, with some even boasting Five Calamities combat power, they could not enter the main seating. Receiving a gift bestowed by the Queen Mother was enough to make them overjoyed. Apart from the handful of chief officials who had caught the eye of His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor or the Changsheng Great Emperor and were being prepared for promotion, no one else could enter this Yaochi.
Among all the Heavenly Court's Orthodox Gods, Jiang Sheng's realm was undoubtedly comparable only to those academy heads of the Seventy-Two Academies who were awaiting promotion: all possessed Five Calamities cultivation. Even if Jiang Sheng had Great Vehicle-level strength, he should only have ranked within the thirty-six seats. How could he have entered the first twelve?
These first twelve seats were the positions of chief minister for the Heavenly Court's Twelve Upper Departments.
The five departments representing the Five Elements—Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth—together with the four departments of Wind, Thunder, Star, and Sui, as