Ch. 1002The Unspoken Rules of the Seed Trial
Lin Changqing learned that the Seed Trial’s top rankings were manipulated by factions, while a dispute among the Ancestral Court’s divine beings forced the conspirators to award him fourth place. The rankings had not yet been announced, but Lin Changqing had secured a Saint Son position despite their efforts to push him down.
- Gu Zhenyue and Xu Zixuan visited Lin Changqing, and Gu Zhenyue told him that the Seed Trial’s top three—and sometimes the top ten—were decided in advance by factions.
- Lin Changqing listened as Gu Zhenyue explained that some people within the Ancestral Court still fought to preserve fairness and keep the Seed Trial open.
- Cloud God argued before the divine beings in a palace that Lin Changqing deserved first place because he had collected more than ten thousand Heaven and Earth Bloodstones.
- The opposing faction dismissed Lin Changqing’s potential and tried to reserve the top rankings for three Innate Divine Saints, proposing to put Lin Changqing in eleventh place.
- Cloud God threatened to reveal the results publicly unless Lin Changqing received fourth place, and allies backed him until the others agreed.
- After Cloud God left, the remaining divine beings complained that the Seed Trial wasted resources on people they considered lowborn.