Achieving Top Scholar

[In your seventh year, after celebrating your sixth birthday, you officially began practicing martial arts.]

[What you cultivated was the Body Tempering chapter of your own Sun Swallowing Divine Art.

This was something you created specifically for yourself in The Smiling, Proud Wanderer world, combining numerous body tempering martial arts.

Not only the Body Tempering chapter, but your Sun Swallowing Divine Art also includes Houtian and Xiantian chapters, making it a complete, high-grade Innate-level cultivation method from low to high.]

[Because the cultivation method you practice was created by you personally, you have already comprehended it to the Perfect level.

With the blessing of a Perfect-level cultivation method that is most suitable for you, coupled with ample nutrition, and the dual blessings of the talents Eating is a Blessing and Strength Multiplier, your cultivation is progressing rapidly, as if divinely assisted.]

[In your eighth year, after a year of hard training, you successfully raised your strength to the peak of the early Body Tempering Realm.

Your family's business is booming, and your parents are planning to open another inn, so they are even busier and pay less attention to you, only finding a private tutor for you to start learning the Four Books and Five Classics.]

[In your ninth year, because you need to go to school, your cultivation speed has slowed down, but even so, you have successfully raised your strength to the middle stage of the Body Tempering Realm.

At the end of the same year, your family's inn officially opened, named: Fulai Inn, just opposite your family's restaurant.

Your parents are even busier because of this and pay even less attention to you.]

[At the beginning of your eleventh year, your strength increased again due to diligent cultivation, and you successfully broke through to the late Body Tempering Realm.

In the same year, you successfully passed the county examination, although only in eleventh place, but you also became a well-known child prodigy, which made your parents very happy.]

[In your twelfth year, while studying and cultivating, you successfully raised your strength to the peak of the late Body Tempering Realm.

In the same year, Emperor Kangxi, Aisin Gioro Xuanye, who was only fourteen years old, officially took power.]

[At the end of your thirteenth year, your strength advanced again, and you successfully broke through to the Great Perfection of the Body Tempering Realm.

In this year, you also successfully passed the prefectural examination, although you only got eighteenth place, but you also obtained the qualification for the academy examination, which made your parents very happy.

However, your heart is not in this, and the examination is only to deal with your parents, and your focus is still on martial arts cultivation.]

[At the beginning of your fourteenth year, you officially began to cultivate the simplified version of the Purple Dawn Divine Skill after reaching the Body Tempering Great Perfection.]

It only took you one day to condense the first strand of Internal Force and successfully open up the Dantian Sea of Qi.

You also officially broke through to the early Houtian Realm because of this.

In the same year, Emperor Kangxi successfully eliminated the powerful minister Oboi and took exclusive control of power.]

[In your fifteenth year, after cultivating the Purple Dawn Divine Skill for more than a year, your strength skyrocketed, and you successfully opened up nine of the Twelve Meridian Channels, and your strength also broke through to the peak of the late Houtian Realm.]

[At the beginning of your sixteenth year, you opened up the remaining three of the Twelve Meridian Channels again, and your strength also broke through to the peak of the Houtian Realm, only a step away from breaking through to the Innate Realm.]

[Two months later, after accumulating enough Innate True Qi, you successfully opened up the Ren Meridian of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and you officially broke through to the Innate Realm because of this. At this time, you were less than fifteen years old.

As you officially broke through to the Innate Realm, your body also began to undergo earth-shaking changes under the strengthening of the Innate True Qi.

Martial arts aptitude, physical strength, reaction speed, thinking speed... everything is rapidly enhanced with the help of Innate True Qi.]

[As your thinking speed continues to increase, you also become divinely assisted in reading, and you can innovate and infer from one instance.

At this time, your cultivation has entered the right track, and you only need to bask in the sun every day to continue to become stronger.

Feeling bored, you decided to try the imperial examination path to see how far you, an Innate expert, can go.

In the same year, with the powerful memory and thinking speed of an Innate expert, you successfully passed the academy examination and achieved the third place, and you also became a student, that is, a Scholar.

This is a great achievement that brings glory to the family, which once made your parents so happy that they didn't close their eyes for three days. Your family's business also became better because you became a Scholar, and those local ruffians who used to come to take advantage of you disappeared without a trace.

You don't often go to your own restaurant and inn. If your father hadn't let it slip because he was happy that you passed the Scholar examination, you wouldn't have known that there were actually local ruffians who dared to come to your own restaurant and inn to collect protection fees.

Otherwise, you would have plenty of ways to make them all disappear completely.]

[In your seventeenth year, while studying and cultivating, you successively opened up the Du Meridian and Chong Meridian of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and your strength also broke through to the middle Innate Realm.

With your breakthrough, the Innate True Qi in your body has also increased a lot, both in quantity and quality.

This not only greatly improved your strength, but also allowed your body to be strengthened again by the stronger Innate True Qi in your body.

In August of the same year, you participated in this year's provincial examination.

Because your memory and thinking speed are stronger, you also successfully passed the provincial examination and achieved the seventh place, and you also became a Recommended Scholar.]

[Compared to a Scholar, the status of a Recommended Scholar is much higher. Not only can you be exempted from the whole family's labor, but you also have a stipend every year. You can also go to the Ministry of Revenue to select an official (whether you can be selected is another matter), and you don't have to kneel when you see an official, and you won't be subjected to torture... and many other privileges.

Your parents have also become superior because of your status, and the family's business has become even more popular because of this.]

[At the beginning of your eighteenth year, while studying and cultivating, you opened up the Dai Meridian of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians again, and your strength also increased to the peak of the middle Innate Realm.

In March of the same year, you participated in this year's spring metropolitan examination, and with your stronger memory and thinking speed, you successfully made the list and achieved the fifth place, becoming an Imperial Student.

The following month, you also participated in the palace examination and met Emperor Kangxi, who was only twenty years old.]

[With your advanced ideas that far surpassed this era, you were actually selected by the young Emperor Kangxi as the Top Scholar and awarded the position of Hanlin Academy Compiler, with an official rank of sixth grade.

Although this surprised you very much, this was originally the path of entertainment you chose for your boring cultivation time, so naturally you would not refuse.]

[In May of the same year, you officially entered the Hanlin Academy to start working, and your main responsibility is equivalent to the emperor's secretary.

But you did not see Wei Xiaobao, the Child of Destiny of this world, in the palace.

After inquiring, you learned that Wei Xiaobao was sent to attack Dragon Island last year and has not returned so far, and his life and death are unknown.

This reminded you that Wei Xiaobao should be chased by the Dragon Cult Leader at this time, so he fled to Russia.

As far as you know, he will not return to the capital until a year later.]