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Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the following year.

After Ling Qing, Lü Dongbin, and their two younger brothers had celebrated the Lantern Festival at home, they packed up and set out for Chang'an.

An imperial examination was held every year at the end of the first month or the beginning of the second month, aside from special examinations granted by imperial favor.

This year's examination was to be held at the beginning of the second month.

Ling Qing and Lü Dongbin each rode a horse, a treasured sword strapped to their backs. Judging by their faces alone, they seemed like the same person.

After all, they had been born of the same mother.

The difference was that Lü Dongbin favored white robes and wore a Huayang headscarf.

Ling Qing, meanwhile, wore a blue-gray, nearly azure Daoist robe, with only a simple Daoist topknot atop his head.

Their two younger brothers were still young and rode together inside the carriage.

Yongle County was not far from Chang'an, and both Ling Qing and Lü Dongbin possessed swordsmanship.

Thus, aside from a bookboy assigned to each of the two younger brothers and a coachman driving the carriage, they brought no other guards.

They set out in the morning and entered the city by noon. Once there, they stayed at their eldest brother Lü Huang's home.

After resting briefly, their eldest brother took the four of them from household to household to submit their poems and essays for the court's high officials and renowned scholars to read and judge.

This would not only raise their chances of passing the examination, but was also necessary to obtain eligibility for it.

After all, to sit for the imperial examination, one