Li Qingxian said, "There's such a thing? No wonder King Slayer only took ten years to rise from Subordinate Seventh Rank to Second Rank. At this rate, he'll be promoted to First Rank before long. Wait. Ten years ago, the Heaven's Mandate Sect opened the Heaven's Mandate Myriad Phenomena Diagram to nurture King Slayer. Who is it for this year?"
The two looked at each other.
Zhou Chunfeng shook his head and said, "There hasn't been any word of it so far. We'll know once the Azure Cloud Examination ends."
"Whoever it is, it definitely won't be me. I'm not joining that fuss! Still... I really do crave the Fortune of the Azure Cloud Top Scorer. I heard that after becoming the Azure Cloud Top Scorer, a Grand Confucian will gift you poetry and prose, and you'll receive a baptism of Righteous Qi. If that's true, the power of my Righteousness Sword Seed will rise again." Yet Li Qingxian thought to himself, A Seventh Rank Fortune Mandate gave me thirty Fortune Fish. I wonder how many the Azure Cloud Top Scorer will give me. At least a hundred, probably. Maybe I can return to the capital and take the examination in a few years.
"You know I normally don't force you to study, but this Myriad Phenomena Azure Cloud Examination is truly a rare opportunity. Even when I was young, I would have participated," Zhou Chunfeng said.
Li Qingxian curled his lip and said, "Stop bragging. My father said that when you were young, all you knew was how to play with words and ink, chasing flowers and moonlight. You never knew to serve the country, and you always kept far away from things like this. Of the Three Sons of Bingchen, only the top scorer, Zhao Yishan, Chief Minister