Once the morning court assembly at Lingxiao Palace adjourned, the clerks of Tongming Hall were run off their feet.
With one turn, Chen Wei had become Wude True Lord.
The imperial decree granting his new title bypassed the usual approval process. Once the Great Heavenly Venerable settled the matter with his golden words, Tongming Hall stamped it with its bright red seal and, as usual, distributed the documents to every department and office of the Heavenly Court.
From the Thirty-Six Heavenly Palaces to the Seventy-Two Treasure Halls, the desks of immortals everywhere bore the same name:
Chen Qingquan, Wude True Lord.
His rise set what could only be called the fastest record since the Heavenly Court's founding.
How hard was it to get ahead in the Heavenly Court?
An ordinary cultivator who ascended was already extraordinarily lucky to land a position as Celestial River Vice General in the Heavenly River Navy.
With a little more luck, after slogging through a few thousand years, they might barely scrape together an unranked immortal office.
Even an immortal second generation with powerful backing, starting as a heavenly immortal, had to leave it to fate whether they could climb to primordial unity golden immortal.
A loose immortal?
They could struggle all the way to the five declines of heaven and man without so much as touching the threshold of golden immortal, only to end up a handful of yellow earth.
But Chen Wei?
His seat as chief official of the Discipline Inspection Court was not even warm before he took flight on the spot and became a true lord.
Less than an hour after the documents went out, sour envy rose to the skies from every corner of the Heavenly Court. Two idle immortal officials off duty muttered to each other in lowered voices.