Lin Changsheng now held office as a deputy general, the Qiong Prefecture assistant, and a principal sixth-rank immortal official of Great Jin!
Together with several gentlemen of the palace at peak Golden Core, he commanded and drilled a hundred thousand Qiongzhou Army cultivators on behalf of the Front Army's commander, Guanyin Tower Master. His power reached the heavens!
In that great confiscation case that had swept through Qiongzhou and sent heads rolling, he had been the chief executioner whose very name struck terror into countless hearts!
From a minor cultivator struggling to survive in the Condensed Jade Sect's outer sect to someone whose stomp could shake all of Qiongzhou-he owed all of it to his master!
At the same moment, inside the Government Affairs Hall of the Provincial Governor's Headquarters.
Xu Jiuling sat upright behind a large red sandalwood desk. His blue official robes made his face look all the more solemn and composed. His aura was rounded and profound: he had actually reached peak Golden Core and was steadily transitioning toward the Pseudo-Nascent Soul Realm!
He was now Great Jin's principal sixth-rank Qiongzhou registrar, advising on Qiongzhou's governmental affairs and wielding considerable authority.
His fingertip lightly tapped a jade slip floating before him. Vast quantities of data-the current year's taxes from Qiongzhou's six prefectures, the output of its various mine veins, the harvests from its countless spirit fields-flashed through his divine sense like streaks of light.
Nearly thirty years had passed since that epochal battle that decided Qiongzhou's fate, the Prefectural Examination that followed, and the Major Purge of Internal Traitors that implicated countless people and washed several great clans in blood.
In Qiongzhou today, aside from Lotus Prefecture at its westernmost edge, which still resisted desperately and had yet to be completely conquered, the vast territories of the