Promoted to Seventh-Rank County Magistrate; Cultivation at the Golden Core Stage
Since Kong Wenxuan successfully advanced to the Fourth Tier Golden Core Stage, all the True Spirit Lineage in Bifang Commandery, and even some True Spirit Lineage in neighboring counties, have paid much attention to the Kong Household's "Peacock True Spirit Star".
Therefore, when the Kong Household began to promote the ascension of the "Peacock True Spirit Star" to the "Seventh-Grade True Spirit Heaven", the True Spirit Lineage in Bifang Commandery, as well as some True Spirit Lineage in neighboring counties, all became aware of it and paid close attention.
Thus, when the Kong Household's "Peacock True Spirit Star" successfully ascended to the "Seventh-Grade True Spirit Heaven" and settled there, a clear Peacock cry resounded throughout the surrounding void.
The various True Spirit Lineage in Bifang Commandery, and even some True Spirit Lineage in neighboring counties, have already sent their congratulations.
Even soon after Kong Wenxuan withdrew his mind, consciousness, and power from the "Peacock True Spirit Star," he sensed the vibration of the "Peacock County Magistrate's Official Seal." Thinking back to his promotion after leading his Lineage to the "Eighth-Grade True Spirit" position, he immediately understood.
He then took out the "Peacock County Magistrate's Official Seal" and looked up at it.
Sure enough, projections of "Bifang True Spirit Star", "Extended Net Moon Deer True Spirit Star", and "Vermilion Bird True Spirit Constellation" appeared in the sky, covering the entire Southern Region.
Amidst the cries of the Bifang bird, the deer, Vermilion Bird, a beam of starlight fell from the sky and entered the "Magistrate's Official Seal" in his hand.
Buzz!
The "Magistrate's Official Seal" suddenly hummed and trembled, its spiritual light, spirituality, and power greatly increased.
Kong Wenxuan immediately formed a hand seal and drew down a piece of Five-Colored Starlight from the "Peacock True Spirit Star," which had just been promoted to the "Seventh-Grade True Spirit" position and appeared in the air. The starlight entered the trembling and changing "Magistrate's Official Seal" and was re-refined and tempered.
Soon, the "eighth-rank Magistrate's Official Seal" in his hand was successfully promoted to "seventh-rank Magistrate's Official Seal". He was promoted again. Although he was still a county magistrate, his official rank had risen to the seventh rank.
First, this "Magistrate's Official Seal" has been upgraded from Third Tier Treasure Artifact to a Fourth Tier Law Treasure, becoming the first Law Treasure in his hands. Its power has greatly increased, especially within the "Peacock County" area. Its power in suppression, attack, and defense is probably no less than his current "Great Five Elements Sword Formation".
Of course, once he upgrades all five of his "Five Elements Divine Swords" to the Fourth Tier Law Treasure level, their power will far surpass that of this "Magistrate's Official Seal".
Then, compared to an eighth-rank county magistrate, a seventh-rank county magistrate had more rights and obligations within the "Golden Crow Imperial Dynasty" system.
For example, one can use merit points to exchange for resources, spiritual items, and inheritances in the "Imperial Treasury". A seventh-rank county magistrate can exchange for a wider variety of items, and many resources, spiritual items, and inheritance information that were not available to him when he was an eighth-rank county magistrate are now becoming available to him.
Moreover, as a seventh-rank county magistrate, the preferential treatment and reductions he enjoys when exchanging these resources, spiritual items, and inheritances from the treasury are even greater than when he was an eighth-rank county magistrate.
However, Kong Wenxuan only briefly browsed the newly opened treasure vault and checked the amount of merit he had accumulated. For the time being, he had no intention of exchanging resources, spiritual items, or inheritances from the treasure vault.
Although the Demon Race is now colluding with martial artists from the "True Martial World" to invade, even for Low-Grade True Spirit Lineage like theirs, there are still plenty of opportunities to make contributions.
Overall, however, earning these "imperial merits" is quite difficult, and may even require risking the lives of Lineage members.
Therefore, such opportunities to exchange merit points should definitely be used wisely.
Most of the resources and spiritual items currently available for exchange in the treasure vault can be purchased from the market, so there's no need to waste these hard-earned merits.
As for the inheritances available in the treasure vault, none of them compare to the "Five Elements True Scripture" inheritance that Kong Wenxuan obtained from the "Five-Colored Divine Light," so there's no need to waste merit points to exchange for them.
Originally, Kong Wenxuan and his Lineage intended to accumulate merits and exchange them from the treasury for "Heaven-Mending Pill" to heal the Second Elder Kong Changlan.
But now, with the Geng Household's gift of the "Heaven-Mending Pill," the Second Elder's injuries have healed, and he has resumed his cultivation path. The need to exchange for the "Heaven-Mending Pill" from the treasury is no longer there, so he can naturally continue to accumulate merit points for when he truly needs them later.
Therefore, after learning about the situation, Kong Wenxuan withdrew his Spiritual Consciousness, held the "Magistrate's Official Seal" that had promoted him to the seventh rank, and bowed to the direction of the Vermilion Bird Constellation and the direction of Bifang Commandery respectively to express his gratitude.
He then put away the "official seal" and focused on the situation at hand.
With the Lineage successfully advancing to the "Seventh-Grade True Spirit" level, the entire Lineage, and even the entire county, is now in a state of jubilation. The Lineage has already begun preparations for a celebratory banquet.
This time, Kong Wenxuan did not object.
After all, this is a tradition of each "True Spirit Lineage". After advancing to the next rank, they will hold a "Promotion Celebration Banquet". Moreover, many True Spirit Lineage have already sent congratulatory messages to the Kong Household and are preparing to send people to congratulate them. Among them are not only the True Spirit Lineage of Bifang Commandery, but also some True Spirit Lineage from neighboring counties.
Therefore, the Kong Household also had to hold a celebratory banquet to entertain these people who came from all directions to offer their congratulations.
However, it is clear that this "Promotion Celebration Banquet" will be far larger than the previous celebration banquet when the Lineage was promoted to the "Eighth-Grade True Spirit" position. The attendees will not only be True Spirit Lineage in Bifang Commandery, but also many True Spirit Lineage in neighboring counties.
Therefore, after discussing with the clan chief and others, Kong Wenxuan decided to hold the celebration banquet three months later.
On the one hand, the Lineage needs a certain amount of time to prepare for such a large-scale celebration, and on the other hand, it also takes enough time for the True Spirit Lineage teams from some neighboring counties to arrive in Peacock County.
After the time was set, Kong Wenxuan and his Lineage sent replies to the various "True Spirit Lineage" who came to offer their congratulations, confirming the itineraries for all parties. Subsequently, the entire Lineage and Peacock County began to get busy preparing for this "Promotion Celebration Banquet".
However, this had nothing to do with Kong Wenxuan.
As the strongest fighter and representative of the Lineage, he doesn't need to be busy with these trivial matters; he only needs to maintain his own fighting power and network of relationships.
Therefore, after contacting Golden Core True Person he was relatively familiar with, such as Ya Zhaoying and Bi Yanshu, and personally thanking them for their congratulations, Kong Wenxuan turned his attention to his own cultivation.
Although the "Advanced Rank Celebration Banquet" was only three months away, which was a short time, it didn't stop him from using this fragmented time to begin refining and improving the "Five Elements Divine Swords" in order to enhance his cultivation and strength.
After all, his sword-forging practice can be stopped at any time, and he doesn't need to go into seclusion.
Especially in the Golden Core Period of sword refining, the time, energy, and resources required to refine and improve each "Five Elements Divine Swords" far exceed those required in the Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage, often taking more than ten years. Therefore, it is even more necessary to make effective use of these fragmented moments.
Otherwise, it's uncertain how long it will take to refine and upgrade the "Five Elements Divine Swords" to the Fourth Tier Law Treasure level and complete the Golden Core Stage cultivation.