Su Yuan smiled slightly and said:

"The task my master gave me is straightforward: while continually rising through the ranks in the Immortal Official System, cultivate informants with potential."

"On the day he advances further, we shall all bask in the glory of my master, becoming one of the most significant factions in the Immortal Official System."

Further advancement?

Huai Lingwei heard this rather vague term and instinctively let her mind wander.

What does this so-called further advancement mean?

Does it mean that the Decaying Celestial Monarch was originally not part of the Holy Law Governance Council and only because of some plan, eroded the Immortal Realm and interfered in the affairs of the Celestial Law World?

Or does it mean he was a member of the Holy Law Governance Council, dissatisfied with his current position, and wants to advance further, replacing an Immortal God with real power?

With too little information, Huai Lingwei couldn’t judge.

To tell the truth, at her level as an Immortal Official, she shouldn’t know any intelligence about the Holy Law Governance Council.

Thanks to a few pointers from her Nascent Soul Stage uncle with a Third Grade official position, she could think so thoroughly.

The more she knew, the more she understood how dangerous it was to be involved in the plans of a Divinity Transformation Great Power.

Huai Lingwei was a person with great ambition, but she was not the type to be willing to give anything for progress, even if it meant selling her soul to the Outer Heaven Demons.

She was quite satisfied with her current position and promotion speed and didn’t want to leave the present system to serve under an unknown Divinity Transformation Great Power.

Rich rewards come with terrifying risks, a fact Huai Lingwei understood very well.

As for the possibility that the person before her was lying to deceive her?

This was entirely outside her realm of consideration.

Because all non-Holy Law Governance Council forces in the Celestial Law World could never possess the Divinity Transformation Inheritance, those towering Immortal Gods guard against this aspect strictly.

This young man before her with a complete Divinity Transformation Inheritance must have a Divinity Transformation eyeing the Celestial Law World behind him, or someone in the Immortal Realm, with no third possibility.

Neither of the first two possibilities was something Huai Lingwei could offend.

This Fairy Huai, who had become a Standard Sixth Grade Immortal Official thanks to her efforts at a young age, quickly adjusted her attitude toward Su Yuan.

Her face showed an undisguised smile of flattery.

"Do not worry, Divine Son, sir. In this Immortal Official Exam, I will definitely open the back door and persuade other examiners to give you high marks, ensuring you are assigned to the highest position allowed by the rules."

"However, as a humble girl with family burdens, I must beg forgiveness for not being able to completely pledge allegiance to the lord behind you, but I will surely keep today’s events a secret, not leaking a single word."

Huai Lingwei tried hard to force a smile, her tone as gentle as possible.

If it weren’t for her limbs being controlled by bloody tentacles, Su Yuan guessed that the fairy’s waist would bend very low in a standard apologetic posture.

Su Yuan chuckled:

"Knowing the secrets of me and my master, you still wish to remain independent?"

"You must realize, seeking you is not a request, just an announcement, and you have no right to refuse."

At these words, Huai Lingwei’s pretty face instantly turned as pale as death.

She hurriedly changed her tune and said:

"Then I... then I am willing to surrender, I am willing to be yours!"

Su Yuan’s expression remained calm:

"Just saying it means nothing."

As he spoke, a corruption spore fully formed in his palm, glowing with a sinister red light.

Under Huai Lingwei’s terrified gaze, Su Yuan raised this hand and rubbed it against her lower abdomen where her dantian was, embedding the corruption spore inside.

The next second, Huai Lingwei felt a strong and unyielding object fiercely pierce her dantian, taking root and staying there.

The sharp piercing pain of that moment made this Female Fairy involuntarily let out a low, agonizing moan, as cold sweat densely beaded her smooth forehead.

Having brought Huai Lingwei to such a state, Su Yuan felt not the slightest hint of guilt.

The cultivators under the Immortal Official System, every last one, were all corrupt officials deserving to be pushed onto the Immortal Execution Platform; he was only administering mild punishment, already showing great mercy.

"The corruption spore is under my remote control at any time. With a single thought, it will immediately grow, draining your spiritual power and converting you into black sludge and tentacles, just like what you see now."

"If there is a period when I cannot contact the corruption spore, it will also erupt on its own, and you will die then anyway."

Su Yuan coldly reminded:

"You cannot imagine the strangeness of Divinity Transformation Divine Techniques. Unless you receive the help of another Divinity Transformation, not even your Nascent Soul-stage uncle can save your life."

"Be obedient; it benefits both you and me."

The more Huai Lingwei listened, the more desperate she became, feeling that the path ahead had turned utterly dark.

Needless to say, she had no way to contact a Divinity Transformation Great Power, even if she did, how could she be sure that this contact wouldn’t be known to that Decaying Celestial Monarch?

"Why me?"

Huai Lingwei asked in pain and confusion.

Su Yuan smiled slightly, his hand casually brushing over the beautiful fairy’s jade-like face, and said lightly:

"When targeting the landlords, you must first aim at the wealthiest family to set an example."

With that, as Su Yuan’s thoughts moved, he and Huai Lingwei immediately left the Tribulation Moon Space and returned to her bedroom.

If not for the slight traces of black mud and the slick mucus left by fleshy tentacles on them, with Su Yuan still standing opposite her, Huai Lingwei would have almost thought it was all a hallucination.

"Fairy Huai, I’m looking forward to your performance in the Celestial Examination."

As the words fell, Su Yuan’s figure disappeared into the darkness.

Moments later, the dawn’s light spilled into Huai Lingwei’s bedroom, illuminating the pure and elegant fairy curled up on the bed.

The fairy hugged her knees against the headboard, her clothes tattered, indifferently ignoring the dirt and mucus on her body, with her beautiful eyes lifeless and soulless, as if she had encountered something terrifying.

Outside the examination hall, an intelligence broker, seeing the young man from the Cold Plum World return, approached with a smile:

"You came back quickly, did the gift delivery go smoothly?"

Su Yuan maintained Su Youlin’s usual cold demeanor and said:

"Fairly smoothly."

The intelligence broker chuckled and bowed slightly:

"Then I wish you success in achieving a high position."

Su Yuan’s lips curled slightly as he nodded.

As the candidates waited nervously and expectantly, ten hours passed swiftly.

Moments before the official start of the Celestial Examination, five examiners with varying appearances and imposing official aura descended from the sky.

Su Yuan and the other candidates looked up to see them: wearing black gauze capes with flat lacings, four on the sides dressed in red official robes, and the central one in a purple robe.

Judging from the capes and the style of their official robes, they resembled the official attire from the Song Dynasty of Su Yuan’s previous life.

Through interactions with local candidates from the Celestial Law World, Su Yuan learned that Immortal Officials below Seventh Grade wore green robes, Fifth to Sixth Grade wore red robes, and high officials above Fourth Grade uniformly wore purple robes.

The specific grade and official position were distinguished further by the accessories on their caps, belts, and the style of their official seals.

The five officials Su Yuan saw were unmistakably civil servants within the Immortal Official System.

Military officers’ robes differed slightly but shared the same color scheme corresponding to their ranks.

Moreover, in the Celestial Law World, the status of military officers was generally lower than that of civil servants, so young cultivators would never join the military unless they had no chance of entering the civil service.

Su Yuan was initially quite puzzled by the precedence of civil over military.

After all, this was a Cultivation World where strength prevailed; how could civil servants suppress military officers?

Upon learning more, he discovered that military officers typically acquired short-term, fast-track techniques that overdrew their bodies, with an upper limit only reaching the Nascent Soul Early Stage, and their lifespan was far shorter than that of normal cultivators.

But civil servants were different; they could cultivate long-lasting techniques, with a cultivation ceiling directed at the Nascent Soul Peak.

What military officers envied most was that once civil servants reached the rank of Fourth Grade high officials, they received an opportunity to ascend to the Immortal Realm and meet the Immortal Gods.

In contrast, military officers, even at their peak, could only serve as guards at the gates of the Immortal Realm.

This left Su Yuan marveling that in the Cultivation Realm, those with the pen would only grow stronger and wouldn’t be oppressed by the military.

Even if civil servants’ combat power wasn’t on par with military officers of the same realm, so what?

They had those like the Nascent Soul Peak First-Grade high officials as their leaders, who could directly crush a Nascent Soul Early Stage First-Grade military officer with their realm, any problem with that?

They had the privilege of directly facing the Immortal Gods and lodging complaints; did military officers have that?

Under such suppressive rules, military officers indeed couldn’t lift their heads.

Upon learning this information, Su Yuan immediately dispelled any thoughts of becoming a military officer.

These thoughts quickly flashed through Su Yuan’s mind as he carefully observed the five examiners on the examiners’ panel.

The leading purple-robed high official was a middle-aged man with a short beard, a dignified and scholarly face, possessing cultivation at the Golden Core Peak.

Su Yuan speculated that this person was likely a Fourth Grade Immortal Official.

This happened to be the minimum requirement for ascending to the Immortal Realm and meeting the Immortal Gods, and it was Su Yuan’s ultimate goal for this undercover mission.

Su Yuan couldn’t help but admire the other party’s purple official robe.

He hoped Huai Lingwei could shine a bit more, giving him a relatively high starting point.

Starting as a Ninth-Grade Official and climbing up to a Fourth-Grade high official, who knows how long that would take.

The purple-robed high official on the examiners’ panel was the first to take his seat, followed by the red-robed Immortal Officials on his left and right.

The person seated on the far left was the one Su Yuan had raided last night, Huai Lingwei.

This Fairy Huai swiftly scanned the candidates, her gaze freezing momentarily on Su Yuan before quickly moving on.

"Candidates, take your seats."

A male Immortal Official, seated at the far right of the examiners’ panel in a noticeably lower official position, spoke up.

The candidates quickly found their designated seats according to their numbers, and in the blink of an eye, the examination seats were filled.

An instant later, countless pristine white exam papers fell like snow, landing steadily in front of each examinee.

Su Yuan lowered his head and saw that the three major questions on the exam were exactly the same as the three provided by the intelligence broker, word for word.