On this day, word spread throughout the Nine Provinces.
In just a short while, the space beneath the Jade Stele of the Ten Thousand Spirits Celestial Pride List was packed to the brim with people who had swarmed to see the rankings!
Later, officials from the Imperial City Department cleared a path by beating gongs. A Third Grade Official, dressed in crimson robes and riding a grand, crimson-tasseled sedan chair, personally arrived at the base of the Ten Thousand Spirits Celestial Pride List.
The crowd hurriedly parted. A Third Grade Official, even if he hadn't reached the Great Scholar Realm himself, was equivalent to a Great Scholar when empowered by his Official Position!
A Scholar's path progresses from the Qi Nourishing Realm to the Vast Qi Realm, to the Righteous Qi Realm, to the Vast Realm, and finally to the Perception Realm—
