Golden clouds gather and gather the mist, mysterious light shines down and the purple palace opens.

The flags and pennants covered the sun and the moon, and the dragon chariot and phoenix chariot passed through the Yaohai Sea.

The jade shuttle flies and weaves the nine clouds, and the fairy maidens have already cut the spiritual flowers.

Thunder rumbles in the thirty-three heavens, indicating that it is the Jade Emperor's decree.

Mysterious light hangs over the universe, and purple air covers the heavens.

In the Lingxiao Palace, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady bowed her head in worship and reported in a clear voice, "I, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady, lead the Grand Envoy of the Taixuan Province, and report to Your Majesty: The triennial examination for immortal officials below the third rank has arrived. All first- and second-rank immortal officials from all departments of the Taixuan Province have obeyed the Jade Code and moved into the Jinxian Palace. I have come to request Your Majesty's decree."

The Jade Emperor sat high on the Purple Heaven Throne. After the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady finished her recital, he gave the imperial order, "Approved."

After saying that, the Jade Emperor raised his hand and shot out a ray of mysterious light. After the ray of mysterious light fell, it turned into a golden talisman and flew in front of the Queen Mother of the West.

The Queen Mother of the West stretched out her hands to take the golden talisman, bowed to the Jade Emperor again, and walked out of the Lingxiao Palace.

The Queen Mother of the West returned to Taixuandu Province and came to the Jinxian Hall. At this time, all the first-rank and second-rank civil and military immortal officials in Taixuandu Province were sitting in the hall waiting under the leadership of Wenshi Zhenren and Guan Yuanshuai.

When the Lady of the Nine Heavens entered the Jinxian Hall, all the immortal officials of the literary and martial arts circles stood up and bowed respectfully, saying, "Greetings to the Great Lord."

The Queen Mother of the West sat high on the Nine-cloud Bed. She pointed with her white hand, a jade light flashed, and then a golden seal appeared in front of her.

This golden seal is the 'Jade Code Golden Seal Merit Book', which governs the increase, decrease, granting, and change of merit for all things in the Three Realms, the Ten Directions, the Four Births, and the Six Paths, starting from the Taiyi Golden Immortal Dao Fruit. It also issues immortal status to those who achieve immortality, and all things that achieve immortality are registered in the book and given the Immortal Certificate Gold Seal.

The Jade Code and Golden Seal Merit Book is a copy of the Jade Emperor's 'Heavenly Scroll', which was granted by the Jade Emperor to the Grand Envoy of Taixuandu Province. The golden talisman is the command from the 'Heavenly Scroll' in the Jade Emperor's hand. After this command is injected into the 'Jade Code and Golden Seal Merit Book', and then authorized by the Queen Mother of the Nine Heavens, those present can check the jade discs of all the immortal officials in the heavens from the third rank and below.

After the Queen Mother of the West entered the golden talisman into the Jade Code and Golden Seal Merit Book, she turned into a ray of jade light and flew to the top of the Jinxian Hall, then spread a golden light that illuminated the entire Jinxian Hall.

One thing that needs to be said here is that the ranks of most of the immortal officials in heaven correspond to their level of Taoism.

The Lianqi realm corresponds to the ninth grade, the Lianxuan realm to the eighth grade, the Lianshen realm to the seventh grade, the Lianxu realm to the sixth grade, the Baodan realm to the fifth grade, the Yuanying realm to the fourth grade, and the Yangshen realm to the third grade.

The True Immortal Dao Fruit is of the second grade, and the Mysterious Immortal Dao Fruit is of the first grade.

From Taiyi Xuanxian and above, Jinxian, Taiyi Jinxian, and Daluo Jinxian are all super-grade immortal officials. Most of them are not responsible for specific affairs, but must obey orders at any time.

Therefore, there is also a rule in Heaven that immortal officials with very low Taoism, such as the land god, are allowed to avoid disasters when encountering major events, but they must report to Heaven in a timely manner, otherwise they will be treated as dereliction of duty.

Therefore, the immortal officials in the Jinxian Hall before us are all second-grade immortal officials who have achieved the True Immortal Dao Fruit, and first-grade immortal officials who have achieved the Mysterious Immortal Dao Fruit.

"Let's start." said the Queen Mother of the West.

As the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady finished speaking, Wen Shi Zhenren made hand gestures and sent a beam of immortal light towards the Jade Code Golden Seal Merit Book. He then spoke, "Taixuan Metropolitan Province, following the decree of the Jade Emperor, officially begins the examination for immortal officials below the third rank of Yuan. Immortal officials of all levels below the third rank of Yuan are ordered to place their jade discs on the altar of the Jingshe for inspection. The Grand Envoy of the Taixuan Metropolitan Province, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Yang Yuannu Holy Mother, immediately obey the order!"

The words of Master Wenshi were instantly transmitted into the souls of all immortal officials below the third rank in the Heavenly Court through the connection between the Jade Code Golden Seal Merit Book and the Immortal Official Jade Disc.

Fang Jian, who had just returned to the land temple, also heard this majestic voice from the Immortal Official Jade Disc in his soul. He immediately set up an altar in the temple and placed the Immortal Official Jade Disc on the altar.

I saw a ray of fairy light falling down, accurately covering the fairy official's jade disc on the altar.

Seeing this scene, Fang Jian knew that the triennial examination had officially begun, so he sat quietly beside the altar and waited.

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"Nine hundred and sixty-seven people have passed the examination for the Third Rank Immortal Official Heavenly Talisman. All of them passed the examination with a good grade, and none received an excellent grade."

"There are 3,800 fourth-grade immortal officials who have passed the Heavenly Talisman. All 3,800 have passed the examinations, and all were rated as good, with no one receiving an excellent grade."

"There are 16,000 fifth-rank immortal officials who have passed the Heavenly Seal. 15,999 have been examined. Yu Youqing from the Siming Academy was not accepted. The rest all received good grades, with no one receiving an excellent one."

The Queen Mother of the West sat at the top with her eyes slightly closed, but she listened carefully to the announcements of the immortal officials in charge of the examination below.

Who will be awarded the Outstanding Evaluation this time? And what rank will their Immortal Official be?

But when Jiu Tian Xuan Nu heard that there was no Excellence among the five-rank officials, she couldn't help but feel disappointed. The higher the rank of the immortal official, the easier it is to get an Excellence evaluation, and the lower the rank, the harder it is to get one.

This is closely related to power, ability and even cultivation, so the greater the power, the stronger the ability and the higher the cultivation, the more likely it is to receive excellent evaluation.

At the same time, in the Lingxiao Palace, the Jade Emperor and a group of gods were also waiting for the result.

The immortal officials who appear with excellent evaluations in every major examination are extremely important reserve forces in the future Heavenly Court. Once an excellent one appears, he will be directly summoned to the Lingxiao Palace to receive face-to-face assessment by the Jade Emperor.

At this moment, Taishang Laojun took out a jade box from his arms and said with a smile: "I will give you a sixth-grade golden elixir. I bet that the best one will appear among the ninth-grade immortal officials this time."

Who dares to start a gambling game in the Lingxiao Palace? Apart from the Taoist and Buddha, there is no one else.

The Jade Emperor smiled slightly when he heard this. It didn’t matter to him. No matter which grade they came from, they were all from his Heavenly Palace.

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