In an era where everyone is cultivating immortality, the system wants me to become a demon?

Chapter 366 Huai Lingwei: I'm not clean anymore! (3K views, please subscribe!)

Su Yuan smiled slightly and said:
"What my master instructed me to do was very simple: while continuously rising through the ranks in the celestial official system, I also needed to develop a network of potential informants."

"When he takes another step forward, we will all be bathed in the glory of our master and become one of the largest factions in the celestial official system."

Go a step further?
Hearing this very vague term, Huai Lingwei subconsciously began to let her thoughts wander.

What does this so-called "further step" mean?
This refers to the fact that the Corruption-Transforming Heavenly Lord did not originally belong to the Holy Law Governing Council, but because of a certain plan, he eroded the Immortal Realm and interfered in the affairs of the Heavenly Law World.
Or does it mean that he was originally a member of the Holy Law Council, dissatisfied with his current position, and wanted to go further and replace a certain deity with real power?
With too little information, Huai Lingwei was unable to make a judgment.

To be honest, a celestial official of her rank should not know any information about the Holy Law Council.

It was thanks to her uncle, a Nascent Soul stage cultivator with the rank of a third-grade official, who gave her some pointers that she was able to think so clearly.

The more she learned, the more she realized how dangerous it was to get involved in the plans of a powerful being at the Nascent Soul stage.

Huai Lingwei is a very ambitious person, but she is not the kind of person who is willing to give up everything for progress, even if it means selling her soul to the extraterrestrial demons.

She was satisfied with her current position and the speed of her promotion, and had no intention of leaving the current system to join the ranks of an unknown, powerful being.

Behind the generous rewards lie terrible risks, a fact that Huai Lingwei is well aware of.

As for whether the person in front of her was lying to deceive her?
This possibility was completely outside her consideration.

Because none of the forces in the Heavenly Law World that are not directly under the Holy Law Governing Council could possibly master the Divine Transformation Inheritance, those high-ranking Heavenly Gods are very strict about this matter.

The young man before us possesses a complete Nascent Soul inheritance. Either he has a Nascent Soul cultivator behind him who covets the Heavenly Law World, or he has someone in the Immortal Realm. There is absolutely no third possibility.

Neither of the first two possibilities is one that Huai Lingwei can afford to offend.

The fairy maiden, who had become a sixth-rank celestial official at a young age through her own efforts, quickly adjusted her attitude towards Su Yuan.

It was an undisguised expression of ingratiation.

"God... God, rest assured, I will definitely open the back door for this celestial official examination and persuade the other examiners to give you a high score, guaranteeing you will be assigned to the highest position allowed by the rules."

"I am a woman with a family to support, so please forgive me for not being able to fully pledge allegiance to the person behind you. But I will keep everything that happened today confidential and will not divulge a single word of it."

Huai Lingwei forced a smile and spoke as gently as possible.

If her limbs hadn't been controlled by fleshy tentacles, Su Yuan guessed the fairy would have bent her waist very low, making a standard apology gesture.

Su Yuan chuckled:
"Knowing my and my master's secrets, you still think you can remain unscathed?"

"You need to understand that my recruitment of you is not a request, but a notification, and you have no right to refuse."

Upon hearing this, Huai Lingwei's pretty face instantly turned deathly pale.

She quickly changed her tune, saying:

"Then...then I'm willing to surrender, I'm willing to be your person!"

Su Yuan remained calm:

"What's the use of just talking?"

As he spoke, the fully formed, decaying spores in his palm shimmered with an eerie red light.

Under Huai Lingwei's horrified gaze, Su Yuan raised his hand and rubbed it towards her lower abdomen, near her dantian, rubbing the putrid spores into it.

The next second, Huai Lingwei felt a powerful and hard object pierce through her dantian and take root there.

The piercing pain caused the fairy to let out a low moan of agony, and her smooth forehead instantly broke out in a thick layer of cold sweat.

Su Yuan felt no remorse whatsoever for causing Huai Lingwei to end up in such a miserable state.

Every single cultivator in the celestial official system is a corrupt official who deserves to be executed. He only gave them a slight punishment, which is already very merciful.

"The putrefactive spores are under my remote control at any time. As soon as I have a thought, they will grow immediately, drain your spiritual power in the first instant, and transform your whole body into black mud and tentacles, just like what you see now."

"If I can't contact the putrefactive spores for a period of time, it will also burst on its own, and you will still die then."

Su Yuan coldly reminded him:

"The strangeness of the Nascent Soul Divine Power is beyond your imagination. Unless you can get the help of another Nascent Soul Divine Power, even your Nascent Soul uncle cannot save your life."

"Be obedient, it's better for both of us."

The more Huai Lingwei listened, the more desperate she became, feeling as if the road ahead had turned completely bleak.

Even if she had a way to contact a Nascent Soul cultivator, how could she be sure that this contact wouldn't be known to that Corruption-Transforming Heavenly Lord?
"Why me?"

Huai Lingwei asked the question with pain and confusion.

Su Yuan smiled, casually stroked the beautiful fairy's face, and said lightly:

"Because when you're targeting the richest family, you have to first target the wealthiest one to set an example."

After saying that, Su Yuan had a thought, and he and Huai Lingwei immediately left the Tribulation Moon Space and returned to the latter's bedroom.

If it weren't for the black mud still clinging to her body and the slippery slime left by her fleshy tentacles, and Su Yuan still standing opposite her, Huai Lingwei would almost have thought that what had just happened was a hallucination.

"Fairy Huai, I look forward to your performance in the Celestial Official Examination." With that, Su Yuan's figure disappeared into the darkness.

A moment later, the light of dawn shone into Huai Lingwei's bedroom, illuminating the beautiful fairy curled up on the bed.

The fairy hugged her knees and leaned against the headboard, her clothes tattered, filth and slime on her body unwashed, her beautiful eyes lifeless and dull, as if she had encountered something terrible.

Outside the examination hall, the information broker, seeing the young man from the Cold Plum World return, approached him with a grin:
"You're back pretty quickly! Did the gift delivery go smoothly?"

Su Yuan maintained Su Youlin's usual aloof expression and said:

"It went pretty well."

The intelligence broker smiled and cupped his hands in a respectful gesture:

"Then I wish you the best of luck in getting into a good high school."

Su Yuan's lips curled up slightly, and he nodded.

Ten hours passed in the blink of an eye as the candidates waited anxiously and expectantly.

Fifteen minutes before the official start of the Celestial Official Examination, five examiners, each with a different temperament and appearance, descended from the sky with an imposing official aura.

Su Yuan and the other examinees looked up and saw that the newcomer was wearing a black gauze hat with upturned corners, with four people on both sides dressed in scarlet official robes, and one in the middle wearing a purple robe.

Judging from the style of the turban and official robes, they are similar to the official robes of officials during the Song Dynasty, Su Yuan's predecessor.

Through his interactions with local examinees in the Celestial Law World, Su Yuan learned that celestial officials below the seventh rank wore green robes, those of the fifth and sixth ranks wore scarlet robes, and high-ranking officials of the fourth rank and above all wore purple robes.

Furthermore, the specific rank and official position were distinguished by the different styles of headwear, belts, and official seals.

The five officials that Su Yuan met were definitely civil officials in the celestial official system.

While the official robes of military officers differed somewhat from those of civil officials, the colors of the robes corresponding to their ranks were the same.

Furthermore, in the world of Heavenly Law, military officers of the same rank generally have a lower status than civil officials. Therefore, unless there is absolutely no chance of passing the civil service exam, young cultivators will absolutely not join the army.

Su Yuan was initially very confused by the fact that the scholar was stronger than the warrior.

After all, this is a world of cultivation, where might makes right. Why should civil officials be able to suppress military officials?

After learning more, he realized that the inheritances that military officers could obtain were mostly short-term, quick-fix techniques that overtaxed their bodies. Not only were they limited to the early Nascent Soul stage, but their lifespans were also far shorter than those of normal cultivators.

But civil officials are different. The cultivation techniques they can practice bring them longevity and good fortune, with the upper limit of their techniques pointing directly to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

What military officials envied even more was that civil officials, once they reached the rank of fourth-grade official, could have the opportunity to ascend to the celestial realm and meet the immortals and gods.

In contrast, even if a military officer reaches the pinnacle of military rank, they can only serve as a gatekeeper in the celestial realm.

This made Su Yuan sigh, in the world of cultivation, those who wield the pen will only become stronger and will not be bullied by martial artists.

So what if a civil official of the same level is not as good as a military official in terms of combat strength?

With a peak Nascent Soul first-rank official as their leader, is it wrong for them to directly crush a Nascent Soul early-stage first-rank military officer like you with their cultivation level?
They have the right to confront the gods and complain to them, but do you, a military officer, have that right?

Under the suppression of various rules, the military officers indeed could not hold their heads high.

Upon learning this news, Su Yuan immediately abandoned the idea of ​​becoming a military officer.

After these thoughts flashed through his mind, Su Yuan began to carefully observe the five examiners on the examiner's panel.

One of the leading officials in purple robes was a middle-aged man with a short beard and a dignified and refined appearance, possessing the cultivation level of the peak of the Golden Core stage.

Su Yuan guessed that this person should be a fourth-rank celestial official.

This is precisely the minimum requirement for ascending to the Immortal Realm and meeting the gods and immortals, and it is also the ultimate goal of Su Yuan's undercover mission.

This made Su Yuan envious of the purple official robes the other party was wearing.

Hopefully, Huai Lingwei can step up her game and give herself a better starting point.

If you start as a lowly ninth-rank official, who knows how long it would take to rise to the rank of fourth-rank official.

The high-ranking official in purple robes took his seat first, followed by the celestial officials in scarlet robes on either side of him.

Sitting on the far left is Huai Lingwei, the one who was attacked by Su Yuan last night.

The fairy maiden quickly scanned the candidates, her gaze lingering on Su Yuan for a moment before quickly moving on.

"Candidates, please take your seats."

A male celestial official, sitting on the far right of the examiners' table and whose rank was clearly lower, spoke up.

The candidates found their seats according to their student numbers, and in the blink of an eye, the examination seats were full.

The next second, countless pristine white exam papers fell from the sky like snowflakes, landing steadily in front of each examinee.

Su Yuan looked down and found that the three major questions on the examiner's paper were exactly the same as the three questions given by the information broker, word for word.

(End of this chapter)