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Chapter 12 People Who Want to Become Celestial Officials
call……

A cool breeze blew through the window, and dusk descended on the distant sky.

Wu Yun sat on a stone by the window, making the most of the remaining daylight to quickly debug the newly made detector.

He filled a transparent, flat glass jar with filamentous clouds and solidified them into the shape of a mosquito coil, so that he could more accurately locate the source of spiritual energy.

At this moment, he took the twenty detectors he had just made and approached them one by one with an official hat on the table to observe the magnitude of the reaction.

"This... the reaction is a bit too strong. Is the cloud silk too thick?"
"Is the internal ice crystal skeleton too thin?"

The mink dog next to the boss was also frowning, looking like it was thinking carefully... even though it couldn't understand what the boss was saying at all.

Seeing the boss unscrew the glass jar and start fiddling with the thin cloud wisp, it figured it had nothing to do, so it simply ran off to clean up the makeshift base, throwing out all the useless rubble, broken wood, and other construction debris.

Before long, the night grew even darker.

After adjusting the detector and testing it for a while, Wu Yun finally showed a satisfied smile.

"Not bad!"

Looking up, I saw Mink Circle cleaning up the trash again.

"No need, it's just a temporary base anyway."

"Take a break..."

"well?

"and many more?"

He suddenly noticed that the mink was hugging a broken stone slab covered with densely packed characters!

"Can I take a look at this stone slab?"

……

"That's right! That's right! That's right!"
"This place is the furthest coordinate left by our ancestors four generations ago!"

As dusk fell, Liu Mian and Liu Ye grew increasingly excited!
In Liu Ye's hands, he held a special map. The map did not depict mountains or rivers, but only recorded celestial phenomena and observation data.

“Our Liu family has wanted to explore this floating island for nine generations.”

“Each generation that enters this dream world will persist in exploring its boundaries and then record the results of their exploration in this star map.”

"The first generation of ancestors paid a huge price to communicate with the examiners and figure out the direction of the nearest floating island."

"The second generation of ancestors developed this star-fixing ruler, leaving a tool for future generations to explore dreams."

"The third-generation ancestors honed their flying skills, leaving behind sufficient leg strength for their descendants!"
"Our fourth-generation ancestor even saw that floating island from afar!"
Unfortunately, he only saw it once.

"What's even more regrettable is that he didn't have time to leave accurate coordinates with the star-fixing ruler."

"The fifth generation ancestor used the farthest coordinates left by the fourth generation ancestor as the starting point and divided the area in front into eight regions."

"Our ancestors had searched all six regions, but they still couldn't find the floating island."

"As long as our generation searches the remaining two areas, we will surely be able to successfully land on the island!"
"At that time, we will become the first people in history to land on the island!"

call……

As the evening breeze blew, Liu Mian and Liu Ye's clothes fluttered, filled with boundless pride!
The underling behind him muttered something inappropriately.

"Is it possible that the kid from the lower realm has already landed on the island?"

Liu Mian glanced back coldly, and the younger brother quickly shut his mouth and lowered his head.

But then Liu Mian let out a soft hum.

"What use is it for a lowly commoner like me to fly a little faster?"

"Can you find the floating island by flying fast?"
"Flying fast can surpass the thousand-year heritage of my Liu family in Jizhou."
That's a joke.

"There's only half a cup of tea's time left before we have to go back."

"Everyone, spread out to the left front and start exploring!"

……

Being locked up in jail is so boring!

"Ok?"

Sitting outside the door, by the remaining daylight, Wu Yun saw the first sentence on the stone slab and his expression immediately turned strange.

He looked up again at the temporary outpost, at the building… “No wonder it’s so sturdy. All the other buildings have collapsed, but this one is still intact. It’s a prison cell, and it’s been reinforced?”

The mink, with its little head close to the side, also looked enlightened... although it didn't quite understand what the prison cell meant either.

On this stone slab, it appears to be the writing of a criminal who was extremely bored.

My parents have always said I'm a genius.

It's a pity there's no school on the island, so I couldn't study; otherwise, I might have had the chance to become a celestial official.

There are no schools on the island, so can't I go to study outside the island?

My parents said that we islanders are born and die on the island, so of course we can't leave.

There are many celestial officials on the island; can't I take over their positions?

My parents said I was a foolish child. All the celestial officials have the surname Chen, but I don't. How could I become a celestial official?

"Celestial Official?"
"Is there information about celestial officials on this stone tablet?"

Wu Yun read on more attentively, word by word.

Does having the surname Chen guarantee one's status as a celestial official?

But Chen Zongmin, who grew up with me, is clearly not as good as me.

I can smell the spiritual energy, but he can't.

I can hear the voice of spiritual energy, but he can't.

I can see the tides of spiritual energy, but he can't.

When I was fourteen, I discovered that the island's spiritual energy array was leaking, and I immediately went to report it to the garrison commander.

The garrison commander said I had performed a great service!

[Haha, my parents were wrong after all. I am indeed more suitable to be a celestial official than Chen Zongmin.]

I can achieve great merit and receive praise from the garrison commander, but he cannot.

The garrison commander greatly appreciates me and has assigned me to the array core inspection office, where I inspect the array cores daily.

My grandfather was a shoemaker on the island, and my grandmother was a laundry worker; they had never been to the inner part of the island.

My father was a shoemaker on the island, and my mother was a laundry worker. They had never been to the inner part of the island.

I learned to make and repair shoes since I was a child, but I entered the inner ring of the island, even the great formation, and even the core of the formation.

Those few days, the family was as happy as if it were Chinese New Year, and my parents' faces were full of smiles.

They walked with straighter backs and spoke with louder voices.

But they don't know that I'm even more capable than they imagine.

I was born with the ability to see, hear, and smell spiritual energy. I patrol the array's core three times a day and three times a night. No blockage, leakage, overload, or underload of spiritual energy can escape my eyes.

With me here, none of the other celestial officials in the inspection room need to be on duty!

Upon seeing this, Wu Yun clicked his tongue in amazement.

"So capable?"
"There are also Scroll Kings in the heavens?"

And so I worked day after day, month after month, year after year.

Finally, Old Master Chen, the inspector in the patrol room, is retiring.

He's retiring!

His official hat and his spirit-testing stick must both be removed!

[One person will don the celestial official's hat he removed, pick up the spirit-testing stick he discarded, and become the new celestial official!]

This concludes the content on the stone slab.

Just as Wu Yun was about to look up, he saw that Diao Quanquan had already gone to the garbage heap, dug out all the other stone slabs with words on them, and placed them aside.

"Ouch!"

It grinned and smugly showed the biggest piece to the boss.

　This book will be very, very different in its setting, so please look forward to it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)