The Amazing son in law Chapter 7836
However, the imperial examinations were not held by the visible and tangible imperial court, but by a group of super cultivators with extraordinary cultivation levels.
Just as the imperial court needs to select new officials through the imperial examination, super cultivators also need to select new people to replenish the upper echelons with fresh blood.
So they orchestrated a so-called heavenly tribulation and ascension.
It’s not that just because you’ve reached a certain level of cultivation, the Heavenly Dao will actually strike you with heavenly lightning to test your destiny. If there really is such a thing as the Heavenly Dao, it has to manage hundreds of billions of galaxies, hundreds of billions of stars, and even more planets in the entire universe. The Heavenly Dao is too busy to care about some tiny shrimp on a certain planet. Why would it specifically send a lightning bolt at you? Do you really think you’re so great?
Wu Bolin felt that the so-called tribulation was actually more like your cultivation level just meeting the minimum requirements for selection. The higher-ups noticed you and gave you a chance to participate in the imperial examination.
The thunderbolt might just be a test, nothing more.
They’ll give you a chance to take the exam. If you can pass it, it means you’ve passed the test from above. Then they’ll use their supernatural powers to open a door and teleport you there. That’ll be your entry into the court as an official. After that, you’ll start working from the bottom up, since there are always higher-ups above you.
Even the imperial examinations require three rounds of testing: the provincial examination, the metropolitan examination, and the palace examination. The tribulation might only be the first round of provincial examinations for cultivators.
In ancient times, even if you passed all three rounds of the imperial examinations and even if you were the top scholar in the final palace examination, you were only qualified to enter the Hanlin Academy, a mere sixth-rank official. Once you entered the Hanlin Academy, you were just a nobody, and you still had to climb up step by step.
Even if you pass the imperial examination with top honors and rise through the ranks to become the prime minister, isn’t the imperial family still keeping a tight rein on you?
If you were even more powerful, and you rebelled and succeeded, becoming emperor, wouldn’t you be the ruler of a country?
What if your country is a small nation? What if it’s surrounded by powerful enemies? What if you’re even less lucky and, after enduring round after round of hardship, become the leader of a country like the Dahomey or Zulu kingdoms of 15th-century Africa? When the Portuguese colonists arrived, they seized the entire country and forced it to grow cotton and sugarcane. What could the emperor do? Being exiled was considered a blessing from his ancestors.
Anyway, it’s all about enduring hardship, no matter where you are. Once you get through this stage, there’s always another one. The biggest difference is that cultivators have a long enough lifespan to endure it little by little. Being able to live for thousands of years or even longer is a huge attraction in itself.
Of course, if you can’t withstand the heavenly tribulation and turn into dust or disintegrate into a wandering immortal, that’s your own business. The cruelty of ascension compared to the imperial examination is that you don’t have a second chance.
It was precisely because Wu Bolin had constructed such a logic in his mind that he was more ambitious than Wu Bowen, Wu Bozhong (Dorwin), and even Sara.
Even Sara never dared to dream of ascension.
Her thinking was very simple: she just wanted to get the Hundred Reincarnation Pill and live for another five hundred years. As for what to do after the second five hundred years, that was a problem to consider in the next stage. Thinking about it now was a waste of energy.
However, Wu Bolin felt that if the legend of Antarctica was true, ascension might no longer be an unattainable dream. Why not broaden our horizons further?
Marlene
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