After waiting for about half an hour, the golden armored guards, old eunuchs and palace maids surrounded a middle-aged man in a five-clawed dragon robe and walked into the hall. It was the Lu Qianming who Long Qingchen had met in the inn, that is, the current emperor of the Dagan Empire!

At that time, in the inn, Lu Qianming visited the Qiling Taoist with his junior service, and his posture was relatively low, without the slightest power of the emperor.

Now, Lu Qianming has a sense of majesty. Within his eyes, his disciples bowed their heads and dared not look at them.

"Your Majesty is here!"

The old eunuch shouted, not deliberately pinching his voice, but his voice was very sharp, as if it could penetrate the hall.

"Long live my emperor, long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long...

The disciples knelt on one knee.

Only ordinary people will kneel on their knees.

As practitioners, it is already the highest etiquette for them to kneel on one knee.

"presumptuous!"

Hundreds of disciples knelt down, only Long Qingchen and Nangong Wan'er stood, very conspicuous, as if standing tall in the crowd. The old eunuch looked over with a stern look and shouted, "Wait, why don't you kneel?"

"Kneel to the sky, kneel to the ground, kneel to the parents, the rest will not kneel."

Long Qingchen looked indifferent. No matter who he faced, he would answer this.

Nangong Wan'er's beautiful eyes were calm, obviously, that's what she meant.

"Forget it, practitioners, if you don't care about the details, why do you need to be too polite?"

Lu Qianming waved his hand lightly, ascended to the main seat, and looked at the other disciples, "Everyone should get up too."

The disciples stood up and couldn't help but look at Long Qingchen and Nangong Wan'er with a little enviousness. They had no backers behind them, which angered the Emperor Dakan, and they were not enough to cut their heads.

"You are all new disciples of the Dagan Royal Academy, and can be called the young genius selected from thousands of people. A few years later, you will be able to stand alone whether you return to your hometown or stay in the Dagan Empire."

"Of course, from my personal standpoint, I naturally hope you will stay in the Dagan Empire to serve."

"If you are willing to stay, the empire will definitely reuse you!"

Lu Qianming encouraged his disciples a few words, then looked at the old eunuch and said, "Present the imperial edict."

The old eunuch unfolded the imperial edict in his hand and read it loudly, "In accordance with the will of heaven, the emperor issued an edict: The Royal Academy is the holy place for the imperial examination to select talents. There are now 512 new disciples, all of which are made of materials. The empire should focus on cultivation and give special rewards to encourage us."

"The first place: Long Qingchen, honored viscount, 3,000 households with fiefs, and given spirit stones, 10,000."

"The second place: to Beining, grant honorary barons, fief of one thousand households, and grant spirit stones, five thousand."

"Third place - eighth place: Giving spirit stones, two thousand."

"Ninth place - Sixty-fourth place: Give spirit stones, one thousand."

"The rest: Give me a hundred spirit stones."

"I'm here!"

The disciples who ranked low were a little surprised, but unexpectedly, everyone was rewarded.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Long live my emperor!"...

They all thanked each other and were very grateful.

One hundred spirit stones may not be anything to disciples from big families, but for disciples from civilian families, they are not a small amount, but are considered unexpected wealth.

The higher the ranking, the more rewards it is. However, there is a little bit of Long Qingchen who doesn’t understand and asks Mu Qingxue, “What does three thousand households mean?”

Mu Qingxue whispered, "The title of the empire usually has a fiefdom. The tax paid by the people in the fiefdom is the salary of the title. However, this honorary viscount is considered a false title. There is no actual fiefdom. You can only receive a salary, which is calculated based on three thousand households."

Long Qingchen was a little disappointed, "That is to say, apart from being a little nicer and getting more money, isn't there any use for birds?"

Mu Qingxue gave him annoyed look, "That's about what it means..."

It seems that the spirit stone is a little more real. Long Qingchen immediately stood up and asked, "Can you discount this viscount and replace it with a spirit stone?"

Discount?

The disciples almost bleed. Can he have some shame?

The guards and the palace maids also turned red with their faces. They wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. They also had to keep a serious look, which was uncomfortable.

“Bold!”

The old eunuch looked embarrassed and angrily rebuked, "The title of the empire is an honor, how can it be compared to the spirit stone? You are disrespectful to the empire!"

He suddenly bowed to Lu Qianming, "I beg your Majesty to remove his title and throw him into prison to serve as a warning!"

Long Qingchen looked at the old eunuch curiously, "You targeted me repeatedly and asked me to guess who you are, the third princess and the fourth prince?"

The old eunuch's face changed slightly, and then he regained his calmness and snorted coldly, "I am only loyal to Your Majesty!"

"Yeah?"

Long Qingchen looked indifferent and did not comment.

The old eunuch said coldly, "I just talk about the matter and didn't target anyone. If you did something wrong, I certainly have to point it out!"

“Not that serious.”

Lu Qianming waved his hand slightly, looked at Long Qingchen helplessly, and said lightly, "For the people of the empire, titles are identity and status, and also an honor. No matter whether you need them or not, you cannot buy and sell or replace titles."

"Okay." Long Qingchen had no choice.

Lu Qianming ignored him and turned to the other disciples with a kind smile.

"I have ordered the imperial kitchen to prepare a celebration banquet. You can go back after dinner."

Obviously, in his eyes, Long Qingchen is the kind of person who cannot serve the empire, so he did not pay much attention to Long Qingchen. Instead, he was other disciples who might serve the empire in the future.

The disciples thanked each other again and followed the old eunuch to leave.

"You wait a moment."

Lu Qianming called Long Qingchen.

Long Qingchen had no choice but to stay.

Seeing that Nangong Wan'er stayed, he waved, "You go first."

Long Qingchen blinked at Nangong Wan'er, and Nangong Wan'er had to leave with her disciples.

"The Supreme Elder wants to see you."

After the disciples left, Lu Qianming said it and ordered a guard, "Take him there."

Long Qingchen followed the guard and walked into the deepest part of the palace.

The rest of the palace is magnificent, but the deepest part is the shade of green trees, like a countryside.

From a distance, I saw an old man sitting cross-legged under an ancient tree, motionless, like a statue, with fallen leaves on his clothes and hair tips covered with fallen leaves, but he was unaware of anything.

"That's the Supreme Elder, you go there yourself."

The guard lowered his voice and said, as if he was worried about waking up the Supreme Elder.

After saying that, he turned around and left gently.
Chapter completed!