It had been a month since Shenfeng sent out invitations to the various Immortal sects about its upcoming imperial examination.1

During that month, Shenfeng had taken down its six neighboring empires, and had pretty much finished off its forty neighboring kingdoms as well.0

Forty kingdoms seemed like a large number, but Shenfeng's troops only had to strike at their capitals. Kingdoms weren't bolstered by fortune, and their kings couldn't even draw on imperial might. How could such kings defend against Shenfeng's onslaught?0

Over twenty kingdoms surrendered immediately. Those who stubbornly resisted found their capitals destroyed.0

Shenfeng had managed to take down a vast expanse of territory, but the administration required to integrate all these territories into Shenfeng was no easy task. Shenfeng had borrowed tens of thousands of officials from Dazheng, but even that was insufficient.0

Shenfeng now had over a hundred Immortal cities and countless ordinary ones. Each required a significant number of officials.0

Even though Shenfeng had done its best to nurture new officials over the last...0