If I Can't Win an Official Title, Who Cares About the Imperial Exam?

In the land of Shenzhou, where the emperor reigns supreme, Confucians, Daoists, Buddhists, martial artists, demons, ghosts, and other beings must receive an official rank bestowed by the imperial court before they can cultivate, seek immortality, or wield extraordinary power. Only then can they climb the ranks step by step.

From the ninth rank to the first, then to marquis, duke, and prince, those who stand at the very peak are the emperors, supreme rulers of the human world, with lifespans of ten thousand years and unrivaled power.

Gu Chang'an was falsely accused of cheating, stripped of his academic honors, and barred from ever taking the imperial examinations again.

The only path that could have changed his fate against all odds was closed.

The System that had arrived with him was forced to disassemble itself to resist the imperial court's Heavenly Law.

Even so, it helped Gu Chang'an erase the mark of imperial authority.

From then on, he was no longer bound by the Heavenly Law of imperial authority.

He could climb to the peak step by step without taking the imperial examinations or becoming an official.

A young man born of a secondary wife, oppressed at every turn by the principal wife and bullied by his elder brother.

How could he escape the mire,

shatter his fate,

and become the one being in this world whom even imperial authority could not suppress...

Now that his academic honors are gone, whoever wants to take the examinations can go ahead.