The low-key prince summons trainees from the Imperial Household Department at the start of the game.

The day the imperial edict arrived in Qingzhou, it was drizzling in autumn.

Prefect Liu Wenhan of Qingzhou led all the officials in setting up an incense table in the main hall of the prefectural government office to respectfully welcome the imperial envoy.

The angel was a young attendant, with a fair complexion, no beard, and a high-pitched voice. He unfolded the decree and read it aloud.

The imperial edict was elegantly and solemnly worded, and its gist was that recently the celestial energies had been unusually active, and yin energy was rising everywhere. The court had decided to restore the duties of the Imperial Observatory, which would be in charge of astronomical phenomena, geomancy, and yin-yang numerology.

Guo Pu, Li Chunfeng, and Lai Buyi were each appointed as the Lingtai Lang of the Imperial Observatory, a sixth-rank official, and were each given an official seal. They were to take up their posts immediately.

Guo Pu, Li Chunfeng, and Lai Buyi knelt on the bluestone slab and listened to the contents of the imperial edict word for word.

When the angel handed the three official seals to the three men, a warm and powerful force surged from the seals, traveled up their arm meridians, and reached their dantian.

Guo Pu felt as if something had suddenly struck the righteous energy in his dantian, and then he suddenly felt enlightened.

He looked up and subconsciously glanced at the old locust tree outside the main hall of the government office, which was wet with autumn rain.

Previously, he needed to concentrate and close his eyes to sense the qi, but now he could clearly see the qi flowing around the old locust tree with just a casual glance.

The aura was no longer the hazy glow of before, but rather distinct in layers and with clear patterns.

He could even discern a wisp of extremely fine gray mist seeping down from the base of the tree trunk, a trace of rainwater carrying the yin energy from the surface into the earth.

This is what it means to be blessed with good fortune.

The Imperial Observatory was an officially established government office of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The Five Senses Spirit Terrace Officials are court officials with ranks and official seals. The Great Zhou's fortune system will automatically bestow a portion of fortune upon them.

Li Chunfeng's feeling was even more mysterious.

He was skilled in divination and usually had to calculate the flow of the Qi of heaven and earth, which required star observation, chart arrangement, and calculation, consuming a lot of time and energy.

But at this moment, as he stood in the main hall of the government office holding the official seal, without even opening the star map, the geomantic map of the hundreds of miles around Qingzhou City automatically appeared in his mind.

The direction of every mountain range, the speed of every stream, and the distribution of every yin energy point were all clearly presented in his consciousness.

He subtly made a divination gesture with his fingers hidden in his sleeve, discovering that the auspicious influence of the official seal had more than doubled his divination speed.

He lowered his voice and said to Guo Pu, "Brother Guo, this official seal... is even more useful than my ancestral armillary sphere."

Lai Buyi's feelings were the most genuine.

Holding the official seal, he felt warm all over, as if he had drunk a big bowl of piping hot mutton soup in the dead of winter, and felt an indescribable comfort from his dantian to his limbs.

He was originally the weakest of the three in terms of sixth-grade cultivation, but at this moment he felt his righteous energy suddenly surge, and he vaguely touched the threshold of the peak of the sixth grade.

He couldn't help but laugh out loud.

He had run a feng shui shop in Qingzhou City for most of his life, looking at graves, choosing auspicious days for houses, and his reputation was excellent. However, he was still a folk practitioner and dared not even raise his head when he saw officials.

Now, with a single imperial edict, Lai Buyi has become a sixth-rank official in the imperial court, and he can now stand tall and confident when he consults feng shui masters for the neighborhood.

Prefect Liu Wenhan of Qingzhou witnessed this clearly.

He never expected that these three gentlemen would be personally summoned to the Imperial Observatory by His Majesty.

Although his rank was lower than his, the emperor's favor was something that even a prefect like him could not match.

He immediately ordered three excellent guard rooms to be prepared in the back office for the three officials to work in.

Ten dan each of glutinous rice, peach wood, cinnabar, and realgar were allocated from the imperial treasury for the Qingzhou branch of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau to use as needed.

Guo Pu didn't stand on ceremony. He cupped his hands in thanks and then turned his gaze to Lai Buyi: "Brother Lai, now that I have the official seal, I would like to borrow your compass."

"When I received the seal just now, my sense of fortune suddenly increased, and I realized that there might be some hidden secrets at the bottom of the old official well in the south of the city that I had not yet explored."

Without saying a word, Lai Buyi took out a compass from his satchel. As soon as the golden light of the official seal shone on the compass, the magnetic needle pointed steadily to the southeast.

Li Chunfeng also unfolded the star map he carried with him and quickly drew several lines on it with his fingers.

It has been calculated that there will be a very brief fluctuation in the Qi of Qingzhou around midnight tonight. If you want to find out the secrets hidden in the well, midnight is the best time.

The three exchanged a smile, bowed to Liu Wenhan, and then returned to their rooms to prepare for tonight's operation.

Liu Wenhan stood under the corridor, watching the three figures disappear into the duty room, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

These three gentlemen stayed in Qingzhou for several months, treating the local people's ancestral graves, adjusting feng shui, and dispelling evil spirits.

Now that they have been personally appointed by His Majesty to the Imperial Observatory, their careers have taken off.

It seems the imperial court is going to make great use of the Imperial Observatory. As the prefect of Qingzhou, he should take this opportunity to consult with the three scholars and thoroughly investigate any potential dangers related to yin energy within Qingzhou.