"Fellow Daoist, please stay here from now on. Your cave has been destroyed by Fan Heng." In a small pavilion on Lingxia Mountain, Cen Biqing extended an invitation to Master Cai Jing, who was sitting on the bed, holding Luan Ling'er and crying.

When Master Cai Jing heard this, she suddenly wiped away her tears, then stood up and bowed deeply to Cen Biqing.

Cen Biqing was startled and hurried forward to support him. He only heard Master Cai Jing say, "When I first saw that you were a demon immortal, I despised you. I never thought you would be imprisoned this time. But... But you came to my aid out of righteousness. I..."

Master Cai Jing sobbed twice, then said in a deep voice, "I am so ashamed!"

Fang Jian, who was standing outside the small pavilion, couldn't help but curl his lips when he saw this scene. He thought that this Taoist priest Cai Jing had gone through great hardships to seek the truth and become an immortal. Her faith in the Tao was extremely strong, which could be seen from the fact that she did not yield under torture.

But once emotions are involved, the weakness deep within is immediately exposed.

Feelings, feelings, how many cultivators have been ruined by these two words. Thinking of this, Fang Jian felt that he had a long way to go.

After taking another look inside the house, Fang Jian beckoned towards a peach tree not far away.

The dark and round Heidan ran quickly to Fang Jian's feet on its four short legs, then sat on the ground, wagging its tail and looking at him.

"Tell your master later that I'm leaving." Heidan tilted his head and asked, "Where are you going?"

Fang Jian smiled and said, "I still have things to do. Just tell your master that she can make the decisions on her own about things here."

"Oh, I remember. Then you can go." Heidan said.

Fang Jian smiled and patted Heidan's head, then turned around, stepped on the sword light, and flew up, leaving Lingxia Mountain.

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Heaven, Lingxiao Palace.

The Lady of the Nine Heavens, holding a jade scepter, stood above the golden sky. She wore a twelve-chapter Xuan crown and a purple-gold jade-glazed celestial crown. She addressed the Four Imperial Gods seated high atop the dome, saying, "Your Highnesses, the Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole, the True King of Jade Purity, the Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole, the Great Emperor Tianhuang of the Upper Palace of Gou Chen, and the Emperor Hou Tu of the Earth, who carries on the righteousness of heaven and emulates the virtues of heaven. I feel that the heavenly soldiers of heaven are no longer sufficient, and that the immortal officials are redundant and their duties are complex. Therefore, I request that the heavenly officials and the heavenly soldiers be rectified. This is necessary to transfer resources from the hubs of the myriad realms of the universe and to mobilize elixirs and magical treasures. This is a massive undertaking, and I beg your approval."

After the Queen Mother of the West finished her report, she stood there motionless.

Above the dome of the sky, mysterious light surged between the Four Imperial Gods, and heavenly sounds were heard, as if they were in discussion.

But after a moment, the Emperor of Heaven in the Upper Palace of Gouchen said, "There's nothing wrong with rectifying the positions of the Celestial Officials, but how do you intend to do it, Heavenly Soldier?"

The Lady of the Nine Heavens reported, "There are many celestial soldiers today, but very few are fit for use. Furthermore, the officers stationed at the Four Heavenly Gates have been out of action for a long time and are difficult to mobilize. I request that the officers be exchanged with the celestial soldiers stationed in the 'Calamity Realm'."

After the Lady of the Nine Heavens finished speaking, the Four Imperial Gods discussed for a moment, and finally, it was the Emperor of the Upper Palace of Gou Chen who said, "Approved."

"Your Majesty, I obey your command." The Queen Mother of the West bowed and said.

Afterwards, the Queen Mother of the West returned to Taixuandu Province, and with an imperial decree, an earthquake began to shake the entire system of immortal officials in the Heavenly Court.

The first decree was to rectify the immortal officials in various departments of the Heavenly Court. It was personally under the charge of Wen Shi Zhenren, the governor of Taixuandu Province, to check the duties of Taixuandu Province and various departments of the Heavenly Court.

Except for the Heavenly Court, all departments and courts must submit a statistics of all the immortal officials and duties within their departments and courts. After the Taixuan Province receives the statistics and personally verifies them, the number of those with more personnel will be reduced, and the number of those with less personnel will be increased.

For example, if a ministry only needs ten messengers, five judges, and twenty clerks, then all the extra ones must be laid off. However, this does not mean that they will be dismissed from their posts after the layoffs. Instead, they will be deployed to the departments that are short of staff.

The second decree ordered that the Tiangong Academy Alchemy Room would concentrate all resources on refining the 'Nine-Transformation Golden Pill' from now on, and all other elixirs would be stopped.

At the same time, the Tiangong Academy's weapon refining workshop concentrated all its resources on refining thunder soldiers and heavenly weapons and magic treasures for the Yangshen and True Immortal realms, and stopped refining all other magic weapons and magic treasures.

With the third decree, the Star Lord of Heaven immediately transferred the hub of the Zhoutian Myriad Realms and ordered the heavenly soldiers and thunder soldiers guarding the 'Calamity Realm Heavens' to assemble. One month later, the Heavenly Court would open the Zhoutian Star Gate outside the North Heavenly Gate, and all the heavenly soldiers and thunder soldiers guarding the 'Calamity Realm Heavens' would return to the Heavenly Court.

The fourth decree ordered all 4 million heavenly soldiers and strongmen from the four major military commanderies in the east, west, south and north to assemble and prepare to be deployed one month after the Earth Calendar to guard the heavens in the lower world.

The fifth decree re-established the immortal position of the Thunder God in the Thunder Jade Mansion.

In the Jade Palace of Divine Thunder, from the Five Thunder Emperors below, the True Lord of the Jade Palace Judge is appointed as a first-rank immortal official, from the Left Minister of the Jade Palace to the General Envoy of the Thunder Department is appointed as a second-rank immortal official, and the thirty-six Thunder Gods of Heaven, Earth, and Man are appointed as third-rank immortal officials, and are given the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir to help them achieve true immortality.

In addition, the Lightning Mother of the Thunder Department, the Wind Master, and the Rain Master were also promoted to the third-rank immortal officials and given the Nine-Transformation Golden Elixir to help them achieve true immortality.

The Ministry of Thunder added 200,000 thunder soldiers, all of whom were promoted to the sixth rank and came under the jurisdiction of the Taiyi Thunder Division of the Divine Thunder Jade Palace. Each of them was given the "Golden Pill for Divine Communication" to help them achieve the status of Yang God.

The sixth edict reformed the heavenly army.

The existing seventh-grade heavenly soldiers who conquer demons, eighth-grade heavenly soldiers who suppress demons, ninth-grade heavenly soldiers who subdue demons, seventh-grade strongmen who subdue demons, eighth-grade strongmen who subdue monsters, ninth-grade strongmen who move mountains, etc. are too redundant and their deployment is inconsistent.

From now on, the heavenly soldiers and strongmen will be merged and all promoted to the sixth-rank immortal officials, and unified as the "Demon-Subduing Heavenly Soldiers". Each of them will be given the "Golden Pill of Divine Communication" to help them achieve Yang God, and then given the "Zhangqian Dharma Image" technique to enhance their strength.

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When the Heavenly Court launched a vigorous reform, Fang Jian had already arrived in Jimo City on the coast of the East China Sea in China.

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