Although Hei Haier was recruited by Fang Jian, it was still difficult for him to become a Heavenly General, because Fang Jian would not use his privileges to get Hei Haier some Heavenly General positions.

So Fang Jian temporarily let Heihaier serve as a Qianyuhou beside him, just like the position he would assign to Heidan, starting as a sixth-rank soldier.

As soon as he entered the Heavenly Palace, he became a sixth-rank immortal official, which was much stronger than Fang Jian's original ninth-rank land god.

However, Heidan not only found a future for Heihai, but also pointed out a place for Jade-faced Fairy, which was Lingxia Mountain.

Letting the Jade-faced Fairy go to Lingxia Mountain will not only provide her with a stable place to stay, but also allow her to help Cen Biqing manage the Lingxia Mountain medicinal garden. It is simply the best of both worlds.

So Fang Jian gave Heihaier and Heidan a two-month vacation, and asked him and Heidan to send the Jade-faced Fairy to Lingxia Mountain in Dongsheng Shenzhou, and also let Heidan go back to see his master Cen Biqing.

As for Fang Jian, he has already entered the Dongshen Hall to practice. From the beginning, he has to practice in the Dongshen Hall for eight hours every day, and he can leave the Dongshen Hall freely for the remaining four hours.

Now that Xiniu Hezhou has been completely stabilized, the most important thing for Fang Jian right now is to cultivate the Golden Immortal realm and the Purple Thunder Spirit Body realm to perfection.

Only after cultivating the Golden Immortal's Taoism and the physical realm to perfection can one formally begin the process of preparing to harvest the Taiyi Golden Immortal Fruit.

In the blink of an eye, a month passed. Tang Yu seemed to have encountered some troubles with the Rakshasa tribe and had not yet captured those cultivators of the Rakshasa tribe and brought them to Xitian Mansion. However, Fang Jian was not in a hurry.

"The Dao has no birth or death, but the body does. The reason we talk about birth and death is that it pertains to the body, not the Dao. The body lives because it has attained the Dao. The body dies because it has lost the Dao. If a person can preserve life and uphold the Dao, he will live forever."

In the Dongshen Hall, in the Mingjing Pavilion, Taishang Laojun was wearing an Bagua Taoist robe, a purple gold fish-tail crown on his head, with white hair and celestial face, and mysterious energy gathered on his head. He was teaching Taoism to the people sitting below.

Fang Jian sat below, listening very seriously and carefully, reaching a state where he had forgotten himself and the world, and was absorbed in listening.

After Taishang Laojun finished his lecture on Taoism, Fang Jian's realm of Taoism and physical body were further improved.

"Today's sermon is over. You can go now and come back tomorrow." After the Taishang Laojun finished his sermon, he waved to everyone and said.

Fang Jian immediately stood up with everyone else, bowed, and said, "We will follow the Lord Lao's command."

Afterwards, everyone left the Mingjing Pavilion one after another, and those who listened to the sermon with Fang Jian were all immortal officials from the Heavenly Court who came to the Dongshen Hall to practice.

Some of them have been here for ten thousand years, some for fifty thousand years, and some even for a hundred thousand years, but without exception, they have all failed the assessments in the Cave God Hall and need to continue their studies in the Cave God Hall.

No matter what kind of official you hold outside or how much power you have, as long as the Cave God Hall determines that you are unqualified, you have to continue to stay here to study. As long as you are unqualified, you cannot graduate from the Cave God Hall and be promoted to a super-grade immortal official.

"Are they all numb?" Fang Jian looked at the gods who had left the Mingjing Pavilion with him. They seldom communicated with each other, and just bowed to each other. Every day they just came out of their cloud rooms to listen to the teachings and practice, and then returned to the cloud rooms to sit and practice, waiting for the next sermon to begin.

Fang Jian stood outside the Mingjing Pavilion, watching these "classmates" leave one after another and return to their own fairy garden cloud rooms.

After a while, Fang Jian turned around and took a look inside the Mingjing Pavilion, and found that Taishang Laojun was standing up from the throne and walking towards the outside of the Mingjing Pavilion.

Fang Jian chuckled and immediately walked to the left side of the Mingjing Pavilion door, then stretched out his foot and propped it under the threshold of the door, waiting for Taishang Laojun to come out and trip him.

Soon, Taishang Laojun walked to the front of the temple door and was about to step over the threshold with his right foot. Seeing this, Fang Jian quickly raised his right foot to trip him.

But a whisk suddenly appeared and wrapped around Fang Jian's ankle, then the whisk was pulled up suddenly, and a huge force hit Fang Jian. He swayed and almost fell to the ground.

However, Fang Jian reacted very quickly and flipped in the air suddenly, but he felt his body go weak halfway. It turned out that Taishang Laojun used his whisk to pull Fang Jian's right leg and lifted it to a high place.

So Fang Jian only did half of the somersault before he ended up hanging upside down, with his middle fingers supporting the ground, as if he was doing a handstand.

"Young man, you must respect the elderly and love the young." Taishang Laojun stroked his beard with his left hand and said to Fang Jian with a smile.

Fang Jian said, "I don't respect the elderly, and you don't love the young."

The Supreme Lord nodded and said, "That makes sense. You don't respect an old man like me, and I don't care for a young man like you. We are even now."

After saying this, Taishang Laojun retracted the whisk in his hand, and Fang Jian immediately fell back and stood up straight.

When Fang Jian said he didn't respect the elderly, he was certainly disrespecting the "old man" Taishang Laojun. And Taishang Laojun, the Supreme Daoist Ancestor, was a divine being manifested from the Great Dao before the creation of heaven and earth. Compared to him, not to mention Fang Jian, the Five Elders were nothing more than "children" or "young people."

"Laojun, where is your holy body that descended to the earth?" The holy body that Fang Jian mentioned here was naturally Li Er, the human manifestation of Taishang Laojun.

I have to say that the Supreme Taoist Ancestor is really good at nesting dolls. He himself is the manifestation of the Great Dao, and he is the Taoist Ancestor who opens up the Great Dao for all living beings.

Then the Supreme Taoist Ancestor manifested the Supreme Lord Laozi to assist the Jade Emperor in the Heavenly Palace, and the Supreme Lord Laozi descended to the human world and manifested Li Er to preach. He is simply a model of nesting dolls.

The Supreme Lord laughed and said, "Ever since I was captured by you, I have withdrawn my divine body from the human world."

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