Yuqing Longnu quickly said, "Uncle, Yuqing will take her leave first."

"Go ahead." Fang Jian waved his hand and said.

After Yuqing Longnu left, Fang Jian also walked out of Hongqing Palace with Heihaier. Lu Fengxian had already prepared the tent and the imperial carriage, and a thousand heavenly soldiers lined up neatly on both sides to welcome Fang Jian.

Fang Jian boarded the imperial carriage and sat down on the jade couch. Then Hei Haier stood on the steps of the imperial carriage and shouted, "Arise, and enter the Heavenly Palace."

Lu Fengxian immediately waved the flag in his hand and shouted, "Move forward and enter the Heavenly Palace."

Afterwards, the huge imperial carriage, carried by a hundred heavenly soldiers who had performed the magic of a thousand feet, slowly rose into the air, flew into the sky in a mighty manner, and went straight into the North Gate of Heaven.

Taishi Xiandu, Taichu Palace, Zhengshi Hall.

Wen Tianxiang, the Examination Master, handed Fang Jian a roll of names and said, "Your Excellency, True Lord Hongqing, over the past four months, a total of thirty-six people within the Three Realms have passed the examinations of merit, virtue, and morality and have met the criteria for the calamity. Please verify this, True Lord Hongqing."

Fang Jian took the roster and put his mind into it. Then the information of the thirty-six people in the roster flashed through Fang Jian's mind one by one like a ticker tape.

It only took five breaths for Fang Jian to finish reading the information of these thirty-six people. Then he nodded and said, "Yes, no problem. Grant the calamity."

Wen Tianxiang said, "Then please ask True Lord Hongqing for the imperial seal."

Fang Jian nodded, then summoned the Immortal Official Jade Book, stamped the jade seal on the list, and then returned the list to Wen Tianxiang.

Wen Tianxiang took the list, and only then did the list officially come into effect.

Without the seal of the Queen Mother of the West or Fang Jian, the Immortal Lord of Taishi, this list would be invalid. Even if it was taken to the Ministry of Thunder, it would not accept it.

"Apart from these thirty-six people, is the list of cultivators who failed the assessment still available?" Fang Jian asked Wen Tianxiang.

Wen Tianxiang immediately replied, "Replying to True Lord Hongqing, yes, in the past four months, more than a hundred cultivators have failed to meet the assessment standards."

"Show me the roster." Fang Jian said.

Wen Tianxiang then took out a thick jade slip list and handed it over. Fang Jian took it and looked at it carefully, then found a problem: "Is there anyone on this list who has failed the assessment multiple times?"

"Yes." Wen said, "Among them, there is a cultivator from Dongsheng Shenzhou who not only failed to pass within the past four months, but has also been expelled more than a dozen times before that."

The cultivator Fang Jian found Wen was a casual cultivator named "Le Qi".

It needs to be said here that Taishi Xiandu is conducting an assessment on all the cultivators in the Three Realms, and these cultivators themselves are completely unaware of it.

"Are you talking about this independent cultivator named 'Le Qi'? I saw that she was demoted sixteen times. Why?" Fang Jian asked.

Wen Dao: "This person's moral character is flawed."

"Oh?" Fang Jian raised his eyebrows and said, "Where is my morality flawed?"

Wen Dao said, "This man suffered a great disaster in his childhood; his parents died. He and his sister became beggars on the streets. The following year, the area was struck by famine. His sister begged from a wealthy local family by fighting dogs and received six steamed buns. The dog bit her nine times, but this man ignored her injuries and ate all six buns. Her sister, hungry and exhausted, and her injuries flared up, she fell ill with a severe fever that night and died at noon the next day."

"An elder brother is like a father, and an elder sister is like a mother. This person is unfilial and lacks moral integrity. Even if he enters the Tao, he will not become an immortal." Wen Dao.

Fang Jian asked, "After all these years, has she shown any remorse?"

"That," Wen Tianxiang stroked his beard and said, "I don't know."

Upon hearing this, Fang Jian put away the jade slips that had been dismissed and said, "Let me examine these people face to face one by one, and then I'll see if they have the potential to become immortals."

When Wen Tianxiang heard this, he understood that Fang Jian was going to go down to the mortal world in person to enlighten these people, just like the emperors, deities, and bodhisattvas of heaven, Taoism, and Buddhism.

Therefore, Wen Tianxiang immediately stood up straight, bowed to Fang Jian and said, "Lord Hongqing, be merciful."

After Wen Tianxiang took his leave, Fang Jian called Hei Haier over and said, "Send the Third Prince back to the Imperial Stables to graze, and then follow me to the lower world."

Hei Haier heard this and asked, "Master, don't you need Pegasus?"

"No need." Fang Jian said, "By the way, what is the thank-you gift from the Sandalwood Merit Buddha? Bring it here so I can see it."

Hei Haier accepted the order respectfully, then presented a sandalwood box more than three feet long to Fang Jian, and then turned and left Zhengshi Hall.

Fang Jian held the heavy golden-purple sandalwood box in his left hand. Seeing that the Buddha's light seal on it was intact, he knew that the sandalwood box had not been opened by anyone. Fang Jian nodded secretly. Heihai was still a very sensible child.

Then Fang Jian waved his hand and opened the sandalwood box, and suddenly a Buddha's light illuminated the entire Zhengshi Hall.

When the Buddha's light gradually faded away, only a crystal clear, jade-like, holy and flawless branch with shining Buddha's light was seen lying quietly in the sandalwood box, and next to the branch was a jade slip.

Fang Jian picked up the jade slip and took a look at it. The content on it was nothing more than Sandalwood Merit Buddha's words of gratitude to Fang Jian, because Zhou Tianxingjun had indeed lifted the ban on Buddhism.

But when Fang Jian saw the information about the branch on the jade slip, a smile like Maitreya Buddha appeared on his face.

"Everyone in the Buddhist community is a kind-hearted person. First, they gave me the Vairocana Samurai, and now they give me a branch of the 'Seven Treasures Bodhi Tree'. What's the difference between what you did and giving me a 'Seven Treasures Bodhi Tree'?" Fang Jian looked at the branch of the 'Seven Treasures Bodhi Tree' in the sandalwood box, with a smile on his face.

It is just a branch of the 'Seven Treasures Bodhi Tree'. In fact, it can only be used to ward off demons, purify the mind, cultivate the primordial spirit, and maintain the heart of Tao. It is not as powerful as a top-grade golden immortal-level attack magic weapon.

But the complete 'Seven Treasures Bodhi Wonderful Tree' is one of the innate treasure trees, with infinite power, and it can wipe out anything. No matter how strong your attack or defense is, as long as you use the 'Seven Treasures Bodhi Wonderful Tree' to wipe it out, everything will be like a dream bubble.

Of course, the power of the treasure still depends on the ability of its owner. With Fang Jian's level of Taiyi Jinxian, he definitely cannot defeat Daluo Jinxian.

So it was no big deal for Xuanzang to give Fang Jian a branch, but what he didn't know was that giving Fang Jian a branch was equivalent to giving him a complete "Seven Treasures Bodhi Tree".