Inside the Tushita Palace, in front of the Bagua furnace.

Taishang Laojun waved the whisk in his hand with a depressed look on his face. As the whisk was waved, the canopy of the Bagua furnace slowly flew into the air in a golden light.

Then, a ray of divine green light flew out from the Bagua furnace and landed in the hands of a female fairy wearing a Jiuxia Yuxiao Taoist robe beside Taishang Laojun.

And this female fairy is none other than the Grand Envoy of Taixuan Province, Lady Jiu Tian Xuan Nu.

"Laojun, you lose." The Queen Mother of the West casually held the divine blue jade Ruyi in her hand, even though the temperature of the jade Ruyi was enough to burn the sky and the sea.

The Supreme Lord sighed and said, "If you accept the loss, I will issue the decree immediately."

Upon hearing this, Lady Jiu Tian Xuan Nu bowed her head with a smile and said, "Thank you, Lao Jun."

Taishang Laojun waved his hand and said, "Don't thank me, we were just making a bet."

After saying this, Taishang Laojun called a boy over and handed him a Dharma edict, saying, "Go, deliver this Dharma edict to those young people."

The boy accepted the decree and bowed respectfully, saying, "Yes."

The boy did not ask about the "juniors" that Taishang Laojun mentioned, because those who were called juniors by Taishang Laojun were basically Taiyi Jinxian of Taoism.

After fulfilling his promise on the bet, Taishang Laojun looked at the Bagua furnace and shook his head, saying, "Facts have proven that using willow branches to make fire is indeed ineffective."

After saying this, Taishang Laojun seemed to be talking to himself and said: "I should find a time to return the willow branch to Guanyin, so that people won't keep saying that I have a bad memory behind my back."

The Queen Mother of the West smiled faintly. The purpose of her visit had been achieved, so she didn't mind chatting with the Jade Emperor for a while.

"Nothing in this world can be hidden from Laojun. Laojun, you might as well write down the names of those who say bad things about you behind your back and hand them over to me, and put them under the Lei Ze Prison in Heaven." The Queen Mother of the West said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Taishang Laojun waved his hand and said, "Forget it, forget it. Who doesn't talk behind others' backs? Why should I, an old man, bother with some little guys? Let them scold, let them scold. The way of heaven will not change its operating principles because of people's scolding. The sun, moon, and stars will not change their orbits because of people's scolding. The heaven and earth will not change their natural laws because of people's scolding. This is the way!"

Upon hearing this, Lady Jiu Tian Xuan Nu immediately clasped her sword fingers together, bowed her head, and said, "I will accept your instruction."

But Taishang Laojun changed the subject and said, "However, I can ignore others scolding me, but there is one person I would like to trouble the Lord to punish on my behalf."

"Who?" asked the Queen Mother of the West.

The Supreme Lord said, "It's that Master Hongqing, Fang Jian. Not only did he curse me behind my back, he even planned to put a sack on me and beat me. You know I'm an old man, how could I possibly withstand a beating? This is truly too dangerous. Please, Great Lord, grant justice to this old Taoist."

Upon hearing this, Lady Jiu Tian Xuan Nu's expression immediately darkened and she said, "To think such a thing had happened, Lao Jun, rest assured. I will investigate thoroughly upon my return."

Taishang Laojun immediately became interested and asked, "If this is true, how will you punish him?"

The Lady of the Nine Heavens said sternly, "I blamed him in person."

"Face-to-face blame?" Taishang Laojun was very dissatisfied.

The Lady of the Nine Heavens said, "Then I will severely punish you!"

"Just a severe punishment?" Taishang Laojun glared.

The Lady of the Nine Heavens thought for a moment, then said, "Then I'll punish you twice as hard!"

"..." Taishang Laojun was speechless and said, "If I'm still not satisfied, will you punish me tenfold?"

Upon hearing this, Lady Jiu Tian Xuan Nu immediately said, "If you can satisfy Lao Jun, then I will punish him tenfold!"

Taishang Laojun looked at Jiutian Xuannu and said, "I understand. This is called protecting one's shortcomings."

"Laojun, that's wrong." Jiu Tian Xuan Nu immediately corrected Taishang Laojun and said seriously, "This is called officials protecting each other."

Taishang Laojun turned his head and waved his whisk, saying, "Go away. I don't want to chat with you shameless people anymore."

The Lady of the Nine Heavens smiled, then bowed and said, "I will take my leave."

...

Fang Jian met Xuanying again. Compared with other people in Qingming Tower, Xuanying was in good condition at this time.

As soon as she saw Fang Jian appear, Xuan Ying immediately stepped forward and was about to kneel down and kowtow, but Fang Jian used his magical powers to lift her up and said, "There is no etiquette of kneeling and kowtow in heaven."

Upon hearing this, Xuanying immediately bowed and said, "Xuanying pays homage to Master Hongqing."

Fang Jian nodded and said, "You already know, right?"

Xuanying raised her head and said, "I guessed it when the Thunder Gods arrived at Qingming Tower."

"Okay, let's go." Fang Jian said slowly.

Xuan Ying paused when she heard this, then looked at Fang Jian and said, "Excuse me, Master Hong Qing, are we... going to the White Stone Realm?"

"Not bad." Fang Jian said.

Xuanying opened her mouth wide. Although she had been looking forward to this day for a long time, she felt a little scared and panicked when the day finally came.

Fang Jian could see all of Xuanying's emotions, but he would not delay his plan to go to Baishijie because of this.

Although Xuanying took the initiative to report the matter of Lord Bai Shi to Fang Jian, from the moment Fang Jian took over the case, it was no longer Xuanying's own business, and it would not be transferred according to her will.

"You go with her." Fang Jian said to the clerk Wang Ji beside him.

Wang Ji quickly understood what Fang Jian meant. He wanted him to talk to Xuan Ying and ease her emotions.

Afterwards, Fang Jian took Wang Ji and Xuan Ying all the way to the South Gate of Heaven, because the passage from Heaven to the lower world was located outside the South Gate of Heaven.

The two heavenly generals guarding the South Gate of Heaven today are Lu Zicheng, the strange star, and Ren Laipin, the evil star, among the thirty-six heavenly generals.

As the Inspector of the Three Realms, this official position alone allows one to freely travel to any lower realm without having to go to Taixuandu Province to apply for the imperial edict for the lower realm, because the heavenly rules stipulate that any immortal official in the heavenly court cannot go to the lower realms of the world without special orders and the imperial edict of Taixuandu Province.

After Lu Zicheng and Ren Laipin checked Fang Jian's Immortal Official Jade Disc, they asked Fang Jian which realm he wanted to go to, and then used the Zhoutian Realm Card to open the passage outside the South Heaven Gate to the lower realm of the world.

"Master Hongqing, the passage to the Baishi Realm has been opened." Lu Zicheng said to Fang Jian.

Fang Jian nodded, then bowed and said, "Thank you, two Heavenly Generals."

But just as Fang Jian was about to enter the passage, he heard a loud shout from behind him: "Inspector, please stay!"

Upon hearing this, Fang Jian turned around and looked, only to see that inside the Nantian Gate, Yang Xiu, the chief clerk of the Three Realms Inspection Office, was flying towards them with seven nine-foot-tall gods wearing light yellow Taoist robes, bright yellow turbans with a yin-yang fish pattern painted on the front of the turbans.