When Fang Jian crushed Qiu Lian's sword, Shi Jiuniang immediately stepped forward to block Qiu Lian behind her and said, "Don't hurt my husband."

After a brief moment of daze, Qiu Lian stepped forward, shielding Shi Jiuniang behind him and said, "My wife is innocent. All the sins are mine. Please don't hurt my wife."

Ao Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "Nineteenth sister, nineteenth brother-in-law, no one wants to harm you, so stop messing around."

Shi Jiuniang said: "I am not making trouble. You want to separate me and my husband, unless I die."

"Let's die together." Ao Yuan and Shi Jiuniang said as they stood shoulder to shoulder.

Fang Jian sighed and said, "Alright, alright. I know your love is as strong as gold, but the law is the law, and the law is unforgiving. Nineteenth Dragon Girl, Qiu Lian, I now give you two choices. First, you two must return to the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea and live there, and you must not set foot in the human world for ten thousand years. Second, Nineteenth Dragon Girl must shed her dragon body and transform into a mortal. Then, you can stay with Qiu Lian for the rest of your life in Jimo City. It's your choice."

After hearing this, Shi Jiuniang finally understood that this Supreme God was not really here to capture her and suppress her, but the two choices made her feel troubled.

If I choose the first one, Qiu Lian's parents and relatives are all in Jimo City. How can I be so selfish as to let him leave them forever?

But if I choose the second one...If I lose my Taoist skills, how can I save Qiu Lian if he gets sick in the future?

"God, is there no way to have the best of both worlds?" Shi Jiuniang asked hopefully with her big eyes.

Fang Jian shook his head and said, "No, immortals can endure hardships and save people in the human world, and educate sentient beings, but they must eventually transcend the mortal world. How can they marry and have children with mortals? And disrupt the order of the mortal world?"

Shi Jiuniang hesitated for a long time after hearing this, and finally gritted her teeth and said, "I choose the second one, and shed my dragon body."

"I choose the first one." Suddenly, Qiu Lian said from the side.

Shi Jiuniang looked towards him, only to see Qiu Lian say, "I've thought of a way to achieve both." Then, Qiu Lian bowed to Fang Jian and said, "God, if I go to the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea, can I bring my family with me?"

Fang Jian smiled and said, "You'll have to ask the Dragon King of the East China Sea about that. After all, that's not my territory. However, if your entire family is willing to abandon the splendor and wealth of the mortal world and move to the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea, never to set foot in the mortal world again, I have no objection."

Hearing this, Shi Jiuniang was immediately shocked, and then looked at Ao Yuan: "Seventh Brother!"

"This..." Ao Yuan hesitated for a moment, but facing his sister's expectant gaze, he nodded and said, "The East China Sea Dragon Palace has several secluded floating islands on the sea. Qiu Lian's family can live there, but... there are no people there, only animals and birds. They have enough food and clothing."

This was a simple statement. It meant that Qiu Lian's family could choose one of those otherworldly floating islands for them to live on, but it would be just them, no other outsiders. So, Qiu Lian's family would live and die on that island, never seeing their old friends or outsiders from the mortal world. At most, they would only see people from the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea.

This is a form of solitary confinement, with no social interaction or relationships...

"Okay." Shi Jiuniang nodded and said, "Then we surrender."

"..." Fang Jian didn't want to pay any more attention to this incongruous couple, so he turned to Ao Yuan and said, "Daoyou, take them to deal with their family affairs first. We can discuss the rest after this matter is over."

"Okay." Ao Yuan nodded, then said to Qiu Lian and Shi Jiuniang, "Let's go. The family must see each other."

In the end, Qiu Lian's parents and family did not follow Qiu Lian and Shi Jiuniang to live in the Dragon Palace. Everything they had was in Jimo City. People are home-loving, so they would not even go to the Dragon Palace, let alone the Heavenly Palace.

Qiu Lian could only bid farewell to her parents and relatives and go to the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea alone. Once she left, she would never see them again in her life.

On the day of departure, Qiu Lian's parents hugged and cried with Qiu Lian, saying goodbye to her in many ways. Finally, Qiu Lian left Jimo, looking back every few steps.

When Qiu Lian and Shi Jiuniang returned to the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea, there was not much reaction from the palace. The Dragon King of the East China Sea gave the Nineteenth Dragon Girl and Qiu Lian a palace, various treasures from the East China Sea, and a water-based Taoist method suitable for mortals to practice.

But this is not the end. The Nineteenth Dragon Girl did not order the rain to fall, and her merits happened to be only a little over 100,000, so Fang Jian punished her with thirty thunder whips.

On the fifth day after Fang Jian left Jimo, the Ministry of Thunder sent Lei Gong and Dian Mu to punish him.

On that day, the dragon sons and daughters of the East China Sea Dragon Palace once again felt the majesty of the Heavenly Law. Thirty thunder whips directly caused Shi Jiuniang to lose half her life, and more than a dozen dragon scales were broken. Although the East China Sea Dragon Palace gave her full treatment afterwards, it still took more than ten years for her to slowly recover.

...

"Yihuan." Outside the Mokanyuan, Su Mu called Yihuan.

Yi Huan turned around and saw Su Mu, and immediately stepped forward and called out, "Sister Su."

Su Mu looked at Yi Huan with a smile and asked, "Where are you going to deliver the imperial edict?"

Yi Huan said, "Let's go to Dongtian Mansion. Where's Sister Su Mu?"

"Haha, I'm going to Beitian Mansion." Su Mu said with a smile: "The Grand Envoy has appointed Master Tonghe as the new Heavenly Sovereign of Beijuluzhou Heavenly Sovereign Mansion. I will go and announce it to Beitian Mansion."

Yi Huan said "Oh" and then said, "I went to Dongtian Prefecture to deliver an imperial edict. The Tianjun of Dongtian Prefecture and the Shangshu of Dongtian Prefecture were impeached by Hongqing Zhenren of the Tianyuan Court. The Grand Master issued an edict to fine the Tianjun of Dongtian Prefecture 500,000 merits and the Shangshu 300,000 merits."

"So many?!" Su Mu was shocked. "That's too tragic, right? Then you better be careful."

Yi Huan was stunned when he heard this and asked, "Why?"

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