Hearing Gungun's words, Ao Yue truly did not know what to say. He had never seen a bear like this. He had only made an offhand remark, yet Gungun had taken it seriously.
Fine, it was my idea. Happy now?
Ao Yue shook his head, then waved away the Divine Official who had come to report to him. Afterward, he summoned Bi'an back and explained the matter to him.
Bi'an naturally had no objections. All this meant was assigning him a subordinate, then giving most of his other subordinates' work to that new... no, former subordinate. He would lose nothing, so he did not mind.
Everything went just as Gungun had said.
With no objections from Bi'an, things became much easier. Ao Yue immediately issued a Heavenly Edict, citing Yang Jian's meritorious service guarding the South Heaven Gate over the years and promoting him from a first-class heavenly soldier to a third-class Judicial Divine Messenger-the same position Yang Jian had once held.
"Now we'll see what Yang Jian and Haotian do next." After handing the Heavenly Edict to an imperial attendant of the Heavenly Court and telling him to deliver it to Yang Jian, Ao Yue gazed into the distance and murmured.
Not long afterward, outside the South Heaven Gate.
The imperial attendant read Ao Yue's decree to Yang Jian, handed the Heavenly Edict to the siblings, and reminded Yang Jian to report to the Judicial Temple soon. Then he turned and left.
After he departed, Yang Jian opened the Heavenly Edict and read its contents for himself, his brows tightly furrowed.
Judicial Divine Messenger. He had once occupied that position, only to be shifted elsewhere because of the affair involving the Seven Fairies. Now he had returned to it.
"Second Brother, why would the Heavenly Sovereign suddenly issue