Jing Jiu hadn't bowed to anybody for many years.
His Grandmaster was the Immortal Daoyuan, who had left the world quite early. After that, his Master, the Immortal Cheng Zhou, had followed suit.
The grandmasters and senior masters on Green Mountain had been either killed by him and his Big Brother or locked in the Sword Jail later.
Since then, he became the Cultivation practitioner of the highest status in Chaotian; as such, he had no need to bow to anybody.
However, General Li had a much higher status than him.
The full name of General Li was Li Chunyang.
He was known as the Immortal Chunyang when he was in Chaotian.
He was none other than the Immortal Chunyang who defeated the army of the Underworld jointly with the former emperor, resulting in a peaceful period of two thousand years between the humans and the Underworld.