Transmigrating over ten thousand years late, I was forced to become a mighty presence - Chapter 228:
Chapter 228: Chapter 118 Heavenly Court Decree_1
In a sense, the Gods Purging Divine Power is the highest divine power that Shen Yuan currently possesses.
Even the incomplete Heavenly General Great Divine Power, Wind Summoning and Rain Invocation, doesn’t match the level of the Gods Purging Divine Power.
This is not because the Rain Calling Divine Ability is weak. Regardless of the gap between the Heavenly General Divine Power and the Earthly Destroyer Divine Power, or the power that the two divine powers can exert, Rain Calling Divine Ability is far stronger than the Gods Purging Divine Power.
However, the Wind Summoning and Rain Invocation Divine Power only represents the Heavenly General Divine Power itself, while the Gods Purging Divine Power, as the root method of the Incense Offering Divinity Path, to some extent, is the rule of the Incense Offering Divinity Path.
The Heavenly Court spread the Gods Purging Divine Power to the world’s Incense Offering Divinity System, in which all the deities born afterwards were included in Gods Purging Divine Power’s category. This plot made the Incense Offering Divinity Path, originally a part of the divine path, become the mainstream system of divine paths.
Hence, the Gods Purging Divine Power received a boost from Heavenly Court’s legislation, enabling it to express its essence to perfection which is inherently inferior to the Heavenly General Great Divine Power.
The comparison between Gods Purging Divine Power and Wind Summoning and Rain Invocation Divine Power is essentially a comparison between the Incense Offering Divinity System, which has been planned by the Heavenly Court for countless ages, and the Heavenly General Divine Power.
No matter how strong the Heavenly General Divine Power is, it ultimately only represents one of the origin of the roads. It cannot be compared with the huge Incense Offering Divinity System that extends to all worlds. This is also why Shen Yuan believes that the level of Gods Purging Divine Power surpasses the Rain Invocation Divine Power.
The advancement of Gods Purging Divine Power to the First Peek Basic Access state is even more important to Shen Yuan than the entry of the Rain Invocation Divine Power.
Firstly, with the entry of the Gods Purging Divine Power, Shen Yuan could clearly perceive the system of the Incense Offering Divinity Path built by the incense gathered in between heaven and earth.
On the banks of River Ji, in the towering mountains, in the ancient imperial cities, clear incense lines were imprinted into Shen Yuan’s perception, constructing a massive incense network between heaven and earth.
This allows Shen Yuan to truly integrate into the Incense Offering Divinity Path, rather than purely relying on the Gods Purging Divine Edict to forcibly summon local deities.
Besides this, Shen Yuan also felt a significant progress in his control over the Gods Purging Divine Edict.
Previously, when Shen Yuan commanded the local deities with the Gods Purging Divine Edict, he solely relied on the position of the Gods Purging Divine Power as the root method of the Incense Offering Divinity Path to forcibly suppress, creating an illusion of the Divine Monarch ordering all the gods.
But after Shen Yuan entered the realm and came into contact with the system of the Incense Offering Divinity Path, he realized that suppression through position is the most basic method of use.
The true Gods Purging Divine Edict should be to manipulate the nodes of the Incense Offering Divinity system and suppress it based on the whole Incense Offering Divinity system.
Moreover, the real effect of the Gods Purging Divine Edict is not just for a single individual.
In particular, when dealing with individual deities whose realm far exceeds oneself, the Gods Purging Divine Edict would be greatly weakened by the influence of individual will.
Using the Gods Purging Divine Edict to confront individual deities with realms far beyond oneself is definitively the most foolish act.
This behaviour is like an emperor sitting in the Golden Throne Palace, wanting to smash a rebellious minister with his own Jade Seal.
The correct course of action should be to write a decree, stamp it with Jade Seal and announce it to the world, letting all the subjects on the king’s land suppress this rebel.
The Giant Clam Water God, under the order of River Ji Dragon Sovereign, had already moved the supreme grade spirit treasure, the Banner of Water and Sky As One. The giant figure of a thousand feet tall, manipulating the waters of millions of tons of river, caused the river to pour into the sky forming a jade water curtain.
Shen Yuan, holding the River Ji Dragon Seal, watched the earth-shaking river calmly and spoke in a calm tone:
“Subside!”
As if carrying the supreme will, the heavenly might descended at this moment. All the gathered waves on the surging river ceased instantly.
Afterwards, the river flowed backwards, the billions of river water returned to calm under this one command.
The power of the river mobilized by the Giant Clam Water God, and the surging momentum of the river itself, were both completely settled at this moment.
On the wide river, not even a wavelet higher than an inch could be seen. The river was silent, just like an unchanging cold pool from ancient times.
The influence of this imperial decree was much more than the river. The figure of the thousand feet tall giant, which was formed by the convergence of river water under the manifestation of the Giant Clam Water God’s Sun God Dharma Image, also collapsed under this decree.
The flowing giant body of the river was torn apart by an invisible large hand. The river water returned to the river, revealing the true form of the Sun God Dharma Image.
It was a colossal clam in reddish golden hue. The pearl nurtured inside the opening and closing of clam shell was as scorching as the midday sun, impossible to stare directly at.
Although the Sun God Dharma Image of the Giant Clam Water God was still impressive, when compared with the thousand feet giant who controlled the power of the river waves prior, it seemed to be far less magnificent.
The Giant Clam Water God was stunned. The thousand feet giant was a blessing that he received when he was made a patrol warden of River Ji by the River Ji Dragon Sovereign.
The patrol warden of River Ji, with the duty of inspecting River Ji and punishing the water gods, required a Great Demon King who had reached at least Return-to-Void Stage in the era of the ancients.
Being bestowed with the supervision of the Banner of Water and Sky As One as the patrol warden of River Ji, is enough to make him, a water god who is not good at fighting, on equal footing with any enemy in his realm, whilethis can also lessen the backlash of heaven and earth to a certain extent.
And now, the power of the river and the thousand feet giant’s Dharma body, which the patrol warden of River Ji was supposed to control, were stripped away with a decree. That kind of power had sent chills down his spine.
Even the River Ji Dragon Sovereign, who had been paying attention to Shen Yuan all the time, looked a little dazed.
Shen Yuan calmed River Ji with just one word, “Subside!”. Not only did the Great Demon King, Giant Clam Water God, offer no resistance, even he, the master of River Ji, didn’t notice it.
“This is clearly an interference with the power of River Ji, why didn’t I receive any feedback from my Dragon Sovereign authority?”
“If this Divine Monarch has such a command, why did he keep a stalemate before?”
“Is he resisting the backlash of heaven and earth to evoke command at this moment? Or has he remained unharmed?”
The events unfolding before his eyes completely disrupted River Ji Dragon Sovereign’s original thoughts, even beginning to question whether his previous guesses were correct.
On the calm surface of River Ji, Shen Yuan held the River Ji Dragon Seal, his eyes seemingly filled with a hint of unfathomable pity.
“I gave you a chance.”
The mundane words seemed to state an insignificant fact.
“The Prince Ji Du fell at my hand, involving even the Path of the Ancient Water God, given the magnitude of its significance, I do not wish to have any contact with the River Ji Dragon Palace.”
The voice of Shen Yuan, bearing the thoughts of incense and fire, spread towards the Primal Chaos Tower, towards Qingping County City, towards the Ji river basin, and towards the entire Cang Province.
No matter human, monster, aquatic tribe, or even beasts with unawakened spiritual wisdom in Cang Province, they all could hear Shen Yuan’s words.
Even in the vast Crystal Palace within the grotto heavens of the River Ji Dragon Palace, Shen Yuan’s voice was still heard.
“These are the true divine words that can only be used by local deities within the incense and fire domain, using the faith of incense and fire as a medium so that all living beings within the incense and fire domain can hear the words of the local deities!”
Several Water Gods within the Crystal Palace immediately opened their mouths in shock:
“He can actually ignore the limitations of the incense and fire domain, and use incense and fire as a medium to spread his words throughout Cang Province. His achievements in the Incense Offering Divinity Path must have reached the peak!”
“Even among the Primal Chaos Realm, there are very few gods who can reach such a realm. Ao Lang, have you lost your mind? You dare to provoke this Divine Monarch.”
“The Path of the Ancient Water God, is there any other secret behind this?”
“What is the purpose of this Divine Monarch using the true divine words?”
No one in the River Ji Dragon Palace cared about Shen Yuan killing Prince Ji Du. They want to know more about the secrets behind the Path of the Ancient Water God, and the purpose of this Divine Monarch’s delivery of divine words to the entire Cang Province.
Within Cang Province, countless living beings, whether ignorant, trembling in their hearts, or excited, were waiting for Shen Yuan’s following words.
“Because of the chance encounter, on my way to the conference, I saw the representatives of the River Ji Dragon Palace and the Aquatic Tribe arbitrarily plundering wealth, using their power to oppress others and kill people.
The Spirit Transmutation Great Demon under the command of the River Ji Dragon Palace acted recklessly and rashly interrupted the human clan’s celebration.
The Aquatic Tribe’s canonical gods forcibly descended into the world, holding the treasure of the River Ji Dragon Palace, and wanted to annihilate a city.”
“The Aquatic tribes were expelled by my disciples, the Spirit Transmutation Great Demon was slain by me, and the Aquatic Tribe’s canonical gods were repelled by me. Everything should have stopped here.
However, the Dragon Sovereign of Ji River resorted to the authority of Ji River to step in again and try to annihilate the city.”
As soon as these words came out, countless beings in Cang Province were astonished.
On the banks of the Ji River, in a temple of the River Ji Dragon Sovereign.
A few worshippers who were offering incense heard Shen Yuan’s words and their expressions gradually stiffened.
As people in Cang Province, they knew more or less about the Aquatic Tribe’s lawless plunder of passing ships, but they never associated this with the Dragon Sovereign of Ji River.
After all, the worship of the Dragon Sovereign of Ji River in Cang Province had a history of tens of thousands of years. In their simple minds, they believe that as long as the River Ji Dragon Palace appears, they will definitely be able to quell the troubles of the Aquatic Tribe. This was also the reason why they came to offer incense.
But now this unknown voice told them the truth behind everything, and combined with some things they had encountered in reality, the worshippers immediately confirmed that the words of the unknown voice were not false.
The faces of the worshippers instantly turned red. One of them was a cultivator in the Essence Refining Stage, who directly kicked over the huge incense burner and picked up the offerings on the table to smash against the statue of the Dragon Sovereign of Ji River.
“You allowed the Aquatic Tribe to kill my human race, give my child back!”
“What kind of Dragon Sovereign are you?”
“Smash it!”
This phenomenon did not occur in just one Dragon Sovereign Temple, hundreds of Dragon Sovereign Temples across Cang Province had angry worshippers damaging altars and destroying Dragon Sovereign Temples, and a huge amount of public resentment was triggered at this time.
A large number of Dragon Sovereign statues were destroyed, Ao Lang immediately felt it, but as the Dragon Sovereign of Ji River, he was not a simple Incense Offering Deity, even if the public resentment was overwhelming, it could not really hurt his foundation, and he did not care about such insignificant matters.
Standing above Ji River, Shen Yuan sensed the rising public resentment within the incense and fire system of Cang Province, and his voice echoed like a thunderclap between heaven and earth:
“The Dragon Sovereign of Ji River has strayed from the path, acted recklessly, ignored his responsibilities as the Dragon Sovereign of Ji River, and committed an unforgivable crime by provoking an immense public resentment.”
“Today, I act on behalf of heaven to punish and hereby relieve Ao Lang from his position as the Dragon Sovereign of Ji River!”
Ao Lang was slightly shocked, then his face showed mockery and he laughed crazily:
“Relieve the Dragon Sovereign of Ji River? Do you know what you are talking about?
Even if you are a Divine Monarch, you can only be regarded as equal to the Four Dragon Sovereigns, what qualifications do you have to wane my Dragon Sovereign…”
Before he finished speaking, a huge golden imperial edict was seen falling from the sky shrouded with dark clouds, as if from beyond the heavens.
The most pure and original incense and fire Divinity Path aura emanated from the imperial edict.
Ao Lang seemed to see a supreme Emperor wearing a pearl-veil crown sitting above the heavens, raising his brush, and slowly writing a huge “Edict” character on an imperial edict!
That was not a mortal object, not something that could be influenced by one person’s words.
It originated from the source of the Incense Offering Divinity Path, and ruled over all the worlds and ten directions of the Heavenly Court!
That was an… an Imperial Edict from the Heavenly Court!
