Chapter 905 — Don't Even Think About Taking My Life

By His Majesty's decree, only the chief criminals shall be put to death; the rest shall not be pursued. So wills Heaven: One: Gather the reform texts from all of Jingping's academies, colleges, and schools, and burn them publicly; no reform shall be permitted in later generations. Two: Jingping shall restore the ancestral system, retaining the emperor's throne; the sects shall govern the state, and every sect and school shall revere the gods; the common folk shall revere the gods and pray to the gods for blessings. Three: Jingping's right to mint coinage shall be surrendered to the Heavenly Court; the Heavenly Court shall mint the coinage that circulates among the people, and the state of Jingping shall not contend with the people for profit.

Four: Jingping shall not forge heavy divine artifacts; whosoever forges them shall have nine generations of his clan exterminated.

Five: Jingping shall follow the ancestral laws, and shall not arbitrarily alter divine arts or alter the ways of the Dao. Six: The Emperor of Jingping shall, year after year, hold the Grand Sacrifice and bow in thanks for Heaven's grace.

Seven: The people of Jingping, wherever there are cunning crafts and strange devices in their homes, shall destroy them all and shall not keep them privately. Eight: Emperor Yanfeng and the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, for disrupting the law and spreading monstrous words, wreaking havoc upon the world, shall be immediately taken to the God-Slaying Platform and have their fleshly bodies and primal spirits beheaded, as a warning to others!

Thus decreed—" Inside and outside the capital of Jingping there was an uproar.

Countless wielders of divine arts and the gods and demons of Jingping showed expressions of humiliation, their fury difficult to contain, wishing nothing more than to charge at once into the sky and kill.

Emperor Yanfeng laughed heartily and bowed, saying: "Your guilty subject receives the edict!

" The Imperial Preceptor of Jingping passed down the order that no one was to act rashly.

Several Heavenly Court tower-ships flew in, hauling a God-Slaying Platform, from which bloody light surged to the heavens, two blood-colored blades coiling and tangling without cease. The divine official said: "Please, you two, take a turn upon the God-Slaying Platform.

" Inside and outside the capital of Jingping all was silent. Countless gazes stared blankly at the God-Slaying Platform in the air.

"If our heads are to fall, then let them fall.

" Suddenly a laugh broke the silence.

The indignant people and wielders of divine arts looked toward the sound, and saw Shen Mu, his face pale as if gravely ill, standing upon the Dragon Qilin's forehead, appearing behind the fleet of Heavenly Court tower-ships.

The Dragon Qilin trod upon fire clouds, stepping unhurriedly into the fleet, then turned its head to look upon the face of that high and exalted Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven.

"The God-Slaying Platform is so frightening.

" Shen Mu looked at the platform and burst out laughing: "As if, once they die and their souls scatter, I could not revive them.

" He did not look at the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven, but waved to the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping and Emperor Yanfeng, and said weakly: "Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, Emperor, go ahead and meet your deaths. If you can die, count it my loss. " Behind him, the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven raised his hand, restraining the gods and demons of the Heavenly Court who were about to fly into a rage and kill, and said calmly: "This is Mu Tianzun.

Give him face. "