The Heavenly Edict, as the name suggests, is an edict sent down from heaven to the lower world.

During the heyday of cultivation ten thousand years ago, the Xuanhuang Realm was closely connected with the upper realm, and quite a few imperial decrees were sent down from the Heavenly Court.

Whenever the spirits of famous mountains and rivers gain intelligence, the Heavenly Court will send down an edict to confer the title of true god upon them, thereby incorporating these creatures of heaven and earth into the Shinto system of incense and deity.

The incense gods at the level of God Lord and God Sovereign also need to be conferred by the decree of Heaven before they are qualified to ascend to the throne.

However, ever since the connection between heaven and earth was severed for tens of thousands of years, the connection between the upper world and the Xuanhuang world had long been severed, and the decrees of heaven had completely disappeared.

In the entire Xuanhuang Realm, there has not been an edict from Heaven for tens of thousands of years.

Even the young Lord of Yunfu Mountain, a god in heaven, received an imperial decree from heaven ten thousand years before his birth, so he was able to become a god in heaven and rule over the Yunfu Mountains after his birth.

As the Dragon King of Jidu, Ao Lang is not under the jurisdiction of any other gods. Even the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas are of the same rank as Ao Lang.

The only thing that can truly influence Ao Lang is the decree from heaven.

This is also the important reason why Ao Lang scoffed at Shen Yuan's statement.

The connection between Heaven and Xuanhuang Realm was cut off, and even if Shen Yuan had supernatural powers, he could not shake his position as the Lord of Jidu Dragon.

However, right now, Ao Lang's cognition was broken.

The Heavenly Court, which had been cut off from contact for ten thousand years, actually issued an imperial decree!

At this moment, not only Ao Lang, the Dragon King of Jidu, but the entire Jidu Dragon Palace Cave Heaven fell into deathly silence.

The gazes of the True Dragon and the God of Waters crossed the barriers of the cave and looked together at the huge decree that descended from the nine heavens to the earth.

The entire decree was a sacred golden color, and its power was like the bright sun that made people dare not look directly at it.

As the decree from heaven came down, the entire Cangzhou's incense and religious network began to tremble at this moment.

Temples, whether prosperous or deserted, and land and water gods among the mountains, forests and ponds, all looked up at the sky.

Countless incense and good fortune converged towards the heavenly decree, gradually forming a clear shape.

It was a light golden scroll with Taoist texts drawn on it. Every stroke showed the true meaning of incense and Taoism, pointing directly to the origin of the Tao.

On the outermost edge of the light golden scroll, rivers, lakes and seas are faintly visible, and in the very center there is a star.

The eight departments of heaven govern all things in the world. The four rivers and four seas are all controlled by the water department, and the main god of the water department is the Beidou Wuqi Water Deity Star Lord.

The star Chen is Mercury, and this phenomenon represents that this decree to seal the Heavenly Court comes from the Water Department among the Eight Departments of Heaven.

After absorbing a huge amount of power from incense, the Heavenly Court's edict finally landed slowly in front of Shen Yuan.

Ao Lang, the Giant Clam Water God, and even the real dragons and water gods in the Jidu Dragon Palace all stared at Shen Yuan with nervous eyes, looking nervous but not daring to make any moves.

Shen Yuan stretched out his right hand and slowly grasped the golden scroll.

What was in Shen Yuan's hand was naturally not an imperial edict from Heaven, or in other words, it was not a true imperial edict from Heaven presented by the Eight Divisions of Heaven and signed by the Emperor.

Tens of thousands of years have passed since the connection between heaven and earth was cut off. The Xuanhuang Realm had long since severed its connection with the upper realm, and it was impossible for an imperial decree from heaven to be sent down.

The source of this imperial edict is actually Shen Yuan's magical power to exorcise gods.

After entering a realm of the power of exorcising gods, Shen Yuan has realized that the greatest use of this power is not to suppress individual creatures, but to control the heaven and earth with the help of the system of incense and gods.

For example, Shen Yuan's "Fu Bo" decree was the effect achieved by using the Jidu Dragon Seal as a medium to suppress the water of Jidu. In essence, Shen Yuan only relied on the Jidu Dragon Seal to suppress the water area, and had nothing to do with the Giant Clam Water God, but he could easily break the magical power of the Giant Clam Water God.

Such an edict can avoid the will of individuals with high levels of realm, and directly start from the ownerless power of heaven and earth, achieving its own goals in a simpler and more efficient way.

But this alone was not enough for Shen Yuan to completely calm the situation.

The imperial edict can allow Shen Yuan to suppress the divine power of the Giant Clam Water God, but if the Giant Clam Water God forcibly uses the strength of his own realm, he will still fall into a stalemate.

In addition, with Jidu Dragon King Ao Lang watching closely, Shen Yuan was not sure whether Ao Lang would have the chance to summon another demon king.

Taking this into consideration, Shen Yuan simply ignored the Giant Clam Water God and targeted the Jidu Dragon King who was the source of the chaos.

The magical power of exorcising gods that has entered a certain realm does not have much offensive power, but it can make a big difference in the incense and Shinto system.

Shen Yuanming understood the veins of the Xuanhuang Realm's incense and fire gods, and could use his own magical powers to pry open the key nodes of the veins to suppress the enemy.

In this huge network of incense and gods that covers the heaven and earth, who is at the top?

"The answer is obvious. The one at the top of the Incense and Fire Divine Way is always the Heavenly Court that arranges all realms and spreads the laws of the Incense and Fire Divine Way throughout the heaven and earth.

In the incense and fire way, the one who can best represent the will of heaven is not a certain god or emperor, but the decree of heaven that is issued in accordance with the will of heaven! "

Shen Yuan stared directly at the Heavenly Edict in his hand, letting the Jidu Dragon Seal in his right hand float beside him, and slowly opened the golden scroll in his hands.

From an angle that outsiders could not see, the golden scroll in Shen Yuan's hand was blank, and there was no decree from heaven at all.

But at the moment Shen Yuan opened the scroll, the doomsday scene accumulated by the Rain-Calling Power dissipated, and the original world was restored.

And above the clear sky that had just returned to daytime, golden auspicious clouds began to gather, and their layers upon layers spread to the top of the sky like stairs to heaven.

Above the sky, the shadow of an emperor formed by countless incense sticks appeared.

The Emperor was wearing imperial robes and a glazed pearl crown, sitting on the throne in heaven, his eyes slightly closed as if he was asleep.

But under his throne, gods and Buddhas are worshipping him.

Even though he was just a phantom, he could still make people feel the majesty of supreme respect. All the gods who worshipped him could not help but kneel down and pay homage to the emperor, as if he was the source of billions of gods who worshipped him.

In the Jidu Dragon Palace Cave, both real dragons and water gods had already knelt on the ground. Even the Jidu Dragon King Ao Lang, who was sitting on the throne, knelt on the steps.

An old-looking God of Waters trembled all over, and shouted in a hoarse voice:

"This is the will of the Emperor coming to the world!"

"This is the true decree from heaven!"

"Could he really connect to the Heavenly Court that has been cut off for thousands of years and make the Emperor give his supreme will?"

"Which existence in the Heavenly Court did the shadow of the Emperor that descended upon the Xuanhuang Realm come from?"

The Jidu Dragon Palace was shaking like never before.

Outside Qingping County, Shen Yuan still stood proudly between heaven and earth.

In his body, the seed of magical power to drive away gods that was originally located in his chest had long disappeared.

If a powerful cultivator carefully observes the majestic emperor in the sky, he will find that on the chest of the emperor's phantom, there is a faint light that keeps flickering like a candle flame.

That is the source of the great power emanating from the Emperor's shadow, the seed of the magical power to drive away gods.

As early as when Shen Yuan was preparing to take action against Jidu Dragon King, he had already made a plan.

First, he used his magical power to drive away gods to pry open the Heavenly Court at the top of the Incense and God Road, creating the power of the Heavenly Court's decree. Then he used the Ji Du Dragon Seal to control the power of incense and make the Heavenly Court's decree materialize.

In the ancient books about the decrees of gods, the various characteristics of the decrees of heaven that came to the world thousands of years ago were recorded. In that era, decrees of heaven were not rare, so there was a lot of information related to them. For example, depending on the importance, decrees of heaven would have different appearances such as tokens, talismans, and scrolls.

The edicts corresponding to the eight departments of heaven will show different symbols. The edicts belonging to the water department are engraved with the star of morning, and the important edicts contain key information such as the projection of the emperor's descent.

Based on this information, Shen Yuan created this Heavenly Edict.

In order to make the emperor's shadow more realistic, Shen Yuan even secretly mobilized the seed of the magical power to drive gods, and with the help of the power of incense, he manifested a shadow of the emperor.

The seed of the god-exorcising magical power is the core of the god-exorcising magical power and represents the origin of the incense and divine way. With the seed of the magical power as the core, the emperor's phantom is manifested and even the god himself cannot find any loopholes.

There may be some deviations in the details of the Heavenly Decree planned by Shen Yuan, but ten thousand years is enough to erase the cognition of most people.

In front of this real and illusory image of the Emperor, even the most unruly gods would bow their heads, not daring to offend the majesty of this supreme Emperor.

The decree from heaven comes from the magical power to exorcise gods at the source of the incense and fire Shintoism, and the phantom of the emperor also symbolizes the true source of the incense and fire Shintoism.

To some extent, Shen Yuan's copy of the Heavenly Decree is real.

The only drawback is that the decree is blank and does not contain any information about the removal of Jidulongjun.

But what Shen Yuan wanted was to make everyone believe that this was the real decree from Heaven.

Just achieving this goal is enough.

Holding the Heavenly Court's decree, Shen Yuan spoke clearly:

"Ji Du Dragon Lord Ao Lang has a perverse and reckless personality, allowing the aquatic tribes to wreak havoc on the world.

Obey the Emperor's order and remove Jidu Dragon Lord from his post!"

As soon as these words fell, the entire Cangzhou's religious network was thrown into chaos.

Inside the Jidu Dragon Palace Cave, Ao Lang, who was kneeling on the ground, struggled to raise his head and tried to look at the supreme emperor in the sky. He said in a loud voice:

"Ao Lang's move is just to track down the whereabouts of the Jidu Dragon Seal!"

"Ao Lang is guilty, but not to this extent. I hope the Emperor will understand!"

The Emperor above the sky lowered his eyes slightly, showing no reaction to any movement in the outside world.

But above the sky of Qingping County, the boiling public resentment caused by the destruction of hundreds of Dragon King Temples was gathering wildly at this moment.

The power of incense and people's resentment blended together, and a huge execution platform appeared between heaven and earth.

The execution platform has five levels and nine steps, covered with mountains of knives and seas of fire, and at the top is a huge guillotine.

The guillotine had long been stained with blood and turned into a strange red color. Looking directly at the guillotine, one seemed to be able to hear the cries of gods and the wails of dragons.

In the Jidu Dragon Palace, the faces of several real dragons turned pale in an instant.

"Dragon Slashing Platform!"

Legend has it that in the distant past, the dragon clan was once one of the most powerful clans in the world. Several ancestral dragons in the clan were feared by all the worlds, and their power was in no way inferior to that of the ancient water gods.

However, as the Heavenly Court expanded, a war broke out between the Heavenly Court and the Dragon Clan that lasted for tens of thousands of years.

Eventually, several ancestral dragons died, and the dragon clan surrendered to the Heavenly Court, becoming a tool for the Heavenly Court to control the water clan and lay the foundation for the incense and Shintoism.

In order to intimidate the dragon clan, Heavenly Court melted down several magical weapons used in the great war with the dragon clan and made them into the Dragon Slaying Platform to punish those dragon clan members who violated the Heavenly Laws.

Even if the Four Rivers Dragon Kings and the Four Seas Dragon Kings ascended the Dragon-Slaying Platform, they would only die.

Who would have thought that under the decree of Heaven, the projection of the Dragon-Slaying Platform would actually be seen in the world.

In fact, not only the real dragons in Jidu Dragon Palace, but even Shen Yuan was surprised by the Dragon-Slaying Platform formed by the boiling public resentment and the power of incense.

On the surface, Shen Yuan used the decree from Heaven to remove Ao Lang from his position as Dragon King of Jidu, but the real purpose behind this was to use the boiling resentment of hundreds of millions of lives in Jidu as a fulcrum to leverage the incense and Taoist system to suppress Ao Lang.

This gathering of public grievances seemed to have stirred up certain remnants of Shinto history, allowing the Dragon-Slaying Platform, which once intimidated the dragon clan, to manifest itself in the world with the help of public grievances and the power of Shinto.

Although it was somewhat beyond Shen Yuan's expectations, it no longer mattered.

Above the sky, the supreme and respected emperor has slowly opened his eyes.

The Dragon-Slaying Platform descended upon the Ji River. Upon seeing this, the god with a dragon head and human body, whose authority the Aolang Dragon King manifested, tried to escape from the place without risking offending the supreme king.

The next moment, the guillotine on the dragon-slicing platform was slowly raised, and chains spread out from the void on it, locking the god with a dragon head and a human body tightly.

Ao Lang roared in pain and tried to stir up the power of rivers and lakes to break free from the chains. However, Fu Bo's decree had already calmed the rivers and lakes. Even though he was the Dragon King, he was unable to mobilize the power of rivers and lakes.

The god with a dragon head and a human body, who embodied the power of the Dragon King, was dragged to the dragon-slaying platform with chains. The once arrogant and domineering Jidu Dragon King was forcibly tied to the execution platform.

The dragon scales were scraped off the mountain of knives, and the huge dragon head was placed under the guillotine. The dragon-slicing platform, which was soaked with the blood of countless real dragons, made Ao Lang's soul tremble.

The desire to survive made him unable to help but let out a crazy roar.

"As the Dragon Lord of Jidu, I control the ancestral veins of the four rivers and am the common ruler of all water creatures in the world.

Even if you are the Emperor, you should report to the Jade Emperor and have the Four Imperial Lords judge me before you can dethrone me!"

"You are overstepping your authority and will not be tolerated by the water tribe!"

Shen Yuan, who was looking at the Dragon-Slaying Platform, smiled.

Just as Ao Lang said, removing the Jidu Dragon King from his position is indeed of great consequence, and it must be reported to the Jade Emperor and tried by the Four Imperial Gods before the punishment can be determined.

However, the connection between heaven and earth had been cut off for ten thousand years. Such a long time made everyone forget one thing, that is, the position of the Four Rivers Dragon King needed to be conferred by the Heavenly Court before one could become a true Four Rivers Dragon King.

The old Dragon King of Jidu died three thousand years ago, and when Ao Lang succeeded to the throne he had neither the Jidu Dragon Seal nor an edict from Heaven, which meant that Ao Lang was not the real Jidu Dragon King at all.

He was able to sit on the throne of the Dragon King of Jidu and hold the authority of the Dragon King and control the Ji River, all thanks to the inheritance of incense and Shintoism and the solid power of the people's wishes accumulated over tens of thousands of years.

Ao Lang has now lost the will of the people, and the incense and gods are controlled by Shen Yuan, so he has long lost the foundation of the Jidu Dragon King.

His so-called position of Dragon King had long been like a rootless duckweed. The reason why Shen Yuan issued the decree of the Heavenly Court and forged the phantom of the Emperor was to determine the overall situation of this area's incense and Shintoism.

Once the situation is hopeless, how can the position of Jidu Dragon King, a rootless floating duckweed, be retained?

Above the dome of the sky, a voice of supreme majesty emanated from the mouth of the Emperor. Its voice spread throughout all realms and directions. Wherever there was incense and burning, the Emperor's orders could be heard.

"cut!"

A flash of blood appeared, and the guillotine that had killed countless real dragons fell down with a bang, and the ferocious dragon head slammed heavily on the dragon-slaying platform.

The god with a dragon head and a human body, who symbolized the authority of the Jidu Dragon King, fell, and the will of the Dragon King, which loomed in the hearts of countless creatures above the Ji River, quietly dissipated.

In the Jidu Dragon Palace Cave, Ao Lang fell awkwardly from the steps of the Dragon King's throne. The entire crystal palace began to shake violently as the Dragon King's authority dissipated.

Pavilions and towers collapsed, and a large number of gorgeous objects fell to the ground amid the tremors. The Crystal Palace no longer had the luxury of the past.

The Jidu Dragon Palace Cave Heaven, which gave birth to the endless sea, fell into chaos. A huge wave was raised in the sea, and the surging waves kept hitting the walls of the cave heaven.

At the end of the sea, cracks began to appear in the complete cave world.