Secretly transmitting Dao teachings!
One of the ten unforgivable crimes under the Heavenly Laws!
The Celestial Court ruled the cultivators of the Eastern Divine Continent through the Immortal Register system, which was why it harshly cracked down on secretly transmitting Dao teachings.
Several hundred years ago, great sects and clans had not strictly enforced the Heavenly Laws. Under the pretext of teaching Dao children and servants cultivation methods, they were in fact raising private armies, creating paths of cultivation outside the Immortal Register.
Many of these great sects and clans had patriarchs serving in the Celestial Court, holding high positions and forming an important force behind its rule.
The Heavenly Emperor did not immediately act. Instead, he accumulated incense divine power and waited for the Celestial Court's Orthodox Gods to break through to the Void Return Realm.
A hundred years ago.
Qianluo, True God of the Zhou Heaven Star Lords, submitted a memorial accusing a female cultivator of the Flying Immortal Pavilion of having no Immortal Register and being suspected of secretly transmitting Dao teachings, requesting that the Heavenly Emperor order a thorough investigation.
The Heavenly Emperor issued an edict to the Department of Star Lords, ordering a full investigation.
The Flying Immortal Pavilion's Supreme Patriarch served in the Celestial Court, but he was merely a fifth-rank official in charge of the Fire Department. Faced with irrefutable evidence, he had no defense and was thrown into the Heavenly Prison that very day to await trial.
When the news spread, sects and great clans were instantly thrown into an uproar.
Cultivators lived for centuries or millennia; which one of them was not shrewder than a monkey? Naturally, they could see that the Heavenly Emperor was killing a chicken to frighten the monkeys.
Yet the Celestial Court's momentum had already become unstoppable.