Edict

"HAHAHAHA!!" The Human-faced Beast-bodied monster in the blood ignored everyone, struggling wildly with its limbs as it laughed madly.

"HAHAHA! The sun falls, the moon falls; at noon, Great Radiance falls into Yangming. At dusk, seek falling; at dawn, seek the rising Nine Calamity Heavenly Dragon Yinghuo Star. Vermillion Palace falls, white jade darkens; Heavenly Fiend Grand Sihao pours flowing gold! HAHAHA!!"

After the monster with a human head and the featherless body of a vulture finished speaking through its mad laughter, its body suddenly went limp. It collapsed to the ground and did not move again.

It had happened far too quickly, so quickly that no one present could react. They all stood frozen where they were.

After quite a while, the woman with her belly split open, barely clinging to life, threw herself over the monster and wailed in utter despair. "My son~~ ah!!!"

At her cry, everyone around them sprang into action.

"Protect His Majesty! Protect His Majesty!!" Gao Zhijian was instantly surrounded by layer upon layer of people.

Li Huowang could barely remain standing, his face turning exceedingly grim.

He knew of this thing that foretold calamity. It was called Yu. Back in Great Qi, it had appeared too—and not long after its appearance, Great Qi had ceased to exist!

For something so profoundly inauspicious to appear here, what it represented went without saying. Things had truly become disastrously troublesome.

Gao Zhijian did not recognize it, but someone beside him clearly did. Before long, an old eunuch with copper coins tattooed around his eyes and a Golden Whisk in his arms began whispering anxiously into his ear.

When Gao Zhijian's eyes widened to their limit as he stared in disbelief at the monster in the blood, Li Huowang beside him spoke heavily. "What he said is