"Xihe Decree":
"The land of Xihe has suffered from decayed laws for many years. The people cannot eke out a living, all legal order has vanished. Therefore, Immortal Dynasty Inspector Lin Su, bearing the Immortal Emperor's Imperial Decree, shall rectify Xihe and rebuild its legal order..."
First: all major races are equal. All racial privileges are abolished.
Second: all major races must obey the Immortal Dynasty Law. Whoever commits crimes shall receive equal punishment for equal offenses.
Third: all foreign races conducting business within Xihe shall pay taxes according to the prescribed rates.
Fourth: all no-fly zones established by the foreign races shall be abolished.
Fifth: whoever dared use force to violate the ban would have their cultivation crippled. Whoever dared resist would be executed on the spot. Those who gathered to resist would all be executed. If an entire race rebelled, that race would be exterminated!
Sixth...
There were twenty-one articles in all.
Every single clause was shocking to behold.
The expressions of all the clan heads changed in unison.
With this, the foreign races would completely lose every privilege they possessed in this land and become no different from ordinary people.
How could they possibly accept that?
The Wood Clan Leader rose to his feet. "Lord Lin, though I respect you as an Imperial Dynasty envoy, these laws violate the provisions of the Peace Agreement. How can I submit to them?"
"Precisely!" the Yellow Race Clan Head said. "We thirty-four foreign races were entrusted by His Majesty the Immortal Emperor to guard Xihe. The Peace Agreement clearly grants us many privileges. Does Lord Lin intend to abolish them all with a single word today?"
For a moment, public outrage surged.
The officials beside He Paiyun looked at one another, all rendered speechless.
Because the Peace Agreement did indeed