Thus decreed!
As the imperial edict descended, golden light blazed across the sky and dharma forms surged wildly. Golden lotuses and jade blossoms fell like rain, while rosy clouds billowed like gauze curtains. Amid these wondrous signs, golden scales surfaced across Li Chen's mutated dharma body. Grand and imposing, the dragonlike armor plates radiated boundless majesty.
Dragons and phoenixes loomed faintly around it, myriad beasts bowed in unison, and immortals, gods, and Dingjia Divine Generals filled the sky to offer their congratulations.
This was a divine decree from Emperor Kangping, the living Saint who represented the Great Qian Dynasty's legitimate authority. His decree conferred godhood and rank, granting a connection to the earth veins, access to the earth veins that sustained worship, and the authority to draw upon dragon aura.
The Great Dao of this world immediately granted Li Chen's mutated dharma body permission, revealing the majestic dharma form befitting a Dharma-Protector Deity.
Li Chen sensed an indescribably strange transformation in the mutated dharma body that shared a mysterious connection with him. Boundless power spread out from this world of the Righteous Qi Continent, drawing it from the Imagination Gate's domain within the void into reality.
Seizing this opportunity, he immediately initiated the rite to summon a heavenly god down to the mortal realm and activated the art of Manifestation.
Transformation between illusion and reality!
In an instant, the mutated dharma body-which had previously been illusory and ethereal, hovering between existence and nonexistence within the realm of living beings' imagination-finally gained a true physical form.
An intensely pungent scent of burning incense, candles, and paper money emanated from its body. The mortal world's pure, potent yang energy revealed an aura unlike anything it had possessed before.
*So this is a yang spirit dharma body, the essential form possessed by Great