Fang Yuan's body shook violently. He felt like a lamb walking into a tiger's jaws, caught in an earth-shaking conspiracy painstakingly laid by his opponent.
He could never have imagined that Li Chen could penetrate the Great Qian Dynasty's layers of defenses against foreign enemies and appear here. Seeing the immense Azure Dragon Dharma Form floating above Li Chen's head like a Heavenly Curtain Behemoth, radiating boundless majesty in its stillness, he could not help entertaining a few absurd possibilities.
The Azure Dragon Dharma Form was not attacking Li Chen. Could it be...
But Li Chen had already made his move.
Immediately after introducing himself, he commanded the Azure Dragon Dharma Form to reach a claw over Fang Yuan's head and seize him with a fierce downward sweep.
Fang Yuan rose into the air, trying to evade the attack, only to discover that the Azure Dragon was not attacking him, but the divine light of fortune shrouding his head.
Before he knew it, the dragon had clawed out a stream of bluish-purple energy.
"Fortune deprivation!"
"From this day forward, you are no longer the imperial tutor-or even a scholar of Great Qian!"
Feeling his fortune drain away, Fang Yuan was utterly aghast. "You can wield fortune authority! Who exactly are you?"
Li Chen said nothing and tossed out a scroll written on bright yellow silk. Its reverse bore the image of a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon. It was unmistakably an imperial edict.
Moreover, it was not a Private Edict issued by the emperor alone, but a formal imperial edict approved through cabinet deliberations and authorized by the regency ministers!
The common people often confused imperial edicts with private edicts. In truth, only an imperial edict was a supreme imperial command in the fullest sense-a legally binding document jointly ratified by the