Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

Great Spirit Empire, Qing'an Prefecture, Five Spirits Hall.

An invisible cloud hung over the main hall, which was usually noisy and always arguing about various things, but today it was unusually quiet.

The courtiers moved in perfect unison, their faces flushed and filled with unspeakable anger.

The ministers who are usually the most active, always fighting and impeaching each other, are all silent today.

Even officials who usually only know how to be nice guys are rolling up their sleeves today, as if they are ready to make a big splash at any time.

Everyone, their cheeks flushed, stared intently at the projection in mid-air.

At the top of the high platform, on the imperial throne, Mu Zhaoyang, with a sullen face, slammed a piece of jade onto the ground.

"Bang!"

As the jade stone fell to the ground and shattered into tiny fragments, the illusory projection in mid-air also disappeared.

The jade contained information about the Chengtian Domain and the entire process of the people from the Reincarnation Pavilion dismantling the temple of the "Great True Lord".

In the magnificent Five Spirits Hall, the highest power center of the Great Spirit Empire, all the officials witnessed the "atrocities" of the Reincarnation Pavilion.

They watched helplessly as the temple of the "Great True Lord" was demolished and the statue representing the supreme deity was moved out of the temple.

Instead, there were unfamiliar gods.

The scenes of "atrocities" projected on the screen made the courtiers' blood boil, and even their ears turned bright red.

Several older ministers gasped for breath on the spot, coughing up a smear of crimson blood.

Insolence! Insolence!

How dare a mere commoner act like this!

"My esteemed ministers, you have all witnessed what happened in Chengtian Domain. What are your thoughts on this matter?"

The emperor's voice was not much different from usual, calm yet dignified, but it was this very voice that ignited the anger that hung over the court.

The sounds rose and fell in the main hall.

"Send troops! We must send troops!" This was the Prime Minister of the Great Ling Empire's shout the moment Mu Zhaoyang asked the question.

As the head of the civil officials, the Prime Minister's voice was deafening, as if he had some irreconcilable hatred with these small countries in Chengtian Domain, and only blood could wash away the hatred.

"How dare you blaspheme the Great True Lord! These beasts! These beasts!!!"

Your Majesty, such atrocities must not be tolerated! I propose that the Five Spirits Fleet be dispatched to Chengtian Domain to capture all the kings of the small countries involved!

Bring these scoundrels who blasphemed the Great Lord back to the Empire for public trial! Let everyone see the fate of blasphemers!

The speaker was the Great General of the Great Spirit Empire. Perhaps because he was too angry, wisps of steam rose from his head and all the way to the top of the hall.

The roar was so loud that it even penetrated the soundproof building and reached outside the main hall.

"Unforgivable! Unforgivable! How dare these beasts blaspheme the 'Great True Lord' like this!"

Your Majesty, I believe that only by destroying the nation can we appease the wrath of the gods in the face of these despicable scoundrels who are unworthy of being human.

As a subject of the Great Spirit Empire, I believe we must suppress these rebels immediately to demonstrate the Empire's resolve and defend the glory of the "Great True Lord"!

The one who shouted was Mu Changge, the vice leader of the Five Elements Holy Sect. He knelt down and slammed his head against the ground, making the hall resound with a loud thud.

While kowtowing, he also uttered harsh words about destroying the country and vowed to defend the glory of the gods.

As the vice leader of the Five Elements Holy Sect, Mu Zhaoyang's younger brother, and a direct descendant of the Mu family, Mu Changge was more extreme than anyone else when it came to the glory and dignity of the gods.

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Inside the Five Spirits Hall, court officials vied to offer their opinions, each calling for either sending troops or destroying the country.

The radicals immediately began planning the deployment of their forces and the direction of their attack.

The conservatives felt that the radicals were too conservative; they didn't want to discuss or plan, they only wanted to destroy the country.

A regime that blasphemes against the "Great True Lord" is not worthy of living in this world. These small countries should be incorporated into the territory of their Great Spirit Empire!

Of course, ordinary people are innocent; they are all loyal followers of the "Great True Lord".

It was only because they were coerced by these treacherous and wicked people, and their families and lives were threatened, that such a terrible thing happened.

As the sacred empire personally created by the "Great True Lord", as the ruler of the human race in the Nine Realms, and as the defender of justice and glory.

The courtiers of the Great Spirit Empire declared that they had a responsibility and obligation to protect every oppressed civilian and to defend everyone's freedom of belief.

Believing in the "Great True Lord" is the freedom of every human in the Nine Realms, and anyone who dares to obstruct this is a blasphemer.

Blasphemers will not be forgiven!

For the Great Spirit Empire, which regards the "Great True Lord" as its highest faith, there is no crime more serious than blaspheming the "Great True Lord".

Throughout the entire empire, from the imperial palace and nobles to the humblest villagers, no one dared to utter any blasphemous words in public.

The crime of blaspheming the "Great True Lord" is enough to drag the entire family into an abyss of no return, with no chance of recovery.

Although it wouldn't result in the extermination of the entire family and the complete annihilation of the clan, it would cut off any possibility of future development.

There will be no chance for them to enter officialdom for generations to come.

After more than three hundred years of peaceful development, the empire's laws had long been perfected.

Without the intervention of the emperor and terrestrial deities, the most severe punishment in the empire was none other than the death penalty.

Crimes such as the extermination of nine generations of relatives or the execution of the entire family have long been abolished. Imperial law explicitly stipulates that it is not allowed to implicate too many people.

Or perhaps, such a crime did not exist at the very beginning of the Great Ling Empire.

Unlike Mu An, who liked building mounds of Jing, Mu Ling'er was always kind to ordinary people, and she hated excessive killing the most.

Although Mu Ling'er's traces were replaced by the Five Spirits Mystic Maiden, the influence she left behind continues to affect the Great Spirit Empire.

For centuries, the Great Spirit Empire has adhered to the principle of benevolent governance and love for its people, and has been quite cautious in matters of legislation and sentencing.

Over the past few centuries, Bai Ling and Li Yin have further promoted legal reforms, abolishing a series of overly harsh legal provisions.

Even today, a charge like treason wouldn't implicate too many people.

At most, the punishment would be to execute those who participated in the rebellion and record their relatives, barring them from holding office for five generations.

Compared to other kingdoms in the Nine Domains and the laws of the Great Qi Dynasty, the Great Spirit Empire has completely overturned the traditional harsh laws, combining the rule of law with benevolent governance to form its own unique legal system.

But even in such a great spiritual empire, there is still an ironclad rule that cannot be violated.

That is faith in the "Great True Lord".

As a nation that combines faith and imperial rule, the Great Spirit Empire also suffers from the common problems of other faith-based nations.

Faith permeated every aspect of the empire, influencing its decision-making, whether actively or passively.