The Star River Era! The Dimensional Freedom Demon

He ascended the throne.

It can never be summarized in a single sentence.

Especially the enthronement ceremony of the founding emperor.

It involves all aspects, including the determination and conferment of titles based on the merits of officials, the name of the dynasty, the reign title, the system, the emperor's crown and the style of clothing for a large number of royal family members and officials, and even the specifications of the imperial seal, and so on.

Even Ji Chen was suffering from the constant noise of the various court meetings.

Ji Chen sometimes wants to simplify everything and just delete everything.

As a result, the Taoists, who replaced the Confucian scholars and knew a little about all kinds of knowledge, and could be called encyclopedias, kept submitting memorials.

Taoist rituals are equally elaborate, and can be seen as a condensed version of a small imperial court, with a complete set of ritual systems from the investiture ceremony to the three major rituals, including the Luotian Grand Ritual.

A grand ceremony without proper etiquette is insufficient to demonstrate its solemnity, orthodoxy, and dignity. Simplification is acceptable, but a minimum sense of ritual is still essential.

In short, even if we cut corners and deleted as much as possible, the coronation ceremony would not be held until mid-May.

. . . . . .

The Wu Dynasty was established, and the new emperor ascended the throne, a cause for celebration throughout the land.

From the hour of Yin (3-5 AM), Zhang Shunwu dispatched troops from various camps to guard the main gates of the Forbidden City, and armored soldiers were stationed throughout the Imperial City and even the outer city.

Ji Chen chose to hold his enthronement ceremony at Chengtianmen.

A long red carpet stretched from the Hall of Mental Cultivation all the way to the Chengtian Gate. Along the palace road, parasols and ceremonial guards were displayed. On the palace walls, bright yellow dragon flags fluttered in the wind, reflecting the copper bells on the eaves. The air was filled with the crisp scent of sandalwood and pine branches.

Two lines of guards, dressed in red and green, stood on either side.

Even if it is kept as simple as possible, the enthronement ceremony of the founding emperor is still extremely grand and solemn.

Ji Chen walked out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation and went to the Temple of Heaven to worship the new emperor "Wuliangtian" established by the new dynasty.

That is, the name that Ji Chenxin gave to the Heavenly Demon Dimension Space.

Since his dimensional space could absorb all the heavens and make them his own, Ji Chen, who always considered himself unlike a celestial demon, simply gave himself a new name that was both fitting and sophisticated.

Although establishing a new emperor was somewhat against etiquette, due to Ji Chen's power, even the old scholar could only argue with him for a few words before giving up the plan.

It's just a name.

"Your subject, Ji Qingyun, has humbly received the Mandate of Heaven to establish the Wu Dynasty and its state. May Heaven grant peace above, may the people below be pacified, may the barbarians submit, and may the five grains yield abundant harvests..."

Ji Chen bowed his head and recited the eulogy, his voice carrying to the foot of the altar.

The officials, dressed in scarlet court robes, lined up on both sides according to the order of "civil officials to the east and military officials to the west." At this moment, they all knelt down, their foreheads touching the ground, and shouted three times, "May Heaven bless the Wu Dynasty, and may our Emperor live ten thousand years!"

The ceremony of "divine right of kings" was thus completed.

At that moment, Ji Chen discovered that the final bit of progress of the Heavenly Demon Interference was finally completed.

At the opportune moment, a large and bright light, reddish-purple in color, shone brightly, illuminating the sky and the earth, casting countless rays of light, startling the ministers and even the people of the entire city.

Although the courtiers were startled, they remained calm and their minds worked quickly. They shouted "Long live the Emperor!" to celebrate the auspicious omen.

The magnificent celestial phenomenon began in the capital and quickly spread to Sili, Youzhou, and Qingzhou, covering an increasingly wider area. In no time, all the people of the Nine Provinces witnessed this magnificent celestial phenomenon.

Some exclaimed that it was an auspicious omen, while others turned pale with fright, thinking it was a calamity.

"The new emperor is virtuous; Heaven congratulates him!"

"A tyrant's depravity is a terrible omen, but we cannot give up yet; this is a revelation from Heaven."

. . . . . .

The myriad aspects of human nature constitute a complex yet real picture of human life.

Afterwards, Ji Chen only focused a portion of his attention on the rituals of entering the court, receiving the imperial seal, issuing the edict, and the banquet, while immersing himself entirely in the Boundless Heaven.

In the boundless heavens, unprecedented changes are taking place.

The river of time reappeared before Ji Chen's eyes.

Magnificent, dazzling, splendid, dreamlike...

No words can adequately describe even a fraction of its appearance; it flows from the boundless void and toward distant, unknowable lands.

But the river of time, which was mostly peaceful in the past and only occasionally spilled out a few fragments of time, is now extremely violent.

During the period when Wuliangtian targeted the river basin, starting with Ji Chen being named 'Lu Xiao', hundreds of tributaries emerged.

However, although there are many tributaries, most of them are temporary deviations and soon return to the mainstream.

However, the further you go in this river basin, the more the tributaries drift, and some tributaries don't even merge with the main stream until they go beyond this basin.

Just as Ji Chen finished his ritual to worship Wuliangtian, the most skewed tributary in the river of time suddenly turned ninety degrees, completely deviating from its original trajectory and surging towards an entirely unknown direction.

At the same time, Ji Chen's Boundless Heaven suddenly extended invisible tentacles, accurately and swiftly anchoring to that out-of-control tributary.

The moment the two touched, the boundless heavens trembled violently, dimensional energy surged endlessly, and all sorts of colors emerged from the colorful black.

But as the boundless heavens expanded ever beyond their boundaries, a hazy world suddenly emerged, its outline quickly becoming clear, with mountains, rivers, and all living things gradually appearing, as if ink had been smeared onto rice paper.

Ji Chen felt an unprecedented joy welling up from the depths of his soul, as if he had taken a nine-turn elixir of immortality, feeling light and airy, and intoxicated.

Every movement of the entire Boundless Heaven resonated with his breath, and every tentacle of the Newborn Realm echoed his thoughts.

He felt his height increasing.

The panel displayed a torrent of data, with various pieces of information flooding the screen.

[Timeline fluctuations in an alternate dimension have been detected and have met the criteria...]

[Starting the process of consuming data... ...Integrating... ...]

[The Dimensional Demons are born from dimensional space, and are great because of dimensional space!]

[The dimensional demon's infant form is being nurtured and worshipped by another world, and its rank is rising...]

You have acquired new abilities, details as follows...

Before Ji Chen could happily check what his new ability was, the River of Time, having lost a tributary and damaged its source, suddenly erupted in chaos. Even Ji Chen, in the Boundless Heaven, could feel its anger and pain.

The magnificent river surges with towering waves, splashing spray, and blurry images can be vaguely seen in fragments of time.

However, this river of time is ultimately just an inanimate object without any intelligence. No matter how angry it is, its instincts can at most cause turbulence in the river, but cannot affect anything else.

Perhaps it was the violent upheaval of this long river of time that disturbed the boundless void.

The next moment, two blazing suns suddenly rose from the depths of the boundless void.

The surging energy surged like the tide, and the sun shone with billions of golden rays, illuminating every bend in the river of time.

Under the dazzling golden light, the previously turbulent and chaotic flow of time instantly calmed down and returned to its orderly course.

Ji Chen felt guilty. Even though he knew that the distance between the two sides was vast, what he saw relied entirely on the Dimensional Demon's innate divine ability to perceive the coordinates of the world from countless dimensions and worlds away.

But he still tried his best to shrink the dimensional space and hide in the cracks of the main world's dimensions.

Dimensional space can be large or small, and is extremely idealistic.

The main world is deep enough and far enough away that it's not something that just two powerful individuals can easily understand.

After confirming that there were no oversights, Ji Chen continued to spy.

"Damn it! Which bastard stole my Sky-Mending Stone?!"

"This is agonizing! How could the very foundation of my new world have been destroyed?!"

Ok?

It wasn't because of a riot in the river of time.