Xiang Yang had once learned the secret behind the changes in the Spiritual Energy Flux from Saintess Linglong of the Earth Demon branch of the Demon Sect. At the beginning of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Great Zhou's Founding Emperor and the Strategist Sage Sikong Xuan had trapped the Earth Vein Dragon Qi throughout the Nineteen Provinces, deceived others with the lie of traveling to the Eternal Kingdom, blood-sacrificed the world's supreme masters, and laid down the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Grand Formation.
According to Linglong, Great Zhou's Founding Emperor had done this to ban and eradicate martial arts, ensuring that his dynasty would endure without end and never again be overthrown by others.
This was tied to this world's high-martial background. One man becoming an army, one man destroying a city—these were no madman's dreams. If such martial arts produced a warrior who shook heaven and earth, or if ambitious men formed an alliance, they could very likely shake Great Zhou's rule. Not to mention that Great Zhou's Founding Emperor had seized his own realm from Emperor Jingming, the last ruler of the Great Gan Dynasty.
Preparing for a rainy day was an essential quality of an unparalleled tyrant. Thus, Great Zhou's Founding Emperor and the Strategist Sage had schemed against the world's supreme masters and cut off heaven's path. Though it was wolfish ambition and selfishness, it was still a grand stroke that could look down upon all of antiquity and the present.
Later, Xiang Yang encountered three Purple Robe Chief Constables from the Divine Constable Gate and heard from them another account, similar yet completely different.
According to the Divine Constable Gate, after Great Zhou was founded, the various masters who had helped Great Zhou's Founding Emperor achieve his kingly and hegemonic enterprise joined with the Demon Emperor