After the Imperial National Fortune Golden Dragon of the Great Zhou Dynasty was shot down and extinguished, the imperial dynasties across the Taiyu Divine Continent were successively targeted by the various holy lands.
If they were willing to destroy their own Imperial National Fortune Golden Dragons and allow the territories under their control to be carved up among the holy lands, then the holy lands would not lay hands on the royal families or emperors of those dynasties, merely turning them into puppet emperors.
As for those dynasties unwilling to comply, their emperors and Imperial National Fortune Golden Dragons would be destroyed together. This was the jointly accepted approach of the holy lands—extremely overbearing, beyond question, and allowing no opportunity for opposition.
After seeing what had happened to the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Rising Sun Empire, and others, some dynasties were willing to submit. They proactively destroyed their Imperial National Fortune Golden Dragons, allowed their lands to be divided among the holy lands, and became puppet emperors.
Others refused and even joined forces against the holy lands. In the end, within a year, not a single Imperial National Fortune Golden Dragon remained among the imperial dynasties of the Taiyu Divine Continent.
This was still because the holy lands had not assigned too many experts to target dynasties, empires, and the like. Instead, they had devoted more of their efforts to contesting the regions where strange phenomena had appeared.
At the same time, the matter of Tianxuan Holy Land, Purple Mansion Holy Land, Supreme Sect, and others searching for the Hengyuan Divine Vein was also discovered by the various holy lands, which began searching alongside them.
Yet in the end, they failed to find the Hengyuan Divine Vein.
By the time the Tianxuan Saintess and the others arrived at the site