The great victory in the war between righteousness and evil had brought the greatest dividends to Great Shang.
All righteous sects and aristocratic families also gained long-term benefits.
The Seven Paths of Demons retreated into seclusion and contracted their influence, leaving behind vast industries. At the same time, there were now barely any experts left on the grasslands.
Large numbers of righteous experts, as well as unorthodox experts using assumed names, surged into the grasslands to plunder the accumulated wealth of countless years.
With Recoome, first on the Heaven Ranking, dominating the age, the grasslands' reserves were far beyond what a few top aristocratic families could compare with.
Moreover, the grasslands were vast and open, unlike aristocratic families and sects with mountain-protecting formations.
Now was the best time for hunting.
Even the members of Immortal Traces, aside from those taking turns on guard duty, entered together under their original identities.
And apart from the grasslands, the postwar reckoning of the aristocratic families had also begun.
Other than the Gao Family and Cao Family, the remaining three great aristocratic families of Northern Zhou were erased from existence!
All their family foundations and treasures were confiscated into the Great Shang imperial treasury.
As Northern Zhou's actual ruler, Gao Lan merely watched numbly as Xu Yue played the role of mover.
He only took over the worldly industries of those three great families, yet he had already profited immensely.
Aside from the three top aristocratic families and the many first-rate families that had stubbornly chosen the grasslands' side, all of whom were mercilessly uprooted.
Within Great Shang, apart from the Ruan Family, Jiangdong King Family, Zhou County King Family, Cui Family, and several other families that had firmly stood with the Righteous Path.
The other families that had tried to hedge their bets