The Myriad Worlds Common Knowledge Sphere had begun functional testing, and it was also promoting many of Great Shang's own laws and decrees.
The exchange of information gave ordinary martial artists access to channels of communication. Matters that could once be concealed would no longer stay hidden.
Coupled with the assistance of patrolling Yin Spirits, Great Shang was becoming increasingly secure.
Although Northern Zhou still retained a certain degree of autonomy, its situation had already become much like that of Canada and the United States.
It was almost completely dependent on Great Shang.
Furthermore, Gao Lan was becoming more and more salty, so Northern Zhou's incorporation into Great Shang had become inevitable.
And since, apart from the Gao Family, Northern Zhou had only one other top-tier aristocratic clan left—the Cao Family—there was no resistance from top to bottom.
After the Twenty-Eight Realms of the Seven Seas were incorporated and the two worlds began exchanging goods, with their various specialties complementing one another, Great Shang's prosperity gradually began spreading overseas.
Since the Twenty-Eight Realms of the Seven Seas had no concept of "states," even though the Dharmakaya experts of that world possessed great autonomy, the incorporation of its mortal realm into Great Shang was likely only a matter of time.
This process was further accelerated by the construction of teleportation arrays and the upgrading of massive seafaring trade vessels.
Golden Ao Island, however, had been caught somewhat unprepared by the deaths of its three Celestial Immortal envoys, disrupting its original plans.
Yet no matter what, it was theoretically the only faction at present with a Great Power who had awakened.
On top of the allegiance of the demonic path, Creation-level Yuan Hong had also sensed Heaven's favor upon himself.
This would not go so far as to make Yuan Hong personally