Peacock Dynasty. Feihong Palace.
From the moment the Peacock Dynasty sent invitations to the other eight great empires, each nation dispatched members of its royal family or important ministers to attend. This gathering was anything but ordinary. No empire could afford to dismiss it, ignore it, or stand aloof.
The Peacock King had just obtained the Myriad Spirit Jade Seal, the symbol of a unified Divine Land, and immediately convened this Nine Nations Conference. The deeper meaning behind it went without saying.
Although Divine Land was divided into nine nations, the Peacock Dynasty and the Great Zhou Kingdom were the most powerful among them. The other seven nations were evenly matched, dependent on one another yet wary of one another. Nations shared interests, but they also had conflicts. They cooperated, but they also fought. Moreover, every empire was both an independent entity and entangled with the others, making it impossible to distinguish their true factions and lines of strength.
Besides, even if they could see the situation clearly for the moment, so what? They could always choose a new side according to the changing circumstances.
So they used a shameless phrase to describe their conduct: "There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests."
Interests came first!
Individuals had conflicts of interest, and nations had conflicts of interest.
If things were truly as they suspected, and the Peacock Dynasty intended to unify Divine Land, then it would infringe upon everyone's interests. This time, even the Black Flame Empire, which had always shared honor and disgrace with the Peacock Dynasty and advanced and retreated together with it, probably would not support such an act.
The unification of the nine nations meant that there would be only one empire, only one surname as the imperial family, and only one person as the emperor