One month later.
The scent of blood had yet to fade completely, but the turmoil in the Imperial Capital had long since subsided. Even its name had been changed to "Heavenly Capital," or "Ruined Capital."
The Myriad Calamities Dao Court had utterly crushed Great Yin's last resistance. Countless people had been killed or wounded, and corpses lay everywhere.
Of course, the Dao Court's policy toward the old powers was not indiscriminate slaughter. It had also accepted the surrender of large numbers of military officers and experts.
For instance, Divine General White Phoenix, commander of the Phoenix Soaring Army, had been subdued by Granny Meng and taken into the Chief Astrologer Bureau under her command.
During this period, the basic framework of the Dao Court's Three Hubs Bureau-the Dao Transmission Hub, the Chief Astrologer Bureau, and the Heavenly Works Hub-had been established.
The newborn power structure was nothing like the sluggish, rusted old order. As soon as it took shape, it began operating at lightning speed, with numerous experts racing in every direction to circulate proclamations across the land.
Great Yin's eight hundred years of rule had long since taken root in people's hearts. Its repeated declines and revivals had convinced them all the more that the mandate of heaven belonged to Great Yin. When it collapsed overnight, destroyed at the hands of the Myriad Calamities Dao Court, the news naturally sparked wave after wave of unrest. Numerous Evil God Cults also seized the opportunity to rear their heads and stir up wind and waves.
Hong Yuan could not even be bothered to concern himself with this, leaving everything to Granny Meng, Li Daoyi, and the others.
He had gathered the finest talents of both north and south. No matter how those who had slipped through his fingers thrashed about, they