Mo Lin's wedding to Qian Renxue and Hu Liena announced that Grace Hall and Spirit Hall were no longer separate entities. Every power on the continent understood where the entire Douluo Continent was headed next.
The Heaven Dou Empire's final resistance had instead dug its own final grave. The disreputable Heaven Dou Imperial Family could not find a single force willing to cooperate with them.
Even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, which had once supported them most fervently, rejected their request for cooperation. Ning Fengzhi was no fool, and his purpose in withdrawing from the world in the first place had been to avoid meddling in politics and preserve a good reputation. Naturally, he would not step forward for the current Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
Just as Mo Lin had expected, the Heaven Dou Empire's remaining forces gathered in a single city, but within less than half a year, internal strife erupted due to a shortage of resources, and they personally sent themselves to their end.
With the Heaven Dou Imperial Family completely exiting the stage of history, there were no longer any substantive or nominal obstacles on Grace Hall's path to unifying the Douluo Continent.
Mo Lin had long prepared a large number of officials. After announcing the occupation of all the former Heaven Dou Empire's territory, he swiftly dispatched them to every city short on officials and rebuilt the local political systems.
At Bibi Dong's prompting, the various kingdoms and duchies also declared, "Fine, we'll come clean! We stopped pretending—we actually wanted to submit to Grace Hall long ago!"
Thus, for the first time in ten thousand years, the Douluo Continent completely became one country. Mo Lin renamed it the "Douluo Republic." After all, with no imperial throne established, calling it an "XX Empire" would have been