The God War ended, Heaven Dou surrendered, and Douluo was united.
Xue Beng, formerly emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire and now the Spirit Hall Empire's Duke of Heaven Dou, voluntarily offered up his younger sister, Princess Xue Ke, sending her into the harem of the God of Eternity, Emperor Lin Qian, to curry favor.
Yet the man wavered between both sides and harbored crooked intentions. Even after moving into his residence in Spirit City, his treacherous ambitions refused to die, and he repeatedly plotted with his confidants to restore his empire.
After the empire repeatedly urged him to turn back from his misguided path and abandon evil for good, all to no avail, it secretly executed him to eliminate future trouble.
After Xue Beng's death, his outrageous antics also cost his family the ducal title. Fortunately, his younger sister Xue Ke was not implicated. Lin Qian always treated her with great courtesy, never extending his hatred of the house to the crow upon its roof.
Under her protection, the Xue Family successfully continued its lineage, spreading branches and leaves across the continent. Aside from losing their royal status, their lives remained unaffected.
As for the Star Luo Empire's former territories, although the Dai Family had been destroyed, the Xu Family of the Star Crown Clan and some smaller families survived. With Zhu Zhuqing, Netherworld Douluo and daughter of the former Nether Duke, soothing the populace, public sentiment soon settled, and not a single rebellion occurred.
In less than ten years, the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires had become pages fully turned, mere symbols in history books that no one cared about.
But all that came later.
At present, the Douluo Continent had only one nation-
The Spirit Hall Empire!
Meanwhile, Sea God Tang San, who had established the