Although Star Heaven Dao Sect is the overlord of East Yu, within the Eastern Region, it is a superpower second only to the Three Great Sacred Lands.
Yet faced with the Flower Country royal family's surrender and opening of their city gates, they were utterly helpless.
After all, the cultivation of ten thousand acres of Coiling Dragon Spiritual Rice in the Eastern Wilderness was made possible by the manpower of Back to Sky Valley.
Now, Yan Shaoyin was singularly focused on refining the Infant-Feeding Elixir, having even relinquished his own homeland of Summer Country. For him to confront the much more influential Five Elements Sect for the sake of the worldly Flower Country was sheer fantasy.
Without Back to Sky Valley stepping in, Star Heaven Dao Sect simply couldn't control the entirety of Flower Country.