With the help of Yun Wuyue's intelligence, the Azure Dragon Association made extremely swift progress in subjugating the mid- and lower-tier families within Northern Zhou.
Families whose strongest members were below the Divine Origin Realm martial artists were easily subdued in secret by the Azure Dragon Association. To prevent an incident like what happened at Qiangong Castle from recurring, every martial artist in the Innate Realm was made to take the "Three Corpses Brain God Pill."
For martial artists in the Divine Origin Realm, Qing Yu personally applied the power of thought from "Ten Thousand Paths" combined with the "Mountain Scripture" to imprint a restriction resembling a mental stamp. These martial artists found it difficult to make any progress in their cultivation after the imposition of the restriction, but their loyalty to the Azure Dragon Association was exceedingly solid.