The personal intervention of the Great Zhou Martial Saint Ancestor represented the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty's unyielding stance. Although Gu An sensed there was something wrong with the situation, he had no choice but to accept the Imperial Dynasty's current arrangements.
After all, if they accepted the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty's arrangements, they could at least preserve half of their top-tier Combat Power. If they defied them, the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty would just make an example of them again, and their situation would become even more dire.
If he could get a response from the Merak Sacred Land, he wouldn't just know what was truly happening, but could also adopt a firmer stance. But since there was no word from the Merak Sacred Land, he couldn't make any significant moves.
