1. Martial strength reigns supreme, and power determines rank. There are no laws or impartial heavenly principles in this world. The strong control life and death, while the weak are swept along by the tide. Clans and sects alike rank people according to their martial prowess. This is also why the Divine Palace can so easily stir up conflict and divide the various powers.
2. The ultimate clash between the Divine Palace and martial arts. The Divine Palace represents a false order of heavenly principles: rigid, hypocritical, and dictatorial. It seeks to extinguish martial arts among humanity and tame all living beings. Martial artists represent resistance and freedom, defying Heaven to change their fate, breaking through deadlocks with their fists and standing against the heavens. The two sides are as incompatible as fire and water, and only one can survive.
3. The ultimate fate of a solitary martial artist in a golden age. Martial arts are born in times of chaos and die in times of peace. When Nan Beiliang destroys the Divine Palace and brings an end to the turmoil, conflict and formidable foes vanish from the human world. Martial arts lose the trials that once honed them. The warriors who once fought side by side have all fallen, leaving only the strongest to guard the world alone.
