Something unprecedented happened right after the attack by the Ministry of Order & Discipline. For the first time in history, a major organisation on a universal scale completely abandoned a Major realm.
They directly, and without hesitation, forcefully harvested any resources from the realm and then abandoned it. All Dao Lords, as well as many powerful Immortal families abandoned the realm and escaped within a Void ship, hiding from detection, effectively disappearing.
With most Dao Lords missing or gone inside the Dream realm, and many others caught up in war or unable to provide support due to the disconnected state of the universe, they decided it was better to give up the Major realm than to try to hold it.
Thus, without any war or fighting, a Major realm became ownerless. No one even went to claim it. In fact, after the first realm was abandoned, many other powers also began to copy them.
