Sword Dao Son of Heaven, Principal of the Royal Sword Dao Academy

Official protection and guaranteed benefits: Sects with official backing could receive the protection and benefit guarantees of the authorities.

While traveling through the martial world, it was inevitable to encounter all manner of disputes and conflicts.

However, sects that cooperated with official institutions could receive official protection and support, avoiding unnecessary trouble and conflict.

Even if disputes and conflicts arose, official institutions would provide them with support and assistance, ensuring that their interests remained unharmed.

Furthermore, when it came to distributing benefits, cooperating sects could also receive official support and rewards as a priority.

These rewards might include rare resources, advanced weapons and equipment, Cultivation Manuals, and more—things other sects simply could not compare with.

The various support policies and the authorities' preferential attitude had invisibly divided the Ten Great Sects from the other martial sects.

It had set them against one another.

The unruly martial world that had given countless emperors headaches, the wretched jianghu that remained unchanged despite repeated efforts at governance, had now been settled by Chang Wei with a single effortless plan.

Chang Wei did not think it was particularly impressive either. If one claimed that those people in officialdom had never thought of doing this, that was pure nonsense.

They had merely feared damage to their own interests. Now that Chang Wei had swept across the land, eliminated every injustice, and displayed invincible strength, the plan proceeded very smoothly.

Marquis Shenwu's might shook the realm; none dared disobey. If Ye Gucheng did not emerge, who could contend with him?

In truth, even if Ye Gucheng had emerged, he would have been unable to contend with him.

This arrangement between the Ten Great Sects and the imperial court would certainly continue in the future. Having tasted its benefits, they would cling desperately to the opportunity and