With that in mind, Tai Yu looked back at the choice Luande had made all those years ago:
The key had never been which system he joined or which Dominator he served under as a subordinate god. It was whether he had the right to choose whom he would lift up and who would depend on him.
Put more simply, it was the right to choose those Enfeoffed Great Monarchs.
Had Luande possessed that right back then?
Tai Yu doubted it.
If not, why would Luande join the Dawn System? Doing so would have swept away his foundations and remade him from the ground up.
Of course he had refused.
The same situation, with a few adjustments, seemed to describe Qiao Mian and her associates' relationship with the Myriad Gods Hall and the Myriad Heavens Divine Kingdoms.
As a senior member of the Allied Nations Supreme Council, Qiao Mian had reached the core of a political faction.
In that position, she inevitably had to find places for the people under her. The nature and interests of her faction demanded it.
And she was not alone. Chao Yongdao and other powerholders who could be called "the elite of the elite" or "Great Monarchs among Great Monarchs" represented the core governing class of the Secular World.
If the Myriad Heavens Divine Kingdoms had kept apart from the secular world, that would have been one thing. But since they maintained ties and interacted extensively—since they even determined these people's prospects to a considerable degree—they were bound to feel pressure, even shocks, from the people "below."
Those shared interests might even cross the boundaries between God Systems and create a Tacit Understanding that needed no words.
Not that stating it outright mattered. Qiao Mian had met Tai Yu only a handful of times, yet