When it came to political maneuvering, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family was certainly far superior to the Star Luo Imperial Family, which only knew how to fight for the throne through force. But it was precisely because of all this scheming that the Heaven Dou Imperial Family had not produced a Titled Douluo for generations.
Moreover, because the Heaven Dou Empire was located deep within relatively northern territory, far from war, Heaven Dou's nobles had fallen into a culture of extravagance and indulgence.
And that made it even less likely for Heaven Dou to produce a Titled Douluo.
Furthermore, the noble factions in Heaven Dou were extremely exclusionary toward commoner soul masters. One only had to look at how Heaven Dou Royal Academy admitted nobles alone to see it.
For all these reasons, Heaven Dou's top-tier combat strength had declined again and again over the years.
Under such circumstances, anyone with eyes could see that the Heaven Dou Imperial Family's ability to restrain its subordinate forces was growing weaker and weaker.
In order to break this deadlock, Xue Ye had even come up with the idea of making Ning Fengzhi Xue Qinghe's teacher, borrowing the tiger's might to intimidate others. Unfortunately, he did not know that his son, Xue Qinghe, had already been replaced. It was not merely a matter of being ruthless.
And there was only so much pie to go around among the top-tier powers.
If the Shui Family of Skywater Academy wanted to squeeze into the upper ranks, a Titled Douluo was naturally indispensable.
Thus, as the helmsman of the Shui Family, he knew full well that a genius who had yet to grow was nothing. For years, he had kept Shui Bing'er's true information hidden.
If Shui Bing'er's true details had been exposed early on, there