The Ancestral God Golden Token was a secret within the Ancestral God Hall.
Only the successive Grand Priests and Authority Priests of the Ancestral God Hall knew of it.
When each Grand Priest of the Ancestral God Hall took office, offered sacrifices to the Ancestral God, and gained the Ancestral God's recognition, they received an Ancestral God Golden Token.
At that time, the token's symbolic significance outweighed its practical significance, because the Grand Priest already possessed all the authority granted by the Ancestral God Golden Token.
However, when former Grand Priests of the Ancestral God Hall stepped down, neither the Ancestral God Hall nor the Ancestral God reclaimed their Ancestral God Golden Tokens.
This was not a loophole in the Ancestral God Hall's administration, but an internal tradition—or perhaps a self-protection mechanism passed down by the Ancestral God Hall through countless years.
For under certain conditions, the Ancestral God Golden Token allowed a retired Grand Priest to exercise the authority of a Grand Priest once. Over the countless years, two crises within the Ancestral God Hall had been turned around by relying on the Ancestral God Golden Token.
Many people knew of this tradition, but over the past thousand years, the Great Zhou Ancestral God Hall had rarely encountered any mishaps, and retired Grand Priests had seldom used the Ancestral God Golden Token. As a result, many had nearly forgotten this tradition.
Princess Changle had come to find former Grand Priest Chancellor Bai precisely for this Ancestral God Golden Token. It was also the method most likely to help Ye Zhen.
However, there were conditions for using the Ancestral God Golden Token.
Otherwise, if any retired Grand Priest could casually use the Ancestral God Golden Token to exercise a Grand Priest's authority, wouldn't the Ancestral God Hall be thrown into