Ordinary affairs were not handled by the six True Core powers; orders were issued by the Wu Kingdom's royal family.
But whenever the interests of the six True Core powers were involved, the Wu Kingdom's royal family had no say whatsoever and could only let the six powers do as they pleased.
The most notable example was how the corpses of Wu Kingdom's mortals were handled.
After mortals of the Wu Kingdom died outside the territories of the various martial-arts powers, more than half of their corpses had to be taken away by the Thousand Corpse Sect, while the remaining half was divided among the other five True Core powers. The Wu Kingdom's royal family had no ability to refuse and even had to cooperate with the various powers to complete the matter.
It could be said that the Wu Kingdom was a product of the compromises reached among the various True Core powers in this region, a tool responsible for raising mortals for those True Core powers.
However, this tool was not an existence that ordinary martial artists could look down upon.
To become a tool recognized by all the major True Core powers, the Wu clan of the Wu Kingdom's royal family was by no means simple. Not only was it itself a Postnatal martial lineage, but capable people had emerged from the clan generation after generation. There was never a shortage of Postnatal experts, and there were many people gifted in strategy and schemes.
Only this allowed it to gain a firm foothold amid the struggles among the various True Core powers and secure a place for itself.
It had remained the royal family throughout the long years.
Its history even stretched back farther than the Jade Bone Sect, which had existed for only three hundred years.