This Imperial Lecture on the Dao,
was said to have been jointly initiated by the highly respected Gu controller ancestors among the imperial clan.
The root of all this
was that the Demon Suppression Division and other government institutions had come under assault from cultivators.
With the sudden emergence of cultivators, who upheld the idea of learning civil and martial arts so they could offer their talents to the imperial family, more and more cultivators came to the capital to make a living, hoping to use this opportunity to obtain power among the upper echelons.
Originally, this power
had been controlled by the Gu controllers.
If cultivators wanted to obtain power, they could only seize it from the Gu controllers.
Naturally, this created a conflict with the Gu controller faction.
And this conflict
was utterly irreconcilable.
In the eyes of the vast majority of cultivators, the times had long since changed. It was time for the Gu controllers to leave the stage!
Those old relics from the previous era ought to withdraw peacefully and make room for the world's stage.
But clearly,
the thoughts and ideas of the cultivators were something the surviving Gu controllers could not accept!
Even if the Way of the Gu Controller would eventually be eliminated,
it absolutely could not be eliminated before they completed their conversion to cultivation techniques!
Their power was already in danger of fading, and now even the authority in their hands was going to be replaced. How could they possibly endure that?
If those old fellows occupying the upper levels of power had completed their conversion to immortal arts, they might not have objected.
Unfortunately, because of one reason or another,
those remnants who had been left behind had still not completed their conversion.
They were still Gu controllers,
and as