Having completed the reconstruction of the Xuan Shui Sect, Zhang Qingyuan also took the opportunity to leave behind some of his own inheritances in the Cloud Water Sect.
After all, although he had rebuilt the Xuan Shui Sect, he was still fundamentally a member of the Cloud Water Sect.
This might have seemed difficult to understand,
because if a cultivator from one sect established another sect elsewhere, would that newly founded sect belong to the original sect, or to that individual himself?
Moreover, this would involve many different considerations.
Thus, under normal circumstances, sect forces would not permit their disciples to casually establish subordinate sect forces outside, because doing so would divide the sect's own strength and lead to the loss of its inheritances.
Even if there were exceptions, they would be cases where the sect itself sought expansion and sent its disciples to establish a subordinate sect force as a bridgehead for that expansion. The newly established sect and the original sect would then share a relationship of subordinate and superior.
The reason Daoist Ming Shui had encountered so many overt and covert obstructions from the sect when he wished to leave the Cloud Water Sect and rebuild the Xuan Shui Sect back then was also related to this.
Once this precedent was set,
people's hearts might scatter.
Some elderly Cave True Realm Cultivators within the sect, having lost all hope for the Great Dao and the Dao Path, might also develop thoughts of going out to establish sects and proclaim themselves founders.
If they refused, there was already a precedent, so it would be hard to justify.
If they agreed,
then would those Cave True Realm Cultivators who went out still count as cultivators of their own sect?
When resources and connections were divided away, when interests came