As for Daoist Ming Shui's desire to leave the Cloud Water Sect, establish his own school, and restore the inheritance of their Water Element Lineage,
Daoist Ming Xin did not wish to comment on the specific circumstances.
For it was said that during the merger a thousand years ago, the important figure who led the Water Element Lineage had seemingly reached some agreement with the Sect's Grand Elder. This gave the Water Element Lineage a rather detached status within the Sect, and ensured that they could not be obstructed when they separated from the Cloud Water Sect in the future.
It was merely that a thousand years had now passed, and the important figure of the Water Element Lineage from back then had long since died.
The exact contents of that agreement had already vanished into the torrent of time.
Perhaps only the Grand Elder knew the true details.
Yet since the Grand Elder entered seclusion three hundred years ago, he had remained in seclusion and never appeared in the outside world.
Even now, some of the Sect's higher-ups worried whether something had happened to him.
With the Sect's Grand Elder absent for so many years, his influence had gradually faded as well.
To the Sect's current higher-ups,
following the orders left by that Grand Elder and allowing the Water Element Lineage to retain immense independence within the Sect, preserving its own unbroken inheritance system, was already their greatest concession.
But if it came to splitting apart,
they were broadly opposed.
That was precisely why, several decades ago, Daoist Ming Shui stepped down as Mystic Water Peak Master and headed to the South Sea.
According to Daoist Ming Shui's original plan, he had intended to use the South Sea as a foundation and establish the Sect in the South Sea