The Nine-Rank Immortal Path
Chapter 1031

The Crown Prince Oversees the State

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Within the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty, with the Human Emperor yet to return, numerous commandery-prestige clans across the provinces and commanderies had suffered varying degrees of damage. The situation within the Immortal Dynasty showed faint signs of roiling upheaval.

Liang Zhaohuang and the other Nascent Soul True Lords, along with the great aristocratic clans, naturally understood the situation. Indeed, the information and circumstances they grasped were clearer, more detailed, and more profound than what those commandery-prestige clans knew.

However, unlike the anxious commandery-prestige clans, the Liang Family, Yang Family, Liu Family, Xiao Family, and other great aristocratic clans were undoubtedly far more composed.

The Human Emperor had entered the Underworld only a little over a year ago. Though it had caused some impact, it was not yet significant.

Only if he failed to return for decades—or even a century—would the great aristocratic clans of the various provinces likely begin to harbor truly different thoughts.

As for the instability of commandery-prestige positions in the provinces and commanderies, even escalating into struggles for power and profit or challenges to established standing, such matters were naturally of paramount importance to the commandery-prestige clans, matters concerning the very foundation of their families.

But for the great aristocratic clans of each province, who presided over and controlled an entire province, no matter how the commandery-prestige clans beneath them fought and contended, they could not escape the control of those great clans.

Indeed, the struggles and weakening of the commandery-prestige clans in the subordinate commanderies often instead benefited the great aristocratic clans' control over those commanderies, allowing them to obtain even greater profits.

Thus, the great aristocratic clans of the various provinces had even less cause for concern.

They merely needed to keep a firm grip on the overall situation, prevent the struggles among the commandery-prestige

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