The ten newly opened provinces following the destruction of the Demon Country had each advanced into a new third-rank aristocratic clan.
Next came the rewarding and enfeoffment of the aristocratic clans from the Immortal Dynasty's original provinces. In this national destiny war to destroy the Demon Country, more than twenty aristocratic clans from the Immortal Dynasty's thirty provinces had organized forces to participate. Each had earned no small amount of merit and battle achievements.
Thus, the aristocratic clans in every province basically received rewards this time.
However, most of these rewards were concentrated in resources such as wealth, treasures, merits, and inheritances. There was little advancement in rank or elevation of status for the aristocratic clans themselves.
It was clear that the Immortal Dynasty's central court—or rather, the imperial family and the Human Emperor—were deliberately suppressing the advancement and rank promotion of the aristocratic clans in the various provinces.
After all, according to the Immortal Dynasty's Nine-Rank System inheritance, first rank was already the limit for many aristocratic clans, while second rank was the summit. To rise any further required more than sufficient merit and destiny; they also needed enough strength to support it.
Yet even so, among the aristocratic clans throughout the Immortal Dynasty, those with inheritances stretching back over a thousand years had, after this event, basically all advanced to second-rank aristocratic clans. Only the newly established provinces that had erected their cauldrons within the past thousand years remained at the rank of third-rank aristocratic clans, apart from the Liang Family's Liu Province and the Xie Family's Ying Province.
Furthermore, those originally second-rank aristocratic clans—such as the Chu Family of Jing Province, the Xiao Family of Liang Province, and the Zhang Family of You Province—had all failed to advance into first-rank aristocratic clans. Their merits and destiny might