Within the Radiant Wonder Dao Palace, Daoist Zhong saw jade-disc presentations piling up on the desk once more. He walked over and flipped through a few, unable to keep himself from shaking his head.
Quite a few of these presentations had been submitted to him through intermediaries by cultivators from Yiluo Upper Continent.
Situated among the various continents, Yiluo Upper Continent had entirely adopted Ancient Xia's methods of governance during Guo Zhen's tenure as Profound Chief. This had drawn many True cultivators there to cultivate, making it the place with the strongest True cultivator presence among the thirteen continents.
Some among them had ties through their sects to Profound Venerables in secluded cultivation, while a small number were simply disciples of Profound Venerables.
The moment Daoist Gao arrived there, he overturned the original order completely. He ordered the True cultivators who had once enjoyed offerings and support to go out and exterminate alien gods and spiritual creatures. The slightest slackness was met with ruthless stripping of their rank and position.
This was practically a direct copy of Guo Zhen's former methods for dealing with Profound Residences across the lands, only now turned against these True cultivators.
After removing those True cultivators who performed poorly, he replaced them with Profound cultivators he had summoned from the Outer Layer and disciples from his own school.
At the same time, he summoned officials from the two governments and proclaimed the Profound Court's decree, ordering them to bring in craftsmen and crafting techniques from Azure Yang Upper Continent and Jade Capital and find ways to improve the people's livelihood as swiftly as possible.
Just as no one could question what Guo Zhen had once done in Yiluo Upper Continent, once a Profound Venerable serving as Profound Chief of an Upper Continent made up his