Among the court officials, many came from Noble Clans when it came to background and origins.
Back then, the Noble Clans had confronted Qiu Yan head-on. Both sides tore away all pretense, and in the end, Qiu Yan emerged victorious, causing the Noble Clans' influence at court to rapidly contract and decline. Yet they could never truly be eradicated.
As time passed, the Noble Clans' strength slowly recovered. They had merely grown accustomed to Qiu Yan calling all the shots. Even those not born into Noble Clans would inevitably form connections with one another once they entered officialdom, not to mention the groups and circles formed by classmates from the same year and fellow natives from the same hometown.
These circles were tangled together like roots and branches. Qiu Yan could suppress them for a time, but not for a lifetime. Besides, he had never intended to truly suppress them. His earlier crackdown on the Noble Clans had been to establish authority. Once that authority was established, he could command and control others to achieve his goals. As officials changed, Official Qi flowed, the Dragon Vein shifted, and Fortune changed with them. Its visible manifestation was the impact government policies had on the lives of the people.
Under the normal course of events, once these circles of interest recovered, they would begin challenging the existing power structure and once again threaten Qiu Yan. But Qiu Yan had seized power precisely because great change was imminent, because he needed to confront an elevation unprecedented in ten thousand years.
Thus, when interest groups such as the Noble Clans regained their footing, the first thing they faced was actually an external enemy.
When confronting the invasion from Heaven Will Continent, there was no need for the ancestors of the Noble Clans to pressure