Rather than obstructing the growing affection between her direct disciple Xiao Yu and Liu Changxu, Luo Ziyan encouraged it.
Unlike most of the Human Race's leading cultivation powers in the Immortal Realm, the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace had been founded by the Great Encompassing Golden Immortal Xiao Ziwei, the Purple Tenuity Immortal Venerable herself. Thus, all authority over the sect rested in her hands and those of her direct disciples and lineage disciples, forming a stable hierarchy with clearly defined factions.
From its founding, the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace had established a rule that female cultivators would take precedence. Although it also admitted male disciples of exceptional aptitude, and their numbers were far from small, they could scarcely enter the sect's core leadership, much less gain access to its central authority and inheritances.
This lopsided approach to the sect's development also left the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace considerably weaker in its foundations and overall fighting strength than other leading cultivation powers of the same rank.
It was no exaggeration to say that the vast Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace remained standing in the Immortal Realm entirely because its founding ancestor, the Great Encompassing Golden Immortal Xiao Ziwei, the Purple Tenuity Immortal Venerable, presided over it. Without this supreme expert's protection, the sect's overall strength would instantly plummet, and its prestige would fall a thousand fathoms. All its senior figures understood this perfectly.
However, having suffered heartbreak in her early years, Xiao Ziwei, the Purple Tenuity Immortal Venerable, harbored considerable prejudice against men and never accepted male disciples.
To preserve their own power, the senior figures of the Purple Tenuity Immortal Palace had no intention of changing the status quo either.
Still, to make up for this inherent weakness in the palace's development and bolster its strength, its senior figures had devised