"Nominate Li Chen for promotion to Grandmaster?"
When everyone heard this, they felt it was both unexpected and entirely reasonable.
As the only expert Rogue Cultivator in the Puppet Dao faction, True Person Miaobao could hardly have made a more fitting choice than to support a junior by promoting Li Chen to Grandmaster and allowing him to participate in governance.
Only with Grandmaster status could Li Chen legitimately participate in the decisions of the Puppet Dao's upper ranks and learn many secrets, which would in turn guide or constrain his conduct.
The Creation Sect itself was not a traditional sect, but an alliance formed by Grandmaster Artisans and Grandmaster-level figures from various parties after the Puppet Dao faction underwent repeated reforms. Thus, the practice of allowing experts among Rogue Cultivators to participate in high-level decision-making had already been in place for hundreds of thousands of years, with a solid legal foundation and widespread acceptance.
A Rogue Cultivator Great Power as accomplished as Li Chen should have been brought into the upper ranks to participate in crucial decisions long ago.
The only unfavorable factor was that, when he had first become a Second Sage of the Confucian Dao, his seniority had still been insufficient, and the various Sky Cities and local powers had offered him little support.
By now, however, Li Chen had possessed Primordial Spirit-level strength and the corresponding attainments for sixteen years. Even a mortal infant would have grown into a fine young man in that time.
A great deal had happened over those years. Li Chen's campaign in Cloud Province had won him considerable popular support and had even led to the first sprouts of modern industry in the cultivation world.
By now, Li Chen had tied many allies to himself through his interests in the Central Sea,