As the saying went:
Each sovereign brought his own ministers; each new generation left the old behind.
Jun Yao had indeed feigned death to escape, merely using the pretext of passing away at the end of his lifespan to conceal the truth that he was heading to Outer Heaven to seek Mei Gongxing, the Dao Court's Grand Astrologer.
But to everyone in the world who knew nothing of the inside story,
it was inevitable that they would believe he had truly died and no longer existed in this world.
And whether to maintain the deception or for the sake of the school's greater plans, the Jade Dawn School's Patriarchs would inevitably have to select the next Dao Scion from among their many True Disciples to inherit that exalted position.
Since the ascension of a new Dao Scion was already settled and could not be changed,
the identity of that next Dao Scion became a matter of the utmost importance!
The southern court did not employ the northern court's ministers: that was the unspoken rule.
The World-Escaping Shuttle had lived for countless years, growing shrewd with age, and naturally understood this perfectly.
Willingly or otherwise, once the new Dao Scion took power, he would inevitably purge the connections and forces Jun Yao left behind, install his own trusted followers, and expand his influence within the school.
It would be another reshuffling of power, another division of interests.
Before that grand, irresistible tide, no one could stand in opposition!
For tens of millions of years,
it had always been so!
Many people in the Jade Dawn School had witnessed Chen Heng's relationship with Jun Yao, and would naturally regard him as belonging to Jun Yao's faction.
If the successor were an upright gentleman like Zhang Taichu, things would still be manageable.
Zhang