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Qi Xuansu could not help but think to himself, I knew it.
The Holy Xuan disliked noble families. He wanted the Daoist Order to provide a ladder upward for people of all backgrounds, not to be monopolized by a few clans.
But things had not gone as he wished. Now, the upper echelons of the Daoist Order were indeed dominated by a handful of noble families.
The most obvious example was the three Deputy Grand Masters. During the Holy Xuan’s time, there were exceptions. Yan Feiqing served as the Great Sage of the Zhengyi Sect, Shangguan Wan for the Quanzhen Sect, and Qin Su for the Taiping Sect. But after the Holy Xuan Era, the Heavenly Preceptor had always been a Zhang, the Earthly Preceptor was always a Yao, and the Imperial Preceptor was always a Li, with almost no exceptions.
Even before the Holy Xuan revitalized the Daoist Order, the title of Earthly Preceptor had passed through many generations. But after the reformation, the count was reset to officially consider Shangguan Wan as the first-generation Earthly Preceptor.
The second-generation Earthly Preceptor was an elder of the Yao family, and the third was also a Yao.
If the Qingping Society had been...
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