In this time of impending battle, Luo Wei was constantly pondering a question, a topic she and her late husband often mused upon —
How did the grand Sect Alliance, that once nearly controlled the entire Central Court, reach the current state?
The present members of the Sect Alliance might find it hard to imagine the glory of the past, when the struggle between the Dayan Dynasty and the Immortal Sects was nearing its end.
From the high-ranking officials who had direct jurisdiction over entire regions down to the county magistrates, almost all were monopolized by local Immortal Sect Families.
Such was the state locally, and even more so in the court.
Most courtiers were mere spokespersons of the Immortal Sects; high-rank cultivators could freely enter Di'an and even establish residences within the Capital.
How then did such a Sect Alliance gradually decline to this extent?
No,
The word "decline" isn't correct.
