Several chiefs were chatting inside the pavilion.
In front of them lay a mountain of documents, stacks of Jade Slips.
These records encompassed nearly all recognized Taoist forces of adequate scale within the Nine State, formally approved and assessed by the Taoist Court.
Matters such as assessment, downgrade, promotion, naming, renaming, and delisting of these forces—all were decided by the cultivators of the Heavenly Right Pavilion.
Hence, the cultivators of Heavenly Right Pavilion held immense power, but their work was equally exhaustive.
At that moment, several chiefs of the Heavenly Right Pavilion were discussing the "Three Sects Unification" of the Taixu Gate.
In the very center of the pavilion sat an "elder."
This elder's expression was blank, face stiff, skin like decaying wood—he resembled a living puppet, mechanically stamping documents one after another.
The chiefs seated below were engrossed in their own conversation, paying no attention to the "elder."
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