The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings

Chapter 1859: Chapter 1804 – 1805 Leadership Structure Internal Conflicts_2

To the sect leaders and elders of these immortal sects, since they are unwilling to relinquish their positions, they need to offer more benefits to newcomers, drawing them in to acknowledge their authority.

This is why they ultimately decided to join the Heavenly Court Expansion Plan. Even though they are aware of some drawbacks in this plan, it’s undoubtedly a method to alleviate pressures.

Yet a thousand years have passed, the Heavenly Court Expansion Plan of the Divine Land World has reached a peak, even the expansion steps of those top immortal sects have begun to slow down, and the benefits gained have reached a limit.

Whether internally within the Heavenly Court or among various immortal sects, they have reached a limit, and the sharing of interests has reached an impasse, no qualitative changes have happened.

This is true for the upper echelons, but not so for the middle-tier powerhouses, as the upper figures have no further space for elevation, unlike the middle-tier ones.

Hence, they have turned their attention back to the sect leaders and elders, aiming at their authority; acquiring it would also be an opportunity for advancement.

Thus, after much twisting and turning, conflicts that seemed resolved and eased have resurfaced, with this time being more obvious, because both sides have become stronger, and the gap in power between them has reduced.

These sect leaders and elders, as the current interests holders, naturally are unwilling to easily relinquish their authority and benefits.

After all, past changes in authority were not due to the greatness of those who held power but due to the unavoidable threat of life and death forcing them to surrender authority, since everything turns to void after death.

However, now they are either True Immortals or Gods, the threat of life and death seems forever distant; asking these powerhouses to easily surrender their authority without a threat to life is challenging.

Previously, when they surrendered authority, death was not far away, and after death, everything vanished; now, surrendering authority does not equate to death, with a long life ahead without authority—how could they be content?

But the reality is thus, sometimes it’s not simply about refusing to surrender authority and having the final say, those juniors are eager to challenge them, continually attempting to separate authority from them, which is intolerable, hence suppression must begin.

Yet suppression is not the best choice, since suppressing newcomers also means weakening one’s sect’s strength, leading to the decline of one’s sect.

If it were a period of peace, with a temporary respite from arms, sacrificing some of the sect’s strength for one’s authority might be tolerable; they could reluctantly accept.

However, currently is the Age of Great Struggle, not only are sects and religious factions numerous in the Divine Land World, with constant conflicts and contradictions internally and externally, powerful forces in the Chaotic Void Heavens and Seas are watching like hungry tigers, a decline would surely draw covetousness from others.

By not suppressing the newcomers, one’s position within the sect is constantly challenged, and personal interests are precariously threatened.

But suppressing newcomers leads to the continuous weakening of the sect’s battle strength, which is full of crises in this Age of Great Struggle, equally inviting envy from others, where one wrong move could lead to total loss and sect destruction.

Thus, the sect leaders and elders of these religious sects are indeed like beating the grass before the snake both ways: facing fear, neither choice is ideal.

For them, the best method is to continuously expand their interests, thereby stabilizing their positions and interests while also stabilizing internal challengers within the sect.

However, in this current Age of Great Struggle, no immortal sect that truly rises and stands in the Divine Land World and Chaos Void is weak; each one stands at the peak through surviving great trials.

At this time, the Newly Ascended Dao Lords Alliance appeared, these numerous Taoist Monarchs from the alliance also pursue their own interests, wanting to challenge veteran Daoist Monarch positions, re-divide interest shares on this earth and sky, and reorder the power layout of the Divine Land World or even the Realms of Heavenly Seas.

Under this scenario, one could say it’s like dry wood meeting raging fire—a perfect match made by heaven, with shared goals and pursuits, cooperation carries no meaning.

Initially, Pang Hong and others thought this cooperation between the immortal sects and newly ascended Dao Lords was out of necessity to find a backing solely for self-preservation.

But upon truly understanding the situations of each party, it became evident it was not so; the cooperation was not out of compulsion but mutually beneficial, each seeking their goals.

He further realized the thoughts of these immortal sects were more ruthless than Pang Hong imagined.

To some of these immortal sects, cooperating with the Newly Ascended Dao Lords Alliance carries the mentality of potential success or even failure still being a win.

To these immortal sects, if they succeed in the cooperation with the Newly Ascended Dao Lords Alliance challenging veteran Daoist Monarchs, they can naturally gain enough benefits, resolve internal conflicts, stabilize their positions and authority, possibly advancing further up.

Even if they fail, it doesn’t mean defeat; they consider it a win since, during this process, they can take the opportunity to cleanse challengers, solidifying their position and authority.

Indeed, mere cleansing of challengers is a weakening approach that invites envy from other factions.

But if everyone does so? If everyone weakens, it’s equivalent to no one weakening.

One sect alone cannot achieve this, but if cooperating with these newly ascended Dao Lords, leveraging their strength to disrupt the earth’s and sky’s balance, with casualties on all sides, it presents a favorable situation.

At that time, they would have cleansed internal challengers while freeing up more interest shares, thus removing threats while becoming stronger.

This approach reminded many powerhouses of some practices of the Demon Race in the past: when interests in the Divine Land World were limited, the human race was powerful, with the Demon Race occupying merely a small portion.

Yet, if both sides continued peacefully, the internal stability of the Demon Race would be compromised with new demon creations constantly emerging.

Hence, sometimes, Demon Race powerhouses would proactively provoke the human race, instigating wars between them; they didn’t concern themselves with success or failure outcomes.

If successful, they could seize interests from the human race; if failed, the consumed demons would free up interests stabilizing the Demon Race’s internal situation, enabling continuous development externally without triggering internal chaos due to too many demons.

Of course, whether internal forces of the human race held similar dark thoughts back then is a question no one openly addressed; it belongs to the unmentionable topics.

Some powerhouses even suspected, with shady intentions, if the original Heavenly Court Expansion Plan similarly possessed such objectives; indeed, the current Heavenly Court plan succeeded, generating substantial interests and numerous strong figures.

But if the Heavenly Court Expansion Plan had failed initially, would it have halted these powerhouses’ progress, consequently triggering internal chaos due to relentless internal growth?

Absolutely not!

Even if the Heavenly Court Expansion Plan didn’t truly succeed, it wouldn’t stop; as long as strong figures continually venture into chaos to explore, regardless of success or failure, it could alleviate conflicts.

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