The sky darkened. Shen Hao had someone move the small table into the study, and the dishes and wine from before were replaced with a new set: sour soup fish, spicy diced chicken, and freshly fried drinking beans.
Once the door was closed, Shen Hao and Nie Yun resumed eating, drinking, and chatting—it was still Nie Yun doing most of the talking, while Shen Hao listened carefully most of the time.
"The system under the Hejing Old Dynasty is different. The sects don't really have a supreme commander in the strictest sense. Mountain of Ten Thousand Books and Mingshan Sect may be the only two Super Sects, but commanding all the sects is still a long way off. So, when issues arise, each sect mostly bands together with the others in its own Domain, then acts independently according to the broad direction of the available intelligence.
At present, there are six sects united with our Gui Mountain Cultivation Institute—three second-tier and three third-tier sects—all taking our lead.
