"One victorious general achieves his fame over ten thousand dry bones."
Some ancestor was widely acclaimed, surviving countless battles, but underneath, how many sect disciples had innocently lost their lives?
Perhaps in the eyes of the sect elders, lower-level disciples simply didn't deserve to have their own opinions and understanding.
All that mattered was obedience to commands.
This much could be discerned from the conduct of Zhang Taiyan.
For a hundred years of peace, Cloud Water Sect's reputation greatly declined; there were no exceptionally outstanding figures in the sect, and with the sect leader often in seclusion and the Supreme Elder paying little heed, overall, the atmosphere in Cloud Water Sect was quite harmonious.
At most, there were some disciples with sectarian bias who would secretly commit all sorts of illicit acts for the sake of their own families.
Overall, the sect was still quite decent.