I agree with u but we can't pick cherrys here and i was locking at the long term development of the sect as a whole. Yes it would be bad should someone try to sway the emperor but in my opnion the sect's and clan's will walk on egg shell's after the last purge and try to regain the status quo befor they do some overt moves on us + as u said we are a sect that's on ther border with ,if the option with the domain epxerts gets picked have one nascent soul grand elder. But in the grand sheme of things conflicts will mostly stay local as we at the beginnig would only be feuding with sect's on our level sure there can be some miss steps because one of their own is a concubine or minister in the palace. Tbh We are at the beginning barley a middle class sect and to unimportant to even consider further in the wide spanning conflict of the empire there are like 10000 sects in the empire sure some are mega overlords(holy lands) but most are just middle or above that and like all lets just be a face in the corwd at the beginning annonymity is the better part of valor in my opnion.
Edit: We can still send a disicple into the palace or ministry to get the conection we need for the court after we picked what will probaly be our income/ specialty.
I'm sorry, but I'm probably missing some of what you're saying. Because your writing isn't legible to me. I can't properly understand you.
See, I don't think we
can find safety in being "just a face in the crowd."
Being one of the 1001 (or more) recognized sects and ruling over a province means that even at game start, we have wealth and power. Wealth and power that means we are no longer anonymous. Especially if we have other treasures and boons that outsiders might desire.
This is xianxia, and one of the best ways to become strong is by taking what other people have. Anonymous outsiders with no powerful friends and collections of precious, powerful treasures are
vulnerable, are targets, if they don't have the means to defend themselves.
Edit: We can still send a disicple into the palace or ministry to get the conection we need for the court after we picked what will probaly be our income/ specialty.
From the sound of it, the "imperial sect," the people who actually have standing in the
core bureaucracy, are eunuchs. Given the cost of entering the imperial sect, the proportion of
our sect who will agree to join the imperial sect on our behalf is probably... limited.
Of those who are willing to pay the price, the proportion of them who actually have the intelligence and political skill to be able to become a useful ally in a reasonable amount of time will be further limited.
And the proportion of
them who will remain loyal to the interests of our sect after being sent on a decades-long deep cover mission that starts with being neutered is probably even further limited, to put it mildly.
...
So yes, we could probably
try to infiltrate disciples into the imperial bureaucracy. We might even succeed, eventually.
In the same way, we could try to raise up a
Nascent Soul Domain Foundation Elder, or capture great herds of spirit beasts, or make a legendary pill furnace, or acquire any other thing.
What we get by choosing the relevant option at character creation is to have this advantage
now, and to actually have it, rather than having some risk of trying to get it and failing.
As my people say, "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." It is much better to already have an advantage here and now, than to have some speculative possibility of maybe gaining the advantage eventually if things go well.
