Shangguan Jingzhu and the other sect leaders and elders were still bewildered by Li Chuan's self-proclaimed title of Celestial Venerable, but the disciples of the Yin-Yang Sect had already taken his words seriously because they had accepted him as their master.

This shows how important leveraging influence is.

If Li Chuan had made such a claim alone, perhaps none of the ten people would have believed him.

But after taking in a group of high-ranking disciples, it was different. Regardless of whether these disciples believed him or not, the other disciples believed because the high-ranking members had become his disciples, and that was enough.