Among the many disciples of Taiping Dao, the Inner and Outer Sect disciples, who were at the bottom, might not have noticed anything.
However, the true disciples and even more so the True Immortals could sense, to a greater or lesser extent, that there was an invisible barrier separating them from a closer relationship with the sect.
And this barrier was the hidden lineage disciples.
Indeed, with the successive emergence of Jin Qingyue, Lu Yuan, and the recently appointed School Leader Jade Brocade, who were all True Immortals, it had become known to the world that within the Taiping Tao Sect there was a hidden lineage unknown to others.
These hidden lineage disciples all possessed exceptional innate talent and extraordinary strength.
If they did not come forth, they remained unnoticed, but once they did, they were regarded as True Immortals.
And the higher-ups within the Taiping Tao Sect only trusted these secretive disciples.