The elder from the Regulations Department was in Spirit Stage tier eight, and he’d belonged to Shanhe Valley before becoming an elder. He’d been a pupil under Xiao Shanhe, and although the Qing-Yun Sect was small, this didn’t keep it from having internal conflicts and power struggles. Many elders and department heads had received help from the Xiao family in the past and so followed Xiao Shanhe’s orders. If Sect Master Chen Xuanhua’s cultivation level wasn’t in the later tiers of Foundation Stage—and higher than Xiao Shanhe’s—it was quite possible the position of "sect master" would not have been his.