Bai Xiaochun took action at the perfect time: the very moment that the Grand Heavenmaster's Dharmic decree was sent out, shaking Arch-Emperor City and causing all of the heavenly marquises to band together and go to the imperial palace.
It was a time when the nobility and aristocracy were completely unstable, and because of that, Bai Xiaochun swept across them like a windstorm. The successors were struck with fear, and the bastards and direct bloodline non-successors were shown staunch support. For the latter... they now had a justification to be ambitious, as well as something they had never even been able to dream of before: hope!