I doubt Niki is going to write even half the things you guys said. I believe we can help Chao by getting on grandpa's good graces. Clan management might become a thing halfway through the story, might tie into the war between empire, the rogues and cultivators in between them. I have been playing Tale of Immortal for a while now, I kinda enjoy the sect development even though it can be a chore. Maybe something like that would be nice, increasing territory, recruiting talents, arranging hierarchy and stuff like that.
I have a feeling Niki took some inspiration from Tale of Immortal. There's this side quest where a sect elder uses this technique which allows him to harvest living cultivators to advance. My mind immediately went to poma lol. I imagine a lot of what I see in this game is gonna be a grope in cultivation fiction but I have no idea about it since this game is my proper dive in after poma. I got some idea about cultivation stuff from poma and started Tale of Immortal which im enjoying a lot.