Wasn't zhu qi a prince of the ming country? When he poached that errand boy, I think it was mentioned that one of the reasons for him being so easily poached was that zhu qi was from the royal family of the country that he and the mc lived in.
So he straight up went down from his mountain found a cult, decided that cults will always be around so absorbed the other cult and made his own...and is going to have his secret cult become an actual sect. While being a disciple of a world renown sect.
He’s shady as hell man
