Qi Peijia
I think I've realized the crux of the matter concerning the Dynasty's faith in Gaud. (Sorry to anyone if they have raised this point before.) It's because Gaud was probably discovered and cultivated prior to Esgod's containment in the Spacetime Amber. Maybe the Dynasty officials don't have any precedent for something like the Eternal Soul ability like what Sorokin has and what Esgod presumably has.