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Remember coffin man?
Think his name was Wang Dawei?
He was the one who entered the candidate war. Shi Yihua voluntarily became his lackey to enter it, just so he could have a chance to get revenge
While Wang Dawei likely did want to become Hierarch, he was mostly there just to advertise Shi Yihua's newfound strength
Because it was achieved through some new bolus recipe of his

And there's your answer