Though their tokens differed, Wen Qingxuan clearly would not do anything irrational, such as leaving these followers to fend for themselves.
Followers were not Guardians of the Dao.
Nor were they slaves.
The difference between the three lay in this: Guardians of the Dao were relatively powerful and had a single duty—to protect a genius who had yet to mature and help them resolve certain troubles. Hai Bodong was a typical example. Naturally, the reward was all the repayment that genius would provide after growing up. In this regard, Hai Bodong could be said to have made a fortune. After arriving in the Myriad Heavens, although Hai Bodong had remained stuck at the Supreme Realm and had not even become an Earth Supreme, to the point where he seemed somewhat out of his depth even handling logistics, with his status, position, and record, even an ordinary Earth Supreme would have to light him a cigarette. Even Ya Fei, the Earth Supreme in charge of logistics for the Endless Fire Territory, followed custom and called him Elder Hai whenever she saw him. Within the Endless Fire Territory, there were very few who could compare status with Hai Bodong.
Followers, on the other hand, had far more duties.
More precisely, their duties were rather complicated.
True powerhouses never needed to concern themselves with the trifles below them. Of course, those trifles would not vanish on their own, nor would the troubles they caused. That was when followers demonstrated their worth. They would do everything possible to resolve such matters.
The reason they were called followers—
Not family servants.
Nor stewards.
Was because these followers themselves were also highly talented.
They were often geniuses who had been won over.
These geniuses had backgrounds of their own.
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