Yuan, True Venerable Shenji, and True Venerable Wanji looked at the incomparably well-behaved Youth in Green Robes before them, a trace of helplessness rising in their hearts.
Within that small body lay terrifying power far surpassing any Immortal Sect force outside the Central Army Group Fleet—and it was power utterly without restraint, the kind that could be unleashed with a single thought.
He was beyond the control of array spirits, beyond the control of military discipline; logistics and military law had absolutely no effect on his full combat strength.
Such a terrifying being was also one of the Immortal Sect Councilors.
That truly made one's heart tremble with fear.
Could anyone understand how they felt?
This was not a question of morality at all, but a question of life, death, and survival!
To say nothing else, if the Great Sun Sword Master attended the Citizen Assembly, he could kill everyone there with a single thought, from mortal representatives below to Void Refinement True Venerables above, wiping them out completely. Even the Central Array Spirit Computer might not be able to rescue them.
Void Refinement cultivators were simply too far beneath him in strength, like ants.
Yes, indeed.
The Great Sun Sword Master of this generation possessed exceptionally fine character, was politically reliable, had repeatedly rendered outstanding service to the Immortal Sect, and had his Dao Path interests deeply bound to the Immortal Sect...
From every perspective, there was no possibility whatsoever that he would betray the Immortal Sect.
Yet could the life and death of the Immortal Sect's trillions of citizens—the lives of countless fathers, daughters, and children, the survival of countless households—be entirely entrusted to a single cultivator's morality?
Could it?!
Even saints of legend had moments when they nodded off, moments when they made small mistakes.
For one