Primordial Sword Demon did not resist providing Lu Xiaotian with a certain amount of help within this Green Fruit Barrier, and even past guidance on Lu Xiaotian's cultivation and the passing down of the Soul-Origin Sword Body had been done without the slightest concealment. Yet Primordial Sword Demon had his own inner Dao and would not walk down a path that appeared bound to end in death.
Helping people was one thing, and adhering to the Dao of his original intent was quite another. If Primordial Sword Demon had no obsession in his heart, how could he have cultivated to his current realm?
In comparison, Black Dragon could whole-heartedly assist Lu Xiaotian and walk this single-minded path to the very end because Black Dragon was a member of the Demon Race by nature, his physical body was within the Howling Moon Wolf tribe, and his dragon pearl was in the Immortal Realm. Without assistance from others, the dragon pearl stood no chance of returning to the Demon Race. Even if he returned to the Demon Race and regained a dragon body, he would still have to seek shelter under the Howling Moon Wolf tribe. That hardly seemed like an optimal outcome, at least not to Primordial Sword Demon; living under another's roof was definitely not a long-term solution. It was arguably even worse than Primordial Sword Demon staying in the Green Fruit Barrier now.
As for being within the Green Fruit Barrier, as long as one did not deliberately scheme against Lu Xiaotian, one could always count on being treated with courtesy by Lu Xiaotian. Meanwhile, Black Dragon within the Howling Moon Wolf tribe—even if he could gain a measure of respect—was always viewed by the upper echelons of the Howling Moon Wolf tribe as an outsider excluded from the