In fact,
There were quite a few in the Cloud Water Sect who thought the same way as Dao Venerable Xuan Su's Core Disciple.
It was not entirely because they feared death,
but because circumstances had forced their hand.
The road ahead was shrouded in boundless darkness, with no hope in sight!
Indeed,
in the eyes of countless Cloud Water Sect Cultivators, Zhang Qingyuan—who now stood at the pinnacle of Yuzhou—had grown at a pace more outrageous than even the myths and legends.
In a mere two or three hundred years, he had reached a height that the billions of all beings in Yuzhou could never attain in their entire lives!
His talent was terrifying beyond anything seen since ancient times!
But,
there was always the possibility of the unexpected!
What if the Abyssal Demon Source within the Black Abyss Forbidden Area broke free of its seal before he completed his seclusion?
Or,
what if he failed to break through the bottleneck and could not gain the strength needed to face the Abyssal Demon Source in the Black Abyss Forbidden Area?
Many people had developed such concerns.
They had placed all their chips
in one basket.
Was that not too great a risk?
At the very least,
they should have scattered some Junior seeds and let them withdraw from Yuzhou itself. That way, when great changes came in the future, their inheritance would not be cut off entirely!
Of course,
although many Sect Cultivators harbored such thoughts,
the orders of the Sect's Myriad Transformations Old Ancestor could not be defied, not even by the higher-ups of the Cave True Realm.
Yet the thoughts in their hearts were not something human effort could change.
As the battles on the front lines grew increasingly brutal in recent days,
the defensive line that