A few breaths later, Meinu shook her head slowly but resolutely, having thought it through.
"He won't send anyone to hunt down Master again in the short term.
As the leading holy land and great sect of the Southern Border, the Holy Cult's Discipline Hall is far harsher than Master can imagine.
In fact, the deeper one goes into the sect, and the higher one's cultivation, the more strictly the Holy Cult's Discipline Hall keeps one in check.
The Great Dao Strife is indeed a matter of life and death, but all such battles must be fought within the rules laid down by the Holy Cult. Otherwise, don't blame the elders of the Discipline Hall for fighting you to the death.
Master took Departure Peak's decree with him when he went to take up his post.
For a scion like Jiang Xiuran, who had already won the struggle for succession more than once, he could occasionally get away with a minor transgression, but he couldn't keep doing so again and again.
Even sending me out this time was partly so that, if things proved impossible, he could use me as a shield.
He could always claim that his Dao Slave had fled in secret and acted on her own.
He could afford the price of violating the Holy Cult's rules again, given his current resources, but whether to save me or kill Master, neither would be worth it to him.
Besides, I fell into Master's hands.
That means any Dao Slave at the Qi Refining stage, or even any scion of an Aristocratic Clan, faces at least a nine-in-ten chance of dying at Master's hands.
He'll realize that his understanding of you was disastrously wrong!
Jiang Xiuran is a greedy man. As long as it isn't a grudge to the