"Exactly... Once war broke out, Supreme White Island would be far from Jade Island. Battle was perilous, and the island's defensive formation was only Second-Order... If the Sea-Extinguishing Alliance attacked in force, wouldn't you be walking straight into a death trap?"
Linghu Zhong found it rather strange.
He genuinely wanted what was best for Fang Qing, and he thought this was a good choice.
Why, then, was Fang Qing so resistant?
What he did not know was that Fang Qing was silently working Plum Blossom Divination. Several plum blossoms drifted down in his mind and formed a hexagram:
"Barely auspicious?"
Ever since I refined the Tide-Birth Pearl, almost everything I've done in the Lesser Vast Sea has yielded an auspicious hexagram... Now it's dropped all the way to barely auspicious. Once I go back, they'll probably turn me into a pill-refining drudge, and then I'll clash with those two Core Formation fighters...
Fang Qing was not afraid, but betraying his master and destroying his sect did not sit well with him.
The Azure Sea Sect walked a line between righteous and wicked. It had raised a Horned Serpent, but he had already made it pay for that. They were even.
Yet the treatment he had received over the years, and the Foundation Establishment pill he had been given back then, were real.
If he went back and turned everything upside down, setting fellow disciples against one another, wouldn't Black Origin True Person laugh his teeth out?
Besides, I've inherited Azure Sea True Person's legacy. That makes me half an ancestor of the Azure Sea Sect...
But Fang Qing obviously could not tell Linghu Zhong any of this.
He could only ask, "The war between righteous and demonic forces may begin in the blink of an eye. Who will guard Supreme