After returning to his cave abode, Liu Yu sat cross-legged, but the profound thoughts stirred by Tianfeng's passing would not subside for a while.
"If the sect does not fail me, I will not fail the sect."
He had not forgotten the oath he had sworn before the portraits of successive patriarchs when he became a true disciple.
Ever since he revealed his potential, Liu Yu had indeed enjoyed many benefits from the sect, and his subsequent promotion to true disciple had gone smoothly.
Overall, compared with ordinary cultivators and even ordinary disciples, he had always belonged to something of a privileged class. The sect had certainly not treated him poorly.
Although those privileges were modest, amounting only to a good platform for exchanges and a stable cultivation environment.
Even so, this was treatment ordinary cultivators could only dream of.
In today's fiercely competitive Cultivation World, fairness was something most cultivators could scarcely dare hope for.
It was precisely because Liu Yu was a sect cultivator that he could enjoy relatively fair treatment.
Although it fell far short of what Li Buyu, Li Butong, and the others received, it was already enough.
That was why he had been able to cultivate and develop quietly within the sect during his Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment days.
Through the sect's platform, he had gathered all manner of spirit herbs, allowing himself to grow rapidly.
He had not needed to spend year after year running around for a single spirit treasure or pill like rogue cultivators did, nor worry about provoking other cultivators' apprehension and suppression.
After Heavenly Wind Ancestor passed away, Liu Yu became the sole Nascent Soul Patriarch.
Although many factions still existed within the sect, with no shortage of overt struggles and covert schemes.
None of that amounted to much