Precisely because he had already planted a lethal restriction inside Xu Zhan's nascent soul.
After the Soul Search, Li Ping did not immediately destroy Xu Zhan's nascent soul. Instead, he pressed it back into his body.
He then ordered the Earth Spirit Mouse to withdraw the Spirit-Sealing Cord and restore his freedom.
After all, Xu Zhan's life and death now hung entirely on a single thought from him. His only choice was to obey.
As for Xu Zhan choosing death over submission?
If he truly possessed such resolve, Fang Chuge would never have controlled him and turned him into a Demonic Path mole planted in the Yu Household!
Li Ping was "quite reassured" by his character.
Meanwhile, after hearing Li Ping's indifferent words.
Delight first appeared on Xu Zhan's face, but it quickly stiffened. He looked up at Li Ping with resignation. "Xu Zhan thanks Fellow Daoist Li-Lord Li for saving my life!"
"Mm."
Li Ping nodded mildly, very pleased that Xu Zhan knew what was good for him.
He asked, "Fellow Daoist Xu, you're an Undercover Agent Old Devil Fang planted in the Yu Household. But from your memories, you don't seem to have been involved in many of their confidential affairs."
As a Nascent Soul Cultivator of the Great Harmony Society, even if Xu Zhan did not know the details of Yu Shuangchi's plans at Northern Mang Mountain, he should at least have known that the upheaval there was connected to the Yu Household.
Yet he knew absolutely nothing.
"After all, Old Devil Fang once captured my nascent soul and subjected me to a brutal Soul Search." A self-mocking smile touched Xu Zhan's lips. "After something like that, how could the Yu Household trust me as they once did? Ever since then, I've been pushed to the fringes